Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1862-03-07
TOAST OF THE junior CLASS.
Read by CHARLES EVANS.
"Tae Southern Contederacy; may be the
graveyard Of traitors
RESPONSE OF =: =. MEAD.

graveyard of traitors"
RESPONSE OF :: =. MEAD.
Let traitors die a traitors death. Scarcely
two years hate passed since we were happy
people-t:e happiest, perhaps that ever lived
From The busy Atlantic to the golden gated
California, from the lakes To tie gulf, we were
one in heart. and one in hand: But a political
breese arose, which at first was but murmur,
but being famed by tie infamous breath of
Southern traitors has become storm so terri
BILE that we tremble for its results. Human
liberty has been assailed, and by whom? By
tire &ers ones who draI4k deepest at her pure
waters. BY a set of lftngfy ofice-seeking,
authority-loving traitors, who have sold their
country for the prospect of Office. BY those
whose motto has been, is and ever will be,
"rulc or ruin" BY those who are now trying
to sink our gallant ship, simply because they
cannot ply the helm:
But who are the traitors? Where are they
to be found? / answer, from President TO the
humblest of the land-from old men, whose
hairs have whitened in the Senate Hall itself.
to children, who have learned it upon their
mothers knee-from the would be greatest
Of the kingdom TO the veryest slave, whose ig-
norance has been used against him. Where,
| | ought to ask, are they not to be found? Our
Imy and navy are alive with them. Scarcely
a day passesJ but whattbrings the intelligence
Of some traitor being detected. Our Capitol.
Senate and Congress are infested and degraded
! bJ their impiOus hands and treacherous Voices
! Where is justiet? Lost in sympathy with
foul treason We might have been saved this
calamity had James Buchanan hung the first
who dared TO cry di>union. The government
could hang John Brown for madness but
could not hang Jefferson Davis for high tren-
| son. james buchanan is a traitor himself, and
deserves as many deaths as he might have
saved. But it is too late now TO deal justice
at the end Of the rope 1t must be done on the
field of battle, and thousands Of lives must be
given sacrifice to freedom, in restoring light
and equity. A nation whose very existence
depends upon her success in war, will u>e every
means in her power to accomplish her ends
Eight millions of people, desperate in their last
resolve, cannot easily be conquered. Aud thef
we have enemies abroad. The British lion j,
Hidden in his lair, ready to spring upon us
lie is only waiting an opportunity. He ha,
showed his head already in the Trent affair
The next ship that sails from France ma,
bring us the news OF the recognition of tht
Southern Confederacy, and Spain hangs trem
bling in the balance. The eyes of the TorIr
are upon us. The life Of Liberty is in on
hands. We must not let it die Let us plan
the standard Of Freedom upon every capita
and upon every fort, and swear by Him tina
rules on High to bury our enemies in the LAND
of their birth. There is some chosen curse
some hidden thunder, in the stores of Heavel
to blast the man who owes his greatness to hi
country 5 ruin" May the Southern Confedcr
acy ever be, as it is fast becoming, the buria
place of Southern traitors.