Delaware State journal and statesman., 1862-01-07
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we seem to be marching forward-we arr
making any progress, or whether we nigh
not he retrograding even as time goes for
ward and intelligence advances.
In apolitical point Of view the editor o
the Delaware Gazette has done this. FL
has taken "six months" view of himself
as be has been reflected through the column
of his secession sheet and after overcoming
his astonishment at the foolish position h,
occupied during that time, he begins TO re
cant and give the lie TO everything he ha
said and done against his opponents in al
that time.
III the editor was sincere and spoke til,
truth then, he is n hypocrite and fasife
now. 1.-The is in earnest now, what miser
able fool he has made of himself during til,
"last six months We told him all along
that he was wrong, but he rejected our ad
monitions. He was "ioined to his idols,
and he went his way. He predictedae
acknowledgement ofthe independewent to
rebels He predicted if our .aority of the
the soath to restore uRs Tie dust and be ie't
Union that 'more '9Jae southern sun Of dosc
10 de beneath ~ those wao are hsreto meet item
'hc 90 MereP lie has called the President
as mpGS ,a an1 vulgar old Jester. He has, time
mi n9r :. mind told his readers that Republican,
ISM was Aboltionism, and that Abolitionism
was Dsunon. He has classed Mr. Lincoln
with the ultra democratic Abolitionists OF
the north, and charged upon him design to
break up the Union lie has made hundreds
of just such silly declarations, and told in
Vulnerable falsehoods of like character, ever
since the Chicago Convention was held.
The abominable falsehoods and ISLANDERS ran
out Of his mouth day after day, as glibly as
oil runs from a spiggot; and were it not that
his friends have left him, in great
measure, alone in his iniquity and that
nothing he ever said came within cannon
shot Of the truth, he might still be going on
in his vile course of detraction. But these
powerful applications of popular feeling TO
his purse-not his conscience-br brought him
TO a dead halt and on last Friday he gave Il
slight evidence of his determination to unlie
himself back again into that decency which
he has for six months past" lied himself out
Of
And he begins the work thus =
"Who would have thought six months ago
that the Delaware Gazette would now be the
only paper in Wilmington which sustains
President Lincoln IN his conservative
policy"
Now, without extending our remarks as
we might do indefinitely, on so prolific
subject, we will simply call the attention of
the editor Of the Gazette 10 his former dec
larations He charged the Republican
party with being the advocates ofwar, blood,
abolition, disunon, subiugaton and all that,
and that Mr. Lincoln was the embodiment
Of Republieanism. Therefore TO be Il Lin
coin man was to be in favor of all the mis-
chief and evil which Republicanism carried
with il us enumerated above, When we
told him that he was mistaken that Repub.
licanism was nothing more nor less than
was an honest, conservative, Union-loving
man that abolitionism us such had no con-
nection with or influence over the Repnh-
lican party or its Presidential candidate; he
spnrned our suggestions and labored 10 prove
his positions correct. If he told the truth
at that time, what has since induced
him TO change his course and become
the advocate of Mr. Lincoln? If he did
not tell the truth and at this late day
sees his error, why does he not, like fair,
candid man, acknowledge his mistake, and
own that during the "past six months" OF
more, he has vilely slandered and misrepre-
sented the Republican party generally and
Mr.. Lincoln in particular? His position
before the public, in view of his former
course in connection with his declaration Of
Friday last, is well and aptly shown in the
following syllogysms -
/. Republicansm is aboltionism,
Mr.. Lincoln is Republican,
Ergo Mr.. Lincoln is an ahoitionist
.. Mr.. Lincoln is an abolitionist:
The Gazette sustains Mr. Lincoln"
hryo-rhe Gazette is an abolitionist.
g. Abolition is Disunion.
Mr. Lincoln is an aboitionist.
Ergo-Mr Lincoln is disunionst.
L. Mr.. Lincoln is disunionist
The editor of the Gazette sustains Mr.
Lincoln,
Ergo-Tlie editor Of the Gazette is dis
unionist.
5. The Administration is shedding fraternal
blood.
Mr.. L ncoln is the " Administration.
Ergo-Mr. Lincoln is a fratrcide
6. Mr., Lincoln is Il lratricido,
The editor of the Gazette sustains Mr.
Lincoln
Erqo-The editor of the Gazette is a
fratricide.
And so we might 60 on, without limit
All these things We're charged upon us by
the Gazette, because we advocated and still
adhere to the policy Of Mr., Lincoln and,
now that the editor of that paper has au.
thoritatvely announced his conversion to
the support Of Mr.. Lincoln, he, according to
the nferences naturally drawn from his OWN
PREMISES, becomes n party TO and advocate
of these disturbing elements of John
Brown Black publican-L -Lincolnism which
he has from time to time so viydlyportrayed
But he has one consolation left him,
which we never enjoyed; and that is found
in his consciousness that no one ever beliey-
ed what he said then, and having learned
his character for political veracity and sim
cerity, through his own paper, during the
six months" TO which he alludes, the peo-