Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1862-05-23
What We Have Gained BY the War and How
to Retain It


Than the United States no nation has firmer
seifreliance and the conduct of the war to
put down rebellion has given evidence Of the
tenable grounds upon which American faith in
its own proves and republican :nvincibiIity is
based. Any other country, put TO the test by
so gigantic a civil comin0tion, wonld have
worked itself into panic and tremb!ed from
center to circumference but America, with
all her accredited rashness and impetuosiy, has
moved along beneath the seemingly unb2ara-
bic burden, as calmly and philosophicaly rs
though the greatest record were but an incon-
siderate ripple on the calm sea Of popular
opinion. When Congress empowered the
President to mass an army Of half a million
men, cheap patriots were wont 10 wonder
where the money was to come from with which
TO pay the fabulous expenses, and general
bankruptcy was predicted as an inevitable re-
suit Of the wild scheme In his place, in Con-
gress, Vaandigham assured his Rebel friends,
North and South, that the Government wouid
be unable to procure funds to carry on the
war for six months /; but, Notwithstanding, his
assurance to the contrary, we have succeeded
in conducting affIirs in what Rebels call
"priucely style for more than a year, and yet
the national exchequer is in healthy condition.
Loyal people were told that not one cent could
be obtained from foreign nations, but whether
the weak-kneed patriots spoke truth Or false
hood, has not transpired, and probably never
will lranspire, for We neither needed nor asked
financial or other aid from foreigners All we
asked Of Foreigners was what jeff Davis asked
go IL 1oT
vcnion we have revoulioaiz, ID naval warfare
and battered down all tine wooden walls" OF
"the rest OF mankind without firing 4 shot
among their played out" huiks. We have
frightened nervous Old mother England into
"ir0n-p,ated" fls, and the latest news VIC have
!Iom our huiiy cous us iulurms rs that all
their boaseJ war vessels are 10 be encased in
steel and many of them protected by rams, or
snouts, Of tremendous strength and threatening
lesgih. Thus has Britannia ceased to RUE the
waves at single motion Of the wand Of Yan-
lee ingenuity, which has only to b. cxcrcis. ii.
when occasion may require, 10 compel the
naughty OLD Vixen 10 remodel and reconstruct,
in seI-d,.ftnse, al fnJitfuaI.
This war has placed popular govcl nment on
lis trial, with monarcls for judI's and their
JEALOUS subjects as jurymen. The ch rge to
the jury has been s;ereJtyppd for yelfs preJe-
termng constitutional government TO BE- ii
failure, and popular suifr.,g. Il dangerous ineu-
bus, containing within itself the clement of is
inevitable destruction. Bat the finding has
been alike contrary 20 the charge and unac-
c0untabie 10 all save the arrigned We have
passed through the trying o.dt.I and stand
l.
proud of our victory over false opihion. sus-
tained, as it has been by The history of ages
a year Of war among ourselves has Taught Us
what thousand years Of peace would have
failed to teach-iBplicit reliance on our own
wisdom. strength and integrity. It has not
only taught rs this and mo @. but it has
taught other nations what decades Of pacific
relations have failed to teach-how 10 respect,
honor and fear u.s. The war is cheap at any
price, not only because it has taught us price
less wisdom, but because the debt has been
contracted among ourselves, where it will re
main, not a burden. as domestic traitors would
have people believe, but as a convenant and
pledge of future unity and strength. In a
few months we will have que!lcd the last po-
lit;cal rebellion that will ever take place in the
thirty four States and bouudess territories
comprising the map of the American Union.
We begin to understand ourselves, and will be
better understood in future-provided, always,
that, in our treatment of traitors. We keep
Jealous guard against the ins;nuIting and de-
ceptive wiIes OF the lurking devil, Compromise.
Freedom, not Slavery, must he nationaized;
and the doom Of treason must be sealed by The
blood of traitors. What VIC have gained by
the rebellion we can best retain by hightoncd
manhood, aad generous frmne53 Columbus
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