Delaware State journal and statesman., 1862-05-09
LITTER FROM WILLIAM PENN
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the sorrows it has spread over the land ?
The whole civilized earth is filed with
ameutation and mourning, and every
household in the Republic is called upon
to wipe away the tear of anguish over the
crushing miSeries aud woes which the
madness of treason has accumulated in
blood and vengeance, ut the domestic
threshold
Since the fall of Satan no more dreful
event has oyertaken the human family
than this outbreaking of rebellion in
America ; and since the induction Of his
evil majesty into hell, no more certain re.
trlbntion ever awaited guilt, than is now
about to fall upon the authors of this
awful war against civilization. Having,
as it would appear from their ferocity,
been spewed out of the very depths of the
bottomless pit, they seem to be Fastening
back to their Internal abode TO mediate
upon their folly, and tell to their prince
and high priest of wickedness-the devil
the story of their agony their defeat
their shame, and their destruction Base
and wicked men. The walls of the pit
of endless torture will he vocal with their
2roanS their own maledictons will be
their constant companions, and none shall
pity them in their tribulation They have
sought to overthrow the wisest and best
civil government in the world. They
have plotted by day and by night the
ruin of the hopes and aspirations of TWEEN.
ty millions of people, that the iniquty of
slavery might yet a little longer befonl
the national escutcheon, and insult high
heaven with its repeated barbarities and
crueltics. They have essayed TO strike
down some of the cardinal principles of
christianity by battling against the laws
OF God and in favor of tightening the
cords OF human bondage. They have
aimed blow at the worlds progress, by
endeay0ring to block the wheels of in.
dustry and commerce with the danning
hercsy of secession. They have east des-
pondency over the hearts of down-trod-
den and manacled humanity everywhere.
ny their savage war against the genius of
Liberty in this Western Hemisphere.
They have shaken the confidence Of
statesmen in the competency of man 10
self government, by their causeless on
Slaught upon the Constitution Of fine
Union and their disregard of popular law.
They have dimmed the horizon of human
glory by the demon-like malignity with
which they have sought and shed limo.
cent blood in furtherance of their vain
efforts to reach all power in the land
aud they have, moreover, evoked the ven.
geancc of High and Holy God, who will
not look with complacency upon their
matcheSs iniqnity and crime. All this
have they done in malice and wickedness
and for this their reward is sure, swift and
deserved.
And why all this wretchedness and
crime Simply that they-the ambitious
ioStcr-parent' of slayery-might proIong
their hold upon power, and obtain unto
themselves life tenures of profit and emol-
ument from the government they hive
debased, insulted, and delied. Nav Hea.
ven lorlehd such calamity as their sue
cess. Better that consuming fire should
rain in torrents over the land. than that
the power of slavery should rise superior
to the refining and genial influences Of
moral, social and political freedom in this
Union. Better that impenetrable night
should hang around this people forever,
man that the dark aye of barbarism
should return again, to bury in wretebed
lelplessness their inherent rights and
privileges
The successful establishment of ,bo
Drecklnrldge democracy will be the in.
'uguration Of IA worse than Epvption
darkness throughout this country. An /
popular rights and National honor will !
'e bartered into the hands of treason
lpon the advent of the democracy to c
)ower once more, The periured old
inoye Buchanan the willy young trail "
OF, breekinrdge the thiel, Floyd and .
he whole nest of scoundrels, robbers and y
'ascals, who have sworn at the altar Of
satan to rule or ruin would again rise
o the surface and be the oracles and t
eaders Of this secret secession democro.
y and the ills, and evils, and peculo. a
IONS, and yllainies of generation d
would fall like thunderbolt upon the "
opes of the nation and crush out nil ts
olitical vitality, Let the people pausc D
leretore, before they lend themselves to i
leh a work. The preservation of their "
ghts depends upon the safety of the =,
jnion, and the safety of the Union happs G
pom the entire, complete and total over I
lrow and humiliation of the internal II II
recklnridge secession party" as Della il
ares popular Representative recently "