Delaware State journal and statesman., 1862-11-25
WHAT THEY SAY AMOUR 1T.

press the slave oligarchs' rebellion. Until
recently they ONLY ventured to mutter in
out-oi-the-way places their rebukes and stab
in the dark. Ever on the alert to catch at
some apology for their treason, and hamper
the government, they left no occasion un-
used to SOW the seeds of discord and get up
arebellion in the North, in sympathy with
their friends in the South. They AT one
time assume humane position, and with
mawkish sentimentality play upon the sym
pathies of the weak and short-sighted mul
titnde at the horrors Of war. They prate Of
long and amicably lived together, being now
arrayed in deadly hostility. They become
suddenly and pharisaically scriptural and
pous. They speak of the dreadful crime of
war and paint woIul pictures of useless
bloodshedding. Again, they are taken with
the most violent devotion 10 the Constitu-
tion, and ring changes upon the destruction
of all personal liberty. They speak of the
Bastle, of Fort l. lliyette and the insecurity
OF peaceable citizens under reign of terror;
Of French revolutions, guillotines and scat
folds. They write in the newspapers of pri-
vate rights and the rights Of persons and
property. They are in favor of suppressing
the accursed rebellion and spoil adiectives
innumerable in describing the crime of seces.
son--and in the next breath they charge
the war upon the fanatics and blood-thirsty
Aholitonists. They want to carry on the
war on principles of peace and humanity
They speak of holding out the olive branches
as if they had a perfect monopoly of that
sacred tree. They would fire heavy broad
sides at Mr. Davis aud hls co-rebcls, but the
cannon must be charged to the mu2zle with
compromises and offers of Cancellation.
This is the way the enemies of the Admin
istratien in the North talk and write.
But there is class of persons--growine
larger every day--who hold far different
language. They are the men who have been
hunted like fugitiyes from their homes by
the blood-hounds of Southern treason.--
They had property, homes and happy iami-
lies in the Southern States. Many of them
owned slaves and had always upheld the in-
sttutions of the slave States. But they had
not studied their principles of American
citizenship in the school of John G. Calhoun
and Jefferson Davis, They not only respect
ed but were loyal to the Federal government.
and believed that their highest and only
safety was within the Federal Union. And
for this CRIME they We're set upon by tile
emlssaries Of slayoholdng, lberiy-hatiur
traitors and driven into exile. Some have
left families behind them pcnniless and be
leagured by mortal foes, who will leave no
means untried 10 taunt and opprcss them
even to death itself
Still Others, not so fortunate as they in
escaping from their barbarous pursuers have
suffered death. Scores and hundreds lipger
in Southern prisons, hide in desert places.
and fall beneath the murderous stroke Of
steel, by the unerrng ball or are hung
shamefully between the heavens aud the
earth.
This is no fancy many testify what
they have seen and felt aud suffered in their
own persons. Never shall we know the
Wholesale oppression and ruin upon men and
women who would not lorswear their fidelity
to this good government. When such men as
COL Hamilton, Of TeNas, the Rev. MIR.
Aughey, of Mississippi, Andrew johnson
OF Tennessee, VIM. 6. Brownlow, Horace
Maynard and others like them, stand up be-
fore Northern auditores, and tell them tales
of horror, it is useless to doubt.
Now we ask, WHAT DO THESE MEN SAY
ABOUT 1T? DO they use soft words TO ex-
press their hatred of rebellion and treason ?
Do they charge the war upon northern fana.
ties DO they have one word of coudem-
nation for Southern traitor and ten s'ron-
ger ones for Northern aboitonistf Do
they talk of compromises, and peace. and
olive-branches, and the dreadful crime If
lighting our dear Southern brethren DO
they say this horrible war must be
stopped ~ DO they talk about a change Of
measures ora change Of men? DO they lisn
word about cancellations or national con
ventions. DO they objurgate against the
Presidents proclamation ol emancipation ?
They use no such yerbage. They are for
the WARRIOR the determination of rebellion
root and branch, past the possibility Of
'prouting again. They scout the very word
compromise until traitors have laid down
their arms and acknowledged their allegiance
to the government they have SO basely
abused. They complain only that the war
IS not half savage enough. They would
send emissarics to the capital of treason,
but they must be the swift-wingdd cmissa-
ries Of death. They have no words 10 spend
in condemnation of those who love liberty
better than slavery Bat they are IL unit in
this that nothing must take precedence of
aunihilating these foul enemies of FREE RR-
PUBLICAN GOVERNMENT AND THE UNION or
THESE STATES.
But perhaps they are not sound witnesses!
We ask who more so than they? True they
are not gentlemen who have nothing else 10
do than stay at home to caucus, plot and
contrlve to reinstate decayed and corrupt
political party. They know something
practically of slavery, but they have no time
to collect the ignorant rabble, and cry
" down with the nigger and up with the white
man."
But then they have seen rebellion at its
headquarters. They have sacrificed to its
rapacity all their property and possessions.
They have suffered every thing but death ON
its account, And now, we ask, who, if not
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