Delaware State journal and statesman., 1862-04-25

Union man, you proteSSed TO De, oefoTe me
election and since. Tell us then, first
what should you do with the captured
white rebels? Doubtless, your good
Constitutional Union sentiments would
prompt you to retain them as prisoners,
and to confiscate and keep all the arms,
baggage and stores, and every other spe-
cies of captured property-Jutthe negroes.
Would you protect your rebel prisoners
in the possession OF them? If you would,
you are either big fool, or you are not,
since the election and rebellion, good
Constitutional Union man, us you pro.
fess to be. And while you have Con-
stitutional- Union on your lips, you have
rebellious secession deep in your heart.
Mr.. Lincoln also is attacked in the
Deidwarcda, because he did not veto the
Emancipation bill after having said, that
he had no purpose directly or indirectly
to interfere with slavery within the Sta.es
where it exists. 1t is said by this sapient
writer that the country looked upon such
Il declaration "aS a SCeePing assertion in
tapor of protecting the institution aOhereDer
it tUfaRy e.risted." Now this very writer
knows right well, that he never believed
any such thing. He does not believe ii
now. lie knows that Mr.. Lincoh's re-
cord is perfectly consistent He knows
that Mr. Lincoln has always contended
that the only or, at all events, the best
plan of settling the slavery question is to
have the public mind to rest in the con
viction, that slavery has been put in the
course of ultimate eXtinctionn-that when
slavery shall come to be regarded again
by the people North and South Gas our
fathers regarded it) as a horrid ulcer on
our body polite, to be eradicated by wise
and prudent measures of gradual eman-
cipation, and not till then, can peace and
harmony be restored TO our country The
President has never changed his opinion
on this subject.
As to the emancipation of the slaves
of the District, no sensible man pretends
TO deny the right-the Constitutional
power-of Congress to 10 that. Even Mr.
Bayard, who worships the ebony idol,
does not say that. Then, the only ques-
tion for Congress or for Mr.. Lincoln to
consider was, whether the measure was
wise, prudent and righteous. Was it Il
step in that direction which would mani
fest to the world, that the public mind was
becoming settled in the conviction, that
slavery was again to be put where the
trainers of our government supposed that
they had left it, "iA Me course of ultimate
ertinctton" If so, then Mr.. Lincoln and
the Union party in Congress, which pass
ed the bill of Emancipation have deceived
nobody, not even the writer for the Dela-
acared0. He has not even deceived him
self except in the belief that his article
would deceive the honest masses Of the
people of this State,
And now we would like the DeiIiodreoA
and its amateur editors, one and all, to
call a council of war; let them summon
the distracted forces of Breckinridge and
straight-Om Bell secession, under the
sounding title of the " Democratic Con-
sttationat Union partg"-let them take
positions for or against the policy of the
President and the Administration party.
Let them declare whether slavery is too
sacred ever TO be touched, or altered, OF
abolished anywhere-whether nothing
shall ever be done anywhere to rid us Of
a race with which the white laborer never
can and never means to equaize himself.
Let them say boldly, that they are deter
Mined that so far as they can they will
labor to perpetuate and increase the evil
of slavery for a thousand years to come
and thus keep the white laborer forever
degraded in the slave States, or let then
acknowledge that the President and Con
gress are right, in inaugurating policy
which has for its object the ultimate ex
tnetion of slavery at some distant day
and the elevation of white labor every
where in the land.
The passage by Congress of the Dis
trict bill, and the resolution recommended
by the President, pledging the aid of tn,
General Government to schemes of eman
cipation, to be initiated by the State
themselves, has put the question of SLAYER,
where it ought forever to stand Con
gress has emancpated the slaves, wher,
it had the right to emancipate, and ha
declared, in effect that in those State
where it exists it shall only BE- disturbed
by the States themselves at the same
/ time that the General Government hold
: itself ready to make just and fair com
Pensation for every private and publ,
r detriment that may flow to a State an,
its people, by reason Of a change of sys
! TEN from negro Stare laJor to free aolit
labor We believe that the Amight,
/, intended this country for white men, on
p fathers so understood it and the soOne
f we can have this universally understoot
= the better. We believe that slave labo
is degradation of and n fraud upon tin
poor honest free white laborer of on