Delaware State journal and statesman., 1862-08-26
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th"l thc heAt BleuJ iSnt petNSch thS
Federal army and the combined forces OF
rebeldom, is to be at or near GOrdons-
vile. Things look very much like it and
if Il battle should occur there, we doubt
not it will be fought with desperation
specially on the part of the barbarians,
as they will look upon that as perhaps
their last chance, and like their arch-rebel
leader, the devil, they will show great
wrath, knowing that their time is short
1t is not however alone at Gordonsyille
that there is to be a great battle and
great questions of long standing settled.
Unless we entirely misinterpret the tenn
per of the times, there is a great fight TO
come off nearer home, on the limited
arena of our own proud little State, and
it is one upon which will turn the most
vital interests which can attach to us as
citizens, for years to come No one who
is not wiliully and stupidity blind, can fail
to see that the place of suffrage is to be,
the approaching autumn, place Of un
usual importance and responsibility for
every loyal man of Delaware, who loves
his State, or who has spark of patriotic
devotion to his threatened country All
the elements are slowly but constantly
gathering for last desperate struggle
On the one side it is to be fierce, un-
principled, relentless partizan attempt to
rescue a departing sceptre from loyal
hands ready to grasp it, and TO replace in
power the worst men in the State; ON
the other it should be made an earnest,
deliberate and persistent effort to snatch
that sceptre from disloyal hands and
place our noble, though sadly missoycrn-
ed, misrepresented little State on the roll
of the glorious, free and patriotic States
now combined for the destruction of trai-
tors and treason in our land forever
The issues before the freemen of Della
ware, at the coming elections, are by no
means common or trivial They are the
grayest and most consequential that can
be presented to US as citizens. They are
not strictly local nor are they Of tempo
rary and limited importance, they are to
affect the nation and stretch forward to
the generations of our children Though
one of the smallest Of the thirty-four
States, Delaware has always had large
influence in the councils of the nation
and it has been mortifying to the last de
gree, to every one of her loyal sons, to see
her placed in such false and obnoxious
position by her most faithless representa-
tiyes ever since the outbreak of the slave
olgarch's rebellion. We are soon to have
the opportunity to alter this programme
and redeem our reputation The time is
at hand for this loyal State to assert her
place and name. Shall We do il? Shall
we hestir ourselves and do, what we can
if We make the effort, cause a whirlwind
of indignant rebuke to sweep away the
last vestige Of treason from our borders =?
Think Of it you men of Delaware who
scorn the treacherous horde and hate the
very name Of secession,
But we will not conceal from our
people our belief that the work we have
on hand is a stern and severe one. 1t is
no chidren's past-time We have before us
If we succeed in oyerthrowing the un-
principled partizans in power, it will be by
untiring activity and sleepless vigilance
The voters who have left our State and
are now enduring the hardships of camp
and field, reduce our chances of success
and increase the labor imposed upon us
Every iniquitous effort will be made by
the secession leaders and pimps, to per.
petuate the reign Of treason 1t is fol
thls-the triumph of the jeff Davis demo
cracy-that these men live. To reinstatc
the man who was in secret conclaye will
the rebel President, on the very da,
when Sumpter fell, planning to sell ou
our doomed little State to the traitor
crew-to keep in place the men whose
every move in the Congress of the United
States has been to cripple and perpleA
the government and give all possible aiC
and encouragement to those in rebellion
Let these partizan efforts succeed, ant
our State is not only bound hand and foot
III the evils of trea son at home. but we
through our ialse-hearted representative.
III Washington, shall be a perpetua
, source Of trouble to the nation and he'll
to destroy the only free government of tn,
world. We owe it to the history of ON
, State, to the memory Of our patriotic an
c cestofs, to the government under who's,
t benign protection we live and to every in
terest Of man. to rid ourselves Of the in
toerable incubus of treason that has st
long borne upon us as horrid night
e mare. Let every patriotic, loyal vote
who shall be in this State during III,
y autumn do his duty. Let us be yigilan
q and active. Let no unholy and has,
{ motives of party or section, in any wa,
j. swerye us from the devotion we owe t,
G our country in this the time of her seye
rest trial and most imminent peril. Le
j.. us demand that Delaware be put righ
/ upon the record
d We must not be caught sleeping a