Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1862-08-01
The Union at any Price"
IFram Harner,s veaklr1


| For year We have been saying that we
wanted TO save The Union at any cost. We
are now called upon to show that we mean
what we say. We have perhaps though that
half million of armed men would suffice,
| that Il was not necessary TO employ any other
means. But as parents ask children How
much do you love met A dollars worth =?
Fwenty dollars? An apple?"-so We have
10 ask ourselves how much do we love our
Government and Ibe cause of civil liberty and
human freedom. The question is perfectly
simple. Ii we can say truly that we love our
c0uBlry so strongly that we hold nolbing
dPaFer, except justice and honor, then we are
safe. II not, we are already lost, and every
one Of our soldiers whom We heneeior,h allow
| to fail We murder. Let Us see, then, how
much We do love it, and at what COS: we are
willing 10 save it.
SIR. Ten Eyck, Republican Senator from
New jersey, says shat he doubts whether his
leliow-eiIizes would fight for their country
side by side with coloreG men. That is to
say, their predjudce against the colored race
is dearer To them than the Union.
Another Senator says that con6scating the
property OF rebeis III arms is not TO be thought
of. A man may be sIaughiering our broth
ers, sons, and fathers, but we must respect his
property. Men .who take this view are more
unwilhEg TO con6scate ny proceedings in rem
than they are to see the country divided and
lost.
Another party says that it is frigbtful to
think of General Hunters regiment of color
ed men. Ifyou ask them whether they would
not save the Union upon the very principle
Of Union, namely, the liberty of innocent men,
they shake their heads. They would rather
he Government should be ruined and the
nation lost than that those who have been en-
aved, in defiance of every hnmau instinct and
divine law, should be liberated.
These reprt sent classes hat have been hither-
TO very large in the country. But they are
cases that diminish every day. 1t is gradu-
ally becoming pam to the blindes: eyes that
thi- country can be saved only by the heroic
effort Of all her children. The authorities
are willing, but the people are the Govern
ment. The authorities must be stimulated
aud supported by public opinion. and every
man must help TO make that. If the world
sees that we are trying with one hand to put
down reballion and with the other to save
rebels. it is idle 10 expect its assent to the
continuance Of a war in which it has 80 much
at stake. If, on the other hand, il sees that
we have learned what we not to be re-
preached for not having earlier admitted, that
the EXTREMIST and most radical measures are
not to be spared in the suppression of this in
surrection, the word will pause. for it will see
u purpose too dangerous and sincere to be
Irfed with.
The moral is rai1ently Gear. If we value
the Union more than the claims of the rebels
to their slaves and their property, we shall
save it. II not, it is already lost. If we do
not believe we can constitutionaliy take any
step short OF dishonor, which is necessary for
national self-Preservation, then our salvation
is constiLutionaly impossible.