Delaware State journal and statesman., 1862-07-08

7 tlOnal Government would be irlttered away
into miserable little States.
/ But this is not ALL The degree OF in
dividual liberty and security to person aud
property is dependent, as you know, in a
great degree on the form and action of your
general or central government. 1t is the
great boast of our country, that these
rights, as far at least rs regards the ruling
or white race, exist and are maintained in a
greater extent and in greater degree of
perfection than in any other country. Here
taxes fall more lightly on men; exactions
interfering with the liberty OF the indi-
vidual are rarely met with; the strong
hand of the government has seldom been
felt except by the evil doer; and the ruling
central power has never been known eX-
cept in the iayors and blessings it has ex-
tended to the children of our hitherto hap
py land Perhaps we have received these
lavors with ingratitude; perhaps they cost
TOO little to be priced much However this
may be, let secession be successful
and you will find all this changed
For, the iuxtaposition of nations creates
1 the necessity for strong military govern
ments. The laws Of self-defence prompt a
people to be ready to meet aggression, and
preparation on the part of one beeets prep
aration by the other; and in proportion as
there is contiguity and no natural detences
or obstacles to the warlike approach of
either party will be the magnitude of their
military establishments. Those establish
ments cannot be supported except at an
,nil4ense cost to the people, cost only to
be met by heavy taxation.
Now suppose, my friends, Secession is
successful as principle your govern
nont divided into fraginentary rival mill
tary powers, what will be the pecuniary
situation OF the masses living under taxa
tion necessary to support such powers! You
see in the emigrant fleeing the taxation OF
the old world faint picture of your future
condition,
But the evil does not end here. You
now have Il Republic. You are Republi-
cans--as opposed to monarchists-in senti-
ment as well as in principle. How
long will the sentiment or the princi
pie stand the contact and the test of a mil
itary government in which all honors, trusts
and dignities are reserved for the ruling
class, in which the civil authority is silently
but surely encroached upon and absorbed
by the military? Look at thess shifting
panoramas of Mexican and South Ameri.
can national life and see your fate. Rea
liberty lost and despotism under the namt
of Republicanism gained
And here let me digress for few mo
ments to remark on matter of more loca
character and interest.
While We are citizens Of the UniteC
States, we arc still Delawarians. While VI
owe an unqualified submission to the gene
raj Government in all points where she is en-
titled to obedience, whether it be agreeable
to the State authorities or not, yet it is not
to be denied that there is great strength il
local attachments, and in this dark hour o
our country we desire to know how GU
Slate would be affected in all her Interest,"
by the success of this principle of Seces
sion There are those who have controlled
the policy of this State, and perhaps thos
who now assume to be the exponents o
public opinion, who claim to be the pecu
: liar defenders of Delaware's interests an'
: Delaware's happiness; and as this rebellion
? is based, in great degree, on the heretica
. notions of those who place a hig
value on State authority, and Stat
rights, it would naturally be suppC
sed that Delaware, in case Of the success Q
: Secession, would be peculiarly favored
= = elevated to condition of happiness an
= power she had never before attained an
= vet what would be the ultimate fate of Delt
. ware should the rebels succeed ? Al
= sorption, extinction, utter annihilatlon d
= a State She might feel herself fortunat
= to be treated on the same terms as til
. neichboring counties of Chester an
Delaware, and taken under the protectin
. care of Pennsylvania. Ii the bonds of tn
>, Union are broken, permanently destroyed
- this ittla State, with population Of
= neighboring county would never be permi
! ted in the future to WELD the power of
II sovereign State, holding an equal authorit
y in the Senate, with New York. In
!. T. reconstruction, so aippantly talked abol
,e by some of our leading men, Deldiod
!, would occupy such small space, that q
ic would think it better she should occul
p no place at all, but put herself und
~ the protection Of some powerful neig
7, Dor. 1t is wicked and foolish to be
j ioeGesSlOllsb tLJWhoio buu ia 0SA1"~A
~ where we are at liberty to be loyal witho
=, t1 being mobbed for it, to be Secession
Ill is to be madman, and if the man is int
ligent and well informed, is to incur strol
ce suspicion of being villain. Nothing b
i" the infatuation Of madness, or the bac
az ness of ignorance, can shield any nj
M in Delaware from this suspicion, who eli
ne braces and advocates Secession.
as Time does not permit a discussion Of
ep causes of this rebellion; and yet it is i
possible to conduct the war to SUGGEST
"a "a, termination without an intelligent app
eu citation of that wide spread disaftectiC
ws which has given rise to it. The jarring
is. r interests arising from the differences
nI ari LABOR employed in the two great sections
lal the country, North and South, while it
er, had powerful effect in originating a
hle continuing this struggle, in our opinion
not Of itself sufficient to produce
trl The true cause must be sought de
Vi er than in the conflict Of any material
on tercsts. We must descend to the mC
,a eh sentiments of society and the impulses
tne passions growing out of them. That dit
y,s, ence in moral sentiment as to the fitness
u,u sau unfitness, according to the eternal Il
",, lan of Justice and morality, Of the corner-st
' nsm of the temple of constitutional governm
o''. ou, founded at Montgomery, as a toundd
oU' of government is the real cause Of TINS
=, beliion. When two people live facing
'a'n in other. the one with the accusation OF or
'ie !. constantly on their lips, and the other v