Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1862-10-24


ming last:
at home felt that was degraded man
because l was a son Of the South. and the
people with whom l had lived so long had
forfeited their birthrigbt. and turned away
from me, and was too big a coward to make
myself a martyr. l was compelled TO leave
my home nnder circumstances painful at any
time The Angel of Death had Just passed
over my house. But why should be allowed
TO remain aud weep with my wife over the
tomb of a little daughter-T, an old wretch
who dared to tell my neighbors that the sol /
emn oath had taken to support the Constitu-
tion of the United States was still binding
had dOue too much to be permitted to live
peaceably at home. / had robbed no man in
the land there were those who at times had
fed, and they were first to cry d" cruelty him,
lang HIM" In Mexico there are now 500
men who left as left. They are in the noun
tain faslneSs, hunted like wolves. Are they to
have help? Give them a chance and they will
bleed for their country, die for it, redeem III;
and thore are men enough there to-day to re-
deem it if they were organized and had arms
in their hands. Let no man be permitted to
live in the Government who will dare again to
strut his httle hour upon any stage and preach
treason to his feilow-man. Cheers. Re
store the Government, its Constitution, aud its
laws 10 all fellow citizens. With all my heart.
Restore the Union as it existed for the year
Just preceding the rebellion? God forbid
Loud, prolonged and repeated APPLAUSE
Am TO be remited back to the soil of Texas,
70 be hunted nv assassns the little remnant of
nv life? No, ro."l Am to 90 there
to teach my little son that the chief blessing
of his great future is to run from street to
street and from man to man and insist that he
is as sound man upon this subject as lives
| tCheers. Am | to see my neighbOrs and
friends hang by the neck because they have
doubted that the chief business of the Great
1 Ruler of the Universe is in directing and
controlling and maturing and perpetuating the
/ Institution Of slavery! FChecrsI NJ. fel-
/ lOw-citizens If | cannot 90 there and strike
hands with my friends at home If l cannot
again be united with my family, except on the
terms thai am to live in spch society as ex-
i~tc,l there hard as it is to utter, | can find it
( in my iie@srt to sav, let me never see them
/ 8uJ il y,u m,an by the restoration Of the
/ Union as il was a restoration of that Union
lach our fathers intended it to be, then.
puqSel The issue is simple; it is plain.-
( H. waylariug man must read it as he runs,
though he be fool Slavery on the one hand,
and liberty on the other. Loud applause
Ard yet, feIlow-citizens. Cor these brief desul-
tnry words honestly spoken 1 am yet to be
further tried. Friends doubtless who have
s.ood up fsr me hitherto. will say am not
prepared Tor this yet. But l fear not for
them; they will arrive in due time where l
stand, anl | will adj, even at the expense of
bcing considered arrogant, if you please, that
what have said tonight. uniutcresiing as il
may be to you, will strike chord deep in the
hearts Of my people. | know how the people
feel lhtir modcs Of thOnglit, 10 what conclu-
sons their m;rds have already been brought.
1t is your negroes, my children l love my
children best, do not intend 10 part with the
hopes that l have pred.cated upon my little
son He has, or ought to have, he did have
au.i you took it away from him. the right TO
iaspre to the highest honors in his country's
gift. He shall have it. I will fight that my
son might be free, even at the expense Of free
ing your negroes. [Caeers. Let me, then,
elIow-citize's, indulge the hope that if it shall
be my fortune again to visit bone and friends,
] can say, Glll say II NtAtltHIiys all u lCC-
man ! am not merely theoretical freeman
i have the Constitution of the United
States guaranteeing me my freedom; l have
what is d d,arer SILL have cOuntrymcn,
have society I have brethren. fellow citiz2ns,
all over the State without an exception, who
intend that l shall practice as Il freeman
; throughout my life. They intend that l shall
iudulse the nobiest right that can be given 10
man. the right of thought, and Of inpressing
inv thnu.hfs. humble though they be, upon
the mind, OF others. If can go home with
: Elhat kind Of freedom, I want it !; less than
that l shall never be satisfied with. Cheer
mr.J Hundreds of men have perished be-
cause they had thought, because they had
loved freedom, and indulged occasionally in
specuIations as to how freedom was best to be
preserved they have been hung like felous.
I want that to cease. | want the Government
of the United States to treat every man in
the land as its enemy who will attempt to i'm
pose further restrictions upon the rights of a
free people TO think and talk. Cheers. /
\ When see that. then l can lift my hands and
= say Blessed, indeed, is this Government
Then | can accept that flag as the emblem OF
freedom, really, unquaiifedy having gained
= ciizens have engaged to-day. will indulge
i the hope that victory upon the field may not
! only perch upon the standards of our arms, but
" that moral halo will surround it from the
consciousness of those who are fighting that
), they are struggling to sustain liberty and to
: crush the last remains OF slavery. Enthusi
= astic applause. Let then our last thought
upon Government and society be; 1 am yet q
y citizen of a free Government; l still occupy
the position of a recipient of the largest Ma
/ tional human liberty; l am yet on Freedom ::
ID soil, with Freedoms banner floating DER me
oi Loud and continued applause.
Is IRoN FOR PEAcH TREEs.-The scales ofiror
rs that accumulate around the anvil of black
'e smiths shop, are more valuable than manur,
"a for peach trees. A shovelful put around +;
Is healthy peach tree, will be very likely to keel
rs it in good condition; and it is said that tree
y already diseased have recovered by the appli