Delaware State journal and statesman., 1862-04-22
EmANorpArIoN.

the rebellion. Indeed, it will form the
main feature, the controlling principle, Of
the party of the Union, throughout the
States, and will swallow up all other par
ty questions and creeds in the magnitude
of its Importance, and bearing upon the
Interests of the..country at large.
The question of slavery has, more or
less, entered into almost every campaign
National and local-for many years
past but in IL somewhat limited or pawi
san sense. Then, those who dared to
advocate emancipatiom-no matter hoa
honest or conscientious may have been
their conyictions-wcre called "abolition-
lists y " Cnion.splitters,n fanatics" aud
other vile names hunted out from the pro-
life vocabulary Of locofocoism and all
manner Of evil intentions against the
Constitution and peace of the Union were
charged upon them; but now change
is visible in this respect Abolition has
ceased to he the scare-crow of politi-
clans The people have learned from the
rebellion to examine little closer for
themselves, and not trust so much to dem
agogueS for their knowledge of political
ethics. They have seen that while fanat-
icism and disnnion have been charged
upon northern statesmen aud States,
treason has been nurtured and cultivated
in the South by the slaye.drying lords ui
cOttondom until it has ut length culmni-
ted in n sanguinary war, which for ipr0city
and barrenness of substantial purpose is
without a parallel in the history of the
world They have seen, too, that those
3 who have uniformly heen charged with
disloyally and a disposition to break NJ
: the government, are the true friends and
supporters Of The Union. while thos,
whose Office il has been these many year.
5 past to cry out 81 the Union j. dissolve,
"A by northern fanatics are the real aud
only foes of the peace happiness and
a prosperity of the Republic.
t The people have learned to appreciate
i the force and meaning of the terms Dab
olitionist, 'Black Republican, and Other
mean epithets which have been systema
tically and persistently heaped npon thosC
. who refused to bow the knee to SLAYER,
and subservc its ambitious designs upon
the liberties Of the country. Such slang
nick names will no longer serve to cheat
honest men ont of their votes, but are
passed by as meaningless and insulting
a deceptions, calculated to cover up the
, real objects of their inventors and assist
them the more readily to slip into power
and partake Of the luxury of public plum.
der, which they 50 well know, from LONG
experience and practice, how TO enjoy.
Partisan raucor and sectional maIevo.
lepcc are gradually but surely passing
away, and II purer current of populai
thought and investigation has engaged
the minds Of the people They begin to
realize the fact that slavery and not abo.
' lition is the perlidious parent of all our
national troubles. That it is the forging
' Of chains for human limbs to wear in per
= petnal bondage, and not the pleadngs o
liberty in behalf of all her children, whicI
i has to-day deluged the land in blood, and
II desoated large portion Of the country
u That it is the dark shadow of barbaron.
e and cruel age hanging like a sable ual
= over the hopes and happiness Of larg,
&c portion of our people in this nineteenth
G century, instead of the humanity, trutl
|, and light of the principles of the Declara
o ton of American Independence that nov
= lmpedes their progress 10 prosperity an,
Il usefulness. The thinking masses ARE aIiy
:. to these facts they recognise their i'm
p portance and influence upon the soca
and political interests of the nation. an
therefore are prepared to take hold of IN
. slavery question with determination an
zeal that will forever set at rest the di,
an tnrhing elements Of which it is made nm
r.. Men are, to-day, willing to he callc
.r ahoitionists, who, one year ago, wonl
have felt insnlted at even a distant int
. nation Of any such idea The word h.
r1 iosi its evil spell and thousands of ho
o est, patriotic, loyal hearts. are ready
l.. inscribe EMANCIPATION ON their bal
n ners and bear it on in triumph throue
- the storm Of bullets or the more cal
battle of the ballot-b0x The time #
this has come The North is ready
ny The South must be and in the gre
'u moral revolution whore will our own Sta
T. he found ln the ranks of Treason N
re- no, no! Delaware must and will he
ge the side Of Liberty. She cannot ST.
ll aside from the track of patriotisl
eur she must not refuse to do her dnt
~ she will not lag behind her sist
Isl States in the forward march Of hum
ne greatness and christian charity: $
re- WILL BE FREE. Free from all tai
~ of distoyaay- Free from any suspici
'r' of completely with treason on traitors.
on Free from further legal sanction Of II
Of gigantic curse which has so long bon
zen her to sluggish inactivity and limited
eer power and influence as II State. And
she pncrpes from fhn hlooIs,o e .