Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1862-06-13


crs, assassins. and traitors possessed The capi-
tai, and hedged up all the approaches 70 II. 80
that the incoming Executive could only reach
! is scat at peril Of life. Other armies were
rapidly concentrating and Fashing to the seat
s,f Government, sworn 10 the total destruction
ena overthrow Of the Government and ali its
constitutional ministers and officers. Every
southern fort and arsenal aHd navy yard and
mini and eustnm-house and revenue ship had
been either sgized aOd wrested from the Gov
ernmeni by the baud of the very leaders Of
that Southern Democracy. or were in Immense
peril Of being s. seized atd destroyed O1s-
half OF the officers 81 the Army and Navy had
taken perjury upon their consciences and TIE
sin Of Iscariot into their souls, bJ be,raJing
and taking arms against the Government which
led them The feeble bands garrisoning our
forts were menaced with death and starvation
hy these same cOnspirators. About one third
lbe States had avowedly withdrswn from the
Union, and some others were about 10 depart.
The courts Of the United States were closed
10 every one Of these States By violence or by
the treason of the judges and marshals Two
hundred millions Of indebtedness to northern
citizens, contracted in large part for the very
purpose Of being repudiated, was in fact total
lv rrpudiated in these seeded States, and all
courts. agencies, and modes OF collection we're
closed er destroyed. The Constitution Of the
Government was avOWedly RBd practically su
perseelsi and onnulled by another adopted By
the couspirators; and that in total neglect or
exrsess riolaiion Of the votes of the people,
r. 81,
sIiaed By the use Of arms stolen from the Gov
crnment, and used to compel submission at the
ballot box Tens Of thoasaEds Ct the loyal
citizcns of the South were stripped Of all their
estates and banished from their homes fOrev-
or. for no other crime than Of being suspected
Of loyalty 10 their beloved Government. OH
Or thousands whipped, some with thongs. some
With ,horns, and some with wires or steel and
iron, upon naked bodies, only for loving too
well the Government Of Washington. Other
thousands were murdered. sometimes before
the ewes Of their own wives and children for
The same ofense. Some hung, some impaled.
some drowned. some suffocaied hv being in
closed in barrels, some starved, some shot. and
some roasted alive:at the stake; and all this.
until not single citizen whom murder and Vi
olcEcc could destroy or banish was left in all
this seeded South who was loyal to sLe Con
stituiiou The freedom Of speech and The press
for the defesse Of the Government was totally
deetroyed and unknown. and every man vino
dared to even vindieafe ;hcsc, wes either as
sassinaied or barished from the land. npon
cdicts like that Of a Democratic candidate for
President-MaseB, Of Virginia
5F aba slptoiFs Of SuIfui,irr.,l Il
outrage were not toe enormous in extent, and
TOO shocking in brutality to admit Of partic-
uIarization, the chronicIer OF this dcspotsm,
would put Nero and Caligula to the blush. -
It would render Philip II eminenily humHn.
and hospiable, would record robberics at
Wilmington, North CIrolina; the murder OF
New Jersey Esaa at charleston; imprisonmcuis.
rsbberies, and, at last, baFdshments at Sava1-
Hah; murders Of citizens Of Sew orlear. at
Abbevilie; roasting alive ht G tree nan iis
Harris county, Georgia; tke Rurd Of Craw-
ford. and The murder, robbery or banishment
ot two hundred otho-s in inrFant county,
Texas, including three Methodist ministers OF
the gospel; the imprisonment of women nj
Charleston; Imprisonment aud Ultimate ban
isnent of cilizen Of New Hampshire at
Charleston; the scorging almost 10 d"aih Of
NJ aged man and his son at Elrico Mills,
Georgia, aud afterrard cruel imprisonment;
the robbery, assassination, md murder Of
whole communities in East fenness zee; and all
this without even tie suspicion Of any other
crime than loyalty 70 ths Goyernuent Of tbs
United Stafes.
But sir, / have no inclination for such shock
ing recitals. The whole South was literally
deluged with blood and assassination, until II
vonliied from It everything that was like free
speech, free press, or free religion. and ev-
cry man who was known to be loyal to the
Constitution Of the United States. Oae uui-
versal pail OF unm gated night Of dcspotism
settled down upon all that vast. beautiful, but
CIal-forsakeu land. And such was the condi-
ton OF the Republic at the time when this adj
dress tells us public liberty Ess secure, pri-
rate rights undistuFhed, every mans house his
eastel. courts open TO ALL no pass ports for trav-
FL no spies, no informers, no bastiles, no secret
POLICE the right to assemble Peaceabiy, the
right to petition. freedom Of religion, freedom
Of speech, free ballot, free press, and all
THE time the Constitution maintained and
the Onion Of the States preserved"
I put these startling facts Of fearful an
bloody history in contrast with tho startling
evermen's Of this address, not 10 aver or nti-
mate that the great mss of the loyal and pat
riotic Democracy Of the North arc intention
ally responsible for these huge wickidnesses
eor they are not, and such az assertion wou'c
be most unworthy and unjust Bnt do i
in EelEdefense sgalaSt the iaost reckless an,
unmiligsted SANDER Of this address, wlich i'm
potes the authorship Of al these horrors aps
ofthis ruin TO those Ehq elcc'ei and who sup
port this Administration; ruin which The.
brought by leaving 'the GoRstiip;ion Is it is,
and by decluing again 70 eoEaprOH1ise nEa.
the Constitution under threat ofits Slestruc
ton, at the bid of the slave power. But
especially and .eunhatiealIy point to this his
tory 10 say that that very southern Democra
cy, which held "a issi hand the poGers Of thi
Government .dHgiag these sixty years boasta
of in the address, and which controlled the IA
tiOnal Democracy, is responsible for and
the internal architect AMI author OF all thi
hideous rain
bt4a from the AeGhtaa Department
HEADoUARrERs 3foux44S ARxE,
In FiELp, HAREIsoNBURG,
t}une :, 1861
Hon T. H. Stanton, Secretary -cF II a..