Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1862-05-23
From HaTp,r's Week : i
lie Two Parties.

In the great struggle between Liberty srni
Despotism which is now ySnged in this country,
part y-spirit viii inevitably play prominent
part. The enemies. or conditional friends Of
constitutional liberty will sympathize as party
men- When the armed resistance Of dtsloyaI
citizens is suppressed, it is eyid mt that such
Union men as Senator Carlile of Virginia and
Seuatof Davis of Kentucky, will be inclined
to strike hands wbh such open friends of the
rebellion as Mr.. Ben Wood and Nj Valan-
dgham. Ought not this fact to make such
men as the Union Senators hesitate? Can a
party TO which all the secret aud silent adhe-
renls of aisunion attach themselves, be party
which can possibly promise peace to the coun-
try in the future?
Can Mr.. Davis c'eave to party which holds
that arnl d rebellion n 4 proper remedy for
constitutional feat, without supporting ali
flla. JEFF, Davis has ever GAINED
There are really but two parties in the
country a this moment. There is the party
Of absolutely loyal men, who hold that the IN
tegrity of the a ion must be preserved at
evcry cost, but who differ as TO the time and
way in which slavery should hc touched /; and
there IS lhe party Of disloyal men who are
either openly in armes, or who secretly sup
Porr those il arms, or who declare that, if
slaves are not untouched. boweye much they
may be used against the Government, they
will virt ualy aid the rebellion.
There are very few men in the country who
do NOT belong to one Of these two parties, aud
cut Of thcse two the working political organ
izations of the future are to arise. The ques-
tion that viii divide them is slavery; and
slavery will be the dividing question of all
parties in the country until it absolutely over
powers the Government. or until it is seen to
be in process of extinction For it is a con
lest Of civilization. Tile party of liberty as
serts that every man was born with equal cixil
rights; that an injustice which repeIs the moral
sense Of mankind is bad political policy and
That as, in popular government, the gre.t
mass Of the citizens must be laborers, therefore
labor mast be respected. While the party OF
slavery contends, in the words of the Churlrs-
ton Mercury, that Slavery is the natural and
normal condition Of the laboFng man, Whether
white Or black :" that men have no natural
rights, and that therefore for the strong 10 rob
and oppress the weak is not injustice
The party of slavery is iutrenched in enor-
ance and prejudice and tie practical difficulty
of dealing with vicious System of society,"
The party of liberty Is strengthened by COM
mon sen7e-hy experience of the necessary
consequences Of slavery which are war, taxl-
ion, and anarchy-ani by the positive advan-
lages of liberty. which are general prosperity v
Intelligence, and civil security The practical
weakness OF the party Of slavery will be the
iuI uman and rcroltinS doctrines and practices
which it must logically assert and defend the
weakness of tue party of liberty will be the
difference Of opinion as to methods. and the
bitterness which such difference always breeds.
Virtually 0C course we have all made the
election between these parties. Those of Us
who think that The remnants Of desp0tism aud
the harbaric ages are TO be wceded cut Of this
nation belong already to the party Of liberty
of civilization, Of America of peace, progress
and prosperity. Those Of US who believe that
there is no necessary antagonism, in nation
Of ldbGrerS. between Il system which respects
and ore which degrades labor who suppose
that the laborcrs ef lLe Free States are going
to look ON qaietly and see the homes of their
children in the West preoccupicd by slaves
and who think it wise to maintain an over.
wheming servile class restrained 10y laws OF
terrorism and whom it must he necessarily
criminal to teach or to treat as human, belong
already 10 the army OF despotism. ignorance
and anarchy.