Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1862-03-14

! ent stage, Is not, therefore, suppression OI IN
surreciion in eny just sense; but the overthrow
of rebellious belligerent Power. Its success
DOES not signify the execution of the TERMS Of
an existing government in the Seeded States.
remtting to their original status in the Union;
but implies their subjugation to the sovereign
ty of the United States, to be held as terrific
rics, or military dependencies, or States, or
anything else are please
The same gentleman also informs us, after
cnumerating rights of war which have been
by the Executive, through his suborlinates in
command, practiced ia the treatment of rebels
such as our blockade the use of the flag of
truce, holding them as prisoners of war, eX-
change of prisoners and recognizing their en-
bassabors as the representatives Of belligcr-
ent, that
"The action OF our Government in all these
matters is necessarily based on the theory that
the Confederate States $50 called) are beyond
the jurisprudence of the Union, holding
middle ground, subject TO the issue Ofthe pen
ding conflict
What do gentlemen mean when they argue
that this Government in suppressing this insur-
rection cannot bring into operation the laws
of war without recognising a status which
PAGES them beyond the jurisdiction Of The Uaion,
to be held after subjugation as 'territor or
military dependencies, or states, or anything else
we please? Does it mean that after this re-
bellion shall have BEEN quelled-after any re-
bellion shall have been quelled-the rebel dis
trict or State is, ipso facio, out of the United
States, and the Union dissolved? Does it
Il.
and in war use its laws in suppressng insurrcc
tion, then the rebellion, or its suppression, or
the use Of the flag of truce in the suppression
has severed the Union and Dissolved the whole
structure Of the Government? If 50, was ii
the rebellion" was it the flag of truce"
or was it the suppression which placed the
! State beyond the jurisdiction Of the Union p"
| Which did it; or was it all three? Sir, it car
scarcely bc that l understand these gentlemen
If do, then, in the suppression of every re
/ beIlion where you must call out the militia
and resort TO war, one OF two things must oc-
cur: either in the employment of this militia
OF the States, which the Constitution says YOU
must call out for that purpose, you must en-
! plOv none of the symbols nor rules nor practi-
ces of civiizcd warfare; or if you do, then you
have given TO The rebels status which ''Iu-
| thorizes them to make war upon the Consti-
| tuliun," and which places them "bey ond the
| jurisdiction Of the Union;' and Just when the
majesty OF the Government has trumphed in
reasserting its sway and establishing the I'm
ion, you have, in your triumph destroyed the
| Union.
| Look at this dilemma. 1t is the law of na-
/ IL r
oners Of war. Forbid your legions that slaugh-
ter, and you have recognized the laws of war.
| Ii is the law Of ma. ions alone which throws its
shield over helpless infancy. Prohibit iufanti-
eide, and punish it III your army, and you re-
cogn;ze and adopt the laws of war. Woman
relies upon the laws of war for her protection.
| Pun sh your soldier for outrages upon defense
less women, and you give your enemy what
he is entitled TO only by the laws of war. Sir,
it is the law of nations which puts out the
torch which is firing the retreats of children.
the usylums of the insane, the collections OF
literature, the productions of science, The mon
uments of art, the seats of learning, the sane
uaries Of religion. the hospitals oi the aged,
the inirm. and the wounded; which keeps poi
son ont Of f.Ud and fountains. Compel, with
in your lines, the protection Of any Of these,
and you have accorded to your adversary rights
he can only claim as Il belligcrent under the in
ternational law.
Sir, light mp the pathway Of your army with
cities in bonfire Strew your road, not with
the branches of the PAIN in honor Of God-giv-
en- victories, but scatter beneath the progress
Of your eagles the child whom YOU have dashed
against the wall the dishonored body of women
whom you have slain, the charrrd bones of the
insare the sick, ard the wounded whom you
have consumed in those sanctuaries of misfOr-
tune and helplessnes which even war concc-
crates to these. Let the measured steps of your
cohorts be taken TO the music TO which the
Roman eagles were carried when 'in Rama
there was voice heard, lamcntation and weep
ing and great mourning Ay, sir, let Liberty
herself, as she is carried at the head of your
triumphant battallions, not wear the vcSture
and crown and scptre, embIcms of her majesty
and purity; bat drape her in garments dipped
in the blood of the innocenrs;' bind on her
brow of alabdstor crown Of nightshadc, and
put into her lily fingers some cup of hcmock
and let all these be symbols of the war waged
by the army of the Republic for LAW, but
r waged without LAW.
Sir, the Capitol cf this Republic was once
on fire. 1t was set Oh fire 10y the hand of war,
but in violation of the laws Of war. But the
hand which lighted it kind!ed flame in whose
glare will be read forever the inlamy of Eng
land. In the House Of Commons, upon the
IIth dly of April, 1915, Sir james Mackin-
tosh declared, in speaking of the burning o
this city, that, after twenty-five years Of the
fierccst warfare, every great capital of the El-
ropean continent had been spared-hc had al
most said respectfully enemies; it was reserv-
cd for England to vi0lalc all the decent cOur-
tesy towards the scat of national dignity. That
success was Il thousand times more disgraccfu
than defeat-a success which had made the la
val power Of England hateful and alarming tC
all Europe These sentiments have rendered
their author illuslrious.
Yes, sir; all have alluded TO as Il war with
out law, you must have in this war, Or if You
do not you have made your enemy belligcr
ent, aud ont Of the Union!
Look, for a moment, at another result of thi,
strange doctrine that rebellion, or flag o
truce, or an exchange Of prisoners, or any 9th
er act of CIVILIZED war, places the revolrct
States out of the Union. Admit it, and yor
! inrtantly place it within the power Of an!
e lraitorous district-a Burr conspiracy, Min
t go Creek revolt, u Hartford Convention, or
D CHARLESTON Iebcllioh-to dissolve the who!
framework OF the Constitution, and to over
, throw the Government. Let ii bc settled, tina
i what is required to put a State or distric
= out of the Union is only 10 resist the law by
!, force too powerful for the marshals, that th
II Union must call into operation the powers Q
c war to suppress irsurrection, ana in that wa
pra ctire the riyhtS or sill civilized war and thn