Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1862-11-07
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A great many citizens, the election returns
gives substantial evidence, are in favor Of the
| return Of the Democratic party to power
Some Of them want tie war stopped. Yhey
are in favor of @negatiation and compromise"
They are in favor os cancellation and peace"
They are opposed to a National Debt" They
dislike "the tax" They have no relish for
niggeFs.
The Democratic party, pretending to a
sort OF Legitimacy, and protesting many things
that sound agreeabIy has made a long stride
toward power. This it has done, as we have
repeatedly shown, without making a test of
( one tangible proposition of practical reform.
Now 1t needs policy. The question, now
that it has a victory, is that crucial one so
emphasized by Bulwer; what Will be Do
with Il2'
Partisans, in opposition to an Administra-
tion, with no policy but TO fnd fault, have
easy time Of it, A change comes over the
spirit of their dream when they bave to take
the responsibility Of doing things. OF this
fact the Republicans have had most serious
experience, and now feel realizing sense"
Democrats propose to make peace, do theye
How will they go about it? Will they hu-
AAAiiiaAtS SHChicSihCS oO as u ScuQ OOulLul5-
sOners to Richmond? And then, what if they
do, and the Commissioners are told as Hem
ry May was told, that if the South could die
tate her own terms, she would never permit
the restoration of the Union? In that case,
are we 10 negotiate on the basis of the disso-
luton of the Union2 If so, where is the bound
ary line TO run? Along the Ohio River; for
instance Is Cincinnati to be a border city
with Beauregard's proposed fort commanding
it from the Kentucky bills? Or are we to 90
into the Southern Confederacy, and hoist the
Stars and Bars? The tax is disagreeable, to
be sure; but are we TO repudiate our national
debt? Or, if the Union is restored by nego-
tiation and cempromire are we to assume tho
Southern war debt, and pension the widows of
rebels and those who have lost limbs in resist
ing the armies of the Union on the @sacred
soil'' of the SOuth2 And are to so negotiate
aEd compromise that we will make up Un-
ion from which any State may secede at pleas
ure If that were DONE what would our ma
tional paper money probably be worth oa the
dollary If we make up such Union as that,
how woald it answer for Ohio to secede, and
relieve herself Of her share Of the national
tax?
Would such a Union be the "Union as it
was2" Are all Qua sacrifices to result in the
Insertion Of the right of Secession in the Con-
stitution Are we to make up the country
on a South Carolina basis? If we are, which
Constitution as it is" had we better take; the
one made at Philadelphia, or the one made at
Montgomery
The negro question as respects the war is
one infinitely troublesome. The effect of the
presence of hostile armies in slave communi.
ties, is to destroy the institution, or relation;
OF slavery. The communities at war against
the United States are slave communities. At
least two millions slaves are directly at work
! supporting the armies of our enemies. Now,
are we to be so conservative of the institution,
/ the despotism which thus is used by our enc
mics, as to sustain it for theml Or are we to
| let the war take its course with elavery? Sla-
very is crumbling. What are we to do with
the negroes They are our friends in the en-
emy's country. Are we to use them or reject
them2 Are we to empty them as spies, scouts
nurses cooks, teamsters, servants, laborers.
and thus materially reduce the expenses of the
war-Or are we to force them to serve their
mssters who are cutting our throats? And
after some of them have been received within
our lines, and have served Us faithfully, are we
to allow them to be euslaved? II not what il
to be done with them? These are practical
questions and we must answer them as prac-
tical questions, and our pro-slavery or anti
slavery preiudices will only embarsass the So
luton if we allow them to influence our Judge
ment or conduct.
We do not expect any one will make haste
to answer all the questions we have asked in
this article Our object has been to give the
people, who have voted the Democratic victo-
ry would make peace and do all things needful
for the quiet and glory of the country, few
hints that something's is to be done besides the
celebration of the victories of the Democra-
cy.
Two classes Of persons are like to be disap-
pointed with exemplary bitterness. Those
| who believed proclamation of the emancipa-
tion of the slaves would end the war, and those
who believe that a Democratic victory would
do it. We must fight it out gentlemen! There
is fire kinded that no paper applications
can smother. Only blood can extinguish it.
The disease, the enormous tumor Gf we may
change the metaphor) can not be poulticed
away. 1t demands the firm hand, and the
keen lancet Of the Surgeon. Then we may
poutiee it if we please.-[O Gin. Commercial,