Delaware State journal and statesman., 1862-04-18
LETTER FROM WILLIAM PENN
NUMBER TWENTY-FIVE.
MAsn1NoroN, April II, 1862


A change is coming over the spirit of the
dreams of rebellion. One year ago, it stood
forth in all the pride of imaginary strength
and defiance to-day its leaders are biting
the dust of battle, and drinking in the desc
lations of their wickedness and perfdy-
Without homes or hopes they are now driy-
en- hither and thither throughout the DOOM
ed land of secessia, with no certainty OF
anything save the terrible retribution of an
offended and ayenging country. Wretched.
ness and misery meet them at every step
and the sure punishment of their folly makes
them to feel how powerful is the arm of right
and justice when it is once raised against
the assassin and destroyer of the best hopes
of man in America.
For all this, who can pity the traitors p
For years they had been inviting the storm,
and row that il has burst over their guilty
heads, TO them alone must be the conse-
quences A forbearing people had time
out Of mind, warned them of the utter fu-
tility and abortiveness of their wild schemes
of disunion. but the voice of admonition
was unheeded, and insulting taunts took the
place of reason and common sense and now
upon the savage horde of barbarians comes
the thuuderbolt of punishment, dashing
death and destruction among them from the
fields of war and carnage.
If these treason.nursng and perfdy-plot
ting lords of slavery started this war fol
their homes and institutions, as they pretend
they did, they must by this time he fully
convinced that without country, whole
free, happy, united country, there can be no
home, no safety, and therefore no happiness
And if their peculiar institution conld moi
endure safely under the flag of the Union
they must feel satisfied that its existence i,
manifesty more precarious and lis tenur,
Infinitely more doubtful under the ggis o
war With the guarantees of the Consti
tuition and the compromises of Congression
al legislation they could not be satisfied un
less they continually held tho rcins of powe
and controlled every avenue Of government
tai authority; they must now see that an
AtethPA W NeNliNg thV ippupilS NuH "hi
result in more complete ruin to them, II
! well as the utter annihilation of all thei
T prospects of ever again reaching power
!, while they cannot possibly expect to over
u turn the government,
y The recent victores-thOugh they che,
u the hearts of the loyal millions in the Mort
+ and South-are sorry lessons of wisdom
y the rebels. They teach treason that IL
y hour of final reckoning is at hand, and tn,
= the doom Of traitors is almost as nigh as
Is is inevitable.
" Fain would those who now so badly lie,
=, on this war against the Union, flee from Il
" impending wrath, but they know not whith
a. to go. The cotton States are no more sa
y for their aching heads to rest upon, tht
Is would be Bunker Hill or New York al
'' as our victorious armies press upon the
~ their desperate ferocity inteusi6es. b
.e their end will come nevertheless. Gt
~ has not yet forsaken his people nor i
10 christian liberty been yielded up to I
% grasp of slavery. The power Of the g
~' ernment is ample to vindicate its integrit
= and trusting in the justice of the cause
q human freedom, and imploring the divi
y" aid as the lovers of the free institutions
~ this Republic are wont to do, the natio
'N' emergence from the thraldom of slav
), and war will be brilliant, complete, !
v. petual. WILLIAM Penn