Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1863-08-28

NuVAhs uAt hccp IOuE HUM ou 0uE AtGo tENEil
ry; that we would protect slavery as far
the fathers provided for its prolectioni but
the same time you must not make il ths q
preme element in our Government.
d This brings US down TO 1856. Many DeI
ocrats saw the crisis approaching at the Ci
cinnari Convention They did not then hai
the Northern people one particle less than
1860. They were determined 70 rebel, b'
could not do so without q pretext The
dared not openly declare their object to be
destroy the majority principle. Some prefer
they must have in order 10 unite their peOpl
= in the bloody work. Accordingly they raise
, the cry thai If the North should elect q seG
:. lionaI President they would seCcde. The
. came 10 the Convention at Cincinnati with
scheme TO insure the election OF a sectiona
candidate. Bot when they found that 'h
candidate of the Convention would give then
seven out Of the nine members Of The Cabinet
they considerably modified their platform, con
Guiding to improve the term Of the next Preai-
dency, in preparing for q vigorous blow, and 70
more certainly insure success. During ths
Administration of james Buchanan, we had
trouble enough in Kansas. by the desperate
and bloody efforts Of the shareholders to i'm
pose Slavery upon that state against the wlll
II tie people. Amid the noise and confusion
,bout Kansas, they were better able to subor'
Innate every arm Of the Governments to the
erribIe purpose they contemplated.
Then, in 1860, they met at Charleston and
brought forward another platform, that Slave
y should be protected wherever the hag should
Eave-thst slaves might be passed through
he free States at their pleasure or IN other
words, and 10 short, that Slavery should be-
ZONE the platform Of the couniry. You must
axe the platform and elect the men we place
apon il, or we will secede We will have no
frnion, except that 10 which the minority can
rule.
The Democracy had been presented with a
rood many bitter pills before, and swallowed
hem. In l84S we bad resolved that Slavery
was an evil and we would get rid Of !. as soon
ls possible, but we we're compelled TO abandon
he' plank or drown, for we could not swim
on il. f
young man stood up in that Charleston
Convention and bravely said that the North
'rn Democracy would not place their hands on
their mouths and their mouths in the dust
others spoke 10 a similar effect, bat that young
nan took the lead. Bat oh how he is fallen
'ieorge E. Pugh Is now licking the dust from
heir very feet and furnishes another mel
.nchOly example Of one who does not run well
the race that was set before him asJa5
Those shareholders then and there eooIIy
md deliberately planned for the election Of q
ectional candidate. They supposed il would
Ie Seward but they were mistaken They
succeeded in thier prime object in breaking
Up the Democratic party procured thereby
be election Of a Northern randidate, and then
;red ont, "You have done it and we will Sc
,ede!" "
Had this been an act sf sudden impulse, Of
nen smarting under wrongs real or imaginR-
ry, there would be some excuse for It. But
20; you had kept oil your compromises; you
had not put slavery 10 peril; they held clear
working majority in Congress; they controlled
both the purse and The sword, and the Admin
istratiOn of Lincoln could do nothing against
hem. They had seven out OF nine Judges Of
he Supreme Court TO maintain the COnstitu-
ion for them as they understood it, and there
ore there was no where 70 be found The least
excuse or ralliation for the rebellion, for no
southern right nor institution was put 10 per.
at that time. aa ra
They had the entire control ofthc Admin
straiion Of Buchanan, and they ask You TO
,elive that the injury was inflicted by the
.ection Of Mr.. Lincoln. But how was it?-
would that the recording angle could wipe
nut the damnable record They proceeded
o concentrate the whole power of ihe Gov
against the North. They sent the
lavy to the distant seas, 10 be called back TO
heir posts when the blow should be struck
they disposed Of the army to suit themselves.
hey took possession of your arsenals. They
tole the public money. They did every act
'cssible 10 render us helpless, and to PROSTATE
s at their feet in the hour Of their rebellion.
They went further. They went TO that poor
Trak old man. LauRhter.l But this re-
minds me of a toast drank by Ben. Tappen at
party met TO celebrate the destruction Of
he oil United States Bank. Bens toast was,
We never speak evil Of the dead nor rail at
he damned" [Great laughter. They went
D Buchanan and a>ked him how far they
Duld go before he could bring the power Of
ne Government TO bear upon them They
Ompletely bewiIdered the old man and got
i'm to send in a message asserting that o
tate had 70 right TO secede, but at the same
me the General Government had no right
coerce a State. [Langhter.1 You might
1t believe it, but il is on the record. II will
; dificul: now 10 find another weak nan or
aitor to put such a thing on record again.
p 10 this time they had committed twenty
ur overt acts Of war, and under the succeed
& Administration they were allowed four
Onths 10 which to prosecute their purposes.
Geo. E. Pugh says that a slight c0mpro-
ise would have prevented the war. why
n he NOT ARGENT the Cotnprouniao NJ Charlao
N? 1t might possibly have put Off the war
r four years longer. But If any one net
ore than another produced this rebellion It
as that OF my young friend in hurting the
'gan of Douglas into the convention.
They had power to pass the Critienden COM
omise, but did not do It. The resolution
ciuring that no State bad the right to Sc
de was introduced, bat Pugh With his party
ted against it. And while the compromise
IS being brought to vote in the Senate the
,ngress of the South was voting 100000
IN 10 prosecute the rebelliOn Did this look
e stopping the war with that compromise
oes any man suppose that with any conces-
ms they would have loregoDe all these prep,
ltions? We had been compromising and
till we had compromised every Il
ing away but our rights TO vote and 10 live;
Il do you suppose that anything short Of our
nplete surrender, as their slaves, would
We stopped the rebellion? Il il pnssibIe
It this war could have been prevented af,er
y hnd got everything into their control and
re already involved in the war3
Is il not strange that any one can be found
the North TO favor these rebesH And is
BOT stranger still that Democrat should