Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1863-04-24


brothers, sisters. and friends of patriotic faith,
who may be counted by mutitudes, cherish
your names ard deeds with fondest remem-
branee. They hail you as the guardians OF
the homes and sanctuaries of freedom, aud
they will count it precious privilege, whilst
you imperil your lives for us and our country,
to check and control these 81 Northern allies of
the rebels" who dare tarnish your good name,
or attempt to sacrifice the glorious principles
which you have gone forth to defend.
We congratulate you upon your high re-
solve to struggle to The death for an uBdivi-
ded Union. Not star must be erased from
the old hag-nOt a State severed from the
Union, is the motto Of all loyal men. With
an mistaken confidence in the existence of a
loyalty as self sacrificing as that heretofore ex-
hibited, we claim to you that we will irown
upon the attempt of any faction or party or
ganization to disturb the unity and nalionali-
ty of our movemeDts-to adulterate the great
creed of our faith. or to tarDish the banner I'M
der which our fathers led Us TO the possession
Of our present glorious heritage. The soil has
been eonsecrated to Freedom and free inslit u
tons, and not foot Of it can be set apart for
traitors without base surrender of plighied
and patriotic faith. This attachment to the
whole Union, and the determination 10 pre-
serve its integrity are 60 deep-roOted and uni
versal in the hearts Of our people, that even
the most reckless among Northern sympaihi-
zers dare not advocate lis severance or dissolu-
tion. Such an avowal would sink its authors
to deep and deserved infamy. Your earn
est and emphatic disappr0batiOH of all who
talk about armistices and compromises" ex-
hibits your correct apprehension of the real
sources Of danger. You have seen the rebel
lion in all its hideous aspects, and you know
as you assert, that a cessation of arms would
but ena ble the rt bells to recover from their ex-
haustion, and 10 prepare for greater outrage.
a truce with them, now staggering under
your blows and painting for breath would be
as absurd, as % grant respite TO an assassin
thiIsling for the blood of other victims.
We concur in your stern denHBciation of
the suspicious loyalty Of those who talk Of
compromise. These men ought TO know that
there can be 20 compromise which does not
involve ii total abandonment of the glorious
! inheritance Of free government committed to
our care. They must know that such con
eessOn would be an act of moral eowardice
| the recollection Of which would sting US with
remorse and self reprOach, and Justly bring
upon US the Odiuln of the patriots of all lands.
Fhe man who would desire a reconciiaii.u
| upon such terms has no feelings in common
with honorable and loyal men, and be ought
to place himself and treasures where bis heart
is-among the rebels.
As you state the rebels will have no peace
which does not rccogniz. the rightfuless of
! their rebellion. Nome know their fixed and
treacberous purposes better than their North
ern allies, no have been again aud again
scurnidlly repulsed by them AMI who are still
waiting with their accustomed serviliiv, ready
10 perform any act Of condecension which their
masters may suggest. The popular mind is
becoming we'll Informed as to the m:schievous
purposes of these pretended mes >sengeIs If
peace. And, unless there is a speedy abai,-
Inent Of their lreacherous designs, the galher-
| ing storm Of public indignation will burst
with all the power of the Constitution and
the laws upon those heartless tramsgressors.
BE assured that your stern resolve to accedr
to no terms but an unconditional sui render Of
the rebels, has inspired all loyal men with
renewed spirit and energy, and has stricken
with fear aud trembling the Northern sympa
thzers with the rebellion. Your handwriting
has troubled their thoughts, as that upon the
wall of Babylon afflicted another tra1sgressor.
who saw. as they see iu your records, signs OF
a coming retribution.
We concur in your 6enunciations of the
perfdy Of these * Northern allies whD are
strivipSsto chill the fervent patriotism Of our
soldiers by circulating letters, papers and doc
umeuts which ba<ey miSrepresent the noble
purposes of American patriots. Tnis is but
d new, and as we think, the last scene in the
tragic drama, which has been enacted by
these vile performers. The first was their af-
fected horror at the alleged usurpatiou of the
Chief Executive in calling for 10000 men,
Their pretended zeal for the Constitution
made them Indifferent to the threatened de-
struction of our National Capital Their alb
stractions were dearer to them than the saliva
tion of our Government Whilst you were
buckling on your armor and rushing into the
battle field for the defense of the Constitution
and the Union, they were preparing their sr-
guments to Justify their running away from
the bloody conflict, and TINS saving that dear.
est TO them of all C0Rstit tons their own bod
les. They next appeared with hypocritical
warnings and lamentations over the pretended
Tyranny Of the President in suspending the
privilege of the writ of habeaS corpus They
were not afflicted with the sad tragedy in the
streets of Baltimore, when the blood of our
brave men who were rushing to defend the
Capital Of our Union, was shed by the HAND
Of the vile traitors. Fhey had DO tears for
those bereaved by the murder of our patriots;
but they 6ercely howled when the dastardly
ussassins were hurried, without " due process
of law to forts and prisons. Their morbid
sensitiveness on behalf of arrested culprits,
indicates consciousness of their own dsloy-
atty, for it IS not within our knowledge that
any loyal man of Ohio has any distressing ap-
prehensiors that his body may be taken for
treachery to freedom.
Again, they pretendedly frighlen themselves
and attempt to alarm others, with the emor-
nous expenditures of the war, the deprecia-
tion of naoney, and the heavy taxes which
must Cypress the people. The blood of your
comrades shed by the rebels az Stone River
and all the other butlle-ieltls where our brave
have fallen, does not so stir their souls as the
great fd9 in the currency. Tho mothers and
sist prs Of Ohio, who have lost The props of
their homes aud hearts, have unmurmuringly
given TO their country the dearest idols OF
their love whilst these croakcrs have J.lade
the air vocal with the beIeavemeDts of their
| pockets. With such mercenaries. it must be
immaterial whether freedom or tyranny pre-
, walls.
! The last act in these false performances is
: the unpa'riotic attempt to ineite the pFedndi-
ces of our soldiers, by representing the conflict
as war not for the Constitution and the
Union, but for the emancipation of the Gegro.