Delaware State journal and statesman., 1863-01-09

fpr more important they never acknowledge
that the rights aud the welfare Of the whole
country are entitled to over ride individual
rights they have not the spirit Of patriotism u
suffer in any way 50 that tue Government may
be saved. But forgetting the higher claims Of
country, they magnify and complain about the
grievances OF party friends, hot because Of their
devotion to the principles Of personal liberty
but beoaus', as of old the cry was This we
know. Carthage must be destroyed" now they
cry in the bitterness Of political defeat, This
we know, Repubicansm must be destroyed, or
it will destroy our party All il is the rha'i
see again, :" "straining at guat and swallowing
a camel paying tthe of miut and auisa and
cummin but emitting the weightier matters of
the law"
8. THE MILITARY AT THE ELEUTIoSs
1t was well known that IN the lower counties,
attempts would be made On elestion day 10 OVER
awe Union men to take possession of the polls,
and To permit parties from Maryland 10 vote.-
Tbs determination was that this State should be
carried for the Democrats beyond possibility OF
failure; and in order to guard against defeat,
Union men were TO bO prevented from attending
The polls, To anticipate these schemes, few
sold ers were quietly distributed at the different
voting places. Not one man can he prod1ced
who was deferred from voting by their ptesence
There was no attempt to interfere with any par
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any place but for the repeated tauuts and insults
of youthful secessionist-, having more zeal than
brains These precautions of the Government
were eminently wise. Without them there would
| have been 10 fair election. More than that
the secret, organized bands Of secessionsis
among us would have carried out their determi
nation. What the result would have baen no
one could Imagine, for .freemen did not intend to
be driven into submission to unauthorized mobs
1 L. all tha pf hp
soldiers saved us from bloodshed. ln all Ger
tRinty their presence did US no harm, and since
the election was quiet and in the main fair aud
well conducted, we have no complaints, only
those whose plans were iii Sarted ful any cause
of complaint.
"No rogue e'sr felt the halter draw,
With good opinion Of the law
4. THE HOME GUARDS.
The Governor is worried that the Government
should have made auy distinction between loyal
and dislpyal citizens, disbanding the armed or
ganizations of the one, but encouraging the other
to form military companies for defence. 1t knew
very well that I" Delaware Guards" and " Haslit
Guards could not BE- relied upon "at "A time
when invasion might he apprehended." Nor il
it ga matter of wonder" that a Government
struggling against open secessionists, should
disarm and dsband secret secessionists when
discovered or should organize force without
the help Of Governor who had so basely de
ctived them. The Governor very well knows
that he made certain representations whereby
the Government was induced to trust him. lie
violated his trust and 1t stamped him his coun
try's enemy. 1t was therefore that the engin(
, Of political power and the means Of fraud-tht
draft-was stopped, and nn efficient aud reliable
force of true Union men raised. The only GROUND
Of objection on the part of the Governor is thai
it has not sufficient traitors in it to control IN
organization and to extend TO their Southern
brethren that lingering, now distant hope, o
active cooperation when the armies Of JEFF
Davis should come TO hberdte Delaware
, But enough Of these dull chapters of undig-
nifed and unjust complaint against the govern
mtnt. II would have been much more m anlS
and honorable, as well as patriotic, to hav,
overlooked any error committed in new and
unirled path, in struggle for life, and to have
"pardoned something to the spirit of liberty
now reused from its long slumber. Instead o
carping at the government, aud endenyorug tC
destroy confidence in il in order to advance th,
interests of party the Governor might have livet
in the grateful remembrance of the people hat
be been loyal and honest But is the Phariset
again, " comprising sea and land to make ont
: proselyte aud when he is made" lis il too muct
. to say ofmen in the interests Of slavery ''makinl
d him two fold more the child of hell thni
; themselves"
: 10 a-few days the Governor will retire t,
L private life. Let him know that the judgmen
=, Of the people is that his administration ha
y been without benefit to the State and th
= instrument of the enemies Of our country tina
L it has been devoted to slavery and Lottery, sci
:. and family that good spurn and scorn it
u measures, as they despise the impure men VIII
y counseled them, and pity che old mln who wa
: their dupe. May he yet live to sec the country
= = he has SO deeply wrOnged, united prosperous
=, peaceful and happy DELAWARE.