Delaware State journal and statesman. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1855-1870, 1863-08-04

che whose political principles and antecedents dd no
precisely tally with their under the false assumption of fighting
for their rights their liberties and their homes they sought des
troy last yesge Of liberty make the rights of uniyea
nature deoate the homes thirty millions OF hitherto
happy prosperous people None knew better than they how
sweet the sound of the sacred name OF hV to American ears
Hence they rang changes upon while they secretly using
strangIe and asassnae her in her last asylum
Whose has read the utterance Southern demagogues for the
last years. have lingering doubt that their fixed and set
tied purpose has been destroy free republican government by
aoe and establish in its stead an ogach wherein the con
trolling classes of slave power should sway the cepe sub
ugaed and seryile people.
Hear few of the uttenees Of Southern Statesmen Says
Georgia SENATOR on the floors of Congress
Republican of The Temple of Liberty pull dowr
its pillars and involve him in common ruin "#
South Carolina Representative thus pronounce his deliberate
judgment:
We have the issue US and how are we to meet tell you
think available for meeting it, just to tar The consaon Of The Un
States rqPie under oo and form Sosen coaeS,ay egery Sac
it, my Maker; believe my responsibility to
your that tie only hope Me South the
South only making that hope sVe
aund the bonds that he as ~ and aFe our separate position IN the amay
nations These opinions They have always been my opinions
/ have been disanioaist from the time comdthiak
that believe The only dope Of doDag
T @ n. % % a rg s oqm % n % g S9 o 0 ,u @ aaa $ &
speak on my Individual responsibility: II elected President
ofe United Safes Me people their majesty rising above The laW and
leaders taking The IN r S hands, going I concert not oy con-
eiisDes of tis Government" [Applausel
Mr. Clngman of North Carolina in speech in relation to the
proper cause for disunion says =
my Judgment presidential candidate the Black
Rqpuhc.n party will furnish that
mo other act mpeat'e demand resistance our part as
the simple election of their candidate
representative declarations quite sufficient show the
anmus of this rebellion
But this ALL The purpose and chief end of the rebellion is
establish government that shall extend and perpeuate human
slavery establish type Of society having for its central
element the principle that all created equal that
class has right to property another and this without any
necessary reference regard to color That Savey the natural
norua condition of the aborng whether white black
In the columns Of perhaps the most influential newspaper OF the
South,I the principle is thus boldly stated
recently defence slavery ha aboed under great difficulties
apog took halfway ground They confined the defence Of
slavery Oey thereby giving up the slavery principle ad
changed The South maintains Tint slavery is right aaa and
ana does % not % depend % upon ags q - aas The laws
In the journal we have within few weeks this deca
ration of principle.
establishment Confedeucy distinct reaction against the
mistaken csaon And this is the true
why have been left without the sympathy Of the nations until we
EonaI fraa are hare ds5e Substituted Slavery Suordnaon
and GOom Those social aud political problems which rack and tor
way upon principles That equals equality is
% are sv races born to ssruc master govern
fundamental principles which inherit from the ancient world which we
lift up the face Of rerv generation that has forgotten the wisdom q
fathers by whose principles live and their defense have shown
missionary tie aanon pm grea, truths preach We must speak
them boldly and whose hath ears to hear let him heaG"
speak of these opinions showing the nature and objects of the
rebellion which is being mercessy waged against our ma
ona authority 1t is against the progress of civil and religious
beryagans the progress of enlightened neutrality-suspicious.
the progress of civilization and intellectual Acknowledgment the
spirit of the christian egon-advancement Of social order
and happnessagans all the springs and incentives to virtue
and sound morality and finally against the universal and dear
interests of mankndS The oppressed of every land look
upon it with shuddering horror and the oppressor gee
full Mt prospect of its Can any victory
such rebellion be other than great victory? Can any truly oya
heart be other than joyful every substantial triumph OF the tede
armies such rebel hoY There time when the fea
invasion by France thrilled the heart Of all England Then the
pu of the land sounded the ALARM and the watchmen In Zion
cried the people bestr themselves And when at
length this dreadful burden of fear lifted from the popular
heart the relief great that words of joy could express it
The land filed with shouts and exutaons not unlike those
the Hebrew Prophecies she stood upon the Eastern shores of the
Egyptian
But how mmueh have joy and rejoice every sig
nal defeat Of this ebec that had its equal in violence ant
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