Delaware State journal and statesman. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1855-1870, 1863-03-20
wILLrAm CANNON NuLLIFIEn.

such was the startling announcement,
IN bold capitals, made in the Salisbury
Copperhead organ at Dover, on last Sa-
;nrday. civilian Cannon a nullilier
We paused moment and then read on,
when 10, reader, we discovered that twas
even so. William Cannon is n nulliIier.
tie was bold enough 10 catch the hercsy
Of State sovereignty by the throat, and
'trangle it unto death with his timely and
patriotic Proclamation. He swept away
The disoyal acts of the Secession Legis-
lature with burning words of devotion to
Liberty aud the Union. lie hurled into
atoms the barriers which an mlaithfu
Slaveocracy sought to erect for the de-
fence of perjured treason in our State
lie resolved to stand by his Country first,
last, and above all other human institu.
tions whatever, and enjoined upon the
people TO do likewise Hence he is u
nullifer He utilities coppcrhead demo-
crazy, and endorses, sustains and encour-
uges National Unity, Constitutional Su-
Premacy and Universal Liberty. Would
that all the States had such nullihers as
our noble, true, aud courageous Governor
at their head just now. He is great
gun in the service of his glorious Country,
and greatly to be feared by political evil
doors
In order to show how Governor Can
mons notification" is received by loyal
men and patriots, we herewith append a
few instances from popular sentiment as
expressed by the public press of the
country
lPr IN the Washington Chronicle, March. 49,
STATE RIGHTS AND the DEMOCRATIC GOV
ERNoR OF DELAWARE.
When the Southern traitors attempted
TO destroy the Republic, they did not es
innate that the deadliest consequences
would fall at first and finally upon them
selves. They did not expect, indeed, tha
their threats, and even their blows against
the Union authority, would be so formi
dably resisted. Aud when the people o.
the States that had not seeded saw how
the authors of the rebellion were beins
punished, and how innocent Southern
men, women and children were suffering
they thanked God that they had no agen
cy in the precipitation of the strife, ant
also that they were removed from the cir
Gle of its most disastrous influences. L
would be unnatural to suppose that any
body would envy either the rapacity O
cruelty of the traitors, or ask to endure
the horrors inflicted by them upon tin
Southern people. We can readily con
ceiye that leaders, hating the Govern
ment, and living in the free and loyal Dor
der States, should desire to seduce thei
people into Treason. Such leaders car
have no safety in this country if the Re
public is indicated and restored. Blu
that the honest and hard working men
and enterprising mechanics, and capital
lists, and farmers, should envy.the hard 10
of those who occupy similar relation il
the rebellious South is not only an un
natural, but an Infamous suppositon
What would not the decimated and dc
vastated families Of the cotton States civ,
to-day. If they could be restored to tn
comforts from which they were torn h.
the conspirators against good Govern
ment: Every hours information show
that their distresses are made the NOR
poignant and onerous because Of the con
trast between them and the ever.preseu
comforts OF the people of the free and til
loyal States These suggestions resul
from reading Of the two papers we pub
fish this morning, issued by William Can
non, the new Governor of Delaware fl,
was chosen at the last election in tina
State Governor Cannon is Democrat
He supported Breckenridge in 1860. H
was friend of Senators Bayard an,
salisbury up to the rebellion. But wheI
he saw where secession Democracy tended
he cut loose, and was made Governor b,
the votes of the Union ren of Delawarc,
His PROCLAMATION of the llth of March
like his Message of the Sd of March, is i
exact accord with the short and fearles
Inaugural which signalized his entranc
into the Executive office. The same fir
is instinct in all How fearlessly he ele
Yates the superior duty to the whole cour
try, in times of peril, to that which cling
to section
Governor Cannon shows that nothin
has worked more mischief to the peopl
of the slave States than their adherenc
to the doctrine of State rights. The re
Prospect shows that they were never S,
unfortunate as when they opposed thes
rights to the just and protecting rule c
the Federal Government If there ha
been secession Governor in Delaware. O
Missouri, or Tennessee, or in the half {
. Virginia, all these States would hay
been surrendered to the tender mercies q
the rebellion. Tile best profof tie polic
Of sdef1J then, from tie t1,i,jentic OF Urea
son Is to contrast them 1ciM The reLck State.
Prosperous Maryland is good witnes
against the politicians who, while askin
her to go out of the Union, are luxuria
ting in her prosperity in the Union. AM
Delaware will be grateful to Governo
. annon for having secured to her simila
advantages.
ZION the Ledger, March IL!
; STATE RIGHTS IN DELAWARE.
Governor Cannon, of Delaware, la
J issued proclamation, declaring the pro