Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1863-02-27

son, he received the plGudits Of bis govern
ment and for Them by Gen. Wilkinson, a
The time Of Burrs conspiracy. he was aP
plauded by Mr.. Jeff.rson, who said:
''On great occasions, every good Office
must I've ready TO risk himself in going be
yond the strict line of law, when the public
preservation requires it. His motives VIII b,
a Justification as far as there is any discretion
in his ultra-egal proceedings, and indGi
gence of private feelings"
You sending here Svartwcut and BoliEr-aH
and adding to them Burr, BIannerhasset and
Tyler, should they fall into your hands, Will
be supported by the public opinion,
The Feds. and the little band of Guilds, In
opposition. will try to make something of the
Infringement Of liberty by the military ar
rests and deportation of citizens but if it
does not go be ond such offenders as Swart-
won't, Bellman, Burr, BlannerhasSet, Tyler
&c, they will be supported by tue public ap-
probation
And these acts by jackson and Wilkinson
were done at time when the public danger
was to ours now as the summer breeze 10 the
sweep of the hurricane Tell Us that ihl So
military arrests for public safety" are un-
heard of acts Of despotism not dared TO be
made by autocrats, when we know that from
the conspiracy of Cataliue 10 the rebellion Of
DorEs IN every civilized government under the
heavens, they have been resorted to as a
means Of preserving the State! And, sir,
they never should be resorled 10 except when
necessary to preserve the State, aud then with
EXTREMIST care. Tell men not idiots that Mr..
Iincoln's six hundred and forty days posses
sion OF this government has divided this I'm
ion, inaugurateI the war, and brought all It's
consequences when every man cn the globe
who reads any human language, IRON Esqui-
maux to English, knows that under Mr.. Burh-
anan's administration this Union was las much
as now divided. Sevea States had St ceded the
rebel government was formed, The President
installed, The Congress in session, an act ma
tured calling out one hundred thousand militia
to seize on Washington ard assasSinate the
President, our army and arms seiztd in Texas.
public property taken by the rebellion, and
tie Governments authority ovelthrown
throughout one-fourth its limits Tell US
Lincoln commenced this war, when Walker,
the rebel Secretary Of War, on the ! 2lh Of
April, 1861, boasts that they began it GU that
day by the attack upon Sumter, aud notified
through his organs his army of seven thou
sand men and one hundred and forty cannon
to be ready at moments notice TO march
upon and take this capital and this and in
Vulnerable other acts of war, all done before
one effort was made by this Government even
in pFspdrGtjora for selfdetrnse!
Why, Mr.. Chairman, by what name will
history call such trulhcss assanlls upon our
beloved institutions AID the Govevnment now
when it needs so much he sympathy and sup
port Of all lis children? Are these treason ?
Oh. no; not treason. although they destroy
tie Government They are not treason only
uecarse treason is bold and leaps TO lis ends
by the overt act" II is only because troe
son is bold aud takes the hazards Of crime
that somebody said Of it that treason multi
piled becomes heroic, successful becomes pat
riotism Why, sir, Cataline rs conspirator,
at the door or The efa;e, has received the cX-
ecralions Of all history, and is pinioned over
he doorway of every council chamber in
Chrsteudom. There, sir. over your doorway
you see his bones yet, and scorn stands there
pointing IL them her slow unmoving tiagcr.-
But Caaliue as ihe captain. in fagraht war
at Pisloil, has received from history the ssl-
cred rites bf sepuIlure. When Ahsolem stole
from his father ard king the hearts OF the
kings suliec's as hg kissed the men of Israel
beside the king 5 gale, Absolem was but a
demagogue and thief But TO the memory
of Absolem, in the wood OF EPhriam, as
leader oil open rebellion, tie tears of his faith
er accord the need Of hero iIustrious at
least in crime.
No. MIR. Chairman, ittdse to#ercd and fur
tive attacks upon this Government itself,
which made now by seeking TO persuade
the people that the crimes of their own Gov
ernmcnt are the causes Of this rebellion
against itself, are not technical treason just
because treason is no sku!k or coward. And,
sir, neither are they debate. Why sir, de-
bate is the contest of intellect with intellect,
welding in that contest truth-high, sublime,
mighty truth-and if the comhatants have no
other light, they have at least the sword-sparks
struck by the conflict from these their wea-
pons Michael or Ajax may be set down by
poets as imperscnations Of high debate. Bat
even Ajax groping for an antagonist and for
light, is not such impersonatibns much less,
is not debate the truthless dribblings, Of imam
ity as it stands there vacant and emasculated,
muttering at each passer by It's incoherent
l.
bate, which, in this Hall, or out, libel the Icy
al men of the north as the authors Of our ma
tioEal calanities.
These utterances are not, debate, sir. Then
what are they Let them be forever to his
tory what the raving Of the hags Of the dra.
ma are to it, D." deed without a name"
Let US look little at these accusations
against the men of the North. The gentle
man from Illinois says, in effect, we brought
the war wrongly, unjastly, by rejecting an
honorable compromise, which was rejected the
I'd of March, 1861. This was after seven rob
el States bad seeded; organized rebel gov
emment; inaugurated lis President matured
in its Congress, an act calling ont one huu-
dred thousand militia surreudering our army
in Texas, ami our forts, arsenals, navy-yurds,
and other public property to the rebellion ;
and after the cOnspirators had taken final
leave of this Government iii conteEiptu0ds dc
iance of the Government and rejection Of alt
compromise, and was in the act Of organizing
its armies to march them on this capital to
overthrow the Government and to ussussinate
the President of the United States, and to
seize upon the seat of his and this Govern
Wtht power. luHC was t9e precise attItuue
Of the rebels towards the President and his
friends" at the moment when that President
aud his friends, as the gentleman alleges, at
last refused to make with the rebels au hon
orable compromise - And that was the atti-
tude of atfairs-mafk it, Americans when
began tbe six hundred and forly-oEe days of
this administration existence, which the gen
tleman from Ohio Mr.. Cox] in this House
dares to ihsinuate have borne as their terrible
fruits, the destruction of three hundred thou
sand citizens, the division of this Union into
two belligerent parts, the bankruptcy and to-
tai debauchery of the entire uution Let this