The Union. [volume] (Georgetown, Del.) 1863-1866, 1863-12-04
CAUSE AND EFFECT.


Party, in refusing to vote at the election
in this State, ON the 18th of last month is
suggestive of many very serious; and, at
the same time, cheering reflections.
To appreciate fully, this rash act of
party policy, which cannot be too severely
condemned by all right minded men, it is
necessary to take brief view of the con-
dition of our unhappy, distracted country.
The Government, and the loyal people
of the United States, are engaged in
dreadful, dessolating civil war, with the
Rebels of the Southern States. This civil
war has been brought upon the country
by the slave oligarchs; and Southern
Demagogues; for the avowed object of
establishing an Independent Confederacy,
and Government; based upon their 'pe-
culiar institution Slavery.
That they had any just cause to rebel
against the Government Of the United
States; to annul the Constitution-and
break up the Union, is not pretended,
fmueh less sustained, by any man who -,ru-
derstands the History and Constitution Of
this country. Indeed, it has been admit
ted by leading men now in rebellion against
the Fe 4eral Government-aye, distinctly
stated, and avowed by Alexander IL. Stew
ems the pretended yice-President Of the
| G. s. A. (Cursed Slave Aristocracy,) that
the South had no just cause of quarrel
against the Federal Government; because,
from the organization of the Government,
under the Constitution of 1787-up to the
time Of the secession of the Cotton States,
the South though in decided minority
had had large majority of officers, in
every department of the Government
Civil, Judicial, Military and Naval And
at the precise time when the rebellion be-
gan, by the capture of Fort Sumpter, in
April 186l-slave,y stood upon more
: solid footing, in this country, than it evel
stood before. Even those stolid, blatan
} Democrats-sympathizers with the Rebels
such as Bayard, Salisbury, and men o.
. that stripe-have utterly denied the Con
stitutional right of secession, whilst incon
Y sistent as wicked, they have refused all aiC
: to the Federal authorities to suppress tn,
q rebellion. Why, then, did those State
+. secede? Why, then, did the Southern
e Demagogues drag the Slave States, int,
s this wicked rebellion ? Simply because
r like othello, their occupation " was gone
s They had lost political power. Abraham
e Lincoln had been elected President of tn
n United States-in a peacable, Constitu
a tional manner; and elected too-througI
:, the intrigues, and management of tn
a Southern Demagogues, by breaking up
s and dividing the Democratic Party: il
# order that, the election of Republicd
r President, might give them pretert, an
It pretence for secession--and breaking u
e this glorious Union in order that the
might establish their G. S. A. or (Cor
e temptible, Slave Aristocracy.) They SUI
1t posed they would be able to do this, by tn
r material aid of the British and Frenc
ia Governments and by the +" aid and CON
is fort which their "Northern Allies -
~ the Democratic Party, North, would Civ
n them. The British and French Govern
= ments taking counsel Of their prudence
We failed the Rebels. The Democrats, Mort
e. or the Breckenridge faction of that misei
IN able party-have done all they could I
to aid the rebellion, by refusing their supper
er to the Federal Administration in their e
w forts to crush the rebellion; and in tn
III riots, and mobs which these Democra
he have fomented in the North ; and the CO
IN respondence they have held with and tn
mt encouragement they have given to II
wv Rebels.
nc 1t is now, notorious fact, that Il
leaders of the Democratic Party-Nora
es as well as South, are banded together,