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

dlld CIV iAAN4ou has lehpeI, ike Minerva rom
the head OF Jove, full grown and beautiful?
BET him contrast Ohio, Indiana, IIlino s, and
tue states protected by tnat signature ot WASH
Ingion, with their SIX millions Of free, happy,
and prt tspercus sons, while their more than en-
pires OF wealth, and heir six inland oceans of
cJnmerce, with any other equal extent OF slave
territory upon which Gods equally propitious
sun AID rams descend. aud then answer me.
not like the trucking demagogue aud partisan
Of slavery, but like what he is, the independent,
higA-sUaed and sagacou5 statesman Nay,
sir, what would you take and have wrested
from the brow Of yonr own great State OF iii,
nuls ihe crown OF liberty which Washing
IONS signature, dated on the memorable 7th
day OF August 1889, placed upon it /? Why,
dr. Chairman. nj not ask him that qles-
liou, GJr il is asking him whether, for mol one
piece ef silver, lie would have done against Illi-
Dos wbat Is, a iOl got thirty pieces Tor doug
uguits. 81. | viii not even ask what be
YOU'D take nov aid have reversed in history
Ia action Of Il ndo!ph aud his associates, by
WI ch o. tie "a OF March, 1893, they reused
10 per,itl slavery to lin0er Tor Oae holr in all
The Oeaati:Ii borders Ot his great State. Aud
y,t, Ar. Chairman, il was just what Wlshirg-
,Un aud hs First COusres did for us; just what
Randolph dlsi lor Illinois, just hH we sought
IL iot lha, a., and beautiful ear h which SIR
tcn : if5m he waters Of lie Mississippi to the
racli,c oce1u. uAd whtre oar children now
pant
'.Iho sIs Of empire future, broul,
Aud rear the dtst .sttlrs t. the PIlSrim's God"
here wanted 10 do tor cur children
what VI ashngt0n did for us. Aud Mr. Chair
lnan, j, was Uuy this nj abauSrnmeut, slt ibe
/ b,d of treason, by us Oi hat desire that il de-
nnunced in this iI,uee the cause Of Ih.s re-
0,noG against Woshing,oa's Republic. lis
/ that which N ,k.,s the six hundred aud forty
/ days OF this Administration the muriarers Of
three hundred thonsai.d If our childrenl Sir,
/ / mig ht continue this expo 1ion Ofthe precepts
and deeds Of our dead until il included them
/ adj From Sire To son these principles were
/ transmitted and repeated 1 might recite the
teachings by Webs,er, rep atgd ia his memo
rabe declaration. that he would never do
| uught TO extend slavery on this Continent, or
! to add another slave State to this Uuion."-
/ | might point to that noble sentiment uttered
! 10y tue great Clay, when, with a vehemeuce
Utmost unlike himself he declared that no
earthly power coud Gospel him to vote to
extend slavery into TcrritoEies nos free"
But [ must pause, aud let down the vail
which hides from us the examples Of these great
men. Sir if the Republic must perish, let all
THESE holy memories Of its origin, 10 which
have alluded, and the names Of its founders
perish also; and let that vail never rise again
| to agonze the heart Of perishcl people by
tie memories ef the frighilul delusions under
wuieh our experiment 10 free government was
begun IA deusion, lie, enunciated in those
J l.s IL. IL
that all meu 10y nature are entitled to life.
liberty sid he pr uit OF hap ,iness; and sir l,l
their uales perish from among men who de-
ce,vrd their children inio the b,ief that meth
or slavery nor Involuntary seryiude ought to
be exte,ded except in punishment of crimes"
/ sir, have not exhibited again FOR the ten
thonzaudth Iae the words and deeds of thess
men vi the past, in the vain hope Of couvinc-
ing the gentleman from Illinois or any one who
says that tie uon-abandonmeut Of our princi
pels al the bid Of rebellion eaused this war,
that " Washington and Franklin and Madison
ami JrE.rsOn and Patrick Henry aud Bark and
Wilbgri"rce and Blackstone and Gr0tius and
MausGeld and Wesey aud Baxter aid -AdJisJz
aud Clay and Webster were right.
Nay SIR not in the hope TO convince him
th It the UNIVERSAL conscruce, example, aud
heart of modern Christian civilization is right.
Ia obedience TO these, al tue period of our
Revolution, from the vast domuious Of the
English, human slavery, ike the bird Of evil,
took It's eyela sting flight; and in obedience 10
these it has been banshed forever, since Onr
Revolution, from France, Sweden, Denmark,
Russia, the Dutch West Indies and indeed
lrom about every civilized le'pls on the face
of the globe.
Nay, sir, not in the vain hope to convince
them that the teachings If all these aud oftbe
divine revelations is right, whose sublime pre-
cepts do inculcafe a b, ,nev0lente which 10
adopt the words Of Patrick Henry, Is AT VA.
RANCE WITH THE LAW THAT WARRANTS sLAv-
ERY. l have not passed before himiiu the Ger
emcnts Of the tomb, all these founders Of our
Tree institutions; each one as he passes repeat
ing those words of Washingtou-"It is among
my first wishes to see some plan adopted BY
which slavery in this country shall be abol-
sHed by law" in the hope that the teachings
OF Washington, and all bis ustrious assOci-
atea, and oil all modern civilization would be-
preferred to the TEACHINGS of The Charleston
Mercury. But | have cited these examples
and de,ds Of history agait for other purposes.
Que is hat for which the Irish lawyer cited
Blackstone to the drunken judge. TO remindl
him what fool Billy Blackstone was. | want
tU show hm what biockheads Grotius, Burke,
Addison, Blackstone, Milton, Washington
Je.eison, Franklin, Webstrr, and Clay were.~
And anctacr reason for these citations is to
RI w him that when he bids us to abandon our
principles at he threat OF rebelliou, he bids Us
10 abandon what we had been fooled into be-
lieying, not merely by the precepts and exam
pies OF all the great men OF this Republic
without one illuslrious exception, bat by the
pIecepls aud examples Of every truly great
man who has lived for two hundred years, and
by the united voice and example Of the entire
CHRIS in iz,d world. wau:ed to snow him
not that y NashmgtOn, ard 6rOtiUs, aLd the
Bible ard modern civilization were right bus
only that VII We declined, 10y "bono,a'is
coaIp'o8a sst' with Yurey's whip ut oar backs,
to swap tie prucipits ii Patrick Henry Tor
Ihus. Ui mud sill Hummoud, we have some
apo 'cyy for bringing on ths war in the fact
,haL we we're q, ccived INTO believing our priR-
clip IS by lie teachings OF ali coed men and
good Goveromgnls which have existed for
c. injury. / have cited ,hem to show him that
If il would have been dislioHora6ie compromise
Tor hltn to be buliud ont OF his principle Of
"squatter sorcrysnty' ay Ynncey at Charys-
tou, because he hal reason TO believe in H.
thyu il would be dshonorable compromise in
Us 50 be buisl out ofour principles a, wssh-
M Il 10y Benjamin or rooubs OF Mason, be-
cause We bad reasons to believe in ours.
Bat, Mr.. Chairman, ii the gentleman is