Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1863-10-30

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upon the name of the man who has oppos
US. Let him go into oblivion. 1t is immat
1r rial who led the party opposed to the Cover
If ment. And their great leader has at lea
te the merit of consistency. He has alwa
IS openly opposed you and sympathised with T
II bellion- From the beginning he declared b
/ opposition to the war. He led that infamo
:, FIVE who resisted every war measure of Co
k gress. He has never stopped to deceive 20
!, But the others, who calling themselves Dem
d Gratis, have borne his banners and fought b
2 battles, are mousing and hunting after plac
e and power. Let them not be forgotten.
0 But the fruits of our victory are not cor
o fined to our own State. On the Sd of next NJ
) vember this tide, which has been rolling fror
: the Ohio River to the Lakes, viii roll on owe
2 New York. sweeping up at least $4,000 ma
7 iority for Union. The whole of that Stat
has been ablaze with demonstrations of joy a
the result of this election. Every city an
town from Albany to Buffalo, has been tn
scene of public demonstrations of rejoicing
1 have been flooded with dispatches of con
. graduation from all over that State. Ant
the burden Of it has been, the salvation tina
Ohio has wrought for the Republic.
But its tone goes down to Dixie, too. ThC
rebel leaders there have clung to the hope o
Vallandigham's election with desperation. Tc
secure it, they would have sacrificed their best
army. Now, that last hope is crushed their
last plank has gone down. They have heard
this voice of thunder from the loyal States.-
Like Beshazzar, they see a writing on the
wall, and in it they read their doom.
The news of this victory goes over the wa
| ter, too, and settles all talk of Intervention
there 1t will enter the TuilIeries, and find
| its way to the ears of Louis Napoleon, stuffed
as they are with Mexican cotton. He will
discover that we mean to fight it out, and the
discovery will make him ring a wonderful
change in his tune.
There is another place to which the news of
this victory will go with especial significance,
as it leaps from crag to crag, and bounds from
crest to crest among the mountains of T'ennes
see The soldiers will hear it and will say,
I'VE knew tina! the people of Ohio would not
leave US to fight this battle alone" As this
news breaks upon our brave boys from every
mountain crest, it covers them with foam OF
glory. And why should they not rejoice To
them and to their efforts we owe everything.
even the chance to vote. We have not felt
the effects Of this rebellion at all. We go
home at night and rest in peace. No blade Of
grass of yours has been trampled or stained
with blood. The torch of no inceDdiary has
wrapped your home in flames; the knife of no
assassin has laid your children dead at your
'hearlhstones. But for this wall of Union
hearts which stands between you and the foe,
ened evidences of war that Mississippi now does
all those horrors would have swept upon you,
and Ohio would bear the scorched and black
And do you know how these brave boys
have begged, persuaded and implored their
friends to vote for Union? All honor to them
that they did not, in their public capacity, use
threats also! know of some cases, however
in which they did use threats, privately, and
with very happy result too Let me relate
an incident. When 1 was in Lancaster, found
upon the stand from which I was to speak, an
old man whom had known in former years
aud who had learned was identified with the
Peace Democracy. "Why, George. how came
you here ?'' said L. And the old man told me
then that he had son, captain in the army. |
His son had written to him saying: "Father,
I pray, implore, entreat you, TO vote the |
Union ticket. But if you do not, when come
home, though may slip round to kiss mother
once in a while, when you are away, so help |
me God, / will never speak to you again.
The old man went on in his broken English to /
tell how he carried the letter to his wife and |
how moved by it and her tears, he concluded !
that he could not lose his boy for one VOTE
Many Democrats like him had concluded that
they could not lose their boys for one vote
And if the election had been put off two weeks
onger, we would have got all the votes from
The old Democratic ranks that were worth
having. Many more of them think, have al
-eady come over, and in sixty days almost all
the rest will claim that they were with u.s.
Let US not repulse these men. Let US cruelty
BY public opinion the leaders, but let us not
.read down the honest and deluded masses.
Let me now address a word to the ladies,
1ur most potent, powerful and efficient auxil-
ary in this campaign. We owe this victory,
IS we owe all of good 10 the world, to woman
Woman was last at the cross and first at the
grave. She has been mighty for good in this
war, spreading untold blessings all around
No one can tell how much her Soldiers Aid
Societies have done in alleviating suffering and
n bringing comfort to the soldiers. Women
lave helped the soldiers on the battle field by
he home letters which they have written
etters full of confidence, love and cheer-which
warm the heart and nerve the arm for the fight.
She is always on the side of the people and
he Government, and has always been with US
q this campaign. Her instincts are ever for
ruth and right We owe much to woman.
et as not forget her. Let US never fail in re-
nembrance Of and duty to her. :
Let me remind you, in closing, that we have
till Government TO watch over and to pre- :
srve. Let US stand ready, like minute men, !.
D do so, by our votes, by our bayOnets, by all
leans in our power.