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

we and the people who elected Mr.. Linc0li
I could net honestly entertain item as true?
honest y entertained as wise principles of gov
ernment, and justly approved by the pcop'e
cOud the President aud his friends ab;;ador
them in obedience 10 the logic OF The knij
and the pistol, and abandon thpm IA the ve4,
: moment he was appointed by the peopc e
execute them? Would f5ai. sir, be the gea'
mans idea of an honorable compromise? L
Us see.
now make an appeal which 7 know mus.
reach the sense Of inauh0ed as well as ih,
patriotism of the gentleman from Illinois, and
Of every member on the other side. Had Mr.
Douglas been elected on the doctrine oil pop
alar sovereignty" and the New England
States, or Ohio, pursued The course of their
Southern sisters aud said, " we are unwi.i5II-,
! to belong TO a government NIiGh protects
slavery we are tired Of what these men cal
the eopartper>hip; we will break it up, All
will erect a Government Of our OVID" aud ii
they had seized the forts, arsenals and pabiic
property Of lie whole country, and had ar
raved themselves in Hostility to tie Govern
meut, aud ihrea encd TO dePose Mr.. Dongias,
and to take possession Of the capital, and put
their knife at the heart OF MIR. Douglas, aud
at tie heart Of the gentleman from Illinois, as
the head Of his Cabinet and then, pt that
posture Of affIirs, had said to Mr. D0uglls
and liii Cabinet, and to the people who e!ec-
ted bin, we will submit 10 your Govern
ment, aud live undrr it il you will make wi,h
US an honorable compromise ;; iI-t abapdon
your principle Of popular sovereignty !: put
INTO the constitution Chicago platfoi N
exclude popular sovereignty foln tie Terri
tories forever and do not stop there, bat al
ter you nave got the Chicago platform into
! tie Constitution pat in d clause touching it,
which shall say, as the Criienden compromise
did, touching its slave cod.,' which it iIj ct
ed into the Constitution, no further amend
inent 10 the Constitution shall effect this ar
ticIe" And then had New Englaud said, do
this, and We Black Republicans" will co.seIe
scend to live under your government, and will
not cut its throat, and yours, 100. We of'r
yOu this honorable comprom5so' You can
accept it or Tie kniGc. Il you reject this hon
oIub.e compromise, you wiz be the cause OF
The war we will make on the Government and
will be the authors of the slaughter and bank
ruptcy it viii bring, ard Of our division Of the
Uuion aud OF our rebellion Had New
England dene this-and beg pardon Of no
Die New England FOR ever quoting ll,s sup
position, which | do from Mr.. I4a'hafr-
would the gentleman from Illinois have ac-
copied the most hOaorabIe compromise ?''-
" ould he, AIR. Chairman? Would he, my
just-lninded meu Of America? Would ne do
the thing described by the nob,e Democrat,
ROsecrans, jast after he victory Of NuFirees-
boro, hich has mnle Kim immortal, and thus
speaks Of the peace traitors Of the Nor.h
They will lic, the boots of these Southern
thieves and liars, wins VII turn ar0nAt anI
kick them.
Mr. Chairman, fake the question back
! To ask it is not to assume merely that the
gentleman from Illinois would have played the
traitor by laying down at The foot Of mon
sirous, causcIcss rebellion, that Government
which the people had Just given to him and
made him swear to protect and defend Il
is not to assume merely that he was tro poor
spirited and too cpIvar.liy To defend prime
pie he believed right. ard which the people
had jasl approved and inlrus1eI to him TO de-
lend as their chosen guardian. Bat it is to
suppose that he gentleman from Illinois is a
dog, arl very mean dog at that Sir. ii he
! would not, and could not, make such a com
promise ,githout disIonor an1 the lblnIon-
ment of al pretense cf ours being a Govern
meul, then, in th2 name Of all that is high and
holy in common justice anl fair play, ask
now could toe abandon or principles and gov
ernment at the bidding oi rebellion, with Yam
ccy's dagger at oGn heart?
But, Mr.. Chairman there is still another
reason why l should not SUPPOSE the gentle
man, as u member Of Alr. Douglas Cabinet,
would, upon our threat Of rebellion, have hon
orably' Compromised a &ay the Constitution
as it is than the one have given that it is
to suppose him a traitor, a poi room, and a
very bad pup. That other reas)a, sir, is, that
upon this very lgsliJn the gsntie;rln aaI all
his party, bit pr3-emll4nLiy that galtirm III,
has been tested-ay, sir most thoroughly test
ed. That gentleman as the chosen and colf-
Dental representative Of Mr.. Douglas, was al
the Natioual Democratic Convention all Char
lesion in April, 1860. What be said there
aud did was 10 be taken to be AM WAS what
D Iugas said, all wat D:nDcclcy North
said.
And, sir, Y ancay was there too. Anl that
same knife which is now red aaI dripping with
the blood of patriots slain Oh hundred battle
fe 'ds for the Union WAS here too. And that
same torch was there, and in the hands Of the
same eonspirators, which has fired this temple
Of our liberties. And there Y Yanccy held that
knife at The throat of the geatiem N from Hi
uois, and applied that tosch to the funeral prye
on which they had stretched, for immolation
10 the Moloch of humla slavery, the Demo
cratic party
The gentleman thcn knew and said what
Mr.. Douglas, in effect, repeated in the last pub
lie utterance Of his life, that this attitude ot
Yanccy ard his coconspirators toward bin
aud MIR. Douglas, at Charleston was one act
in the plot for the destruction Of this Union
| by destroying the Democratic party. Sir, did
you not know ii? Did you not, in effect, say
Id? Have you not said SO len thousand times
out Of this Hall aud in it? Did you uoi say
what the whole Democratic party North have
said, that then and there the c0nspjrators
meant 20 destroy the Democratic party first,
aud this Union next-to put out the light,
and then put ont the light? And sir, then,
too, the gentleman, with this same kuiie OF re-
bellon at his throat, was rendered, by these
same cufsplratOrs, Il cOmprOmise-if he pleas
es, an honorable comprumse'-one which
would save the Democrats party, and, in his
Judgments that would have saved tLis Union.
What was that compromise? Let the coun-
Try look at it now once more. WHAT was
that thing which the gentleman from Illinois,
rather than Hgree to do, would destroy the
Democratic party and thereby the Union?-
WhynsiE q Is to the "honoiable compromise
81 nnlered to Us in the Crillenden
4 hyperion toa sdtyr. Here
is ne lSA4S offered the gentleman at
/ Charleston. beor,a which he rreierrpd 10 take