Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1863-07-24

ter" TIE "minons" here referred to were The
commanding General OF the Department and
others, charged with official duties under their
own government. The liberties" not allow
ed to be restricted, were liberties TO aid the
enemies of the United States. He declared
his own purpose to do what he could to defeat
the attempt now being made TO build up
monarchy upon the ruins of our free govern
ment. This resistance could mean nothing
/ but resistance 10 his own government, which
/ he had before declared to be making attempts
/ to enslave the whites. These appeals TO that
| large public meeting, are charged to have been
made "for the purpose Of weakening the pow
er Of bis own government in its efforts to sup
press an unlawful rebellion all of which sen
timeuts she well knew did aid, comfort aud en-
courage those in arms against the Government,
and could but induce in his hearers distrust
of their own Government, and sympathy for
those in arms against it, and disposition to
resist the laws OF the land
Not one syllable Of this is denied, and yet
the arrest is complained of as unconstliuilon'
al
1t must be so apparent as to need no further
demonstration, that an arrest OF some KIND
had become necessary for the preservation OF
public decency. Either Gen. Burnside and
his soldiers should have been arrested, or al
landigham. The only open question u.s. which
was the proper party, and whether a mistake
was made as to the man. II Nallandlgham
right, Gen. Burnside and every other Of
deer of the army and navy, every member oil
the Cabinet, even the President himself, should
hz II t1AnOVPES. /
which voted supplies for the army engaged in
such ioray on the rights and interests OF
mankind, ought 10 be promptly dispersed
On the other hand, if the President and Con |
gress and the Government of the United
States are rot all criminals, if our Generals |
and soldiers are not all minions and piInps of
a wicked scheme to enslave the people, Val |
landigham ought TO have been arrested The
acts which Ger. Burnside sent here to per
form, and the acts of Vallandigham, consider
ed as separate acts, or as lines OF action,
could not possibly go together. They were
in their essence and nature, Incompatible
things, and mutually destructive of each 9th
er. If Gen. Burnside might have arrested
Jefferson Davis, and held him prisoner, why
not Clement L. Vallandigham? II we sup
pOfG LlC OODSlltuliOu WIS iulCuNcu " dutuUt-
ize two such Incompatible and destructive
lines of action at the same time, we impute an
incredible absurdity. If it authorizes the
drafting of one part of the population, the or
ganizing of armies, and marching TO battle to
iusurrection, it cannot at the same
time authorize the other part OF the popula-
ton TO thwart and defeat their efforts. On the
other hand If it authorizes a portion of the
people to attack, and resist. and discredit the
Government, it can not require the other por-
tiOn to make war 10 defeat them.
If the object of the Constitution was to
provide for its own destruction and protect its
enemies, the arrest of Vallandigham
mistake. Burnside was the man. But if the
object was TO provide for the safety of the
Constitution. and protect its friends, no mis--
take has been made Vallaudigham is the
man to be arrested. 1t could never have been
intended to allow them both to take the field
at the same time.