Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1863-10-16
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nominated by, any considerable p ar
ty of her citizens for any respect |
able position in the State; but right
nobly has the disgrace been wiped
out.s Our people forgot Party when
Patriotism was involved; and from
the River TO the Lakes their con-
demnation of Traitors and Sympa-
thizers with Traitors has sounded
out in tones so clear. so loud, that
through the whole limits of this Ma
ton, rebel or loyal, none can fail to
hear.
-IfOhio furnishes the most con-
spicious and persistent minion of
the Great Rebellion, Ohio, too, has
maghifcently repudiated her recre-
ant, banished SonI No, exiled cit
izen, NOT SonI Thank Godl he is no
Son of Ohio, whom her People have
loathinglY spurned from his crouch
ing position beyond her border.
Beneath our Office windows the
people of Cincinnati are thrOnglng
the public space in a wild exuber-
ance of ecstatic joy they have not
shown since the first proud victo-
ries of the war stirred the great
heart of the Nation to its profound
est depths; and the name OF the
candidate whose high honor It has
been to become the symbol of a
States loyalty is ringing in exultant
shouts from square TO square.
%Count every ballot fairly aimed
at the heart of Rebellion" said the
great Minister of Finance yesterday.
They are counting them thus truly
aimedl In the morning the State
will count from our bulletins as the
City counts tonight; and as the rec
ouing is footed up, there will come a
gush Of Joy, and of pride that over
tops the joy. q
dtisno great victory that prompts
this Thanksgiving of the Common
wealth. It is simply the redemp-
ton of our fair famel 1t is what we
all knew the noble State must do,
but what it thrills us to find she
has none so supero1y.
The estimates we thought the
widest are far outstripped. The
State Central Committee talked of
thirty-two thousand majority on the
home vote. Tt will be fifty thou
sandl At Columbus they say it Is
more likely to be seventy-fve thous-
and! And this is without our Sol
diersI Wait till their voice comes
in, and the thunder of our home guns
w'll be penny fire-crackers beside
A vererberating rear of their artil-
erv.
TI..-,.. ....->... A., 49,. 4bo oobooc
will soon come sounding back
There is an end Of hopes for deser-
tion of their Government by the
People; an end of hopes for divis-
ion at the North; an end of expecta-
tions of Peace save through the red
gates of War that knows no close
but the close of the rebellion it
means to crush.
So much for the Victoryl And
now for the retributive justice it
compelsl
It has been no ordinary contest
concerning disputed questions of
politics. It was grave attempt by
certain leading men, ENJOYING the
privileges of citizens of Ohio, to es-
tablish Treason to the Government
under the forms of 1aw-to place
the State in direct hostility to the
General Government. For that
crime, and for all the consequences
that crime would have entailed, ha6
it been as successful as they strove
to make it, we mold these men re
sponsible now and through all theil
lives. For this sin there is no for
giveness.
Political opponents from whom
we differ we can yet esteem; but
men who sought to degrade the Ma
ton by base submission to its enc
mics, or to dishonor the State by
placing it with the traitors agains
the Government-Wh should they
be less infamous ever more than the
Tories and Cowboys of our earlier
and less dangerous times of trial?
The prime mover in all this con
spiracy is Clement L. Vallandigham
Let him rpassl Convicted by two
courts, banished by the Chief Mag
istrate of the nation, an appellan
from that tribunal to the bar of hi
State, and by her cast off with igno
miny, none other of her citizen
ever received branded Traitor b,
the Rulers, sealed Traitor by th'
People-let him wander, outcas
that he is, with the mark of Can
upon his brow, through lands wher
distance and obscuritv may dimiT
ish, till the grave shall swallow hi
infamy. 5 -.
Ohio has had Sons whom she de
lighted to honor; men crowned wit
her Senatorial bays, or chosen t
stand and speak for her among tn
Representatives of the Nation
How had this foul rottenness festel
ed in the State, that it could reac
these men and blight them forever
In a moment of crazy delirium, the
permitted vexation at private grie7
ances, or groveling fealty to part
machinery by which they hoped
rise, or unmanly fear of party dri
to conquer their consciences an
their honor; and to the horror of a
who took honest pride in their fa-
names. they fell TO be the seconC
and adherents of the malevolent ou
cast. It is a hard fate for men wi
might have had large futures befol
them; but stern Justice demands tht
henceforth, to each one who Low
the honor of his State, their nam,
they rise to all lips, we need nj
call them over--be held NFAMol
forevermore.
There can be, there must be ]
escape. They will seek to eva'