The Union. [volume] (Georgetown, Del.) 1863-1866, 1864-04-22
loyal ga D1sLoYAL.

EVeIg month OF this war is more close
y narr9%ing DOM The iasue between the
goHernmeut aad.ths democratic party
3he,iataa has rsgolasd its various eva
s.eas aGd s0btsr4lses, and with sudden
and lrotean srsnsE ormasions constaatlv
changed and varied its positions. It has
refused to place itself by the SIDE of the
Government in its struggle to put down
the rebellion, ard has never given its
nearly cooperation to any measure which
was designated to crush out southern trea-
son. This Indifference and inaution has
been so persistingly adhered to by the
democratic party during the entire war
that its course has become not only wrong
and suspicious, but positively criminal.
The time has therefore arrived when that
party must be put upon its trial on the
single issue 'Loyal or Disloyal." The ex-
egencies of this war havr eliminated to
such crisis that the country demands
the certain ascertainment of every mans
loyalty. The uncertain and vasaillating
adherence which some have given the
government is strongly inoculated with
treason, and in many cases wherever the
opportunity offered, the fatal disease has
broken out with all its virus and loath.
someness. Neutrality is sympathy with
traitors, sympathy with traitors is treason
against the Government.
The acts Of the Democracy have become
holder and holder until two of its leading
members in the House of Representatives
publicly proclaim, not only their own in.
fanny, but also expose in all its hideousness
the monstrcus and accursed sympathy Of
their party with the southern rebellion
This fact can no longer be concealed, and
many honest democrats in this county are
beginning plainly to discern the compli
city of democracy with southern treason
As soon as this fact becomes apparen
to them, as soon as they discover that tn,
men who control eheir party are shaping
its destinies for evil, and coloring it will
treason, they begin to grow lukewarm il
their attachments, and finally compelled
to abandon its support. The bug-bear Of
abolltionism beside the question Of 'Loya
or Disloyal," is slowly but surely looyinl
its Objectionable features and is no longe
lettering democrats from supporting tn
Union party in its efforts to sustain thi
government and suppress the rebellion
Let every democrat in this State be mad
to understand that our great object as
Union party in Delaware is to sustain NJ
Lincoln, not as partizan, but as til
President Of this republic and the acknow
edged heas oi our Government, and tbs
we seek their cooperation with us for th
sake q preserving ~ free institutions {
cur county, ana -; merely for a faction
or politio&l object. Honest men yet RI
main INSIDE the democratic party, VIII
will, If they can be made to underatan
this matter, vote with us at the next ele,
ton. Loyal or disloyaP is now the on
question. 1t is not whether certai
party shall triumph, but whether our go
eminent shall triumph, whether Americi
Liberty shall be perpetuated or forey
destroyed, and whether this great Natl
shall remain one people, united and frt
or be divided into petty nationalities, e
gagged in continual hostilities, and grad
ally sinking into tyranny and despotisl
We of the Union party, reader, a
fighting for great cause, IS sacred al
dear to us all as life itself; the democra
is merely engaged in factious hostiliti
against its goyernment, and struggling 4
its own supremacy, at the expense Of Q
common country. Let US, therefore,
united, earnest, and industrious, and
rust spcceed.