Delaware State journal and statesman., 1864-04-15
DIsUNION THE ORJEcT OF THE oP-
POSITION

After the declarations of Messrs. Long,
Harris and Wood in the halls of our National
Legislature, and the vote of the whole body
OF Opposition members against the resolu-
ton to expel MIR. Harris, we presume that
argument is no longer necessary to prove
that disunion is the object of the so-caled
Democratic party. Mr.. Harris invoked the
aid of the Supreme Ruler of the Universe in
behalf of the traitors of the South, and i'm
plored God that they might not be put down
in their efforts to destroy the noble fabric of
our free republican government. Mr.. Wood
gloried in, and gave his adhesion to the
reasonable sentiments enunciated by both
MIR. Long and Mr.. Harris Messrs. Cox,
Pendleton, Voorhees,, and many other promi-
nent members of that party entered into
defence of those traitors, when the loyal
members made an effort to expel them from
the House. Is it not fair then to infer that
the so-called Democratic party are opposed
to prosecution Of the war, aud in favor of a
recognition of the bogus Southern Con-
tederacy? This they have made the
issue in the coming Presidential contest
MIR. Long we have no doubt was put forth
| by tile leaders to sound the keynote, to see
how 1t would be received, although he pro-
fessed to act on his own responsibility aud
give utterance to his own views and opinions
irrespective of his political afGnities. Ills
speech was written and read from the mann.
script, and there can be no question that il
had the sanction of the leaders of that party
in Congress. Let the people remember that
at The coming election they are to decide
whei her after all the vast expenditure Of
bloO4l and treasure they have made, they are
willing to see the Union discovered, and
how TO the yoke Of Southern traitors and
sco1ndrels. IL we are opposed TO the des-
trnet ion of the best government ever yonch-
saiedI to man we must array ourselves under
the banner of the true friends Of the Union
and Liberty; but if on the other hand we
endo rse the sentiments of Long, Harris and
Wood, we sustain the candidate of the Cop
perheads. There is no middle ground the
issue is squarely made, and the Union men
mean to hold the Opposition to it, no matter
how much they may attempt to extricate
themselves when they find that certain de-
feat awaits them.
The miserable falsehood that the Presi-
dent means to make himself monarch is so
silly that it scarcely needs passing
notice. Notwithstanding the fact that the
satellites oil MIR. Long have already caught
up this vile innuendo against our patriotic
'Jhief Magistrate and are re.echoing it far
and wide, it receives the contempt and
scorn it so richly merits. No man has filled
The Presidential chair since the formation oF
the Government more worthy Of Il nation,s
gratitude than Abraham Lincoln. No man
has filled the Office possessing less of the
elements Of a usurper and tyrant than Pres.
dent Lincoln. Every act of his public life
has been for giving the largest liberty to the
people and maintaining untarnished the
glorious institutions purchased and be-
queathed to us by a noble Revolutionary
ancestry. No loyal man has ever been in
lnred by any act of his, and it is only trai,
tors and their sympathisers who are seeking
The hfe-bloOd of the Republic, who raise
objection TO the course he has pursued
All Others hail him as model of Justice and
p atriotism, free from taiut or suspicion, and
a. r above his traducers in the seaIe of
To- nesty, loyalty and sound Republicanism.
q. well convinced are the masses Of this