Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1864-10-07

between the royalist and round-head, between
the Puritan and the cavalier ? And yet the
same people, whose hatred to monarchy was
50 savage that nothing would satisfy them bat
! he blood of their King, 10 less than twenty
years wept with joy upon the restoration OF
his son. On hat famous day when Charles
be Second came back. the royalist and round
| head wept together for joy-and what was
still more significant among Englishmen-they
got drunk together. From that day to this,
hey have lived on very good terms.
CHICAGO DEMOCRACY SPURIOUS.
FelIow-citizsps, that Democratic Conven-
lion at Charleston was the last ever held by
be old Democracy, Very lately at Chicago
We have seen another Convention calling it.
-elf the Democratic party. What sad spec
tacle. Where we're those leaders of the par
y, who, in times past had given these con-
venlions their dignity and power Almost
every man Of them 10 open rebellion. De-
mocracy that could not keep them faithful to
their party, could not keep them faithful to
their country. They were rot at Chicago
Who were there? War Democrats aud Peace
Democrats nion Democrats and separation
Democrats. The lion and the lamb had come
together, and a Wall street money changer
called them together. (Lsuehter.) He gave
hem such advice as might have been expect
ed from such teacher He told them that
he country had been brought to the verge of
ruin by the present Administration. He
warDed them against expressing any such
opinions they had dared to express at
Charleston four years ago. He urged them
not to fall into that error, but to sacrifice all
their opinions or convictions the moment they
threatened that harmony which was necessary
TO their success.
This, my friends, was the advice of Nam
mon, and it prevailed. Look through that
platform spell every word-and find if you
can, anything about slavery-anyt thing against
secession. Is there a word in it that will
CRATE harshy upon the ears OF JEFF Davis p
War is mentioned, but is not called rebel
lion. 1t is not characterized as a Southern
iUiquitv, but as a Northern experiment. Il
complains OF great wrongs, but they are the
wrongs Of Mr.. Vallandigham, not of the Ma
lion. 1t is filled with denunciation, but it is
our President wao is denounced. It is Lin
coin who is to same, not Davis.
DEMOCRATS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE DEATH OF
SLAVERY.
Fellow-ctizens, whilst | am in the confess
ional, let me acknowledge a charge OF opinion
upon another subject, and that is upon the
subject Of slavery, Before this rebellion
broke out, in common with majority Of the
people of the free States, stood squarely up
10 those articles in our Federal Constitution
which contained its guarantees. Although
liked them less than any other part OF that
sacred instrument, it was enough for NE that
| they were there. | intended to fulfill them 10
their letter and spirit, but not to go a step
| beyond. :, More than once, as counsel for the
owner of fugitive slaves have in this free
State vindicated those constitutional rights
and the laws which have been passed to enforce
hem. Never, upon any occasion, before any
Court or jury, have l failed to obtain a charge
and verdict which were not fully in accord
ance with these constitutional obligations
Nay, my friends, allow me to say further, that
in that great contest for the temporaities oi
he Methodist Cburch, which followed its di
vision, the Church South selected me, n orth
ern lawyer as their sole advocate before the
Supreme Court of the United States, and by
that august tribunal the rights of the Soutt
were sustained.
l speak by the book, when I cay that The
South never Appealed TO that Federal irbuna
to sustain these peculiar constitutional guar
antees, in vain. Show me, if you can, sin
gle case, a single decision of that Court, in
which these consti utioual guarantees were
not enforced to the very letter.
Nay, further, what President, of the few
we have had from the North what Con
gress, from the first that sat in the old Capi
tol, down to the last which sal in the new
Capitol before this rebellion, ever did any act
or passed any law which violated one jot ol
title of these Southern rights?
In every department of our Federal Gov
ernment-in all its branches, executive, leg
islutive and judicial-the compromises wer
never broken The great body Of Northerl
: people were true to the Constitution. Blu
there appeared on the scene two sets Of ag
itstors. who were not satisfied with the Con
stitution as it wac. A Northern set, small
( in nunber, but violent in speech, who sait
that slavery was too well protected by thu
} Constitution; ani'a Southern SCI, more nu
: merous and equally violent, who claimed tina
it had not protection enough. 1t was in thi
condition OF things that T. National COnyen
tion Ct the Democratic party to make a plat
form and nominate their candidate for tn
Il Presidency, was held in Charleston, Sout
: Carolina, in April, 1860. Then it was tha
d this question of slavery broke up that Demo
q cratic party. The quarrel was not betwee
? Aboltionis,s and Democrats; it was betwee
e Democrats alone. The wonnd that SLAYER
Is then received, did not come from Lincoln bu
ID from a Democratic hand. The Norther
Democrats said, let Us stick to the Cincinn'
7. ii platform of 1856. 1t is as far as we can g
dare to go. Not 60, said the Souther
~ Democrats We must have new plank in OF
- platform. The great Democratic party mu,
y declare that slavery is something more than
- State institution. aud that the master who r,
4 moves with his slaves into free territor
= still owns them by Federal law. Let 1
leave that question to the Supreme Court
% the United States, said the Northern Dem
Is cratS-or let US leave it at least, to be settle
= by the people Of the territory.
le Neither Judicial decision or popular votir
Ct would suit the South. II must so into Il
=" platform, they said, or they would go cut
- the Convention first, and cut oil the Unit
- afterwards. For once Oliver plucked
70 courage. For The fret time the Northe
- Democracy cut loose from Southern dictatio
AZ They said in subsistance as thy servant
!, dog that he should do thiethiDg ?" l may Ii
= have the very words spoken, but about t
,k,,t- a.