Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1866-10-05

fell victims to the climate and TO the war
lu that State They we're sleeping side
by side with the Confederate deed Tbrrc
all animosity should have been forgotten
But the State Legislature Of Texas have
/ passed resolution that our comrades
bones must be removed to some other
place, lest they cOntaminate the C0nfed-
crate dead. Kisses
Again, at Hollywood sleep our com
rades who died at Belle Isle and Iibbv
and when, on time Of festival. all Vir-
ginia turned out to deck the &, aves of the
! Confederate dead, few Nortl ern ladies,
whom they term school mar as and a
| few women Of darker hue bnt Of true
patriotism, went TO deck the graves Of
/ our comrades with their loyal tokens of
/ respect These flowers aud Il sse Wreaths
I were torn down and trampled an the dust.
/ Again, the United States took money
/ from the Treasury of the North, sustain
ed by our taxation, and bought piece OF
land near Malvern Hill, where the bra
vest most glorious dead, repOse in their
I restIng-place on that battlefield, aud
where we may say, without doing wrong
to anybody, If their victory had been fol-
! lowed up the war would have been ended
/ the United States, L say bought Gem
etery aud gathered the fragments Of our
! dead heroes and buried them there with
/ due respect and Christian kindness, and
/ flag (pointing to the American standard)
as the most fitting monument TO a soldier
Of the Union Lcheers, and yet the recon
stTUcted rebels of Virginia tore down
that flag and trampled it in the dust
lCries of shame. There was a time
IN this war when man who tore down
the American flag got his deserts, [gTeat
cheering for " the only man who dared to
hang traitor, j aud that time will come
again.
Now the condition I would impose, and
you shall judge whether or not it is hard
one, is this: that we shan't have those
States brought back into the Union until
our dead comrades can sleep ia peace and
honor within their borders, and if any
man wants reconstruction lcheers be-
fore that happens, 1 am not with him for
one. Loud cheers. Therefore, the Com
Inittee have said in their resolutions, it
was unfortunate that our propositions
by Congress were not received in the same
fraternal spirit with which they were Of
fered aud until that time comes, be it
sooner or later, until every man can walk
in peace, carrying the flag Of the United
States if be pIeases, With devotion to the
| Union on his lips, and not be mOlested
in every revolted State, for one ] do not
want to see that State In the Union max
ing laws for me lGreat cheering.l The
sooner that time comes, the better; but
never until the two come together
/ Cheers ]
My friends, they say that we have un-
kind feelings toward these men; that we
/ arc governed by malice. Why, ] was at
/ Philadeiphia, and met the true Union
men Of the South, and the malice that we
showed them was TO take them to our
/ hearts and cur arms, and with every good
! feeling to embrace them as the true
! brothers Of the North That was tho
way we met the Southern loyalists, who
had ever stood by US. For one, / can
point back to when we had reached the
greatest victory We ever did achieve
when we elected President johnson,
Tlaughker as the General corrected him-
self President Aineoin-1 beg pardon Of
the Convention for the mishap-RheD We
/ had elected President LlucOln, with his
permission and his knowledge, l stated,
! 10 New York, at a public meeting, that
the only thing we asked them to do was
TO lay down their arms and come back
and resume theirplaces, andIf they would
do it. we would receive them, but they
! chose to fight, month after month. and
/ fight months and months, and as long as
they could, then we asked them TO come
! back, and what is the answer IL Is at
New Orleans, in the murder Of Dostle
and Horton. The answer is at Memphis,
10 the riots there. The answer rs heard
! all over the country For but yesterday,
almost. a Union officer, for doing his duty,
I was kidnapped. when about his lawful
/ business, and taken to be tried, for obey
/ ing the order of his commander, BY reb-
el jury.
Now, gentlemen. say until in the same
i fraternal feelings with which we have
asked them to come back and claim, not
| their rights. but What the clemency and
/ magnanimity of the North shall give them;
until they receive Northern men, North
eru soldiers, into theiF communities, with
equal rights and equal privileges nay,
more, until every man. white OF black,
who has ever worn the blue, is as good as
anybody In the SOuth-until that time
comes, / say do not desire to see them
back. Great cheeringl
low is this question to be settled2 1
have soa2e knowledge Of the South and Of
Southern men. i have already said to
you that bad the President and Congress
| agreed on what was to be done, and what
| terms they would offer at the moment af-
ter the surrender of j JOhnstOn's army,
these terms would have been aeeedad to.
But by the encouragement of the Pres
ident; by bis most singular aud not-tO-be
explained course, and by the actions Of
those at the North who have encouraged
th an, the South have come in a very diff
ferent frame Of mind.
Du6 lell0W-bOLuleIes AeP bu9Il see Auat
the President does not rule this country
without the aid of Congress. CApplause,
! That's it u Let them understand you
take no such backward Etep; Csppl9usel
and that as sure as light follows the dark
ness Of the night, we propose 10 main
tain the Government Of this country for
which we have fought, and they win ao-
cept any terms we will offer, and We will
offer none but what are just and magnan-
! imous. GCheers loud and long continued