Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1866-08-31
NO. 23.


when gone from thence they went to thejl
thoroughly meditated work, with thG
purposes and implements Of devastation
and cruelty such as no treason ever haC
before, In garb of friends their agents
went on the boats of your lakes and riv.
ers, killed the defenseless passengers and
| burned them up In every country oil
/ ChrIStendOm, where they were permitted
they manned and fitted pirates, which
lighted the seas with your burning CON-
] merce. Their spies were concealed in
J your houses, to murder your women and
children with poison and plague, and
| torch, and knife and pistol, and with ar
! ranged plans fOrsthe starvation of prisO-
ners of war They executed more of pi-
/ Tacles, murder and asSassinatiOns against
/ your people than ever blackened before
! the chronicles of barbarians or tyrant S
/ wars. The very land was filed with liv-
! ing skeletons, victims Of their refined
/ methods of starvation, and sixty thous
and of the victims are dead Their noun
taius became pregnant with the hunted
/ patrIots-Inen, women aud children, who
| escaped from their relentless fury to the
/ beFrlendlng darkness of dens aud caves.
Their butcheries, when put together Ia
/ one fearful aggregate, count up three hlnl-
| dred thousand. But I quit the CHASTITY
/ recital. Men turn from the story of this
mOnstTOus treason, this stupendOus wick
edness, with new ideas of the poverty Of
| speech, and appalled, by their proximity
| to the crime Of history And, to-day,
/ scarcely sixteen moons removed from the
crimes fitting end, when they killed the
President Of the United States, we are
here tasking our logic to show that the
authors OF that crime are not, by pre-em-
inence, the patriots of the land, to whom
1t Is safe and fit to surrender the Gov
ernment " without conditions, wrestling
| it, for the purpose of the surrender, from
those who defeated the treason.
The speaker then farther illustrated
/ the continued disloyalty of the Southern
| people, by citing their prosecutions of
/ Union men, their unWillingness to mani
fest nyrepentance for their treason, their
manifestations of love for the lost
cause, their persistency in electing reb-
els to office, their unWilliBgness to pay
taxes levied by the United States except
on cOmpulsiOn, and the disloyal spirit of
the Southern press. He then proceeded
to the political Indications of disloyalty,
enumerating them as follows
First-In not one State of the rebellion
have these rebel leaders submitted to a
vote of the people either the Constitution
or any amendment of the Constitution of
their new State governments for which
| they demand the representation. Gov
erning powers and federal guarantees are
due TO republican and loyal States, and
not one of those pretended constitutions
or amendments has ever been voted on
or approved by the people
Second-All Ofthe so-called legislation
Of State Conventions and Legislatures has
been under military dictation
Third-In those States which professed
to adopt the slavery amendment to
the Constitution of the United States, it
is clear that it was done with reluctance
and under military guidance.
FOurth-One Of these Conventions
(South Carolina) was dissolved as a revo-
lutiOnary body, by Governor Perry, and
this IS the body which made the new
State Government, and which districted
the State for Congressional representa-
ton
Fifth-Hardly had the war closed be-
fore these States came forward and
haughtily claimed as u right the privilege
Of partaking at once in that Government
which they had been fighting four years to
overthrow, and at once, and before they
had Governors to issue wrIts of election,
under State laws" they proceeded to elect
to Congress, aud to other offices. their
| leading unpardoned and unrepentent reb-
els, excluding with contempt those who
had manifested an attachment to the I'm
! ion, and this, too, In defiance of an act of
Congress rendering such rebels wholly in
capable of holding the offices to which
they were elected.
Sixth-From Georgia they elected to
| the United States Senate Stephens. the
Vice President of the rebellion, and
johnson, a Senator In the rebel Congress ;
and to the House of Representatives they
elected Cook and Nofford, who were Gen
erals IN the rebel army. From North
Carolina they elected to the United States
Senate VIM. A. Graham, who was a Sen
ator in the rebel Congress. and Pool, who
was In the rebel Senate of North Carroll
ma; and to the House of Representatives
| they elected Fuller, from the rebel Con-
gress. and Turner, a Colonel in the rebel
army. From South Carolina they elected
} to the United States Senate Perry, who
was a rebel Judge. and Manning, who
was a volunteer aid to Beauregard at the
attack on Sumpter and at the battle of
| Bull Run; and to the House they elected
Kennedy, a Colonel, McGowan Gene
raj, in the rebel army, and Farroy, a
member OF the rebel Congress. From
Alabama they elected to the House Bat
tie, General in.the rebel army, and Fos-
ter, from the rebel Congress. From Mis-
sissippi they elected to the United States
Senate Alcorn, from the rebel military
and to the House they elected Reynolds
and PisOn, Colonels In the rebel army,
and Harrison, a memb Der Of the provision
al rebel Congress. From Virginia they
elected to the House Stewart and Conrad,
who continued to be members of the Sc
cession convention of Virginia after it
passed the ordinance OF secession. These
were some Of the most conspicuous trait
Ors who were sent to the American Con-
gress, and who demanded their immediate
and TfncDDdEfI0ua admission M ocf of
the others elected were equally intense,
but less conspicuous, rebels. Because
the Union party did not surrender the
mighty powers ofsovereign States to such
people-such gOveFnments-sUch Sena-
tors and Representatives as these-be-
cause It's Congress did not, at the insolent
bidding of the rebellion, make hot and
indecent haste to permit these conquered
rebels to change their theater of opera
tions from the battle field where they
were defeated and overthrow to the halls
of Congress, and did not permit them to
seize upon the Government which they
had fought to destroy, and because the
Union party did not permit the National
Treasury, the army of the Nation, It's forts
and arsenals, its whole civil admInistra-
ton, its credits, prisoners, the widows and
orphans of those who perished in the
war, the public honor, peace and safety,
to be all turned over to the keeping of its
recent enemies without delay, and with
out imposing any conditions guarantee
ing the security of the country, because
the Union party did not do this, almost
the unanimous demand of the rebel and
johnson press is that the Government
shall be overthrown by the dispersion or
seizure of Congress under the military
orders Of the President Of the United
States. Had we so yielded, we must have