Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1866-12-21
aHERDs or CArTzEv

the WhiE Of rebel bullet. Had such
been the case he could not have had
the efrontery to make, against what
must have been his own personal OBJ
sea Tations. such an outrageous misrep-
reseutation of facts:
THE loyalty of the negroes during
the war was on a precise level with that
OF the herds Of cattle. which were some
times driven to the Federal, and at 9th
er times 20 the Confederate shambies,
aud which afforded beef just as good
to the one as the other 0ut Of every
i've thousand negroes In the South, It is
an eXtTaVagant estimate to say that eV-
en- one individual in 3 hundred under
stood the causes Of the struggle beWeen
the cOntendlng armies, or could shape
an Intelligent opinion as to which of
the armies it vas his duty to favor
Out Of the tens Of thousands Of ne
groes we have seen in the South. We
I never saw one, of nature age. who did
not have "an intelligent opinion as to
which Of the armies It was his duty to
favor" Nor have we ever seen one
out Of that number who did not hear
tily and sincerely favor the Union ar
my and Union cause Without def
niteIy knowing who be is we venture
the opinion that this is more than can
be said of the author Of the above in
( famous declaration. While he and his
/ party associates gave aid and comfort
to the enemy by their reasonable
peace meetings" and By public and
private dsnunciafi0n Of President Lin.
coin as a ''tyrant, and Of Union sol
diers a. shirelings :. these poor herds
Of cattle" universally believed the
Union cause to be right and faithfully
sustained it ali through the war
While Democrats also failed to diseov-
er which would be the winning cause
and IN the midnight Of our trial de-
nounced the war for the Union as q
failure, these blacks never wavered in
their allegiance to the starry flag or for
a moment doubted its ultimate triumph.
IF the editor of the Herald and his
Democratic brethren -oomprehended
the causes Of the struggle between the
contending armies" better than these
despised people, they most lsmentably
failed to prove it by their conduct. If
Democrats Cof the Weekly Herald
school) had more faith than negroes in
the righteousness Of cur cause and its
ultimate success they were most un-
fortunate Ia their means ofshowing it
Certainly it was not demonstrated by
their uniform opposition to every war
measure or by their threatened and
actual resistance to the draft; or by
using their influence to discourage en-
listments; or by demanding that the
war for the Union should cease, and
refusing "a further drain Of money or
men" to sustain il; or by encouraging
the rebels in arms BY telling them that
the United States Government had be-
come a consolidated imperial despot-
ism" and was entirely incompetent to
subdue them: or by insulting Union
soldiers By calling them "helliaus and
and brutes; or By defamiDg Union
generals by calling them "beasts. hy-
euas and butchers" or BY deuouu-
cling the war as ''uncalled for and su-
perlatively wicked" or by burning or
phan aylums and tearing up railroads
in the interest of an invading re bel ar
my or BY organizing secret bands of
svvornz ootispirators against our Tber-
ties. The blacks of the South have
never been guilty Of any Of these
things, but the stay-at-home Democrats
Of the North have, aud this class Of
the Democracy furnished far better
beef" for the 'Confederate sham
bles than the pegroes ever could have
furnished. Indeed, while the poor
freedman was dividing his last crust
of corn-bread with the hungry Union
soldier these Democrats were pouring
the oil and wine of their sympathy in-
to the wounds Of the secession mon
ster. This may have been owing to
the superior intelligence Of the De-
mocracy, but If SO the latter is dread
fully. responsible for the misuse of its
advantages.
The editor of the Herald no doubt
feels very proud of the great intellee-
tua1 superiority Of his party over the
negro. We believe it would be impos-
sible to find 10000 negroes in the
land 50 ignorant or depraYed as to be
willing, If they could. to elect John
to Congress. Yet Demo
cratic Intelligence has done this IN
the midst of light, knowledge aud free
dom. Under the blighting curse Of
slavery which shut all the avenues of
information and surrounded by bitter
enemies of our cause who misrepres-
ented every fact and colored all things
to suit the purposes of treason the ig-
norant freedmen cherished an abiding
flEiJlI iB- the cause or Jne 0 Id nag which I
no influence could destroy and no mis- |
deceive. When told /
that our armies had been beaten and |
were in full retreat they still patiently |
for their coming assured By 1
an inward something that they rep
the great cause of human
freedom which must ultimately tri-
umph. And when the old flag appeared
how they rushed from their humble
cabins and greeted it with tears of joyf
Strange conduct for ''herds of cattle
Strange especially in view of the fact
that intelligent" Democrats at their
comfortable homes were receiving the
5he tidings of our victories with mani
Fest distress aud ia solemn coneIave
we're resolving that the war for the
Union was failure. We do not claim
or this despised race any spec
al merit above that Ofaay other, poor
lown-trodden people, but we do la
nent the fact that the white Demo
lratic party of the North, however su-