Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1866-08-31


citizens, at this picture. I would like to
have you now look on that You have
seen the rebellion proper; / wish you
/ could now see Its bOdy-servant. You
have seen this new party South [ would
| you could see 1t North. In what here
/ say l do not include all the members of
the party, but those who control it and
4 make it what it is. They, on the 18th of
January, 1861. pledged to the conspira-
tors that majority of Northern men Gin
an event which could not but happeu)
would fight the battles of the South on
Northern ground. They renewed this
pledge, in a Convention of the party Of
cur own State on the 23d of January,
1861, and declared that two hundred
thousand Ohio Democrats would not
even consider the propriety Of coercing
the rebellion. They, in the person of
their leader, delivered -to the rebel Gov
ernment at Richmond a reGeWal Of this
pledge, by assuring them that the North
ern Democrats would come to the rescue
Of the rebellion If it could sustain itself
specified time longer. They met at
Chicago, and when six hundred thousand
of our children struggled IN deadly con
flict for the Republic life, and when the
friends of freedom throughout the world
breathless spectators, they declared our
cause unjust and demanded it to stop,
they organized in the night In our great
Northwest, three hundred thousand con-
spirators, and put them under internal
oaths to aid the triumph of the rebellion.
They drilled their bands of the conspira-
tors by the light of the stars, in your beau
tlful groves. They purchased and con-
cealed IN your towns, guns, and knives,
and powder, with which to join the arm
les of Price and Smith in the work Of
treason. They arranged to capture your
garrisOns, in guard of rebel prisoners of
war, and release and arm them for the
purpose of burning and saeking the cities
Of the North They provided themselves
with rebel banners, under which to march
to their work of treason and murder
They fixed the day for the seizure of the
arms of the United States at Columbus,
at indianapolis, and at Chicago, and for
the murder Of the loyal Governors of our
States. They imported from the rebel
army, and concealed at Indianapolis, Chi
cagO, and other cities, officers Of the reb-
ell army, who were to take commands in
this work of burning and murder, and
high in command over this work Of blood
they set Vallandigham, to day high in in
huence over most of them who mediate
new plans at Philadelphia. They fred
New York they burned the homes of
orphan children there and then stole
their night clothes They arranged with
Jake Thompson to send yellow fever to
our women and children by means of Tnr
fected clothing. They piloted John
Morgan. They disclosed to our enemies
the plans of our Generals. They acce pit
ed the position Of spies for invading rebel
armies. They encouraged desertiOns.-
They shot recruiting officers. They or
ganized troops and encamped them in
Ohio to resist the draft. They struggled
to destroy your National credit, denOunc-
ed your soldiers as LincOln's dogs, and
Lincoln as the traitor They shouted
for the arch traitor Davis In their process
sions. They 'felt no JOY for your yicto-
ries and nc sorrow for your disasters. -
If there Is any thing else In aid of the
rebellion which could be done by treach-
cry. coWardice and treason, combined in
superlative degrees, that thing they did
also to insure the death of the nation
That nation was, too, then In its death
grapple with that horrid treason to which
on the fourteenth and twenty third Of
January, they had pledged as l have said,
a majority of the North All ! that word
of promise to the ear, how they kept it to
the hope. And now within less than a
fortnight of the time when / speak,
throughout Kentucky, and to audiences
tumultous with twin shouts for jeff Da-
Wis and Andrew ohnson, the same lead
LNa na
Vallandigham and Pendleton, announce
that the war settled nothing against State
Rights, which is the coward name for Sc
cessiOn. In the tUmult of these shouts
they secure the election of a chief rebel
Of Kentucky. l need follow no further
this painful allusion to the past and pres
ent Of this party North; hope only sinks
in the heart when we are assured that
the same Northern cOnspirators who
Il. al H. Il
during the dark hours Of 1861, when the
Thirty sixth Congress was dissolving ia
the alchemy Of treason, are to be the al
lies and associates of the Vice President
of the rebellion In demanding and re-
ceiving this surrender Of the Govern
uent
Let me conclude my remarks by saying
to the young men of my audience. and
could I make my feeble voice reach so
far, to the young men Of my State and
country 1t has been your fortunes to be
spectators of the most mOmentous events
which have ever transpired Ia the history
Of free governments As one of the prom
inent features of these events, you saw
the entire people of your country, North
and South, divide and take their choice
of sides in that gigantic struggle which
shook the very foundations of the CONT
nent, and at whose horrors the whole
world stood aghast. 1t was a contest on
one side aVowedly for the overthrow of
free government and the establishments
of the rule Of the oligarch and tyrant.-
The foundation was to be that the souls
of the poor should be chattels and the
labOrer a slave. On the side of your
country's death and of slavery, the COM
batants and their acts were what / have
to- day so poorly described They gave
to history the memories Of fAndersonville,
aud then crowned their defeat by the trag-
edy of April, 1865. The infamy which
they achieved was so dark, utter and DAM
ming that its chief authors are to-day at
Philadelphia seeking to escape from the
scorn of mankind by tearing off from them
the very name under which they achieved
that UnubteFable infamy Ga the other
side the combatants were, through these
years of conflict, three millions of your
brothers, sons, fatheFs-brave, patriotic
noble as ever struck for God or country.
Their cause was God, and country, and
liberty. How illustrious the aims of the
struggle were History has, in all ages.
selected as the gems with which she lights
up the too dark affairs of our race, not
the grandeur of prince or the blaze of pal
ace, bHt the deeds and events which
achieved, or advanced, OF defended the
liberty of the poor and the right Of all
the people.
The four days which light up with an in
effable effulgence the one thousand years
of the English Constitution were-the 18th
day of June, A. d. 1918, which placed by
the Magma Charter, the lives, liberty, and
property of all the people under the sacred
shield Of the Constitution and the law
that day ofl772 which enlarged and forti-
fed their liberties by placing I'm the Enu-
lish Constitution the habeas corpus act OF