Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1866-03-16

their inevitable fate, if they were non
surrendered TO the custody Of the rebel.
Of the South ? VIII you, by your demand
of universal suffrage destroy the power al
] the Union party to protect them in their
dearly purchased liberty2 Will you by
! new issues, upon which you know Won
! have not the views of the people, ieopar-
! die these Tighs, which you can by the
AID OF the Union party, secure to these
freedmen We know the President can
/ not, will not and never will agree to
unite with as upon the issues Of univer-
sal suffrage, and dead States No such
dogmss we're contemplated when, for his
heroic services IN the cause Of the Union
We placed him side by side with Mr. Lin
coin as our standard bearer Why dwell
upon him? Why not complete the work
SO gloriously begun BY our soldiers, by
securing Union and liberty to all men
without distinction of color, leaving 10
States as before the question Of suffrage2
The curse Of God, the maledictiOns Of
millions Of our people, and the tears and
blood of new made freedmen, will IN my
judgment rest upon those who for any
cause, destroy the unity Of the great
party that has led US through the wilder
ness Of war to peace and repose- We
must look to our public credit We have
Of the country, IN which we need the as
sistancc Of the President. We have
every motive fer harmony with him, and
each other. aud for generous, manly
trust in his patriotism. ii ever the time
shall come when / can no longer cOnhde
ia his devotion to the principles upon
which be was elected, | will bid farewell
20 Andrew johnson with unaffected 5Or-
row. / we'll remember when he stood In
Al. ArHFH FHHnsr
with unexampled courage, the assaults Of
traitors. He left 10 their hands wife.
children property, and home, and staked
his all on the result. / we'll remember
that when retreatIng General would
have left Nashville to its fate, again
with heroic courage he maintained bis
post. l we'll remember the fierce con-
hict and trials through which he and his
fellow eOmpatTiOts in East Tennessee
maintained our cause in the heart of the
| we'll remember the strug-
gle he had with the aFistOcratic element
Of Tennessee, never ashamed of his ori-
gin and never far from the hearts Of the
people, Sir, you must not sever the great
Union party from this loyal element of
the Southern States. No theories of pos
sible Utopian good can compensate for
the loss 0 such patriotism and devotion.
Time, as he tells you 10 his message, is a
great element Of reform, and time is on
your side ] remember the hOmely and
encouraging Wogds of a pioneer in the
anti-slaveTy cause, an expelled Methodist
preacher from the South, who told
those who were behind him in opin-
ion, swell friends. III block awhile,
we must all travel together" ] say to aA
who doubt Andrew johnson and who
wish to move more rapidly than he can
to block up awhile, to consolidate their
great victory with the certainty that rea-
son and the Almighty will complete their
work. All wisdom will not die with us.
The highest human wisdom is to do all
the good you can, but not to sacrifice a
possible good to attempt the impractica-
Bile. God knows / do not urge harmony
and consolidation from personal motives.
The people of my native State have en-
trusted me with a position hera, extending
four years beyond the termination of the
Office of the President. He can grant me
no favOrs. If believed for moment he
would seek an alliance with those WhO
by either arms or council, or even by ap-
athy, were against this country In the re-
cent war, OF would turn over to them the
high powers entrusted to him by
the Union party, then, sir, be is
dishonest, and would receive no assis-
tance from me. But / will not force
him into this attitude. IF he shall not
prove false to the declaration made by
him in his veto message, that his strong
est desire was to secure to the freedmen
full enjoyment Of their freedom and
property, then I will not guarrel with
him as to the means used and while he
tells us in his message. be only asks for
the States TO he represented which are IN
attitude of loyalty and are in the persons
of representatives whose loyalty cannot
be duestiosed, under any Constitutional
legal test. surely We ought not "a separate
from him until, at least, we prescribe q
test of their loyalty upon which We are
willing to stand We have not done it
yet [ VIII not try him by new creeds
viii uGC deuounce him for hasty words iu
repelling personal affronts. I see him
yet surrounded by the Cabinet of Abra-
ham Lincoln, pursuing his policy. No
word from me shall drive him into pollt-
ical fellowship with those who, when be
was one Of the moral heroes of the war,
denounced him. spat upon him, and dis
pitcfully used him. The association must
be self-sOught, and even then 1 will part
with him IN sorrow, but with the abiding
hone that the same almighty power that
i5its guided MS through the recent war will
be with us still In our new difficulties, IN
til every State is restored to its full COM
munion and fellowship, and u2til our ma
ton. purified by the war, will assume
among the nations of the earth the grand
position hoped for by Washington, Clay,
Webster. Lincoln. and hundreds Of thous-
ands of unnamed heroes who gave up
their lives for glory.