Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1866-09-21
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consult upon the state Of the country and
/ petition a redress of grievances ; we the
I Democracy and conservative peace men
! of all parties, do declare, that the past
T three years of blood and strife prove the
Administration to be entirely incOmpet-
ent for the emergency, having had at its
command all the men and money 1t de-
manded, has shown its energy only against
I individual citizens in the destruction Of
4 their personal and constitutional liberties
and In the prosecution Of this war, has
{ declared a purpose and policy foreign to
the Union, has welded the purse and the
sa0Ord Of the nation, for the emancipation
/ OF the black man, to the subversion of
the liberties of the white man. He has
made the military superior to the civil
l power, IN States not IN rebeliion-has
OYer-leaped every Constitutional barrier,
/ has suppressed free speech and free
/ press-has caused the arrest of citizens
without the WaTTent or sanction Of law
I has deprived them Of the right Of trial
! by jury-has suspended the Great Writ
! Of Right has obstructed the Courts of
/ Justice-made judges dependent on his
+ Wlll-"he has erected a multitude of new
\ Offices, and sent hither sWarms Of officers,
I to harass the people and eat out their
I substance and he has destroyed State
7 sovereignty and erected consolidated
/ imperial DespotisD5.
4 A President whose character is thus
marked By eUery act l5hjch may de fine a
+ tyraRf, Is unfit to be the ruler Of a free
4 people.
Moreover, we believe aud declare that
the past history of this bloody and frat
rieidal war, proves that the present re-
belliOn cannot be crushed, - the Union
restored 5y 6t9od-lettiag orJllrther use Of
the sloOrd. That lCar IS Dis-uaion, f.
nat and eternal seperafiOR, in the Ian
guage of Douglass and tile foundation
Of the OnlOR party must be laid az the df-
feetlORs Of the people, says Washington
In his farewell address.
President jackson said in regard to
war as a remedy for existing evils, Ia his
parting address If such a struggle Is once
begun and tbe citizens Of one section Of the
country d4Tdged against those Of another
let the battle 90 as Il may, there lCjIJ be an
end Of the Union "
In view of these things and the bleed
ing desOlated condition of our country,
with tens of thousands of weeping wives
and widows and helpless orphans, a0e be-
tege that q further drain upon the cOun-
tTy for men and money, 10 Be TuiHOlss and
we Therefore, do hereby, issue this call to
all persons IN favor of a speedy and hon
erable peace, to meet in Delaware on
SATURDAY, AUGUST 13, 1864, at 10
O'Clock a. m, TO TentORstrate against fur
ther cOUScrIptiO7G and tauatiOa, and TO
use at oar i755se7lce fog. The adoption Of pence
measures as the only hope Of our country.
This call was signed by Z. +. Popple-
ton, E. Hyatt, John W. Cone, A. Wor-
line, John Shoub, William Barr, n. Will
Hams, A. J. Smith, W. Westlake and 185|
others. at least one of whom, having been
drafted, sneaked away to Canada, like
coward, as he was, to avoid fighting for
his country. The names of all the signers
can be seen at any time at this Office.
Here we have the Delaware Democra-
ey as it was when it wore the white feath-
er, gloried in butter-nut breastpins and
grey breeches, shouted for VaIandigham. /
and carried the United States flag with /
the union down. Here We have full
battalion of modern Democratic friends /
Of the soldiers telling them while at the I
front that the rebels could not be whip
ped, 'that further war was only disunion 1
and final and eternal separation, and that
there must be no further drain upoq the
country of men or money" to wage it. I
Yes, here are 200 Of Moses JohnsoD's
bread and butter eaters, devouring the
vile ashes of submission to traitors : I
Down with the stars and up with the
bars, " is the language of this call. Do
you hear it, soldiers Do you who have
gone bumming for Col. Ried
On this very day of Aug. II, 1864,
when the above call was made for a peace
meeting in Del. Gen. Sherman's guns
we're laundering away at the rebel forts
around Atlanta. In our diary it is noted
under that date The cannonading was
ierce and rapid all day and the city was
severely shelled. And while the Union
cannon were shaking the very hills
around Atlanta and making the founda-
ions Of rebellion tremble, Poppleton.
Hyatt d Coat a safe distance of nearly
1000 miles from the front were shouting
o our brave boys at their guns, Cease
iring Stop fighting. our brave South 1
IN friends Hang out a flag oftruee p
And If this manifesto could have been
,assed across Sherman's ramparts and
leen read by Hood IS soldiers in their pits l
nd trenches, they would have given nine ]
-earty cheers for their friends and allies {
n Delaware county, Ohio The docu- t
nent would have afforded aid and com I
ort to our enemies 1t would have told !
hem that the Government at Washing {
on was incompetent for the emergen-
J, that It's energy was only directed
gainst personal aud constitutional lib v
rites, that while it emancipated blacks t
oppressed white men that it suppress p
! free speech, suspended ha5eas corpus.
,ok away the right of jury trial and vio- o
ted. every part of our constitution that O.
appointed official tools in the shape of r!
rovOst Marshals-those terrors of your rc
.wardly Copperhead-to prosecute and 81
,Dress the people that, in short, it had g,
.come a consolidated imperial Despot- ia
%. And Hoods soldiers would have Of
ad these things and exclaimed, "Why er
knew all this our leaders told us W
ese things long ago and now eur North 81
n friends say the same thing. Wen Of
perish before we'll submit to such tyr th
ny as that. To your guns, boys, give th
to the Yam kee scoundreIs of
But these Delaware Democrats tell gr
EN- more. They say to them that A bra in
m Lincoln, our Presidemt-and now, WI
Is our beloved and lamented martyr an
is despot whose ''eyery act defines a st,
ant 1s7lJit to be the ruler Of a free people y tn
them moreover" by say SD
ping that they (the rebels,) ca,.asot Be he
iDped brck i1,to lie H.. L.. a.