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

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of which history furnishes no example
But TO add, in their hands, to these in.
struments of mischief, the power Of bOtE
| electing and becoming the Presidents
Senators and Representatives of the Repub-
/ lie, to a degree only equal to that In
which it Is held by the soldiers of the
Republic, Is an example Of folly and
| WIckedneSs unknown In the past. But
/ when to this folly and wiekedness you add
what, with shameless presumption, Is de-
/ manded of yOu-that these pirates, as
/ sassins, traitors and murderers- should
| have, man for man, twice the political
/ power Of these soldiers who saved the
! Republic-that Lees vote should have
! double the elective power of Grant 5,
/ Semmes' double that of Farragut s.
Booth s, did he live, double that of Lin
coins his victim-theR the audacity of
! the demand becomes unutterable, and all
/ honest men turn away from it with lOath-
/ ing and disgust.
] And yet it is impossible for the candid
and truthful to deny that all this folly
and wickedness is precisely what we are
J now demanded to submit to, without de-
| lay or condition, by those who waged the
rebellion, or stood by it in sympathy and
support during its hellish progress. The
/ folly of yielding to such a demand would
/ be all that I described it to be, if you had
no other evidence that these men who
make the demand are still the enemies
of the Government than is furnished by
the fact that they Waged against the Gov
ernment the war which has Just ended
1t must be borne in mind that 1t was a
war wholly causeless in its origin, unless
| the principle (the right to destroy the
| Government by secession) for which it
was Waged be Just cause. It was a war
waged through four long, dark years, and
whose beginning, progress. and end, were
made hideOus by more of the piracies, as
sassinatiOns, and murders, which the in
ternatiOnal law stamps as infamous, than
ever before dIsgraeed the military prac-
tees of tyrants or barbarian. But, above
all, it must be remembered that it was a
war ended in no surrender, or abandon
ment, or laying down of either the Drin-
ciples for which, or the arms with which
it was prosecuted. But on the contrary,
it was only ended by wrestling their arms
from them in a universal and crushing
defeat. And, besides these, consider that
such war so Waged-so ended-is only
just ended The grass has not yet grown
over the graves where sleep the victims of
this gigantic murder. The hearts of the
widows and orphans whom it made yet
weep their crimson DER new graves
The inky vestme0tS of universal sorrow
dL Z no WAl6l = dhGu NlL5 anu LAlE 9llldIo VI
your Department of State to-day wear the
funeral Grape in which they were draped
for the murder Of this tTeasOn's most illus
triOus victim. Americans, are not there
stupendous and yet damning guilt enough
to make you pause IN yielding to the de-
mand now made upon you by the authors
and abettors of this-THE CRIME OF HIS
TORY-to surrender to them, without de-
lay, conditions or guarantees, the control
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are not enough, then L entreat you to
open your eyes to the other evidences
which stand manifest and CHASTITY before
you. There they are, plain, undeniable,
confessed. Not only do the entire press
and people of the late rebellion admit
their undylng love and sorrow for the
"lOst cause, but they avow that love
with ostentatious defiance Everv-w here,
without disguise or c0ncealment, they
bestow their hOuOTs and confidence upon
the chief traitors, living and dead AL
ready they have begun the war of actual
determination by systematic and univer-
sal murder Of the Uuiot4-meu IF the
South. Of this Memphis and New Or
leans are but two out Of thousands Of
bloody witnesses. The flight Of loyalty
from the South is to day not universal,
only because the victims ofthis system of
murder are generally too impoverished by
oppression and war to be able to escape
To these menso engaged in extermnating
the loyalty of the South, and their North
ern allies, we are demanded to surrender
the Government. without conditions
The Vice President of the rebellion is
put forward to demand of you, Ameri-
cans, your sword and your Government,
and he Is instructed to say to you, "Geor-
gla will accept no conditions in your sur
render Are you ready for the surren-
der ? VictOrs at Donelson, at COrinth,
at New Orleans. at Vickburgh and An
tietam. at Gettysburgh, Lookout Noun
tain and Richmond, are you ready for the
unconditional surrender p Grant, who
went through "on that line to the con
tquest of the continent and to tie fame of
he age, are you ready for the surrender
Sherman, who marched down to the sea,
are you?
Shades Of Lyon and Mcpherson, and
your three hundred thousand slain com
RAIDS will you come in the bloody Cere
ments In which fame hath wrapped you,
and be present at the inexpressible shame
of this abandment of the Government
you deemed you had rescued, into the con
troll of the same treason you thought you
had vanquished? This, verify, is folly
nay, an unutterable madness-compared
to which to unchaIn and put at the helm,
in the midst of storm and rock, the con
victed pirate and mutineer, is prudence
itself; and to be put into bed with your
child, to be carressed and warmed, the
deadly snake, Is the very tenderness of a
mothers love.
Let me beg yOu, my cUuntTymen, to go
with me, moment into the company of
witnesses-ghastly and hideous-which
come in troops to tell us these people re-
main intensely disloyal. l review these
sfacts not to excite alarm not to perpetu-
ate resentments; not to keep alive aliena-
tions. l profoundly wish it were safe,
to bury all distrusts forever But it Is
not safe, and. in appealing to these facts,
I invoke the merest instinct of self pres
ervation-that which the poor man will
involuntarIly use.
Let me first allude to that part Of this
combination which Is in the rebel States.
| must be brief in recitals, which if full
would be endless The great and over
shadowing proof of disloyalty-the one
which IN its conclusIveness, arises high
above all the rest, Is the fact that this en-
tire people waged against their Govern
ment, war to destroy it. The appalling
events Of that warts causeless origin
its strange cruelties-the iendish malig-
nifty of its prOsecutiOu-the four years of
unrelenting struggle for the destruction
of the nation, and the sullen and unyield-
ing spirit In which the rebellion received
its crushing defeat, are all too fresh IN
the agonized heart of the nation to per-
NIT their force being heightened by any
recital OF which speech is capable As
crime against liberty, this peoples rebel
lion stands in history unmatched. As
conspiracy against Republican Govern
ment, contrived through thirty years, 1t
is wholly without a parallel or proximate.
As treason againstall free governments,