Delaware State journal and statesman., 1866-11-02
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A WORD TO THE WISE,

Inc gross aud absurd inconsistencies of
the locofoco party and their special plead
ers, from time immemorIal, as particularly
| eVinced IN the present political campaign in
delaware, have ever and still make them
absolutely ridiculous in the eyes of ali re-
spectacle thinking people, even in their own
ranks. Tho things they once approved and
applauded, they now condemn and curse;
while they preach and practice, at present.
what they have always hitherto repudiated
with unmeasured condemnation. They
greet, in public, with obscquious snickering,
what, in their hearts, they secretly loathe;
and cherish, in the hidden chambers of the
mind, malicious designs, with which they
sloutly accuse Others in roaring philippics
10 one man they declare principles which
they ilatly deny to another. And thus the
years OF this glutnous party have been in
dubiously stamped with an Infamous history,
saying, ON every page OF its dark record,
with proud and drunken Ephraim, "We
have made covenant with death, and with
hell arc we at agreement; for we have made
lies our refuge, and under falsehood have We
hid ourselves" This the means by which
the unwary and thoughtless have always
been caught in the specious coils of the ven
omous copperhcad "Democracy," and thus
swelling its hugh corporosity with all the
"villianous compounds from the dens and
caves oi the earth, 1t has stalked in the pres
cnee OF every righteous purpose of humani-
ty, glaring for opportunity 10 rise upon the
ruin its deadly fang occasions.
A special illustration of the foregoing re-
Elections is had in the person of Salisbury,
at present acting Governor of this State, for
the Chief Magistracy of which he is can
vassing on the hustings for election by the
people. In his speeches, in swinging
round the CIRCLE" when lie finishes reviling
in scurrilous language, everybodywho comes
"betwixt the wind and his nobility he
wakes pathetic, and says, "In the days of
the dear, good old Wing party, 1t was plea
sure to pursue politics. That darling Wing
party was composed of honorable men, and it
didn't make much difference if the glorious
Wing party did succeed, the country was
safe" and great deal more similar hypo-
critical pathos. Now, everybody knows
Locofocos, Wings and all-that this same
Salisbury and his whole slovenly party,
damned the old Wing party, in the days of
its power, from A TO q, and have never
grown more vulgar or profane in denuncia-
tion of Repubicanism than they were of
Whigism.
The bounds Of propriety, in prosecuting
party purposes are reached by them only
when their wits fail them. They bait their
hooks TO suit the fish they strive to catch
Their Jesuitical doctrine is, ''the end justi.
fies the MEANS" The end is "rule or ruin, ~
the means, anything under the sun to &C
complsh the same, from an outright false
hood TO pharisaical truth. They possess
all the virtues in the calender, counting
them as q Nun does her beads, when i'll the
presence of Christianity; but they are ready
with mess of pottage for every birthright,
when they go hunting for power among
trading Esaus.
Locofocoism is the outgrowth of knavery
or Ignorance. Almost without exception,
honest rejecting men arc Republicans, whose
doctrines are the heaven -enunciated princi-
pies of an ever purer, rising civilization,
which exalts all men to q common level oil
responsibility and aim. The heavenly host
shouted when Messiah came 10 lift man into
high and holy fellowship with his Divine
Master: "Glory to God in the highest, and
on earth peace, goodwill toward men,
which is the immutable platform of Republi-
canism The locofoco party, in all their
antecedcnts, entirely ignoring this blessed
proclamation, have kindled and fostered,
from the time of its first leader, Apollyon, to
the canvass before us now, the furious flames
of bitterness, discord and war. We there
fore repeat, that man knowing these
things, and still clinging to locotocoism, is
wicked in his heart; and failing to know
them, and consequently going astraY, is
hardly less excusable. But the history OF
the ages proves that the world never goes
backward. While God lives and reigns,
| sIIls purposes will rpsn fast,
Unfolding every hour"
Our hope is not heclouded, however un
toward present events may seem, Tor we arc
satisfied that the uniailing principles of Re
pubicanism will live when the tceming gen
erations of this earth sleep with their fathers,
in the city of the dead. Those who now
essay to array their puny arms against the
oneomng march of mind and liberty, must
be ground to powder, and scarcely leave be
hind memorial of their silly presumption
and arrogance.
Men OF Delaware, fall in with tins righ
teous movement while you may Do no
wait till you would be glad to help in tht
,, good cause-but eannotl We do not say
vote for RIDDLE and McKm for any perso
nal considerations, but because they are th'
Z standard bearers of the mighty principles o
! Republicanism in our State.