Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1867-10-11

The Union State ticket is probably
defeated. The suffrage amendment is
lost. The State of Ohio has been turn
ed over to the care of men as. treasona-
bic, # their record nay be believed, as
any who gave positive and active sup
port to the confederate cause. Copper
heads and rebel sympathizers have Teen
chosen to sit in high paIces. They have
been made our. rulers and legislators.
They have been clothed with honor,
lifted from contempt to places of trust,
power and responsibility. From every
disl loyaI throat in the land goes up a
shout of joy. Every patriotic heart in the
land which hoped, prayed and bled for
our country is smitten with dismay-
Treason is made honorable, loyalty is
made odjous. Men who have fought
for the country on many a bloody field,
have been twice or thrice wounded by
rebel bullets, and have proven them
selves by actual service IN civil Office
to be faithful and efficient officers and
irreproaehable gentlemen, have been
rejected as unworthy the confidence of
of the people! In their places have
been chosen men whose hands are
stained with Union blood, and whose
hearts are black with reasonable sym
pathies as the walls of Erebusl In
place of Goldman we have for Treasurer
a man who helped to murder Union
soldiers in his own housed In place OF
Hayes we have for Governor man
who entertained rebels as friends and
guests at his own hearthstonel In
place of Lee we have for Lieutenant
Governor one of the most blatant of
peace Copperheadsl
Such is the resuI tot Tuesdays
election! Does not your heart grow
sick at it7
But this is not all or the worst
It has decided, so far as the temporary
triumph of a reasonable party can de-
eide it, that the sovereign authority and
rights Of States are above tire sovereign
authority and rights of the National
Government, that secession may be
constitutionany achieved; that the war
has not demonstrated the supremacy of
the general government that the recon-
struetion measures of Congress are all
wrong; that governments do not de-
rive their just powers from the consent
of the governed; that our country has
no need of the friendship of six millions
of black people that the faithful pa
triot of a certain race should be disfran-
ehised; that the faithless coward, sneak
and rebel is entitled the same rights as
the most devoted patriot; and last but
not least, that the public debt shall be
"dispOsed or by being "paid'' in
greenbaelzst
This is the way, according to the best
of our knowledge the case stands to-
day. These are the messages that Ohio
procIaims to the world in the year of
our Lord 1861
Meanwhile a besotted and reckless
President 'sleads a rebel dance over
Union graves" The bullet riddIed
banners carried through storm and
fame by boys in blue are turned over
to Thurman and Vallandigham
Worse yet ! On Tuesday we thought
we saw in the near future tie end of
agitation and the dawn of peace. We
thought the Ship Of State was drawing
nigh her moorings in the calm haven
of eternal justice. But she has been
denied entrance and driven again to
sea. A rebel crew has been put on
board and true and tried men are driv-
en- from the helm. The stOlms again
beat and the waves roll more danger
ously than ever, and yet the chances of
safety are diminished.
We do not propose to fix the respon-
sibility for ali this. We leave those
Union men who remained away from
the polls, those who preferred the graf
iieation Oi wicked and silly preiu-
dice to the welfare of the country, and
those who gave a half-hearted and dis
cOuraging support to our cause, to set
tie the matter with their own con-
sciences. We only desire to point out
the consequences of what has been done.
The warning was given in time. No
campaign in Ohio was ever more vigor-
Ousiy prosecuted on the Union side than
this. The people were never more Wig.
OrOusly urged to attend Union meetings
and hear the issues fairly discussed
An unusually large number of meet
ings were held and the ablest speakers
of our own State and many from other
States were put upon the stump. Why
then have we not been victorious? =? Was
our cause not right?
Never did a party stand upon more
just and righteous platform. But let it
be remembered that we stood upon pre- /
cisely the same platform in the war for
the Union and often failed. Then reb-
els and Copperheads were often as jubi-
liant as now. We have lost a few thou
sand votes in this battle for the right, |
but in that one we lost half a million
which were put under the sod and can /