Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1867-08-16
TIE DE1rOCRATTC No1rIvEEs IND
PLATFORH

The names Of the Democratic nOmi-
n es for this county have been made
public but as Vet we have not been ad-
vised as to the nature OF the platform of
principles upon which the party claims
for its ticket the support Of the people
this fall. We find, however, in the Del
aware Standard of Aug. IL. 1854 the
names of J. Taylor, Democratic candi-
date for Representative, and John W.
Cone, candidate for Commissioner. sub
seribed to the following sentiments
which, in The absence of a platform, we
suppose 10 to be the principles by vir-
tue of which they propose to claim the
votes Of the Patriosic people of Della
ware:
1. 'The first three years of blood and
strife prove the Administration (Of Presi-
dent LiucolnJ to be entirely incompe-
tent for the emergency
,. "He, President Lincoln, "has de-
clared q purpose and policy foreign to
the Uz1iO5s, has welded the purse and
sword of the nation Tor the emancpa-
ton of the black man, TO the sUBvER-
SION OF THE LIBERTIES OF THE WHITE
/ MAN"
! 3. .'He," President Lincoln, "has de-
strOyed State SOvereignitV and erected
N
| 4. "a President whose character is
/ thus marked by every act which may
/ define A TYRANT is unfit to be the ruler
/ Of a free people,
/ 3. Moreover, we believe ond declare
/ shat The past history OF this bloody and
| Jratq,icjoluL war proves that the present
! rebellion CANNOT BE CRUSHED, the
/ Union res '0red by bioOd-lettiug, or fur
! tlte}' use Of the SlUOFd."
G. '''i HAT THIS WAR Is DIs-UEION, FL
/ NAL AND ETERNAL SEPARATION in the
| language OF DOugigs.'
z. President jackson said IN regard
1 to war as a remedy for EXISTING EVILS,
/ in his parting address, if such struggle
/ is once begun and the citizens Of one
/ section of the country arrayed against
/ those OF another, LET THE BATTLE GO
/ As IT MAY, THERE WILL BE An END
/ OF THE UNION
s. ''In view OF these things and the
/ bleeding desOIate condition OF our cOuu-
/ try, with tens of thousands of weeping
/ wives and widows and helpless or
| Dhaus, ,ge believe that q further drain
/ upon the country for men and money 10
! be ruinOus; and we therefore do hereby
! ssue this cali to all persons ll1 JdUOT Of
/ % speedy d3Id honorable PEACE to meet in
/ Delaware on Saturday, Aug. 13, 1864, at
/ lO O'Clock A. M, to REBIONsTRATE
/ AGAINST FURTHER CONSCRIPTJON AND
I TAXATION, AND TO USE ALL OUR INFLU-
ENCE FOR THE ADOPTION or PEACE
/ MEASURES AS THE ONLY HOPE OF OUR
| COUNTRY. !"
What kind Of an " honorable - peace
was desired by NTessrs. Taylor and
/ Gone win be seen from the fact that
they determined to demonstrate against
further conscuption and taxation. -
That is, they were in favor of securing
an honorable - peace by surrendering
to l..
out the white flag while Sherman was
numbering at the gates of Atlanta,
while Grant was swinging around Pc
tersburg, and while the Mcclellan
Democrats at Chicago We're declaring
the war s. JajLutre " Such is the Plat
form and such are the men with which
the Democracy of Delaware propose to
go before the people, demanding that
loyal men, who brayely fought in the
armies Of the Union shall be disfrau-
ehised because, forsooth, they are black!
The blackest negro of Congo more de-
serves to vote, provided he is loyal to
our government and flag, than men
who viii subscribe to such doctrines,
and in saying thisWe believe we express
the sentimeutso of nine-tenths of the I'm
ion soldiers of Ohio.
We have said that we fiud subscribed
to the above platform the names of the
Democratic candidates for Representa-
tive and Commissioner. At the conclu-
sion Of the list the Editor of the Stand /
ard says there were two hundred and /
sixty other signatures from all parts of |
the county which are omitted, and it is /
not unfair to presume that among these |
were the names of Wynue TerriII. the
candidate fOl Treasurer, and Levi Lin I
aberry, the candidate for Infirmary Di-
rector. TerriII is well known as having
been during the war one of the most +.
Jealous, violent, and prominent butter
nuts in the county, man, in short,
who would scarcely permit n opportu-
nifty to sign a paper of the character
above-named to pass unimproved.-
Among the names published we find a
good sprinkling of Linuaberrys inclU-
ding Joseph Linuaberry, Anon Lime
berry, Wayman Liuuaberry, J. II. Lin
uaberry and Oriu Linuaberrv. Now as
Democracy has a tendency to run in
- we hold it perfectly fair to
presume that Levi Linnaberry holds to
the same political faith with his kind
red and we may therefore set him down
also as man who believed that an hon
orable peace should have been obtained
in '64 ny "a surrender to the rebellion
and one who was ready to demonstrate
against further conscription and taxa
ton to reinforce and sustain the armies
of Grant and Sherman.
1t clearly appears, therefore, that the 5
Democratic ticket which was to have
been nominated on "A "pure Caucasian -
basis has, instead, been nominated on
basis Of verdigris. The platform has a
copper bottom, in fact is copper clad