Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1867-07-12
FAREO Us EYTLS AND THETR
RE1E EDY.

Woeful have been the complaints OF
the Rebels, and more especially of their
Democratic friends, about Ihe Congress-
ional measures of reconstruction. We
never however, hear of any confession
by either of these parties that wrong
was committed by the diabOIieaI con
spiracy of secession and its bloody at
tempt to destroy the Union. No word
Of ceRsure is uttered by the Democracy
against any of the late members of this
conspiracy except so far as some Of them
have shawn a willingness to abandon
it, to abide by the terms OF Congress
and to ''aceept the situation" Accord
ing to our political friends Of the verdi
girls persuasion, the only guilty party
on this continent worth mentioning is
the party which saved the Union, and
the only persons deserving of special
censurs are the red-hot and blood-thirs-
ty Radicals Of that party who insist on
enfranchising all loyal men in the
South, or disfranchising the leaders of
the rebellion, and on excluding such
men as 4. H. Stephens, late Vice Pres
ident of the Confederacy, and Wade
Hampton, late General of the Confeder-
ate army, from seats in the United
States Senate. On account of such
direful and woefuI violations Of the
Constitution as these the Radical Union
party is daily made the subject of fer
vent and unremitting imprecations by
the eOnstitutiOnaI-secess De-
mOcracy.
Yet these are not the only grounds Of
complaint. The Union party is Dem
.OcraticalIy overhauled not only for
what it has done but what it seems to
the delirious copperhead mind to be
about to do. And first. The Union
party is said to be about TO remove from
the pedestal of power and influence, of
glory and beauty, that idol of popular
affection, the Acting President. Second.
1t is complained of for its covetous
intentions in reference to the land and
tenements of certain wealthy rebels,
out of whose substance the sinews of
the war to destroy the Union were fur
nished, and whose substance as afore-
said it is alleged the Radicals intend to
sieze, confscate and distribute among
the widows and orphans of Union SOL
diers and the Impoverished white and
lately ensIaved black loyaIists of the
South. Third. The Union party is
complained of because by threats of
eonfiscation and otherwise it creates in
the negro mind expectations which en-
gender hostility between the whites
and blacks, thus making the Political
situation decidedly unfortunate for the
INSTRUMENTATION party in the South.
Now we hold that for all these evils,
whether real or imaginary, a speedy
and complete remedy has been provid-
ed by the reconstruction measures of
Congress. Let the Southern insurgents
if they really apprehend the ealami-
ties above mentioned, close their ears
to the bowling Democracy and hasten
to avail themselves of these measures.
A year ago they might have precIuded
all possibility of coniscatiOn by accep- /
tins the constitutional Amendments, but
they chose not to accept it. They did |
not deem the risk of conflscation suf- /
fcient to deter them from cOntemptu- |
ously rejecting that measure. They
might in the same way have silenced
the threat of impeachment, but they |
chose not to do it. If they love the /
Acting President so mnch and could so
easily secure him in his seat, and for /
themselves seats in Congress, why did |
they refuse to do thing at once SO ad-
vantageous and magnanimous? we 4
know of only one reason, to wit: wick
ed obstinRcy.
The Constitutional amendment was |
rejected and it's rejection enabled us to
enact a plan of reconstruction more se-
verely just, more surely safe. It is a
radical plan because it goes to the root
Of the matter and rebuiIds the Southern
States upon a loyal basis. There is a
majority Of loyal voters in every South
srn State provided we enfranehise the
blacks, and this we have done. Not
3 single Southern State could have Sc
seded had every citizen upon whom re-
publican government eonferB the right
% vote had the privilege of doing so.
To enfranchise the blacks, then, renders
secession in future morally impossible.
At the same time it places in the hands
If an immense population, Just ernan-
lipRted, their only protection in hos
lie community. The blacks have but