Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1867-04-12

crimes. Is com biDes the meanness of
the perfdy Of perjury, the
viliainy Of betrRying comrades and /
leaving them In time Of danger, and |
the infamy of treason. It deserves
q death for each component element [
In Its sum Of infamy. But Father /
Abraham was merciful, aud few de- [
seFferB met their deserts.
The law of Ohio disfranchises eY-
cry person convicted Of rape. caTnal
knowledge of insane women, blgamy,
incest, pefiuHy, subOFnatIon Of per-
jury, arson, burglary. robbery, enter
ing house By Night or day, without
breaking, aud attempting to commit .
felony, assault with intent to commit
murder, rape or robbery. grand larceny
stealing or destroying bank notes &c,
receiving or buying stolen bank bills,
falsely personating another, forgery,
manning, shooting, stabbing, receiving
stolen goods or haTboring thief or
rObbeT, hOfse-steallng or receiving or
eoncealing stolen horse or thief, eOun-
teFfeiting or disp0sing of counterfeit
money, gliding current coin, selling or
conveying land without title, admins
rering poison, assisting prisoner to es-
cape, violation ofeleet0n Law, DC, &c,
&c. Yet not one Of these crimes is
equal in magnitude to the crime of
desertion, or 50 despieable IN charac-
ter.
Let the Democratic press eonfne it.
self to the more profitable business Of
appealing to its own party against the
/ skedaddIe clause. No true soldier
| no man who ever was q true soldier
can be moved By appeals IN favor of
I deserteTs In time of war Columbus
Journal.
GOVERNOR ORR AND TIE DEHo-
CRATIC PARTY.-GOvern0r Orr, Of
South Carolina, Ia speech delivered
a few days since before the Board of
/ Trade Of Charleston, said he had en-
/ teFtained, for many years, the hope of
| seeing the Democratic party reinstBted
| in power. "but," said he, "the dream
has passed. - And he added that he
/ had accounts to settle with the Demo
cratic party before he could consent
to affiliate with il. His statement Of
unsettled accounts was as follows
May Of you well remember that
when the war first commenced, great
i hopes aud expectations were held ont
by our friends IN the North and West,
that there would be no war, and that
if it commenced ie would be north OF
/ Mason and DixOn's line, aud not IN
the South. You know, sir, turning
to General Sickles,) that faith WaE
pledged, aud will now state that u
that faith had been properly carried
out, there is no probability that any
State but South Carolina would have
seeded from the Federal Union,
Another account which / have tC
bring against the Democratic party, il
that when the Philadelphia Conven-
ton met, it adopted a platform broad
enough to embrace every conservative
man North and South yet no soODel
/ had it adjourned than an attempt wal
made to give it Democratic character
and make it appear that every mar
who attended that convention was ar
accession to the Democratic party.
Again, during the pendenGy of th'
, Constitutional Amendment. eyeFy
! Northern newspaper, and almost ever!
Democrat in the country, urged upoI
, the South to reject Its provisions. 1
. was rejected. A few weeks only elaps
ed, and yet we find that on the passagt
of this Sherman Bill. our Democratic
friends, acting in conjunction with olC
Thad. Stevens, we're instrumental IL
Incorporating on that bill its most odi
! Gus features. It went back to tht
Senate, was finally adopted, and ever
lone Of the Democratic newspapers al
over the North, so far as [ am inform
ed, have come out and urged tn
Southern people to accept the bill.
say to you, therefore, that In M
!, Judgment it is time for us to seek new
, friends and a new alliannRn