Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1867-08-16

yindicated their claims to the world s
respect alike In 6ae field aud Ia the
halls of legislation What Is the ba-
SIS upon which they fought ? Simply
that rebellion was crime, aud they
will triumph again. The people wiz
never require us to fight on one prin-
ciple and lggIslate OH another TO
shed cur blood Op the field and then
come here to make apologies for i5 60
IaeH who wanted US whipped ! Lhold
now, and always expect to mold. that
go man has a right to cross the thres-
hold OF this Honse aud claim seat
on this floor who did not dare during
the war to openly stand by and claim
the protection of the flag IL floats
over the Capitol The Government
that IS organized so loosely and admin
lstered so feebly that traitors Of yes
terday can be among the rulers Of to-
morrow, can neither long survive nor
long deserve to survive Aud his
Government can have no enemies In
the South half as much 70 be dreaded
as those whining Northern friend who
would clOthe with power 10 Lhis Gav-
ernment tomorrow, the maa whose
blade was drawn to stab the Constiru-
rion and the Union but Yesterday.
When the South can be Loyalty rep
resented on this floor upon the basis
proposed by Congress, the problem Of
reconstruction viii cease to vex the
discussion Of this Hall
The prime, sole, and saprelae object
lf the Republican party is tore -estab-
llsh this Government upon sure
foundation Of loyalty, against which
To Hnr Z
for eYerin vain. We have survived
one rebellion, and the sage suggestions
Of past experience warn us that it
will be wiser to prevent another re-
bellion than to too confidently expect
to survive it. Rebellion. secession,
aud treason, are like ali other crimes
and iniquities, aud will crop out in ev
cry direction upon the Smallest per-
eeivable pretext, Put forward then,
the loyal, and true and hold at a re-
spectful and Indifferent distance the
disloyaI and untrue, until we cfiQ see
some voluntary evidence thaE they
have finally aWoke to the conscious
ness that they are criminals, and auerht
to be grateful thigt they have not been
iguOminiOuslY branded by the Judge
ment of a <, mpstent tribunal as such
The whole secret, however, Of the vail
among the Democracy is not because
we have Insisted that rebels shall be
held under restraint and loyal meu
promoted, that our flag shall be respect
ed me as well as abroad, but it is
sim he reason a rebel freshman gave
a. g tal Irishmau VINO captured him
on the field. SMd The Hibernian in blue
to his rebel cOuntryman, "Why, jim
my, my boy, what are you doing on
that side ?'' 'That side, iudade, an
swered Jimmy, "end is this not the
Dimmercrntick side ~ Laughter
The ITishman thought that the rebel
side must necessarily be RE Democrat
ic 81 lie, and guess th3t nay friend, the
gentleman frs N Brook lyn, has Il SINH
lac idea in his head yet. Laughter.l
The recent rebtllio.s while it was in
pro gress was led by men who belonged
to the same party 10 Whicli the gengle-
man from Brooklyn now belongs, and
the same party to which I belonged un-
til / became so thoroughly ashamed OF
it that I left IL and Is it not a little re-
markable that the same disloyal stencil
which drove me out out seems to havS
attracted my friend from Brooklyn 1Dt1
it? TLaughter.l
FAITHLEssNE or TIE DEMOCRACY.
There is nothing THAI to regain its
lost power the Democratic party would
not willingly do. If it could acquire
tomorrow more power by crushing an
der its iron heel this South, than l
could by succoriug il, ib would hurl al
its Southern brethren thick and FAST
aCurses Of hate and misses Of scorn."
Their history wei establishes the
Etet that
"Their friendship is lurking snare,
Their honor but an idle BREATH
Their smile the smile that t'altOrs Wedr-
Their love is hate. their LIE is death
Their sympathy with Andrew John
sOnls plan Of reconstruction, and theiI
hostility to the RepKbIfcan plan of ne
construction, is not attribufa5le to the
merits or dement's Of either plan as a
policy for the country, but soiefHr As a
party policy.
To be charitable, we win have TO give
the gentleman and his party credit Tor
memory as full of treachery as sAlelr
Southern brethren were of treason.
They seem to have forgotteareve very5ll iIig
they ought to remember, and feinaa-
Der some things they Certainly - 3ght
not only to forget thenlseIVeS. iszIt want
everybody else to forget Laay seem
to have forgotten the scenes ald even Is
that mark the historical epOoh through
which we have recently PASSED, and
they seem to have totally forgotten thai
these pet Southern brethren of theirs,
when they did occupy -Se,-ts on tIiis
ft0or gave US practical lin 'tratious oil
dignity in debate that made of this
IL
attractive TO lQVers OF gladlatorial SPORTS
and patrons or the Fsfanc9H than they
could have been to the wise. prudent
sedate, and good citizen. When bowie
knives bristled from thieE breasts, re-
vOlvers filed all their pockets, and
clubs were substituted among them for
canes when they spoke to q Northern
legislator in these Halls with a sc0wl
on their hrOWs, threats on their lips,
and fingers on triggers. It is true, we
have blotted- ONT for them, eternally and
forever, the charming institution. un-
der the peculiar inhuences OF which
they imbibed these dognatica3 and IN
sOlent airs but if, WheA it was in fulL
blast, they could not rememi FT the
style of manner that might do TO drive
a gang of slaves, would not answer to
persuade a congressional peer, 1t Is not
at all probable that time enough has
yet elapsed for the fact 10 appear IN
their manners that they fully aud prop
erly realize the fact in all Of its moral
and political subiimity, that they are
not somebody's master yet, and may
again subject US to their old style OF ar
gument so much southern. They seem
to have forgotten the price OF the peace
We enjoy to-day has cost this nation,
and the crimson currency in which it
was paid the broken hearts with
which it filled, bruised and trOu bled
bosoms at home the mangled bodies
Win WnlGA III nlle(t nOSDltalS ever y
where, and the lifeless fOrms of manly
beauty with which it filed hundreds OF
thousands Of nameless graves on the
far-o6 battle-plains of the South. They
seem to have forgotten the bitter seald-
ing tears that rolled like floods of lava
down the fair faces Of the loyal moth
ers, wives and sisters ofthis land, when
the names ineffably dear to them were
found announeed IN the long lists OF
the killed, that were published us q Sc
quel to the first flash Of the lightning
shat reported q battle had been fought ,
aud 7 dare say they have forgo1taa that
there ever was such a prison as Auder-
sORville, aud the long, long catalogue
of horrors that brave men had to suffer
there for being true t0tLsnselves, their
Constitution, their flag, their homes,
families, and country.
Well for such gentlemen would it be
it they could occasionally meet, as ihey
wander daily over this broad country, a
lew Of the many wan spectres Of suffer
Ing and woe who were captured by the
sanity Southern brethren Of Northern
Democrats ON fields Of strife, thrust into
prisons unfit for dogs, and starved Oil q
hale constitution was a wreck, and then