Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1867-07-19
Treason in OhiO-JeR. Davis En-
dorsed and Nasby 0utdOne by a
Democratic Member Of the Ohio
LegislatUre-A rich Specimen of
Copperhead Ignorance and Crime.

1.-THE Columbus journal publishes in
a recent issue the following speech de-
Iivered in the Ohio House of Represen-
tatives on the 10th of April last by Hon.
| Robert Gordon, Democratic member
! from Auglaize county. The document
is reproduced Uerbatim from the manu-
script of the author and is a rich illus
tration of the ignorance and bigotry
which are the foundations= Of the Cop
| peUhead Democracy of Ohio. Such ar @
the intelligence and patriotism which
demand that a race shall be disfran-
chised on account of its alleged ignO-
rance and depravity, and which appeal
to the people of Ohio to vote down the
/ Constitutional Amendment, the Re
| construction measures of Congress, and
such battIe-tried patriots as Ge erals
Hayes, Lee and Godman.1
! The Reconstruction resolutions Of
| Hon. William Stanton, of Hamilton
4 county, being under consideration, Mr..
1 Gordon, SAID
Mr.. SPEAKER 81 was much astonish-
| ed al the Hon gentleman from Hamil-
/ ton. who offered the resolutions in this
/ House now under consideration. al
| ways took the Hon gentleman to be
] highly intelligent, and well versed in
1 the history of the cOuntery, in which I
find myself very much mistaken, and
have to set the resolutions down, as en-
euating from a Diseased brain, or a
mind that wished to deceave the igno-
rant.
Sir he sets forth in those resolutions
/ that the Southern States which he calls
the rebellious States lost all civil gov
/ ernmeut in the late so called rebellion.
/ Now sir in this the gentleman is very
/ much in error for il is notorious that
i the Southern States preserved their
i State governments under their State
i Constitutions, and their laws precisely
as they were before the disastrous war
commenced, and still maintained their
civil laws, and governments until they
/ were OverthrOWn by the armies of the
north, in direct COntraVentiOn Of the
articles of capitulatiOn by General Lee
surrendered bis army to General Grant.
in which the South was assured that if
they would lay down their arms and
return home to their civil persuits, that
no law civil or military should inter
fere with them, so long as they would
recognize the supremacy of the Con-
stitution of the United States,
But Sir I will acknowledge in the
CapitulatiOn there was no reference
. made to the kind of law that was rule
ing the Northern States which was
neither, Military, or Civil Jaw. Ac.
} cOrding to the Constitution of the Uni
ted States, the fundamental law of the
land, But Sir it was mob law put in
full force by Judge Lynch. And the
only law that governed the States Oi
: the North. during the late war, in the
J most barbTOus and savage manner, and
then extended over the Southern States
| as soon as they were disarmed, what
was it but mob law that impris-
stoned some of the very best men Oi
the Northern States during the war
] What but mob law that suppressed the
circulation of papers opposed to tbs
, mob. What but mob law that sent Mr.
] Valindigham beyond the lines and
what but mob law that sent Abraham
Lincoln to that bOurn from which nC
traveller returns, taught to the author
: of his death by Judge Lynch himsel
= in all his decisions senUe 1861. Nov
Sir the Hon gentleman goes on to eulo
3 giZe this Mob, in the Shape of a So call
, ed Congress of the United States who
have assumed the power to execute al
/. the Sentences of his Majesty Judge
[ Lynch. to whom it is entirely Subser
Went. and under whose DEGREES is per
= petrating one of the most damnabll
, outrages under a military espOtism
, which is to eontrole the Southern State'
I that ever eminated from the worst Iy
c rant the world ever knew But Sir
B, the men of the South are the Nobl,
t Sons of their noble Sires and which
~
l minded. q people as ever breathed thC
breath Of life, they will not Submit {,
!; the degradation so long as there is on,
? left to Sustain the right. and Sir wheI
s the people of the United States come Il
their Senses and reason assumes he
8 sway, the people Of the North will Sa,
. to the Fenatic You may take the ne
D groes for Your brothers and equals, pro
viding always that the negro agrees {,
& the degradation. but the White Mel
of this country both North and South
Q is the government, and they must gov
q ern this Country as the God or natu
and the Constitution intended thel
o Should. and-will decide against thi
. Mob and will say that we must have
= Congress composed of white member
from all the States of those UniteI
? States, both North and South, and al
the people thereof shall be governed by
70 the same constitution, and the law
made in accordance thereofas handed &,
Y them by their illustriOus trainers. anC
3 will repudiate every act of the mob
g from its assumption OfpOwer, Sir whR
& else does this mob propose to do will
those Southern States, why air, to de
{ clare them Territories. Sir, make Vir
geniR a Territory? The Mother of tn,
g immOrtals Washington Jefferson Mon
a roe Madison, Patrick Henry Robert q
Lee, StoneWall jackson and thOusand
] Of others as patriotic men as ever wa
Q on earth. The Mother Of hvo larg
q States Of this Union E who have provel
q themselves degenerate daughters Of {