Delaware State journal and statesman., 1867-12-03

limbs the shackles have so recently been
stricken off, that the sores have not yet had
time to heal. To that success-thanks 10 that
Divinity, ''who shapes our ends, rough hew
them as we will''-to that success the ir ed
men will contribute. Did you hear the great
O0mn,oRer, worn in body, enfeebled by
disease, struggling hour by hour with threat
ening death, and so often when he seemed
conquered, with mighty will, with tremend-
GUS energy, conquering the fell destroyer
himself. Did you hear from that grand old
man, that great Union Republican leader,
Thaddeus Stevens, but the other day, the
order: "Call up the Southern Reseryesl''
Ayei Call up the Southern Reserves Let
the eniranchised slaves Of the South neu-
tralize and overbear preiudices, disloyalty,
bigotry, Ignorance in some of the great cen
ters at the North. For every man fraudu
lently naturalized, for every man fraudulent
| ly voting here, comes to the ballotbox in
South Carolina, in Virginia, in the owner
ship of himself, in the dignity of new
manhood, and with profound gratitude to
the Union Republican party that brought
him from darkness into light, an enfranchised
slaYel Call up the Southern Reserves, and
let them be headed by Virginia, the mother
OF Presidents. Gather Freedmen 100000
strong around the spot where the immortal
| pioneer of your Emancipation was executed
From some still resting place in the vast
universe of God he win watch over and
hear you as you sing: II
| Tat. aa.i
! But bis souls marching on. =" il
Call up the Southern reservesl "out of
this nettle danger have we plucked the
flower safety" Slavery dominated the
nation and lmperiouslY dictated to It's laws
1t waged deadly warfare with the Union
Republican Organization, and, when in fair
combat overcome, it demanded trial by
arms. Such trial in the olden days of
chivalry was permitted to brave knights,
and the combatants before posing lances
or clashing swords, appealed to God SO to
stand by them as their cause was just, and
it was in those days, by those OF the order
of knIghthood believed, that the victory
would be given to the Right that God
strengthened the arm that struck for the
Right-and palsied that which struck for
the Wrong. Slavery demanded trial by
arms, obtained it, and was vanqulshed.--
The. war whose purpose It was more firmly
to establish and more widely to extend
Slavery, and thus to defeat and crush out
the Union Republican organization, resulted
in tearing from the bodies of four millions
of human beings the black sackeloth of
slavery, and clothing them in the virgin and
bridal white of Universal Emancipation,
and in consolidating the strength, and per-
petuating the power Of the victorious Union
Republican party. Now the prejudices and
passions Of men are appealed to, and excited
against the bestowing of political rights upon
black men, and thus some LEGAL and tempo.
rary victories for the Democratic party have
been obtained at the North, but for every
State thus lost there are two States Union
Republican by black mems votes to take its
!, place. Call up the Southern Reserves
Virginia, Tennessee, home of Brownlow,
, North Carolina, South Carolina, cradle OF
: the Rebellion, Georgia, Florida, Louisiana,
Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, come up In
one glorious conquering line and deposit
) your votes in 1868 for the Union Republican
, candidates for President and Vice President
g 1t IS as certain as the immortality of the
soul, that they will call up the Southern
Reservesl They will find an army already
in the thick of the fight to aid them in the
I achievement of victory. The mighty West
: whittier the star of empire takes its Way. is
even in this hour, faithful, and will present
' in the campaign OF 1868, an unbroken front
; Answei, Oregon, Kansas, Missouri, Mime
: sofa, Wisconsin, Nevada, Michigan, Nebras
: ka, Illinois, Indiana, aye, Ohio, not this yeal
InxFf nd lauf 1aall .x.nN. .-.th -
the Western wing of the great Union Re
g publican army stand frmp Nor shall Tho
s Golden State be found wanting. The East
. save Connecticut, is firm to-day, and in The
coming campaign Connecticut shall be re
deemed. The Keystone OF the Arch, New
a Jersey and the Empire State, lost 10 day
? shall be regained tomorrow, when clearly
! sharply, well defined, the issues shall bi
4 pa esented in a national contest between
modern Democracy and Union Republican
8 ism. Had Presidential election been helt
d this Fall, and the respective States voted
II precisely as they have, Union Republican
President would have been elected, and thi
: without the Southern Reserves. Like tn,
0 ephemeral Democracy has lived and tried /,
Y enjoy its brief hour Of life and triumph II
= the few States in which it has this year sue
= ceeded, its day even in these has passed
and 1868 will find but Kentucky, Delaware
i and Maryland voting against the Union Re
s publican candidate for the Presidency
: Whoever shall be nominated by the mex
O Union Republican National Convention will
: be elected by an overwhelming majority
Z O majority unprecedented in the history @
y the contested Presidential elections of tn
a country. There will be no apology for sac
q rifcing, in the Union Republican Nationa
Convention, principle upon the altar q
availability. The bitter lessons of the past
1. as well as sound political morality, teach u
h that such sacrifice is as dishonest an
Z. cowardly, Us it is in its ultimate results upo
- the fortunes of party disastrous. N
i man, however great his intellect, howeve
J. unsullied his character, however resplender
's his glory, ought TO be nominated by the mes
40 Union Republican National Convention, q
40 its candidate for either the Presidency {
AZ the Vice Presidency, unless he is firm
ID undoubted Union Republican, and that upc
is the record. Men gravely mistake the mat
!, rial of which the Union Republican part
~ is composed when they suppose that TIL
10 magnificent organization, with its heritag
Lh of glory, and the mighty mission 1t has "
al to accomplish in the future, will forget /
"a immortal principles, and adopt and suppo
for the first offices in the gift of this peop
OF any men except those IN whom confdent
Mt can be placed, and who are prepared TO So
that they are Union Republicans. Proud
pointing to the long and honored array
patriots, heroes and statesmen in its rank
the Union Republican party OF this COUNT
ed is not under the miserable and degradir
a. necessity of seeking for candidates for Il
,,r Presidency and Vice Presidency outside
- its own organization. With our success
e, the next Presidential contest the policy
on our National Administration for many yea
les to come will be settled. Every State late
In in rebellion will be perfected IN its recO