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

Brown did not dip deep enough into
treason to make It respectable. Had
ii= managed to Kill dftv thousand men
before they captured him, according TO
10 t'ie new theory, he would have stood
on too lofty pedestal to have been
ta ken doN1 a criminal But for the
life OF me / cannot see how the same
Government that assisted Virginia 10
CON- TT Joi1n BROW d can refuse 20 t5g
Jel- DAVIS II John Brown was held
respansI bic to the outraged law, why is
not likewise Jefferson Davis
John Browns surviving kindred can
take 10 their souls one uatterng unc-
ton at least, 10 wit that he did not
seen thousands Of UnlOu soldiers march
ing into battle singing
''John Browns body lies mouldernE in the
Whne mis- soaI goes marching on.r
And they never filled to win the hghL
There is Hne man un mis- continent, at
/ the head Of a Government that has eN-
hibited nerve enough TO rule WueH
usurpers aud traitors are captured and
convicted in Mexico, we hear at one
aud the same time Of their stern SEN
teuce and prompt execution. President
Juarez, however, is saIuted for his sig
+ nal exhibition Of decision and frmuess,
with hOWls OF horror from the same
mercy begging lips that are etarnal1T
W Inning about mercE doe Jett- Why
T do men processing TO love ibert y, Inani-
I fest an interest so deep and strange IN
+ the fate of the vauldng ambition of roy
atty when il presumes 10 invade this
Z reDu blican continent and O'erleaps it,
self Has mOnarchial Government
Z friends here, whose sy1npathies are too
/ keen 10 be restrained when tTibulation
/ Overtales a topping throne, and dc
( they DresumptuOusly propose TO educate
I the popular mind or men born free uU
I American soil to catcn readily at ux-
cuses to denOunce republicaujsaI, and
cOndole with mourning nobility over
I executed Emperors
! I trust. Bfr- Speaker, that we viii
! pass such q bill viii be understood,
! properly construed. and euergetica Ilv
4 executed, and that whenit is, il viii
( leave tile Southern State Governments
/ in the hands Of men loyal and true. and
3 forever prevent disIoyat men from en-
fj0ying power aud place to fomeut rrea-
son. lE is not when they come, hut how
they come, that is the all Important
query with me. I would be glad 10
welcome them back tomorrow if were
satisfied they We're reOrgauiZed right,
but q is my Intention to vote as long as
have vote here to keep them out un-
;il they come in on the broad basis of
loyalty 10 the Government; and when
they can 90 that I am willing to re-
ceive their representatives to the halls
OF our natioual Legislature, and viii
assist to protect against anything any
wise preiadicial to any Of their legal
rights Or interests as States. 1 have
s.en qsIite enough of carnage, and phi
vate and national distress. and long to
see the day come again when we shall
ts-s as peaceful, prosperous and happy
as we were before that crawling serpent
s@cessIo3l-# sottscLU to strange ns in oar
natlOnll cradle
That cay MAY soon come again, If The
South vii. rise up sternIy resolved chat
they VIII follow Aaaman through the
Jordan. If repentancs until tine leprosy
I ut tresl=Ou and Democracy shall be
washed out OF their political ssstems
/ How uluca f-ey have been benefited by
the syrnpathies of the Democracy they
uught oy this time o be able to estimate
stisa apl rcciate The hour they diseov-
/ er they possess the good sense and callr-
d. ag-7o rpudl'ste openly and emphaticliy
sJiraui embrace warmly and sincsrel +
/ loyaliY, they VIII see dawn upon lh-.1
the bright mOrr ing OF their regeneration
and deHVerancs.