Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1867-11-01
HAIL! YIBGINLA9

The Mother of States records her YER
dict IN favor Of loyal Reconstruction on
the basis prescribed by Congress The
struggle has been arduous, and the
result doubtful for the wealth and
social power of the State were nearly
all against US The Press was against
as, bitterly, furiOusly, venomously.
Even The 2ictn1O7ld Hyhlg, which would
be Republican if it burst, was cOerced
into supporting the Conservative
ticket at last. Probably not six jour
IIsliss in all, and they mainly new ones,
stood unhinchingly by the Republican
coIOrs, while sixty to eighty were doing
their utmost to defeat a Convention and
/ to elect Conservative" thereto. The
leading organ of Reaction called Justify
on those Whites who employed Blacks
to discharge every one who should vote
/ the Radical ticket yet ninety-nine in
every hundred COlOred voters would
| vote no other, and nineteen of every
/ twenty would not be deferred from vo-
ting. And thus every district which
/ registry with several others, has chosen
/ Radicals to the Convention, giving US
/ clear majority of at least twenty dele
/ gates, and carrying the Convention by
! over Ten EhOusand-perhaps by TWen-
[ tY ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS majority.
The White preponderance over the
Blacks in the State exceeds Twenty
/ Thousand men, of whom not more than
/ Six Thousand are disfranchised for con
! spicuous treason by the Reconstruction
/ acts, and these, we trust, viii, upon Civ
ing evidence of present loyalty, soon to
be restored to all the rights of freemen.
1t is instructive to note tina the most
Radical counties and districts are those
which in the times now happily past,
were the strOnghOlds Of Slave driving
Democracy. Halifax, Brunswick, Meek
/ lenburg, Louisa, Caroline, &c, d5c.,
rnTa l1TEl liars T1p-a Tlo77a
but Shareholders and their white sateI-
ites were voters butnOW that the La
boring Glass also vote, they are citadels
of RadicalisI. Rockingham, Shenan-
dOah, Page, Warren, &c, which were
Democratic without being prepOuder-
antIy slavehOlding, constitute the only
notable exceptions to the general rule.
We may jOyfulIy expect to see the dis
tTicts, heretofore represented in Con-
gress by Meade, GOode, DromgoOle, and
other Vehemently prO-SlaYery fanatics,
henCefOrth hOnOring and blessing the
/ Republic by sending to her councils
apostles Of Liberty and Equal Rights
| for All.
And it viii be found that the COnyen-
tiOn Just elected is not only Radical,
but, in the truest sense, Conservative
also. We did hope to see Gov. Pier
| points name head the Republican tick
| ct in Richmond, for we believe it would
| have insured the choice of that ticket
by a large majority, and would have
been pledge to the people generally
! that Liberty for All would be assrted
| and secured without giving Just cause
of alarm to any. Mr.. Hunnicutt has
probably said some of the harsh things
/ about Rebels that are attributed to him;
but we are confident that, should he
seek to inaugUrate a policy of confsca-
ton. or anything like, he would find
himself in a small minority. The Con-
ventiOn will strongly assert the Equal
Rights of Men but it will be moderate
and cautious in so using the triumph Of
genuine democracy as not to endanger
its perpetuity. Reconstructed Virginia
takes her place among Republican
States, and there she viii remain. Her
aristocracy, stimulated by exaggerated
reports of the recent achievements of
its confederates in California, Ohio, and
Pennsylvania, did its very utmost to
retain its ancient power and prestige,
but, happily, in vain. HencefOrth,
Virginia, which embosOms the ashes of
so many gallant sons of the Republic,
conseerates herself to the maintenance
of that Liberty and Union which they
laid down their lives to maintain
Long live the regenerated Old Domin-
i0n.--N. 7. Tribune.