Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1867-03-01

speot for Generals Howard and Fisk,
/ and / am sure these Christian soldiers
and gentlemen will be remembered By
I a grateful people long AFTER their rebel
villifeFs are dead ard gone to that
/ devil In whose service they are now
/ employed. The same paper says Il
am a radical" That shows / am
right, for radicsiism is right as far AS
/ it goes. but iG does not 20 far enough
/ I for one belleve that this Government
/ cannot be preserved unless leading reb-
els are tried for their crimes and exc
euted. The long delay in Furnishing
/ traitors was perhaps unavoidable, but
I delay has not lessened their crime, aud
[ hope the day is not far distant when
treason viii be made odioUs, and trait
ors properly punished The Southern
States should, ] think, be re-sUrveyed. .
and one hundred and sixty acres of
land in them given to every officer and
soldier who has served one year iu the
/ Union armies That was great act
of Abraham Lincoln's, when he freed
the slaves, but that was an infinitely
greater act of Gar of Russia, when he
only freed his serfs, but gave to each
ten acres Of the masters land We
should initiate this wisdom What
the Government took from Union
men in the South it should pay for,
and all other losses should be assessed
on rebels The entire public debt
should be apportioned among the
rebels of the Southern States, and the
loyal people Of the North and South
relieved from taxation. A Lexington
paper thinks [ am anxious to obtain
command Of ssgiee-rOyalty of Ken
tueky," It would indeed bo glad
day for the Union men. Of Kentucky,
and a sad one for all rebels, If 1 was
put In command of that State but
such thing is not likely ever to hap
pen, much to the qualification OF the
disloyal. It is also asserted that / am
Sc a negro suffrage and WOman's rights
man" believe that the men to
whom we intrusted the flag of the
country, may safely be entrusted with
the ballot, but no rebel should ever
be allowed to vote. The women of
this country have just as much right
to suffrage as the men. OurIelectiOns
are now a disgrace to the nation, and
il is time we should take the ballot
out of the rum shop and the gutter,
and make il respectable. / would
altars of our churches. Let handsome
buildings be erected and in them alters
of freedom builded then lay on these
affairs the ballot boxes Of the nation,
and let the men and women of Amer
lea, white and black, as a solemn duty.
approach and deposit that little piece
Of paper which expresses the sovereign
will of a great people,; When our
wives and our daughters accompany
us to the polls, then, and not till then,
will America be a real RepUblic.-
Then will corruption cease then will
good men be elected to Office, and
then, and not till then viii the sale Of
Chat curse Of the nation) liquor, eX-
cept for medicine, be prohibited
throughout the United States.
am warned to leave the State, but
the Observer thinks, under the pro-
lection Of my commission in the army
[ may stay Fifteen hundred loyal
men have been murdered In the South
since the close of the war, and l am
we'll aware that If [ we're a citizen /
could not live ia Kentucky but, thank
God, / have still few bayonets about
me, and am here, if for no other rea-
son, than to witness the intolerance of
such men as the editor Of the Report
er. I hope the day will soon come
when all such men viii Zee to the
mountains, "knaW file, or look at
Gods sunlight through the bars of
prison window.