Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1867-09-27
NO. %.
J. w. Forney on ths situation.

The editor of The Philadelphia Press
writes the following letter to that paper:
In all this thick and awful gloom
there is but one star to light the way
Gen. Grant is in the War Office Our
poor country, more than once depend
ent upon his sword, is now hanging up
on his wOId.
If there is any remedy for the new
peril, it is in the hands Of the people,
They, and they alone, can apply it. The
surest way to precipitate hOstilities, to
euCOuraaB Andrew johnson to seize the
Government, force the Rebels into Con-
gress, and declare the acts of emanci-
patton and reconstruction unconstitu-
tiOnal, is to vote the COpperhea0 ticket
in the coming elections. You viii be
told that this is a mere partisan's ap-
peal to awaken your fears and to con-
troll your votes. Remember, I have
never before deceived you in a grave
public emergency. 11y cOuutrymen,
every honest heart is convulsed with a
terrible anxiety, and only echo your
own solicitude by these frank words Of
warning. Even the COpperheads, ter
rOr-stricken at this bad mans conduct,
try to shake him of, as if TO get rid of q
second frightful responsibility should
their efforts in supporting his policy
ripen into another bloody harvest. The
steps of revolution are never so rapid as
when q great, free people refuse to be
admonished. You refused to be warm
ed even in this correspondence, when,
six years ago last December, i told you
that the Rebel foe was arming for your
destruction and il was only when the
blow fell that you awOke to the dread
reality. If you needed proof, not Of
Andrew JohnsOn's intentions (happily
no one doubts them now, but of the
fatal folly of being Tnisled into OppOsi-
ton to the only party that can save the
Republic, look at the paralysis that has
befaIIen business all over the land since
he has construed the election in Cali
fornia and Maine into an Endorsement
of his plan to restore the Rebels to pow
eri What man is mad enough to at
tribute the rise in gold to the Recon-
struc6i0n law. when hundreds of Rebel
leaders have accepted its terms, aud
the manumitted millions of the South,
paid for their labor for the first time, are
enriebing their former masters, and
quietly preparing for the duties of citi-
zenship? The crisis is graver than any
that has preceded it. There Is not tried
soldier of the Republic who does NOT
and say that it is so. Last October you
were aroused to frenzy at the bare in
timation Of what is now openly avOW-
ed. The notorious Ledger dispatch, re-
pudiated then because it was met by
one mighty Outburst of Indignation but
never formally denied by its author
Andrew JOhnsOn), is now not only to
be acted upon, but acted under the sane
ton or the ttOrney-General, and amid
the threats of Rebel agents. And the
American people are not only declared
TO be patient in such a crisis, but said
to be voting for Copperheads, to show
that the Republicans are wrong. Gold
falls, business stops, credit trembles,
labor stands aghast, and the mOnarchs
of the civilized world, after admitting
that we have crushed the Rebellion,
may now begin to rejoice over the re-
vivaI of their darling hopesi And
shall it be said that the great Republi-
can party of America have cOntTibu-
ted to such an end that while the enc
mics of progress abroad and the enc
mics of humanity at home are plotting,
with the aid of a wicked man in the
Presidential chair, Republican votes
helped to swell the verdict against the
Right, and Republicans helped to lift
that Wrong into power?