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

country by declaring they were too
cowardIy and too mereenary to wage a /
war for the integrity of the Union.
They proclaimed in the Halls of Con-
gross their determination to frame a
new Government, pronounced the
Md one a failure. defed its power
to subdue or punish them. and deelar-
ed secession already IN fqit aceompb.
They then bade the Union farewell
forever, and went South to levy war
against it They proceeded to violate
their oaths Of allegiance and to violate
every part and parcel of the Constitu-
ton. Through four years Of nameless
horror they Waged a war to overturn the
Government they had insulted, de1ied
and betrayed. Finally the weapons Of
treason we're Wrenehed from their
hands and forthwith the Democratic
party steps in and demands that these
guilty conspirators shall without con
dition be permitted to resume their
seats as legislators of the nation
And the Democracy pleads for this in
the name of that Constitution which
these men had violated, insulted, tram
pied and spit upon
The people have with tremendous
voice repudiatcd this monstrous de-
mand. With unequalled emphasis they
have declared that treason IS a crime,
that traitors are criminals destitute of
rights, and that revolted States have
forfeited their privileges in the Union.
1t matters not whether they are called
dead States 'territories" or provin-
ces, they are in the practical relation
of State without rights and entirely
subject to the viii of Congress. They
may have been sovereign but they have
forfeited their sovereignty. They had
the right to representation but voIun-
tarily forfeited il. They were entitled
to manage their domestic concerns but
perverted the privilege to the pur-
poses Of rebellion and thereby destroy
ed it. The question now arises not
upon their admission to the Union, for
they are not out of it, but upon the
time and manner of their restoration
to these forfeited rights. True the
Constitution confers the same rights
on every State, but it does not contem-
plate the fact that a great rebellion
has been committed by which eleven
States have forfeited every right it
guarantees The Constitution makes
no provision for such contingency
because it was not apprehended. It
regards all States alike because its fra
mers started upon the presumption that
all would remain equally loyal. The
very fact that the instrument does not
meet the emergency is the strongest
possible reason why it should be
amended, And the people have vot-
ed that it shall. Rebels have no right
whatever to voice in the matter and
it is incontestable that the ratification
of the Constitutional Amendment By
three-fourths of the States represent
ed in Congress wiz make It valid law
Of the land. Upon the conditions thus
established alone can the revolted
States be restored to the rights they
have forfeited. That they have for
feited all rights has been decided
not only by Congress but by the great
tribunal of the people.
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The Eighth Of January Democratic
confab has put the following individu-
ais in nomination for the doubtful hon
or Of being most emphatically repudi-
ated by the people next fall: Governor,
Allen g. Thurman, of franklin Lieut..
Governor, Daniel S. Uhl, of Holmes
Treasurer. G. Fulton, of Crawford
Auditor. John MeElWe, of Butler
Attorney General, f. S. Hurd, Of
Knox Supreme Judge, Thomas 81.
Key, of Hamilton Comptroller of the
Treasury, William Sheridan, ofWiI-
liams; Board of Public works, Arthur
Hughes, of Cuyahoga.
The peace faction triumphed in the
nomination of Thurman who is the
pink of Vallandingham Copperhead-
ism who wrote the resolution of 1861
sending the greeting Of 100000 Ohio
Democrats to the Southern rebels. He
is a notorious rebel sympathizer and
advocate of secession and anti-coercion
doctrines. Next to Vallandingham the
party. could not have chosen a more OBJ
jectionable nominee, or one more GER
tain to be beaten. The rest of the ticket
viii share the humiliating defeat which
viii surely befall its leader