Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1867-10-04
G ENER-41 sIcKLEs ON SUFFRAGE

General Sickles, lifelong Democrat.
removed from the command of the I'd
military district North and South Car
olina only because of bis humane
treatment Of the loyal colOred and the
disloyal white populations of that dis
trict, in the course OF his recent speech
when serenaded at Washington said:
'EnlranchIsement Is peace. Liberty
without rights and the means to pro-
tecU them is war. The only condition
upon which military occupation may
cease in the rebel States is to give the
ballot to the enfranchised race. With
that shield of safety they will be Sc
cure from oppression, and the country
protected from sedition and treason.
Renewed applause It follows,
therefore, that the peace, prosperity,
and welfare Of the South have depen-
ded upon a Temporary military coutrol
over their local governments, to be eE-
ercised oBly until illeg8 OWL authority
could be established in accordance
with the requirements of Congress The
events of the rebellion taught US that
the eufranchisement of all the loyal
people of therebeI States was an essen
tial sguarantednf present and future
security and TepOse, and that unless
the freed people were enabled to pro
tect themselves by the ballot they
would have beer. compelled, in self de-
fence, to seek refuge IN the loyal States,
aud overcrowd all the channels of 10
dustry, or else to prevent that exodI IS
Of millions Of blacks, flying from op-
pressOrs. the Government would have
been compe led to protect them at home
by proioDging military occupation uu-
Ill the rebel State govern ments v0lun-
taTily afforded adequate security for
he lives and possessions of the loyal
col0red people: and it remains to be
said hat the military officers zou duty
in the rebel States we're sent there By
the authority Of Congress, and with
the sanction of the loyal people who
put down the rebellion, expressed
through their representatives In the
discharge of his duties an officer trusts
all to the approval of his Government
from the people he only exspects
that consideFate judgement upon his
conduct which follows the public rec
ord Of his acts.
Comrades, 1t is impossible. TO undo
that noble act of justice which has ele-
waited the loyalfreedmen Of the South
z
points of view there is b O reason to an
prehend that a subordinate race can do
more than defend their rights. a Ia v
of gravitation controls the moral as it
does the material world The weak
cannot overcome. the strong members.
Culture and destiny combine to assure
the domination of the white race. 1t
was Mr. Fox, [ believe, who called
reaction the most dangerous form of a
revolution. Such would be the char
acfer of reaction that restored the re
bels and their friends to power MAY
that day never dawn.
1t is precisely this reaction for
which the C0ppeTheads of Pennsylvan-
ia, New Jersey, Ohio, and New York
are now tOiIing. This and nothing
more Their love of treason, their
nate of the-eoloFed man, their con-
tempt of the soldier, their hostility to
the public credit, their persecution Of
every citizen who has been true to his
country, whether that citizen is Edwin
NJ. Stanton, of the District of Colum-
bia Thaddeus Stevens. of Pensylvan-
ia, Charles Summer, of Massachusetts,
or Benjamin f. Wade, of Ohio, mean
the restoration of slavery in the Sontn,
and Of fCOpperheadism 10 the North
with all and more than all the powe,
welded by these combined influences
before they plunged the country
into civil war. Shall they succeed /?
Shall they succeed by Repu blioan
votes Shall .hey succeed by Repub- |
lican cowardice-by republican pref
more than all by Repubi /
can i0gratitude2 There is some com 4
pensation IN seeking replies TO these |
questions In the present condition of
the unrecousructed States. This con
dition startlingly confirms the views OF
Sickles, frequently asserted in /
this correspond ndence, that lDifhOUt the /
gofes Of fhe colored men IN fhe receat
rebel States, all The interes s of tte coafR-
'rg 1COUi6 reUert into the hands 0f ihe /
authors Of The rebellion, and hat u6rt
mig tJo1tid the Union party be at theI
mercy Of those 10ho .fq led in their 0t- I
eHlpr to destr0yt The G0reIwmeat, BIT (
5Uery great jRstiiUtj0p s0Ucd {8 their
1Uerr hrol0 agonId De sacrifed 6y their
iHai dseeHdeacg.- Washington CHron
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