Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1867-09-13
The Duty Of the Country.

The New York Tribune launches its
thunders upon the Renegade Debaueh-
cry now welding so far as possible the
/ executive power of this nation to con-
aummate its ruin
/ Men may be false. but nations never.
/ The people saw what their Chief Mag
/ istrate could not see. Every Ameri-
can gentleman had blushed over the
exhibition he made as Vice-PresIdent,
taking an oath he was scarcely sober
enough to understand. This, with still
later exhibitions of the kind, was gen
orally forgiven. But forgiveness does
not always produce repentance, and the
man who reeled into the Presidency
speedily illustrated the sentiment that
strong drink is devil. A demagOgUe,
sober or drunk, is a demag0gue still
aud the Presi3ent'Was nOs slow to show
that the spirit had not left him. This
humiliation was dreadful ; but what
was the inaugural address to twenty
acts that followed to his February
speech, and his swinging around the
circle. These were personal deeds seen
of all men. aud subject to the rules
that govern the personal habits of gen.
w
whom no moral test could apply. Here
was man conspiouously illustrating
those very faults which every good
father warns his children against,
Here was a Chief MagIstTate-the first
citizen of the Republic-for whom all
Christians taught their children to i'm
plore Gods special blessing; comman-
der of our armies and navies, and WELD
ing an authority as great as that Of the
Caesars. Yet we blushed for him and
mourned for our country, as men IN
ancient days blushed for CommOdus
and mourned for Rome.
The plain fact, known to all men,
sorrowfully felt and mourned over
even to tears, is this, that a most un-
worthy citizen sits IN the chair OF
W0shingtOn-tha the best interest Of
the country have no more malignant
enemy than the tPresident--and that,
unless the people save the country 10
sDite of their rulers, then indeed there
Is no salvation. Pitiful-pitiful, and
vet sadly true. We are to-day surren- !
dered over to an Administration which /
began with bar-rOOm capering, md
which seeks to rule the country very
much as the Pewter Mug politicians OF
Tammany Hall rule New Gork. Con-
qTess bel eyed that yea meant yea and
adjourned under the influence OF pledg-
es which always govern the conduct OF
gentlemen. Scarcely sixty days nave
passed, and every pledge has been bro
ken. We leaned on Grant, and Grant
is neutraIized Overruled, eliminated
reduced TO q cypher He can protest
and plead, but his protests are scorned-
and his entreaties sigh around the
n A. a VwTwHa that
cOme mn from the Potomac. Ora Mt Is
t5Oinpenuous, too frank, too honest, too
sincere and simpleminded TO deal with |
tbe Gigantic Demagogue that rules
him. He pleads for SbantOn-Stanton 1
is driven from the Cabinet. He begs
for his trusted Sherldan-the finest !
soldier of his time is sent out to haggle |
with Indian chiefs and thieves Of the !
Indian Bureau. He demands the /
right to execute the law Congress spec /
iaIlv .confided to him. He is practical /
ly told that the President will execute /
the Jaw himself, that ne had better /
write no political essays, and that be 1
may devote his great genius to Quar-
Commissarles and muster
ing idle Brigadiers out of the service. |
Congress is away. Grant is powerless, a /
Tammany brother reigns in New-Or- /
leans. and the President merely pauses /
to feel his ground before he takes [
another step, and, still overriding the |
expressed Law Of Congress, call into /
mower the elements Of the Southern /
Where will he stop z /
He proelaims himself on the War-path. /
He tells his followers that he has put
his foot down. He means to over
throw military despOtism and rees-
''tablish the Constitution. We do
not mistake these menaces, for this
man is capable of anything to hold 4
bower. His fate is fixed. His pOliti-
cal fall is as certain as any event gov
erned by the laws of national policy
He has betrayed his party, broken his
pledges, dishonOred himself, disgraeed
the country. Feeling this his policy is
and there is nothing he
may not dare.
Let us show him that he dare not;
that while he has neither the respect Of /
the people nor the confidence of any
party. there Is a power above him, here
tofOre patient and magnanlmOUs, but
which will not allow patience aud mag
nanimity to become cOWardlce. This
hour requires plain speaking, and we
have sought to speak plainly of An
y ~
.mplore our friends to organize. to en-
Ter into this new political campaign /
with the spirit that moved our fathers
when they drew sword against England. /
and which sent a million of our broth
srs into the heart of the proud and
naughty Rebellion. Let the Republi- /
can party organize in every county
North and South Sink all minor is
sues in the one great duty Of driving
from power this dishonored Admins
tration. That is the duty of every pat
riot We have spent too much blood
10 the cause of freedom, TO suffer it TO
be betrayed through sUpineness and
timidity We have many things to do
n-tarifs-foreign relations
First we must destroy the power Of
this Administration, and thus save the
.Ountrv A fter that Peace.