Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1868-08-28
Rebels on the Stump for Seymour
and Blair. Another War Threat
ened.

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Mr.. Weems, in the Georgia Conven,
ton. took the ground that the rebellion
was a war for the Constitution of the
/ United States, and the hope of cOnsti-
tional liberty requires the return tC
power of Jefferson Davis, Breckenridge
| ToOmbs, Cobb, and other rebel leaders.
| Of the war he said:
! tsThe Southern people were all in
| favor of that war There was some
| division among them in reference to
| the expediencY of separate State action
and with regard to the time when the
| contest ought to commence. But when
/ the first cannon doomed from Fort
| Moultrie the hearts of our whole people
were united, and divisions disappeared.
| We waged that war for the Constitu-
tiOn. But the South was, for a time,
overwhelmed. And the Radicals pre-
tend that they have made peace. tell
you il is not so. They may cry, Peace,
peaceP 2 but there is no peace. Free
government is ignored, commerce is
crippled, agricultureis is PROSTATE, civil
ization itself is put back; and there will
be neither peace or prosperity again
until the cause of constitutional liberty
for which we contended during the war
shall be at last triumphant. For this / {
is necessary that in the coming election
the Damoeratic party shall succeed
The party which at present rules the
country has exhibited a spectacle of
fraud, hypocrisy and mendacity unpar-
alleled in the annals of the world. A
Nero, Caligula, Marat, a Robespi erre,
would have shrunk from perpetrating
the Outrages they have perpetr ated. =
And they do it, too, in the name of
what they call the best Government
the world ever kneWl'" "
OF the Fourteenth Amendment he
every one who voted for that
amendment is a marked man hence
forth, and will receive the infamy he de-
serves. Why did the Radicals in Con-
gress get up that amendment? Princi-
ally for the purpose of keeping out of
office such noble gentlemen and true
ems, Robert TOombs, B. 81. Hill, John
@. Breckenridge, and Jefferson Davis.
They knew that if men like these
should ever get back to Washington
the miscreants who are now holding
power would shrink away abashed at
their pure presence I"
One who was present says that as Mr..
Weems named each of the patriots in
the above list there was storm of
cheers but when he mentioned the
name of Jefferson Davis the hall at
once became the scene of a wild and
tumultuOus uproar. Both delegates
and spectators jumped to their feet, as
if in excitement uncomfortable. Hats
and handkerchiefs were waved and
shaken fercely above their heads, and
yells, and shouts, and cheers, and wild
stamping, for the space of two minutes,
shook the hall. Well might an old
Unionist who sat beside me whisper,
Tt is 1860 over again I
Mr.. J. M. Ramsey said in the same
Convention
The people of Georgia have always
been loyal to the Constitution. When
they thought that instrument was en-
dangered they withdrew from the Un-I
ion, as they had a right to do. But
the Government at Washington COM
menced to wage war upon them
From that hour the Constitution was
overthroWn. We have arc used in cur
might once more, under the leadership
of Seymour and Blair, to raise the
Constitution from the dust. Georgia
has passed through a fiery ordeal
Some of her children, during the war
she was compelled to wage, deserted
her and Joined her enemies. Let them
be, like Arnold, forever aecursed. We
have seen our soldiers fall, our cities
in Jameson citizens torn from peace
full homes. We looked tlpnn- IL I'M
moved and unbIan ched. But we can
bear it no longer We viii now, at all
hazards, recover our lost liberties, and
restore the State. We are in the midst
of a great revolution, which may end
peacefully at the ballot box; but if
not then the true men. Of the South
will rally once more around their new
folded banner, and will try the issue
at the eartridge-box. Loud and en-
applause Remember the
ancestors from whom you sprung =
are men in the North who are
now truly with you, and who will, in
such a conflict, if necessary, lead
your battallions. We did not make
the other war. It was forced ypoD us.
We simply stood for the rights for
which our fathers bled And we shall
stand there again, come peace or war
Loud applause.