Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1868-07-17
Hubbell against Hubben.

mour and the Democracy in 1865.
Rts65eu as he Is amt as he fused to a0as."
In his speech to the Democratic ratif-
ers on Saturday evening last J. r.
HubbeI devoted himself to fulsome
eulogies OF HoratiO Seymour and the
Copperhead party.
We now invite the attention of DEM
ooRATs as well as Republicans to the
appended extracts from a speech deliv-
ed by Mr.. HubbelI at Union Mass
Meeting in Delaware, Sept. 10th, 1865.
The public OF whatever political faith
viii unsparingly judge whether a man
who entertains sentiments so diane
trieally opposite as those he expressed
on Saturday evening and those here re-
corded can be politically honest. We
quote from the printed report Of his
speech of which the pressure upon our
columns prevents a full repu bIication
t'The future safety of our country
viii not permit us to let the "dead past
bury its dead, !" if we ever so much de-
sired it, but on the contrary it requires
that the truth of history should be vim
dlcated, and that the country should
know who are and have been its friends;
and who are and have been its ene-
Gin the organization of the bogus con-
federacy every department was under
the control and guidance of some par
tizan. DemOcIat. The rebel army the
rebel Congress, and the rebel Cabinet,
were under the leadership of distinguish
ed Democrats. The Davises, the MasOns,
the Hunters, the Wigfalls, the To0fnbses
the Breckinridg dges-in fact all the respon-
sible chiefs of the rebellion, previous
to the war were fsoright and shining
liphts'' in the Democratic party. and an
occupied high and responsible official
position in the Government of the uni
ted States. In the darkest hour of our
country's gloom and peril there was
scarcely a nook or corner In the South
so dark with treason but that here and
light, and whenever ana wherever Uni
on sentiment was to be found, It was
among a class of persons who previous
10 the war belonged to the American
or the old Whig party. As you traced
the party from the South to its allies
in the North, the sympathy and the zeal
Of tie Democratic party ageTe everywhere
manifested for the rebellion just in pro-
portion to its local strength; and all
that kept it from breaking out I9l open
rebellion against the G0UeT7sngent was the
fact that in all the Northern States the
the rebellion manifested itself in fre-
quent murders, assassin atoms, and es-
Pecially in the assassination of soldiers
and officers employed under the con-
scriptiOn laws. re
TIE fire thOtssaad i5garjated demons IN the
CITY Of Nes2 York, addressed by his ErceUency,
Governor Seymour as ''slly fiie1aCs'' and esi0-
mated bV -ATch6tsbop Hughes IN his posters
s'Gs ne persons Gte SteICIl0peTS called 7ioteFs''
lVO in the month Of July 1853 burned houses,
destroyed properly, nlSsTdered helpless s0onsen
and children upon the streets OF the city, and
bid open defiance to The legally coslstitaste Gtt-
ttoriies Of the STATE and Of the city lJo1- three
days, and finally 20 0rqtgya JSeFsdtsh prejudice
against persons Of color and erOs0R their acts |
Of fHltanaV setJfrc to and burned to ashes the
eOJored orphan GsyJtnl--W ERE ALL DEM |
OCRATS. .
elm the time of war the strength of a |
nation, it is said, consists in the sword |
and in the purse. Wherever any meas
ure was proposed to strengthen the f.
nanciRl or military condition of the |
in the mode prescrib ed /
by the constitution, either by conscri p
ton OK taxation, 1t was assailed by the /
party leaders as unconstitutional and /
oppressive. II traitor was arrested |
for melting sinsurrectiOn, or defending |
the rebellion, or isseminating treason,
and for the public safety placed in close
ATGNGEnul6LAGs
Pughs and Pendletons pronounced the I
arrest an act Of tyranny and usurpa-
ton while the most dignified Thurmans
and Ranneys, like Millions fallen an
gels, 81
APART sat on a hill retired
q thoughts more elevate, and dreasond high
And found no end in wandering mazes lost"
The unenviabIe
distinction and honor of having been
the first great political party in the his
tory Of the Republic for seventy years,
rebelling against the best government
IN the world because it was defeated at
an election lawfully conducted, belongs
70 the party that arrogated to itself the
proud title OF Democracy"
There was one way in which the call
amities of the war might have been
sVerted. If the american people had
iisregarded their own private convic-
ions and conscienccs, and in the dis
'harge of a responsible political duty, ,
lad acted under the dictation of their
enemies, and voted for the :
Infamous Breckenridge, compared with !
yhom Judas Iscariot was a saint and q
Benedict Arnold a patriot, the war I
night have been avoided, Judas you :
ZnOW, it is said, after he betrayed his !
Master repented and hanged himself,
'ut not so with Breckenridge, he re-
mains impenitent.
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he Government has been driven from a
very battlefield, and every State in
evolt against the civil authorities has 6
leen subjugated and conquered by the I
Military power, their allies in the North 5
re in another field, in which they hope q
0 accomplish with the ballot the pur- 7
ose they failed to accomplish with the
ayOnet.
This same Democratic party in Ohio
oW asks you to again honor them with d
our confidence and votes. They come 4
YOU with the ResclUtions>Of' '93, from y
rhich the rebels claimed their right to I
scede and dissolve the Union, re-rat-
led and re-afirmed, in State COnYen-
ION, with denunciatory platform of r
ne national debt and the exemption of I I
government securities from local taxa 7
on, and filled up with 'immortal hate'' q
u the colored race. With this sort of
latfOrm and this sort of q record, they
gain ask you for your votes. imag- 8
le they viii not get them. {,
They denounce measures they know 7
} be absolutely necessary to save the b
lunSry from destruction by violence, l. q
nd at the same time against the rebels &