Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1870-05-20
ExPLANATION EUsTBER TTo.

T Fexplanatlon to eXonerate the Democrat,
Legislators and lobbyists for their part II
t that transaction. but we cannot see how
it benefits them any to accuse the edito
q Of this paper Of being a partisan.
that has anything to do with It. we ac
knowledge a total ignorance as to wha
4 or how. We presume most citizens ar,
partisans. at least act with one politica
Is party or another, and it might be vel
for our accuser, before he undertakes tc
: clear our vision, to examine his own op-
tics If there is any person whose po-
: litcal convictions are more closely ident-
ified with and governed by party action
and its prospective results than his are,
/ who IS he He says those who mix
much in politics know, assuming to be
one Of them, for ne proceeds to tell
what they know. and in the same article
undertakes to read us a lecture about be-
ing a partisan Now. If mixing much
in politics does not make a man par
tisan, what viii We think it not IN
likely that our accuser has not only mix
ed but got things mixed in politics a good
| deal more than We have
/ Nevertheless, if to have zealously en-
deavored to defend the rights and pro-
mote the welfare of dead soldiers or
Phans makes us a partisan, we shall not
disoNn The soft impeachment
We have believed and still believe
/ that if their interests had been imDartia-
ally considered they never would have
been foisted into a semi-penal institution.
located in a secluded neighborhood, and
occupying light. combustible frame bull
dings which in some inclement winter
night may burn to the ground and roast
to death half their occupants. That may
be the Democratic way of caring for sol
diers' orpnans. but it is not the one die
tated BY humanity and Justice. We
cannot conceive why our accuscr should
be 50 much concerned to advocate and
defend it unless party bias prevents him
from considering this nobly benevolent
enterprise in any other than a party as
pect. Nor do we hesitate TO say that had
these friendless ones been exclusively or
mainly the children of Democrats, the
members of that party IN the Legislature
would have been indignant at any such
disposal ofthem as this law proposes.
In laboring to defend, our accuser as
sumcs to give a history of. the legisIa-
ton which proposes to place at White
Sulphur two wholly incongruous insttu-
tons. Yet he wholly omits from his
narrative any mention of the disinter-
ested lobby operations of Col. Ferry, to
which, perhaps. more than to anything
else. we are indebted for the consumma-
ton Of that arrangement. This is ike
the play of Hamlet. with the part of
Hamlet left out, and is besides a great
injustice to Col. Ferry. If the achieve
ment of locating the Orphans Home at
White Sulphur is one so meritorious as It
IS claimed to be, no doubt Col. Ferry
will regard his part therein as deserving
an honorable place in history, howe er
unpretentious. We are informed by
himself that his suggestions to the com
mittees were almost without exception
adopted, and therefore are sorry to see
him ignored in this way by one who as
sumes to give all the facts and the exact
facts in regard to the White Sulphur
measure.
Our assailant abuses, to the extent of !
his limited ability, the organization of
soldiers which inaugurated the move
ment for Home for their dead com
rades' children. In his opinion that or
ganization committed an objectionable
offense in undertaking such an enter
prise, and therefore deserves the repro
baton Of all political parties. In behalf
OF these soldiers we will simply say
that if his political party desires to take
that ground it is welcome to do SO.
The soldiers-Union, not Rebel-have q
never received from that party aught but
abuse or at most a forced and hypocriti-
cal friendship, and this fresh manifesto
ion of Democratic bitterness towards I
hem is therefore not surprising. It's of
piece with similar courtesies from the
same source and is a good deal more
sincere than the sudden concern mani t
ested by the Democratic organization
or the children orphaned by Demo-
,ratic rebellion.
The author of this second explanation
If Democratic law concludes with a
issue of insinuatons-he dare not make
hem asserdons-that a soldiers organi- 9
zation has interfercd in political affairs in
ms county. Nothing could be more a
false than that and nothing much mean i
er, At this time no soldiers organiza- Q
hon exists in this country and none has
existed for several years. A feeble at
emPt was made at one time to or
yanize a post of the Grand Army of the 4
Republic, but II never was able to 4
muster but a few members and soon a
passed wholly out of existence. The
soldiers who hold Office in this county A
eceived their nominations as the free a
voluntary gift of conventions in which
hree-fourths of the delegates were civil
ans representing the party which sus- Is
aimed them in the field and to which,
e confidently predict, they viii do no =,
iscredit. Their honors were worthily
nd freely bestowed, and have been re- -
elved in part by men who fought in the "
anks from the beginning of the war till
le last rebel surrendered.
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