Daily Republican., 1879-06-10
Delaware Loyalty DurAnE the Re-
belliON.

A'NhS"S SIo ASVy WAsy
belli0U.
The Delaware III" keeps telling us,
week after week, that We are not worth
minding, and yet it takes good care
to mind us itself. More than once has
it cut our acquaintanca, but every time
it does so we sac ceed in goading it into
something, even if it should be naugh-
tv words. We have come to the conclu-
sion that the home editor, who is afraid
to tell where he was during the late
war, keeps a vocabulary Of extreme
expletives picked away for extra occa-
sions. We. have already discovered
that the editor is not dangerous man
and that when he uses extreme dennn-
ciatory language he does not mean 1t.
We might have thought differently
we're it not that he keeps his wrath
corked up in single bottle and about
the same language he uses in denounc-
ing the REPUBLICAN he applies to the
"S-ntin-l" of his own town. In refer
ring to au editorial OF ours in which
We showed the disloyalty Of the Demo
cratic party of Delaware, he says our re-
marks "are about equal to the disjointed
utterances of the editor, and are un-
worthy of any reply" But he does
reply after all. In referring to the
"S.ntinel's" article in reference to Kent
County finance, the sub editor has evi
dently uncorked the same bottled thun-
der, for We read the following: ave
cannot imagine any other being who is
so stupidity igaorant as to jumble to-
sc;her such a lot of nonsense, except
ths nominal editor"
In defence of the loyalty of the Della
ware Legislature during the war the
sub-e litor triumphantly calls our at
tention to Section l, chapter 462, vol
ume Il, Laws of Delaware. We have
referred to it. We have read it over
preamble and all, but we fail to see
that loyalty Of which the "Delawa-
rean' boasts in it. The chapter
from which the section is Gull
ed is the draft law of 1865
the preamble Of which is SO
very carefully drawn that not word
can be fund in ii condemning the re-
bellion, bu, IL en- hele s a terrible draft
coming on and the State must do sont-
thing towards saving the white rebel
sympathizers from the terrible hard
ships of the draft. The law then pro-
vides for the issuing ofsl. 900, 900 worth
of bonds for which the credit of the
State is pledged. To have spent this
money in paying lounties to soldiers
would have much more than made ul
the quota required ofthe State, but that
would have seemed two much like en-
couraging the government in putting
down the rebellion. But something
must be done AMI that quickly, for the
draft will soon be put into op ration
and the sons of the rebel sympathizers
of the South would be either forced int 0
the army or become fugitives. Many o!
them did strike bee line to Canada,
and still more Of them escaped to the
South and fought in the rebel army
By the way the sub-editor has not told
us vet here he was during those troub.
lous times. Bat this law that is TO
prove the loyalty Of the Democratic
party OF Delaware, what is it
In the first place it says in the pre-
amble that the people of Delaware viii
not express an opinion one way or tn,
other in regard to the war, but til.
draft is npon us and our white people
must be saved from the threatened
dangers and vicisstudes of the war.
In the second place it provides tha
to every person who would volunteer
$500 should be given as bounty. This
much was done to encourage volunteer
ing, only because the loyal people O.
Delaware were going to other States and
enlistirg where larger bounties were
paid and Delaware was losing the Gre
dit of them. As there were still some
patriotic loyal people in Delaware, who
would enlist anyhow, these cute and
cunning rebel sympathizing Legislators
thought that they might as well be
saved to the State; as every one of them
who would volunteer in Delaware
would save some sympathizer the ex
peDse OF procuring a substitute and
save 10 the state $500.
In the third place this very patriotic
law provided that every white Iers0I
who put substitute in the army be
fore the draft commenced was to b.
paid out Of the treasury Of the State
$500. Why did they say white men
And why pay $500 ior substitutes ant
only $500 for volunteers The reasons
are obvious. $500 bounty would have
encouraged volunteering and th'
quota would have also beer
made up OF better soldiers. 7her
again the rebel sympathizers, would
not have saved $500 or $4O0 allowed
them Of the $500 of the State fund,