Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1880-07-08

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Wilmington, Thursday, July s, 1880.
A Reasonable Declaration that the
War was "A Failure.
An article in the Morning Nens COM
menting on Col Forney's advocacy of
Hancock is positively rsbid. 1t is weak
In argument and strong in passion, and ut.
terly devoid of fairness. II attributes to
JEFF Davis an expression which even he
has repudiated, and then attempts to hold
the mass of the southern people respon-
sible for tine utterances OF one OF the
two or three men who have mani
tested since the war tue same blindness
to the logic Of events which the News
itself exhibits in the article We are COM
menting on. II the Ne,0s really knows
anything of the sentiment of the Southern
people it knows that JEFF Davis does not
speak for them in his rabid utterances,
and If it does not know anything of them
it has no right to attempt to represent
their ideas. Its position makes either
Ignorance or Misrepresentation mex
eusable.
But not satisfied with disappearing
the sentiment of the Southern people, it
vilely insults the Democratic party of the
North, and forgetting the thousands it
contributed to the army including the
brilliant soldier who now leads it, it
charges that it sympathized with rebellion
and desired its success and that in the
Northern States lit finds its
'level in the low sewerage of
''great cities; its rank and file
''comes from the worst classes of the Old
"world." No paper published anywhere
has the right to thus malign SO large o
portion of the American people but in
view of the record and composition of the
Republican party in Delaware, il is impu-
dence run mad for Delaware paper to
talk in this fashion. But it does not, in
its rage, even stop at this monsrous asser-
ton. Speaking of the two parties into
which the American people are divided, ii
says:
It is time that all men who love this land
should vacate any ground that leads to q
mere discussion of men. 1t is time to awake
to a discussion OF principles and to recognize
that this battle in November is simply the
adjourned battle of Gettysburg. Seventeen
years ago the rebels failed to defeat Hancock
failing there, they have not given up the
onset, but have simply changed their line oil
attack and now ask him, instead Of Long
street and Hill to lead them i'll their endeavol
to gain possession Of the Government.
This surely is the very acme of partisan
madness. The men who fought and LOST
al Gettysburg were not fighting to eel
possession of our Federal government
but to escape from its authority ant
dominion. Hancock and those who
fought with him were fighting to pre-
vent this, and to bring these mer
and the States they represented back un
der the authority of the Federal govern
ment and into the Union, not merely il
name, but in fact, so that the states at
tempting secession might once more TAX
their places as members of that Union
and their people once more render it tn
allegiance of citizens, not the reluctan
obedience of slaves. Hancock and thos
with him won; and the men who sur
rendered gave up in good faith thei
dream of separate empire and tool
the place the Union army demanded the,
should take, within the Union and under it
government. If they had not done SO tn
war would have been failure, for tn
northern states were not fighting to kee
single party in power, nor to retain 70
a single section control of the Federi
government. Had this been their objec
they could have attained it without tn
loss of life or the expenditure of a dole
by simply asserting to the withdrawal {
the seeding states.
The war was fought for the preservstio
of the Union and fought as brayely /
Hancock as by Grant by Northern Dem,
Gratis as by Northern Republicans, and
accomplished its object and did restol
the Union. The States which be
attempted to withdraw abandoned the
attempt, and took their places, under II
conditions prescribed by their conquerer
in the Union. The men who hi
fought for Southern independence la
down their arms and acknowledged all
glance to the Federal Government,
which they once more became citizen
and most of them more loyal and faithf
citizens than is any man who attempts
make believe that the issue in peaceat
and constitutional election in 1880 is th
same as that over which the armies &C
tended at Gettysburg. If any Southe
man were to declare, as the Ne
thus declares, that the war settl
nothing and that the questions of uni
or disunion, Of slavery or liberty, WI
still open ones he would he denounc
throughout the North as dangerous a
irreconcilable Bourbon incapable of eitl
learning or forgetting, and yet here
have Republican paper practica
declaring that the war settled nothing, a
that the peacable election of the pres
year is simply an adjournment Of
jdttJe n GettysJRrg. This is not mer
the madness of passion; the extreme
wild partisanship N il d@lnioa Mik !
Z, treason!
The Ne,5s has, during its brief ex
ence, set itself up as the apostle of m
ness, and has on more than one oceas
presumed to take EVERY EVENING to t
for what it called violence" because
presentation of facts and argume
shocked its delicate nerves, We do
doubt that we have shocked it,
in this article it manifests the be
ting sin Of weakness and displ
the inopportuue hate and the bI
passion which have made women and 1
combatants the last to become reooncilet
every contest in which men have displa
the qualities which make real heroe
generous in peace as they are brave
war. 1t is the manifestation of this 81
which has done more than anything
to ALLEVIATE the truest Union men +
the Republican party, and the
proof of sincerity and good
given by the south ia the NJ
nRtinn of Hammock Gives snch