The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1884-06-25

/ sons from the C1ty OF Phlladeiphla, Du
we have the substantial citizens o
/ Delaware, with as great a stake in he
fair name and prosperity as any other
| in her borders.
In times of danger and distress likt
| the present the country needs most thu
intelligent aid of her best citizens, anG
now, Eff ever, should they give her tht
best efforts Of their hands and hearts
undeterred by the wild passions anc
| frenzied violence which have swept over
the Northern States like a whirlwind
The question for every good man now
to ask is: MY country, what can | do to
restore your peace and happinessT The
past and its lessons should not be lost
upon us; but to inquire now into its
original cause or causes of our troubles
would not be within the scope of these
remarks nor useful at present. The
practical question before US forbids mere
speculation it stares rs in the face
hard stern face.
Eltvan States ave withdrawn from
the Federal Union with solemn and de-
liberate action, aud have united under a
new Government They have made
their declaration of independence of
the Government under which we live,
and express their determination to main
tain il at every cost. With this secession
or revolution, or rebellion, or by what
ever name it may be called, the State of
Delaware has had naught TODD. To our
constitutional duties toward each other
and every member of the Union VIC have
been faithful in all times. Never, never
has a thought, word, an act of ours
been unfaithful to the union of our
fathers-in letter and in spirit it has been
faithfully kept by US. But the stern
fact is still before US, and but two alter
natives present themselves. Shal we make
war upon and subjugate this new con-
federacy, or shall We peacefully treat
with them and consent to their self
government, trusting to time, which is
the great healer of all wrongs and
passions, to bring them again yoluntar-
lily into a common government with
US?
believe solemnly that the war inau-
gurated by Abraham Lincoln and his
Cabinet is worse than fruitless-that it
will prove more disastrous to the North
than to the South, and never will accom-
plish its professed objects. Already it
has driven out of our Union. four States,
while others stand in doubt When |
take up the pr bic papers and see the
markets of the world disordered and
depressed by the mere apprehension of
this war; when [ turn to our own bust
ness circles and see men of wealth reduce
to poverty, our merchants bankrupted,
our mechanics and laboring men threat
ened with absolute starvation, | would
fain hide my face in grief. But con-
fronting this wide scene of human dis
tress | sadly seek to find relief from it.
If war, or the mere prospect of it, has
in three short months worked all of this
distress, what an increase of trouble are
we to anticipate should it proceed in all
its detail of oppressive taxation? HUI
man governments were ordained for the
happiness and protection of society. If
peace will restore and secure these bless
ings to the people of the United States,
even though number of their former
associates have gone off under new and
independent organization, in the name of
heaven let us raise our voice for it. Shall
this earnest cry for peace be stifed at the
bidding of host of fanatica. and coward
Nv editors aided by an army of greedy con
tractors and public teaches, stimulating
an ignorant mob to denonnee and attack
us as traitors and seeessionists? We.
know it shall not, and this day do we
proclaim our dutysto our country and
our intention to perform it.
The Cabinet of Abraham Lincoln have
affected to treat all the seeded States
as still members Of the Union. If so.
surely they are entitled to all those
privileges which the Constitution gives
them. Yet war in al It's forms, by land
and sea, with all its seventies, has been
levied against these States, and the
forms and most positive limits of the
Constitution. President and Cabinet, as
the humblest private citizen, have been
steadily and e0ntemptnouslyd isregarded
in it prosecution. The act of war is
solemn act at any time; in a war against
our brethren of the South it is surely
ten-fold so. BY the express terms of
the Constitution, the right to declare
was is delegated TO Congress. The
President has no such power. But he
has, without. even the forms of snbmis-
sion to Congress, in palpabIe violation of
Tile NfUNCltttAlGlkf WlfAlD 10 us
guide as Il is ours, surmoanted a gigaHs
tie army and that, too. for an extended
time exeeeding the term limited by the
Constitution for the appropriations to
support armed forces. The question of
peace or war, say, was never reposed
in any President or Cabinet. Congress
alone possesses the power to declare war.
and in the present case protest that
our people have never been allowed any
opportunity to vote and express their
wishes ON this m0mentons and terrible
issue. Had it been given them last win.
ter, / believe our beloved ERien would
this day have been firmly knit by the
bonds Of good viii and good faith which
originally formed it and can alone pre-
serve it.
But the infractiOns of the Constitu-
ton BIZ those officials into whose hands
the reigns Of government have passed
have not ended here. The inyasions of
personal liberty in our sister State Of
Maryland have been such as to justify
alarm and almost dishearten those who
believed our free institutiuns werevnot
mere forms, to be blotled ont af the
caprice Or tyranny Of cur temporary
rulers.
The seizure Of teIegraphic messages,
the Invasion Of the PRIV acy Of the mails,
the arrest and Imprisonment without
judicial process Of citizens, have follow
ed each other II startling succession.
These sets ara simply usurpations.
not only without color of law, but
against en- pTessiva rights.
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