The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1893-04-06
Baynrd In 1861.

me I0ilOWln8 10 from Il. r., pdydTu
speech made iP Dover in 1881:
IL Is well.kn6wn to US all that q reign
or terror was sought to be inaugGrated
out the entire Nor tn, and for this pnr.
pose troops not of our State, were en-
oamped upon our peaceful soil at the
instance OF those politicians among US
whose insolence and oppression are
limited only by their fear and their
ability to do mischief. To-day we
stand here In the spirit of freedom to
vindicate our privileges and perform
our duty as citizens, despite the reiter-
ated threats of protligate and lawless
press OF neighboring States upon the
North echoed by papers In this State
equally shameless and corrupt. "
Eleven States have Withdrawn from
the Federal Union with solemn and
deliberate action, and have reunited in
new government. They have made
of the government under which
we live and expressed their deter
mination to maintain 1t at every
cost With this secession, or revolu-
ton, or rebellion, or by whatever name
it may be called, the State OF Della
ware has had nothing to do.
But the stern fact is still before us.
and but two alternatives present them-
selves. Shall we make war upon and
subiugate this new Confederacy 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, voluntarily, into q
common government with us2 = u
believe, with the late Senator
Douglas, who has already been quoted
to-day, that war Ia disunion, certain.
oppose 1t. / believe solemnly that
the war inaugurated by Abraham Lin
coin and his cabinet is worse than
fruitless-that 1t will prove more dis
astrous to the North than to the South.
and will never accomplish its professed
objects. Already 1t has driven out oil
our Union four States, while others
stand In doubt.
Human governments were ordained
for the happiness and protection oil
society. II peace will restore and Be-
cure these blessings to the people o.
the United States, even though mum
Der OF their former associates have
gone OIL under new and independent
organization, in the name OF Heaven
let us raise our voice for 1t. Shall this
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bidding of a host OF fanatieal anG
cowardly editors, aided by IN army oil
4 greedy army contractors and public
! 1eeches stimulating an ignorant III OF
to denolnce and attack US as traitors
| and secessionlsts2
The Cabinet of Abraham Lincoln has
affected to treat all the seeded States
as still members of the Union. IL so.
surely they are entitled to all those
privileges which the Constitution gives
them, while they are also subject to
its penalties. Yet war in all its forms,
by land and sea, with oil its seventies,
has been levied against these States,
and the forms and most positive lin
its OF the Constitution, which is the
supreme law Of this land to the Presi'
dent and Cabinet as to the humblest
private citizen, have been steadily ant
contemptuously disregarded In its
prosecution. :"
But the infractions Of the Constltu
ton by these officials into whose hand,
the reins of government have passed.
have not ended here-tho invasions o.
personal liberty In our sister State o
Maryland have been such as to justlf,
alarm and almost dishearten those
VINO believed our free institution!
were not mere forms to be blotted GU
at the caprice Or tyranny Of our tenn
porary rulers.
Who can say, with the present wa
measures of the administration ant
the spectacle OF Maryland before us
how long trace OF constitutions
liberty will remain for the othe
States Of tho Union, and how soon
stern military despotism may usurI
tie place OF the Constitutional laws
Let us, as free men, stand prepared il
all lawful ways to arrest the inaugu
ration OF such a degraded condition O
affairs, no matter how plausible ant
specious may be tho plea in which it |
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