Peninsular News And Advertiser (Newspaper) - May 30, 1862, Milford, Delaware VOL. 1. Vvi nnd Letter from May 20, 18C2. Mn. Though the white in- habitants of this city maintain a state of passive indifference and pensive quietness to and the military authorities and regulations of the United States as at present existing it is nevertheless visible to the most careless ob- Server that there is existing in the bosoms of the part of this class of Individuals a powerful though latent secession sympathy or Which will require on the part of the federal to use no harsher the exercise of a great deal of patience and forbearance to conciliate nnd Yet have no doubt of the ultimate accomplishment of such a as it is true that there is already of a Union element in existence Union sufficient to form the nucleus of the great party that is soon fo sweep from this part of the under Ihe and p care of the loyal arms of as a besom of the very ghost of The Union sentiment here is undoubtedly gradually and effectively gaining the ex treme proclivities of the oligarchs to the contrary ing- The great motive power in the of unionism seems to be a growing confidence among the people in the ability and readiness of the federal government to protect all such as espouse its by a hearty and cheerful return to A. great number of zens have already taken the oath of among whom is Mr. Mayor of the consequently the reins of civil authority have been returned to him by wiio was at unpointed military Governor of the place by order of Major of the 11th sylvania is acting Provost of in place of John W. of the First Delaware declined ing in that On Sabbath morning Inst the several churches of cities of Norfolk and Portsmouth opened for public and largely attended by citizens and The were con- I believe in each instance by regularly installed pastor of his respective The sentiments expressed from the sacred desk on the in the main very reserved and guarded as to the present yet I heard of one ministering a who made a downright Union prayer for the success of uur arms and the overthrow of When we recount the circumstances and incidents of the capture of in view of the fact of its approach being so strongly fortified as to be almost if not quite impregnable had they been properly we are justified in re- garding it as one of the greatest victories of the notwithstanding it was accomplished without the loss of so much as a single drop of blood by a Union In the capture of the place some three hundred heavy cannons have fallen into onr besides a erable quantity of which the rebels in their husty flight were compelled to leave behind without The said stores have been distributed among of the city at the instance of the U. S. ties which is universally considered by the whether citizen or as most commendable and Our Regiment is stilt quartered within tho city and doing garrison and gnard duty in the The health of the is very The Navy Yard at Gosport with all its were totally destroyed by 6re at the hands of the rebels before they abandoned the The as yon arc aware was blown op by her crew after the flank movement on Norfolk by our She is no longer the of onr but is numbered among tho thing? that and consequently is known only in No. does Mrs. Gen. Huffer obtain tnd other confederate luxuries since tho fall of Norfolk f No. 2. the War ment issued orders that Yankee shall not be performed by mental bands while in tho land of Pixie V A MAY 30. 1862. WHOLE Fur tUo tnd Emancipation in MR. EDITOR have noticed with pleasure that a animated sion has been going on in the Maryland papers on the subject of Mr. Lincoln's Emancipation plan and the course that should be adopted in that State ing it. I am glad that it is being discussed just now in several of the Border Slave because I am sure that ranch valuable information will be in this way Information is just the thing we and I have no doubt whatever that if the Presidents plan of EMANCIPATION by the States with COMPENSATION nnd COLONIZATION through the aid of the General Government can be fairly pre- sented to the people of onr little Com- they will ultimately reach a wise and sound conclusion respecting it. Only let us keep the subject out of the hands of demagogues and party The simple for us to consider is is IT FOR THK INTEREST OF DELAWARE TO EMANCIPATE HER SLAVES 1 Mark the which has been thus unexpectedly brought before is not whether it will be for the in- terest of South or or nor of the Republican nor of the negroes in this or of the negroes in Africa the to be decided is really of more importance us at than any of Is it for OUR interest to do this thing Mr. our dis- struck the nail on the head the other day when he declared that the wealth of Delaware would be increased by such an op- So think Mr. Editor From tho l direct or has-been the chief if not the only material resource of the Though not less than Fire Hundred Millions of Dollars have been spent in and sustaining that very much less than a tenth of that sum has been obtained in any legitimate No Direct Tax has been and No beyond a first eight per one of Fifteen has been and even that was but partially The Cotton Loan proved a grotesque and the Blockade would have rendered it less in any The Confederate Tariff has yielded next to for want of the wherewithal to buy from and because few vessels have been able to elude the vigilance of our blockading The cash found in and taken from the Union suries at New Orleans nnd with that on hand in the and in the revolted was hardly more than One and that vanished with the dew of the ing ou which it was The and Munitions found and seized in the Norfolk and Pensacola Navy the Baton Ronge and other Southern including many sands of muskets placed there by on and in all the forts below Fortress constituted the al outfit of the Tho less of Confederate ible into nothing and redeemable but which no one can refuse to receive as cash at any point within the sway of the Rebellion but at the peril of WHAT IS LIFE? BT M. It is stalling in n Going onward through the Sowing seed along the wayside Where at the fruit It is With some high or low Matching through the the season and is life weary Has thy heart no power to tell Art thou acting and well Many rosy paths are leading From the straight and narrow And the pilgrims Live and toil but for Duty's though dark with At golden gate will Opening to a land of sunshine all joys together Godey for OPEN The Richmond is and makes an honest confession in a very plain It says has been claimed that the people ofthe North are and that we of the South are This is a And it gives as an instance to prove thu assertion A battle is no sooner begun than we are notified by a despatch that the army of the enemy will tainly be killed or This we heard in regard to and nearly other battle which has been that 'the whole army of the enemy will certainly be killed or means that the Confederates will be defeated next But why choose a preposterous falsehood to con- disagreeable truth Why not the advantage is so far on our bat the is not decided the my's may come np Why not? Because in That case the rebel canse wonld be killed in a if the and rebels had not so industriously and effectually crushed ont troth in the there his and constitutes an indirect but very real system of general and gigantic But the system lacks no feature of Whoever within the so-called Confederate States is detected in still cherishing love for nnd fidelity to the is denounced as a and stripped by what is called law of all his happy if he escapes with his Whoever within that piratical despotism owes any one living in the loyal States or otherwise fairly presumed to be a is required by law to pay over the amount he so owes to the Confederate treasury and take its receipt in full he is to regard as ing the whatever his creditor may think of it. And any or other person having funds in hand which he has collected for a Northern or otherwise loyal is required by law to disclose the name of such the amount of his moneys or other valuables and pay over the designated of the Rebellion Every dollar's of loyal property discovered by the most rigorous though it be that of an infant whose Unionism is purely is thus sequestered and turned into steel and powder for de- struction of the American And slaves are nowise exempt from the general Every one of to whom ownership by a Unionist can be is eugerly pounced upon as lawful and either employed ly to aid the Rebellion or converted by sale into whatever can Up to this many more slaves have been taken from the few Unionists by rebels than have been spirited from the South by Abolitionists during the last forty All this evinces a terrible resolution to win at all more by the the de- impelled by the Who ought to pay or to lose these Two sand Millions Of those who have must The vehement patriots who vote to burn all the etc in the are the owners of precious little of it. The spectacle of the magnificent bonfires they decree will richly sate for all the consequent But those who prow the Cotton and own it may well be inclined to view the matter in a different The People and States must in any event be heavy sufferers by this Re- Probably no person now lives who will see the end of our paying the debt which U entails Tens of thousands who believe themselves who rich if their Southern debtors had been been plunged by this irretrievable nipt Lot us not consider here the anguish of the bereaved and hearted but the poverty and want into which this Rebellion has plunged them are legitimately part of the Never before was a precipitated from such a pinnacle of prosperity into such no abyss of Somebody must pay the cost of this fiendishly originated civil Who ought to pay it answer to the must be greatly influenced bj your conception of right and wrong of the If yon that the Nation forced the srates into the outraged them that they could manfully do no otherwise than on to be object to any confiscation of their to compelling so far as mav to jay the cost of the 011 er yon regard their Rebellion as yon can hardly resist the deduction that the rible sacrifices they have needlessly im- posed ou the country ought to be ly borne by themselves In other words those who fired the bouse over all onr heads ought to pny the so far as they If what shall prevent arson taking rank among the safest and commonest of spicy and stimulating amusements One strains anv hearty Unionist from porting the policy of consideration that you cannot confiscate without peril to the tottering fabric of Human Other property may be concealed from slave not long very well be Other property is passive iu ihe hands of its the slave actively promote his own and might even to end supply the evidence of his master's Oilier property is currently (I believe supposed to be shielded from irrevocable confiscation by the constitutional provision thai at- of treason shull work corruption of or except during the life of the person but no one supposes that a negro confiscated as the property of a traitor and thus set wonld ever again be available as ty to that his heirs and The simple that cation the existence of forms the chief ground of hostility to and denunciation of it. j also the St. which was stolen by the French and his Ram in our The Christian published nt of the hasty flight of the F. F. in search of the lant that did nny army leave a place with more expedition than did our army the venerable old town and We witnessed the burning of the bridge and and truly the scene one choly May we never again witness such wicked tion of At and around New the same vandalism has been displayed to an mous and the latest intelligence from Memphis and along the cates a like process going on by these desperate At New the published This destruction of property was terly unnecessary and uncalled Our dry which the whole federal navy could not carry were most of them beyond hope of A warehouse below the lately put in use by Mr. was burnt on because of the presence of a little cotton which belonged to a Spanish house bnt besides this there were two hundred hogsheads of the properly of a lady in Two of the barges of the Opelousas Railroad were also Rone of these sacrifices were ry. The cotton belonged to neutral and was safe from There could been no apparent reasons for its Not only but Mr. Thayer asked for time to roll it this was denied hope to hear of no more such Capt. carried the to the authorities to with the in the course of the against such giving him the assurance that private properly should be which that pompous official replied that it was onr own and it did not concern guess Butler has ere this this fellow better replied to him fury and madness literally hacked him to pieces with then threw him overboard half vile wretch says that a ship gave him a broadside which sunk him He thin set her without making the feeblest attempt to rescue his wounded and An officer of one of onr vessels boarded the Gov. Moore with the intention of putting out the bat so far had the flames progressed that he was obliged to leave 1 He reports that the decks were covered with the dead and some of whom were already in the flames writhing in their last It was impossible to save thu poor and they burnt many of them In a Rebel The following extract from the speech of Parson nt the Academy of in New give our ers some idea of prison life and scenes in rebeldom I shall never while my head is above the scenes I passed through in that I recollect there were two venerable Baptist clergymen Pope and Mr. Mr. Gate was very from the and unable to eat the miserable food sent there by the jailer nnd deputy man whom I had denounced in my paper as guilty of forgery time and time able of the thieves and scoundrels that head this rebellion in the The only favor they extended to me was to allow my family to send me three meals a day by my who brought the n I requested my wife to send also enough for the two old One of them was put in jail for offering prayers for the President of the United and the other was confined for throwing up his hat and cheering the Stars and Stripes as they passed his borne by a company of Union When the basket of had in and any scoundrel when the basket i impress nil the in the of private citizens To this the Governor curtly but decisively attempt to seize the our citizens is directly at variance and h opposition clared policy of tlic which makes it the duly of every citizen to keep and bear of the militia from for while 1 notify yon agents have no lawful your private and you the means of self- T must unjoin upon you in this as an act of the highest and that yon dis- cover to the proper state authorities nil public muskets or within your and of to the state all the the property of which can DC When is remembered Union meetings have been held in various parts of ihe Union men nrc in arms in the mountains of North Carolina as in the mountains of it is not difficult to see the drift of Mr. Davis lias gone too North The Columbia South writing of the conscription act of the re- bel remarks is a great and mighty stride to i military If be utely necessary to save us from a con- quest by the we arq willing to submit to but we fear the public mind prepare itself for a great change iu our DANIEL ox TIJE RE- VERSES OF New York Sun says that one of the brave Irishmen who were the Phoenix in 1858-9, for which he was imprisoned by the English lectured on evening at Irving New on the re- verses of Ireland to a much interested audience. The lecturer was introduced by Mr. and greeted by audience with the most enthusiastic would bok II the pie and the bread to see if there was nny billet or paper concealed there communicating treason outside Unionist to the old and returning thanks for the welcome he had nt once began upon the history of ing that although three hundred years had off one's nose to his j went out again the same ceremony was The people of New Orleans are now and to discover whether I had have been for in a most slipped any paper in in any starving and will very likely have The old man Gate had three sons in to be fed before long by One of to keep them from and i a most and worthy member some of the very minions engaged in this work of be glad lo ob- tain a mouthful of the sugar and which they are so wantonly engaged in day of retribution will assuredly iniquity will receive their own reward in this to sny nothing of thut which may be their portion in the world to A correspondent savs The river at New Orleans was with ships on and all along the vee were burning no less than eighteen vessels being on Ore at one and the rebels nerc firing others as fast as they could apply the Such vandalism never was heard of. The at- been no rebellion which was born iu sustained by Ein and and be- bad would have cause that can only be The its readers to back to the old habit of the truth and using moderate they will never do that till they return to of Southern loyalty to the i merchants is if that be within ths compass of The Rebel leaders are troubled with no no no Before all they mean to and they do whatever seems conductive to that Of if they do all that they have done will The Two Hundred and Fifty Millions of Dollars owed by them to Northern the of which indebtedness was one chief impulse to have been paid over to Mr. Jefferson Davis Company for the destruction of the and will never be paid to the rightful The property of every discovered Unionist in the eracy will have been confiscated and ex- pended in the same The loval States will be required to pay the whole of our vast public after been robbed of some Fonr Hundred worth of Southern stock in Southern and Southern Real Estate of beneficent enterprises in the Such is the fortune of and i if defeated we must submit to it. I It is urged that which is meant render the war On the it would bring it to a speedy and final If every negro in the South were this day the Rebellion wonld have no motive for another hour's protraction of Southern want and now so nearly Were even half the present slaves set free a tion the perpetuation of the system would thereby be rendered Hence the stubborn obstinacy with which Confiscation is the Rebellion wonld seem on the eve of collapse and overthrow Without without without without a naval ing lost its chief nearly all its and the better portion of its two States strongest in fighting Virginia and would seem that its armies mast soon waste away and its baseless fabric into ruin so strong is my in the superiority of moral to physical power that I venture here the prediction that tho Union speedily and boldly with or Slavery will yet defeat and destroy the Union HORACE More tho work of destruction pecs But suppose the loyal States i on with the and the Rebellion be pat down I be thon oar is evidently the to they hare adopted Finding The and Fifty selves impotent to protect the debts to Northern j from the tread of onr advancing n dead loss at they have determined to DETERMINED IT returned from New tells a good of It sec IBB that the the commanders of nnd French vessels of near at hand had to the This wae to After Captains re they informed that it for him to to take the no wooden coold them or replied tent here to the You rony be hot I came here to New pass 7 shall it on ony Some of the debtors they cannot take with them TO bankrupt those who were not j in their hurried whenever onr have generally been mode so by the army or make their appearance oral least will profess to j At on the The Railroads in which when Gen. force's capital WM so largely invested that the rebel commander set wiM have been pretty well stripped of I fire to the in the rolling stock by without was of which the of in Rebel hot not content with they the an immense with they were come 18 nr 20 worth principally to of but of them arc reported by of wnc thc known one of the line of packets between Baltimore will have been to impede tho advance of the Union Tlie in which Northern money in- rested or deposited will hare been disemboweled end np We tholl owe One te ft Notion re hare lost sad Hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of property was wantonly Gen. iu his official announcing the taking of strong terms to the dis- and of the rebels in placing torpedoes iu such positions as to onr such a mode of warfare is nothing more nor less than deliberate and is not by the laws of war among civilized It really seems that those who hare entered into this men and as completely been possessed with the spirit of ism as were those we read of iu the It is not towards the Union men alone that this spirit is as already bnt there is a recklessness of life among even towards their own which is shocking to human ture At the of Pittsburg in their hasty they had culty in finding nnd it is recorded as a fact that when the question was presented whether they should leave their munitions it was deliberately decided to suffer their soldiers to the many of whom no doubt died in have been saved if promptly at- tended to Such savage conduct wonld not have been displayed by any other people than those who could have been induced to engage in so unholy a war as Another characteristic of this lion was shown in the late battle nt New One of the rebel boats was chich wag commanded bv a Beverly formerly of United States The following statement of the conduct of this demon is Touched for hy the correspondent of the New York Herald Beverly late of United States is now a prisoner on of the In the ment of he ed the steamer the stales that the ficht was one of unparalleled The People of fired a stand of at hit ran where fifteen men e-d thirteen of men were killed by one man and himself alone Previous t-i ficht bit in pome hr in hit of the Baptist who was there for having no other crime than that of refusing to stretched at length upon the with one ness of a piece of carpet under him and an old overcoat np for a in the very agonies of unable to turn from one side to the His wife came to visit bringing her youngest child with which was but a but they refused her I put my head out of the jail and entreated fur to let the poor woman come as her band was They at last consented that she might see him for the time of fifteen As she came and looked her husband's wan and emaciated face and saw how rapidly he was she gave evident signs of and would have fallen to the hereditary Her had attempted to crush her by every species of both legal and illegal injustice and but the recuperative power of the Ration had curried her torn and true to The speaker sketched briefly bnt the many attempts of Ireland to her and the orators poets of the people in each He ed that not a year had passed since the disastrous attempt of in which some protest had not gone forth from the Irish either in their old country home or in these United against the fiat which had been issued for their de- He confine himself particularly to the movement of 1858-9, called the The hillside the traitorous informations carried to the the ar- rest of all suspected of connection with the the lengthy trial iu a crowded before packed rushed np to her and Let me have the nnd then she sank down upon the breast of her dying nimble at first to speak a single I sat by and held the babe the teen minutes had the officer came in an insulting and tory manner notified her that the inter- view was to I hope I may never see such a scene again and yet mch cases were common all over Reaction in North It is refreshing to see that ut least in one southern state there are limits be- yond which the unscrupulous tyranny of cannot go Davis and his confederates without meeting The news from North Carolina this morning shows that there rulers have had enough of the despotism which was originally imposed upon them against their consent nnd fully expressed When was captured by is nothing to these The trial so far as he was in his sentence to ten years bnt at the end of six in consequence of a change of ministry and some political he with his companions was set at He acknowledged having been one of the Phoenix that from the charge of being a secret society and again pledged his life to deliver his country from the tyrant yoke which now oppresses mense applause Ireland's hopes are row better founded than ever before since the Saxon planted bis foot on her She is now better organized and more united than she has ever before two hundred thousand of her sous are now becoming trained soldiers in the cause of the all of whom have longing hearts to turn their swords to retrain the independence of their native If England becomes hostile to this eral it was reported that Mr. Mayor of in the came to see the Mr. Respess was hereupon by agents of Davis in the hurried off to Richmond in irons and thrust into a This outrage created great becoming half a and cren if she does when this war for the Union is there will be enough Irishmen in the United States logo over and raise such a revolution in Ireland as sweep away from her soil every trace England's Such opportunities of excitement in the state; the Convention i been afforded to any enslaved which was in session at nation as arc now within Ireland's An J r and a on her part to take tage of them will justly win for the world's In terras of eloquent the speaker referred to Mr. John O'Mahoney and Col. Corcoran us the leaders of Fenian Brotherhood and tbo movement in this names were greeted by the with prolonged Carolina will not In Mr. in his retreat to the eotton Mr. A. M. the nor will Governor Clark permit tended bnt real author ed Governor Clark to demand the re- lease of Mayor and this being the Convention sent a committee of their own body to repeat the This time the release was effected and it is said the Committee informed Davis that he men make DO more arrests in North Nor did the matter end here 1 states more troops to leave But roost significant of all is the proclamation of Governor Clark ihe North dated April 1862. and published in Ihe Standard of April 26. In this the Governor notice that W. S. he will county in the Mate to if of the recent attack in the Dublin lion upon Mr. whom he warmly Mr. John O'Mahoney was loudly called referring to of hy Mr it wac which be with than The then broke with for IN SPA PERI
