The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1854-09-13
A Request from an Intelligent

H71.'. F. Whig ..aa .a0a
- We are requested by"A Whig opposed to
the organization of the Northern Parity =
to insert the following extract from the Au,
gust number of IIarper's Magazine: 49,,
""Union saving has for some time past
been by-word and a reproach. BY GER
tain class of editors and political haranguers,
it has been employed as base reflection up
on some ofour nobIest efforts for the perpet-
uatio, of our national strength and national
glory. Ii was taunt which barely spared
the memory Of Clay, and which haunted
the patriot Webster to his grave. Their
fears for the dissolution of the American
Union were charged with hypocritical cant;
their efforts for the ayersion of such ca.
larity were characterized as the acts ofun-
principled alarmists. But there can be no
mistake about the matter now That oui
national union, and long with it our proud
national existence, is in the most imminent
/ peril the blindest must see, the most stupid
must acknowledge. The proof Of this comes
not simply from turbulent Congressional de-
bates, or in1ammatory resolutions, or law
is in the tone of the press. Can any one be
blind to that attitude of fierce defiance 'Thich
is now assuming a form so seclionally dis
tnct? Can we 81 ut our ears to the furious
inyectives, the singing reproaches Of mean
ness and treachery on the one side, and Of
cowardice and fanaticism on the other--the
yindiclive taunts expressly designed to a.
| tba hittarnct cupfinp nj nRif ,Dl
impart 10 them a virulence which no recol-
lections OF a common ancestry, Of common
glorious history, can ever heal. ''" ''" a''"
"Tbe lover Of peace, of the Union, Of
compronsise--we will ltstill use the term, al.
though it has fallen into disrepute-might
see nothing formidable in this, if regarded
in itself or in its intrinsic weight Of argu-
ment. Its dread significance lies in the fact
that it is the sign of people aleady divi-
| ded, and whose hostile sections are begin
ming to hate each other with an intensity
that no more outward political connection
can repress. The South is saying things OF
the North which no men at the North, what
ever be their party ties, will bear. The
North is hurting back upon the South vim
dicitiye taants, which cannot be forgiven,
because they imply charges of what is even
worse than corruption OF blood, or any form
of political dshonor. He who does not see
this is blind indeed. We are already divi-
ded. The evidence is ss direct as that Eng
land and Russia are now at war. In fact,
we may we'll doubt whether there really ex-
lists between the hostile fleets on the Baltic,
as sore feeling OF personal and sectional
rancor as the press is now spreading be.
tween the Northern and Southern portions
of these United States. ,.., .,.i ,r., ...
"Who is to blame ior this most lamenta.
Bile state of things? 1t may not be.conduc-
tive to the great paciieation for whichevery
patriot should SO earnestly strive, to exam
inc TOO scrupulously the exact balance oil
ordinations and recrminations.a Let com
mon sense. let a knowledge OF history, above
all the worlds annals have we ever read ol
a case like this of national stnEr in which
one side was free from blame, while the
whole, OF even the great preponderanc Of
| guilt was on the other? We know that this is
I q very old and trte solution, butlite truths
/ are by no means of the least value. Some.
times. too, it requires more Independence OF
thought to state them, than is needed for
those assumed occult causalities on account
of which :hey are often neglected and cast
out of sight" r,a .s ,4#saass.a risar
We cheerfully comply with the request.
We are proud 10, DO 50, insomuch as the
gentleman bears, the name of one of tie
first Wings III Ohio commanding for his
talents and conspicuous for his learning, a
q There is deep seated-hostility among
the better part of the Wings to this North.
ern party" which the Fusion has ebgender.
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