The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1856-03-12
The Man and Principles they
fought for.

insert the following article from the Quincy
l(Il.) Herald We wish cur readers of ali
parties 10 pause and reflect upon the danger
of elevating men, and continuing party in
power, holding such dangerous principles
! principles antagonistic to the peace and
prosperity of The Union which our iorefa-
theirs shed their blood to achieve, and which
the immortal Washington was SO much in
love with that be coDjured the people TO
trown dignsnty upon the first dawnlng OF
an attempt to weaken the attachment of
the people to it. Read and hand TO your
neighbOr, and ask him what he thinks of
John A Bingham, after voting for such
man, kuowing his disunion sentiments:
TIE NAN THEY HAVE ELECTED SPEAKER.
The black Republican know nothing par
ty, or faction from the Lorth, have finally
succeeded in electing Mr. Banks, of Massa-
chusetts, Speaker of the House. For nearly
eight weeks they have, and by nearly one
hundred and fifty ballotngs, recognized Mr..
B. as their chief. and designated him fully
and fairly as the great head of the black
| Republican party. And in doing SO, they
have made his sentiments their own, sccep-
ted his odious doctrines fully, and planted
themselves upon the platform which he has
laid down for hem. They have done So
not blindly--but openly and squarely, for
his sentiments were well known to every
member of that party, having been pro-
claimed by himself and by his friends upon
several different occasions on the floor OF the
House. During the progress of the ballot
tings, On one occasion be was asked If it was
true that in ii speech which he delivered iu
Maine, three moaths ago. he had declared
his Willingness to let the Union side?' He
replied. that in his speech in Maine, he had
said that there might be sueh state, of
things existing as would make dissolution
of the Union desirabeP The speech was
thereupon produced, and it was found to
contain the following reasonable sentiments:
although am not (said he) one OF that
class Of men who cry for the pelpetuation Of
the Unon, though am willing in a certain
state Of circumstances TO LET 1T SLIDE,
l have no fear for its perpetuation. But let
me say, ii the chief object Of the people OF
| this country be to maintain and propagate
chattel property in man in other words.
human slavery--THIS UNION CANNOT
fSpAND, AND OUGHT NOT TO STAND"
Ii this extract means anything--if it says
anything-it 10, that if the right Of the peo
pie of the slave States to hold the neg in
slavery is conceded any longer, ''this Union
cannot stand, and ought not to stand"
I'BenedctN NAfnold himself never uttered or
even conceivad more reasonable sentimen.
than that. Mr.. Banks then, is openly and
avowedly disuniunist, and with q full
knowledge Of this fact the black Republicans
and know Eothings have elected him speak
er of the House; and he is the first aVowed
disuuionist ever supported by any party 10
this country for nationa. office. But is he
merely disuuist--he is Know Nothing,
and be was known to be such by every
black republican, hypocriliGally profesSed
| friend of the adopted citizens. who voted
! for him. 1t can't be SAID that they were
deceived in him, and DIDN'T know he was
member of tie order when they supported
bin. They knew it welI-every man of them.
Only few d .ys before he was e cted, Mr..
Campbell Of Ohio, his particular friend and
supporter, got up in the House, in
the presence and hearing Of Mr.. Banks, and
OF all his friends, and said:
81 have supported that distinguished gen
tlemen Mr.. Banks, under the fall belief
lhat he is, AS AM-and am proud to de-
clare it--AN AMERICAN and in favor of the
leading PRINCIPLES OF THAT ORGANIZATION.
lie, (Mr. Banks,) openly declared such to
be his principles, when lnterrogated in the
last Congress, and know the fact from O.
ther Sources"
Mr.. Banks admitted it all. He had been
the leader and champion in debate of the
know nothing faction in the last Congress,
and had delivered the great speech Of tie
session against the foreign born citizens OF
this country. More than this, he had of
ten gone wit. Campbell, at the dead hour
of night, when honest men were asleep,
through t ack alleys and by ways up into
the Dark chambers OF a Hindoo council. and
had there plotted results kindred to those
which broke out in blaze at Louisville,
the willul and deliberate murder Of foreign
born men, women and children, and the de
structon OF their property. And this Is the
pary--the party that has elected this man
to the chair of The House--that appeals to
putting downt the Democrats!
But Mr.. Banks is not only dsunionist
and know nothng-he is also an ad vocate
of amalgamaiion, intermarriage between
the blacks and whites, and entertains the O.
pinion that the future may prove the negro
10 bs the superior race Of the two. In a
speech IL the house few days ago, he
said:
"Ir regard to the superiority Of races,
am impressed with the conviction that il is
to be determined only by capacity for en-
durance. So far as Ihaye studied the sub
| lject, it seems TO me TO be the universal law,
that the weaker is always absorbed and dis.
apeais in the stronger race. Whether the
black raoe of fthis continent, or any other
pant Of the world is equal to the white race,
can only be determined by the absorption
and disappearance Of one or the other; and
propose to wait until the the respective
races can be properly subjected to this phi
losophical test before give decisive an
swer." ea Va aate aa.t,atl
The great leader Of the black republican
knownothing party of the United States
dotsen't know which is the SUI erior race
can't really say whether he is superior to a
huge buck negro OF not! Such is the man
the enemies Of the Democracy have just g. |
Iecied to one of the most exalted stations
known the constitution! Fellow citizens,
wings, democrats, or white men Of whatever
political party. how do you like him. Or
rather, his opinions and PRINCIPLES as pro-
claimed By himself? Are they The princi.