The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1857-01-21


va, ,T1e ,Senats hauing under consideration die mo
ysidh % print the ARntIal Message from hs Presf-
ldNsof tbe United States---fa ~
Mr. RUGH said: aa
Mr.. presidents: Il is new position for me
to OTsgyhsrs Oreisewhere, that ! should at
tempt defense Of the present Chief Magistrate
Ag6ustsp personal impuations. do not tstand in
the relation Of confidence to him. / never re
,sseyed asfEyekat bis hands, and never solicited
:ofe ID which had any immediate or individual
Interest. rise only to defend him as would
defend the huinblest citizen Of the Republic a.
'Eainst concerted and, as it seems to me, un-
founded series Of accusations
.saMy colleague Mr.. WADEl asserts that the
President has employed libelous terms in speak
ing Of large number of our common constitu-
sents who voted for Colonel Fremont at the last
election, Ifthis charge were true in any sense,
I,shouid unite with my colleague in the con-
domination he has pronounced; for although |
would have deplored the election Of Colonel
Fremontas the greatest calamity that could be-
fail the American people, feel bound to render
my tribute Of respect to those honest, patriotic,
but as think misguided, citizens of Ohio who
voted for him. The paragraph upon which my
colleague based this accusation is one which |
nov send to the Secretary's desk.
The. Secretary read it as follows; - .a.
s1sOur institutions, framed in the spirit of con-
fidence in the intelligence and integrity of the
people, do not forbid citizens either individually
Uraassociated together, to attack by writing
speech, or any other methods short of physical
Iorce, the Constitution and the very existance of
the Union. Under the shelter of this great lib
erty, and protected by the laws and usages Of
the Government they assail, associations have
been formed m some Of the States Of individuals
who pretending to seek only to prevent the
spread of the institution Of slavery into the pres
ent orfattlreiRcohate States of the Union, are
really inflamed with desire to change the do
mestic institutions ofexisting States. TO accom-
pishi their objects, they delicate thcmselc to
the 'odiouS task Of ofdeprec;ating the Government
Organization which stands in their way, and OF
calumnating, with indiscriminate inyectiye, not
only the citizens Of particular States, with
whose laws they find fault, but all others Of
their ielow-citizens throughout the country who
d9not participate with them in their assaults
upon the Constitution, framed and adopted by
our fathers, and claiming for the privileges it has
secured and the blessings it has conferred,
the steady, support and grateful reverance Of
their children. They seek an object which they
we'll know to be revolutionary one. They
are perfectly aware that the change in the rela-
tive condition Of the white and black races in
the slavchokuig State, which they would pro
mote, is beyond their lawful authority; that to
them iti a foreign object; that it cannot be eff
fected by any peaceful instrumsntality of theirs;
that for them, and the States of which they are
citizens, the only path to its accomplishment is
through burning cities, and ravaged fields, and
Slaughtered, populations, and all there is most
terrible in foreign, complicated with civil and
<AeFyiie war; and that the first step in the at
tempt is the forcibe disruption of country en-
bracihg in its broad bosom degree Of liberty.
and an amount ofindividual and public prosper
ity, to which there is no parallel in history, and
substituting in its place hostile governments,
driven at once and inevitably into mutual de-
ynstation and fratricdal carnage, Transforming
thcnow peaceful and felicitous brotherhood into
q vas permanent camp of armed men, like the
rival monarchics OF Europe and Asia Well
knowing that such, and such only, are the
means and consequences Of their plans and pur-
poses, they endeavor to prepare the people of
=
thing in their power todeprive the Constitution
and the laws Of moral authrity, and TO under
mine the fabric Of the Union by appeals to
passion and sectional prejudice by introduc-
trinating its people with reciprocal hatred, and
by educating them to stand face to face as en-
emics rather than shoulder to shoulder as
friends" 3
Mr. UGH. Mr.. President, it is impossible
that this paragraph should apply to the members
of the Republican party, if, as now asserted
they do not aim at the abolition by Congress Of
slavery within the States. II is directed against
those who hold that doctrine. It refers to the
men whom the Senator from Massachusetts,
(Mr. WILSON, and the Senator from Maine
MFR FEssESDEN,] themselves have denounced
The President proceeds however, to speak Of
another class Of our citizens, with which class
these gentlemen claim fellowship:
Itis by the agency of such unwarrantable
intereraHce, o foreign and domestic, that the
minds Of many, otherwise good citizens, have
80 inilamed into the passionate condemnation Of
the domestic constitutions of the southern States
as at length to pass insensibly to almost equally
passionate hostility towards their fellow citizens
OF IiOse States, and thus finally, to fall into
temporary fellowship with the avowed and act
i've enemies Of the Constitution. Ardently at
tachcds to liberty in the abstract, they do not
stop to consider paractically how the object they
would attain can be accomplished, nor to reflect
that evenG the evil were as great as they deem
II, they have no remedy to apply, and that 1t
danbe only aggravated by theiryolence and un-
constitutional action" .si9n;o eaEl sldl.
ghatl paragraph inimediatly follows the one
which was read from the Secretary's desk But
thd Prksidentldoes not pause there; he proceeds
to ia third paragraph, in these words:
"Ieonhdently believe that the great body of
those who ihconsiderately took this fatal step
are sfDnerely attached to the Constitution and
the Union. They would, upon deliberation,
shrink with unaffected horror from any con
scious act Of disunion or civil war. But they
have snteTed into path which leads nowhere
unlessit be to civil war and disunion, and which
has no other possible outlet. They. have pro-
ceSaeSR thus far that direction III consequence
Of the successive stages of their progress hSring
consisted Of aseries Of secondary iiss,les, each
of.wkich protested 10 be- confined within Con-
stitntional and peaceful limits, but which Mt
tshptsd Indirectly what few men were willing
t0do directly; that is to act aggfcssiyely against
tAg topssitudonal rights Of nearly ono half 'ef
The thirty-one States" MI sgs@s so3 NV I,
In effect, therefore, the President Expresses
hisopihion that, although these gentlemen were
acsnatsa by honest motives, although they were
attached to the Constitution and the Union
and he pfououccs upon them as HIGH 4 aeulopinm