The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1858-07-21

An 1OneSt AVOWaA Oh the tnteus
tons of the Republican Party
Slavery TO be Abolished i'm the
Southern States by the Northern
Majority in Congress.
If there is any paper in the Union which is
regarded as thoroughly orthodox in its Repub.
lican faith, and which, by its ability, immense
circulation and long service in the cause, is au-
thorized to announce its creed, it is the New
York Tibrme. That journal, in late article
upon Caleb Cushing's grafton at Tammany Hall
New York, on the 9th of July, says:
The controversy which he thus misrepre-
sents concernes Americans solely-Anlericans
NTH black skins, indeed bit tcho haze been through
their ancestors. considerably longer americans
than majority of the CeDaocrats ofHe free States
The ultimate question at issue is: Shall these
Americans be allowed the rights of men? or
shall they be treated as brutes and chattles
mere conveniences of other persons-with no
rights which white men are bound TO respect?
Before this rises the question: Shall this Ame,i-
ican Union be rGaHy land Of FREEDOM and equal
ity, or of bondage and caste, Of slaUe-glap and
cotles, Of t0Omdn-auc tons and children lOrencIet
JIOHt Htttf 0tffchfHy Utbtftcf diiu "
the distant Gotten fields to the music of their
chains? 1t is the old, eternal issue between JUS
tce and oppression, humanity and deviltry free
labor and fields cursed the sweat of unpaid and
unwilling toles, urged by the fear, or quicken
ed by the applications Of the lash. On this
great issue, which involves the honor the fame
and the fate Of our country, Calep Cushing de-
liberaely plants himself on the side of power, oI
10 rSa ohpsa of hoarv ip,o
sanctioned, but God. abhorEed crime"
The above pargaph is very noticeable and
suggestive, because it is candid confession oi
the sentiments and intentions ofthe Republican
party Let our readers and the public please
mark the manner in which it speaks of the ne
groes as being longer, and therefore, better
Americans" ethan a majority of Democrats in
the free States" meaning by this phrase that
portion of them who were born in Europe or
outside OF the limits of the United
States. The negroes are not Africans we are
assured, but they are "Americans, with black
skins" and should be put upon on equality with
the aohites. They are more worthy of respect
than the German or Irish emigrant, because
they have been "longer" AMERICANS Longer
domiciIed among u.s. After having enunciated
the doctrine of negro equality, yea, of their su-
periority as Americans" over the white emf
grants from Europe, the Tribune proceeds to
tell US what sis the ultimate question at issue"
Here it is; Shall the American Union be real.
ly land oflreedom or slavery? The question
is not about slavery in the Territories or the
District of Columbia but aobether it sltaH be abol-
1s1ed in the american Union, for that is the COM
prehensive phrase used.
Let no one after this avowal pretend to be
deceived in regard to the ultimate objects of the
Republican organization. 10 is TO aRac sluUsr,
in tte States eObeye exists; utRer the protection Of
State and local a,U, Nth aoticb no other conan,u.
nifty has the slightest right to interfere How sa
very is to be abolished in the "American Union
by means of the Republican organization of the
North, we are not informed by the Tribune, bu
we know it can only be done by an overthrow
of our Constitution, the destruction Of the Stat,
sovereignties and the consolidation of this coun
try into one great central felral despotism. L
that complexion must we come if the Republi
can policy is successful, and it can only be sue
cessful by long and bloody civil war between
the States, for it is not to be presumed tha
Kentucky, Virginia and other slave States
would allow Ohio or New York to dictate t
them in their internal concerns, in direct viola
ton of the Constitution and of their reserved
rights. ....
They would take up arms and fight to tn,
last extremity against this usurpation of tn
Republicans of the North, who, without thei
consent, would change the character of their lC
cal polity. The result would be that our Unol
would be drenched in blood and the sun of lib
erty would set in the Western Hemisphere
perhaps never again to rise.
We rejoice that the Tribune has thrown Of
the mask, and that the principles the Repuh
lican party are openly avowed to be an attac
upon slavery in the South, and its abolshmen
by us who live in the North, who have no NOR
to do with it than the Gar of Russia. Thou
sands and tens of thousands OF voters who hay
cooperation with the Republicans, under
mistaken impression as to their principles, wi
now abandon them, when they see their mon
strous and outrageous character.--Ch,. El5
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