The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1859-09-21
rhe Hnnd writing unon Ihe NaII.

All the signs Of the times unmistakaely indi-
cate the early dissolution Of the Republican or
kanizAtIon. tt is fast following its predeces-
sors to the grave Of Oblivion, and tie opposition
70 the Democracy will soon be known by an
other appellation. Its existance has indeed
been brief-its days few and full OF trouble.
Five years ago it came into power promising
rstrenehment and reform. Il was pledged to
advance the canse OF freedom and prosecute
slavery to its death--it promised to restore "the
government to its original parity and quiet all
dissention and strife among the people.
Has il been the means OF setting at liberty
single slave?
Has il been Of any advantage to the cause of
freedom?
Has il organized single free State?
Has it abolished slavery in single State or
Territory?
Has it made an effort to repeal the Fugitive
Slave Law?
Has it made an effort to abolish slavery in
the District of Columbia?
Has il made an effort to restore the Missouri
Compromise?
Has it made the promised retrenchment and
reform in the public expenditures?
Has 1t fulfilled single promise it ever made
to the people?
So far from this, during the five short years
Of its existence it has committed more crimes,
errors and solies-and been guilty of more in
consistencies, deceptions and scandals-eicva-
ted 10 office a greater number OF weak, ignorant
corrupt and unprincipled men than all other
parties have done in half century.
Its Representatives and Senators in Congress
voted against the admission of Minnesota and
Oregon, as free States, after they had large
surplus Of population, and after they asked ad-
mission under Constitutions endorsed almost
unanimously. by the popular voice of the peo-
pie. The first House OF Representatives they
ever elected spent the last week of its existence
in expelling several leading Republicans who
were proven to have received money for their
votes.
1t consumed nine weeks of the first session
of their Congress in elocting presiding officer,
at a cost to the people of $4,000. One Of the
first acts was to increase the per dien, Of mem.
bers Of Congress from So to S32 per day, and
in its whole career it has ever been for increas-
ing instead of diminishing the public expendi-
lures.
Claiming to be particularly friendly to an
equality Of political rights, it has labored, in all
the States where it has had the power, to place
the negro above the white foreigners from Eu-
rope; to give the former privileges and franchi-
ses which were denied to the latter.
,,2ns in the Territories Of the right to make
tbs .~n laws and institutions by vesting their
sole control in Congress, body in which they
have no representation. Claiming to be govern
ed by patriotic and American feeling, they
have always spoken of our brethren in the slave
States as if they were our worst enemies, in
stead of being citizens Of common Confedera-
cy, with whom we should cultivate the most
amicable and friendly relations,
To have stirred up strife, discord, i'll will and
bad feeling between the northern and southern
sections of our conlederacy, and more than
once, to make political capital, they have light
ed the flames Of civil war in Kansas. They
have by State legislation, sought to nullify and
resist the laws Of the United States, and thus
by producing collision between them, destroy
the finest and best political fabric the world has
ever saw. They have done the most serious
harm to the holy cause Of religion, to temper
ance and ether moral enterprises, by prostitu-
ting them to their base purposes and by hypo-
critically affecting friendship that was as in
sincere as it was perncious. They have deba-
sed and demoralized the clergy. converting
large portion Of them into political electioneer-
ers and their pulpits into party rostrums, to the
very great detriment of the public morals
They have prescribed in their elevation to office
talent, dignity and tried integrity, and have in
all cases given the premium to fUnaticism, big
otry, illiberality and cant. AS samples Of po-
ltical integrity they have given ms Matteson,
a Welsh Edwards and Bashlord; in that NOR
ais, Kallock and Hiss; in atesmanship and
courage, a Lane and Robinson and in religion,
Messrs. Rifleman Bcecher and Professor Sill
man, and the three thousand clergymen. With
such representative men and such principles,
and such inconsistency and corruption, it is no
wonder that the Republican organization is in
such state Of deeadence that promises its dis
solution. MiHersbwgh Farmer.