The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1861-03-13

iheu' IN an aItitule OF HOSTILITY To slavery!
The answer is. in the first place, that twill
certainly lead to the extinction Of the system
You may destroy the oak as effectually by
girdling it asby cut ingit down. The North
are well assured that If they can circumscriba
the area OF slavery. ifthey can surround it with
a circle of non slayeholding States, and prevent
1t from expanding, nothin- more is required to
secure its ultimate abolition Like the Scor.
pon grit by 6re,' il will plunge its iangs irto
us own body, and perish. T. therefore, the
South is not prepared to see her institutions
surrounded by enemies, and wi her and decay
under these hostile influences, # she means to
cherish and protect item, il is her bounden du-
ty to resist the rey0l ton which threatens them
with ruin. The triumph OF the principles which
|. ncoln IS pledged 10 carry ont is the death
kneli of slavery.
In The next placeSthe state Of the Northern
mial which has produced ,hi> revolution can
lot be expected TO remain conteHt with its
present victory. /, will hasten to other tri-
umphS. The same spirit which has p-evarica-
ted with the express provisions of the Constiu-
tion, and resortel to expedients TO evale the
most sacred obligatinns. will not hesitate for
moment to change the Constitution when itself
10 possession Of the power. 1t will be only
consistency to harmOaize the fundamental Law
OF the Government with its chosen policy, the
real workings fits life The same hostility
to slavery Which a numerical minority has i'm
pressed upon the Federal Legislature, it viii
not scruple to impress upon the Federal Con-
sG'ution. Ii the South could be induced to
submit to Lincoln. The time, we corhlentlv
! predict, will come when all grounds of coatro
verSY will lie removed in relation to fugitive
4 slaves by eynunping the proyision under which
! theV are claimed. The p,il,cipIe is Mt work
4 and entbrored in mower whose inevitable ten
|dency IS to secure ttis result, Let us crush
I the sernent in the ego
From tb.se considerations it IS obvions tbat
notbng more nor lres.i, ,t stake ;nibi, contro.
yersv iban the very lie of the Sonth The
reol ouestion is wLeiher she shall ba nolit;callv
ann;bilatcd We are NOT strnyolino for fleet;ng
| and tpmnorarv interests We are strnoglin@
/ or onr .yerv he;ng And none know hettnr
! than the Genuhlican marty itself that Il we
snhm;t 10 their new tvne of government onr
! fate as slaveholdinp is foreyer sealed They
| have already exalted in the prospect of this
olorious eonSumatiun. They boast that thew
! have hid a mine which nnSt Ultimately ex.
! Made in onr ntter ruin They are slnpinq
songs of victory in advance, and are confident.
I w anticinatinr the an ncious hoar when they
! shall have nothing to do but TO return to the
field and burv the dead,
I The sum of what we have said is briefly
! this. We have shown the cors, s,itutional atlitude
o(tbe Government towards slavery il one of ab-
soluie mentality or indifference To the moral
and political asnects of the subject, We have
Shown IN the next place. that it is hereafter to
take an attittde of hostility: that it is to rem.
! resent the opinions and feelings g exclusiyelv oI
the North: that it is to become the govern
ment ofone section over another: and Il at The
( South, as South is to sustain no ther relation
I to it but the duty of obedience. ..s
| TGis is a thorough and radical revolution
It. makes a new Government-it propose. new
ard extraordinary terms of Union. The old
! Government. is AS eomp'etelv abolished as i
the neople OF the Upiied States had met in Can
yention and repealed the Constitu,ion Il is
! frivolous to tell US that the change has been
made through the forms Of The Constitution
! This is to add insult to injury. What signify
! forms when the substance is pone? OfWhat
value is the shell, when the kurnel is exlracted?
| Rights are fLings. aud not words: and when the
| things are taken from us it is no time to be
uibbling at phrases. If o witness under oath
| designedly riyes testimony, which though lit
erally true. CONVEYS a false impression. is not
he guilty OF perjury? Is not his truth a aliep-
| Temures kept the letter of his promise to the
garrison of Sebastio that if thew would surren.
! derapo blood should be shed, butdid that save
| him from the scandal of treachery iu burryine
| them alive? No man objects to the legality OF
the process of Mr.. Lincoln's election. The
objection is to the legality of that to which he
| is elected. lie has been che1en, not to admin
ister, but to rcyelutionze the government
| The very moment he goes into office, the Con-
\ stitution OF the United States, as touching the
| great question between North and South is
| dead. The oath which makes him President
makes new Union. The import of secession
/, is simply the refusal on the part Of the South
to be parties to any such Union. She has
not renowned, the Constitution which ou1
athers framed She would have stood by il
Iforeyer. But as the North have substantially
abolished it, and taking adyan age of theiI
numbers have substituted another in its lace
which dooms the South to perditon surely she
4 has right to say she will enter into no such
4 conspiracy, The government to which she cor
! sented was Government under which she
might hope to live. The new one presented
! in its ulace is one under which she can only
4 die. under these circumstances, we do no
see how anY man can question eitherthe right
Ieouspess or the necessity of secession. The
Il South is to shut un TO the duty of re;ectins
4 these new terms ofalInion. No people on
! earth. witbontfiulic al ihfatuation. can organize
la Gov .rnment to DESTROY them Ii is too much
j to ask man to sign hrs own death warrant
IL. We wish to say a few words as to the DO
lev of the 'slayeholdIng States in the present e,
mereencv. Eu n.f - sr..
+ We know It to be the fixed determination o