The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1861-04-10
From the Pittsburgh Psst
MIR. L IncOIn and lIr. Buchanan.


No pablic, nan was ever more widely atfacksd
BY the Republican press, than was Mr.. Buchan-
an during the last few weeks OF his Admins I
ton. He was denounced as traitor to his
country, and false to his position, in regard to
the course which be pursued IN reference to the
seeding States,
Mr. ncoln has been President about mon tn
and the very policy pursued by Mr. Buchanan,
he has pursued, only more intensified.
Mr.. Buchanan asked for power to collect the
revenue on shipbcard, which the Republican
Congress refused him. Mr.. Lincoln and his
Attorney General have decided that the revenue
in the Southern ports cannot be collected on
shipboard according to law. -
Who would have thought month ago that
Abraham Lincoln, Commander in chief oil the
Army and Navy Of the United States, could
have decided to surrender Fort Sumter on the
demand of the Southern Confederacy? Fort
Pickens will 60 next, and so will all the South
ern iorts which have not already gone.
Mr. Buchanan said he had not the power to
prevent secession, and the Republican party in
Congress, refused TO give him the power. Mr..
Lincoln now pleads the want of power to pie.
vent secession and to enforce the laws. Mr..
Buchanan did no more. The difference is Mr..
Lincoln promised to do what he had no power
to do, and Mr. Buchanan did not The present
Administrator is weak in its ignorance OF its
powers.
The Republicans had the power in Congress
to pass the necessary laws and to provide the
necessary means for continuing the government
and they did neither. ts4
! Mr. Buchanan denied the right Of secession,
and Mr.. Lincon has done no more than deny
| it. -..~t-. .r... "a. ~. 4-I
Mr.. Buchanan never hal a particle more
power to reinforce the forts of the United
States in the South, or to recover, possession oi
them than Mr.. Lincoln has had ever since the
4th OF March and still has.
Mr.. Buchanan, under the advice OF General
Scott, the same adviser who now counsels Mr.,
Lincoln, concentrated al the available force o.
the army at Washington City, and Mr.. Lincoln
| found when be got there all the power of the
government ready to his hand.
Mr.. Lincoln by his acts has given an unques
tionable endorsement of Mr.. Buchanan's policy
in regard to secession. q, IT. g .raH44
The Democrats long ago declared that the
sectionalists of the North were the real dsun-
lonists They warned the country before the
election that the success OF party pledged to
sectional issues would end in the destruction o
the government The policy of Republicanisu
has discovered the Union and destroyed the
power of the government. The administration
will eventually agree to the dissolution Of the
Union They cannot carry out coercion, the,
will not compromise, and what else can they d.
but treat with the Southern Republic as a sepa
rate government. @
Mr.. Buchanan treated the Commissioners
from the South merely as private citizens. Mr.
Lincoln, through his Secretary OF State, has, a
least treated with them for an armstice, am
has communicated with them by letter in al
official manner. aAa lA
The Republicans ire fast settling down upoi
the fatal policy of LETTING THE UNION
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