The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1861-11-20
The Bitterness OF the AbOIitiOnists
Against the Administration.

The National Anti-Slavery Standard,
of n. York, has Cincinnati correspond
ent, who, from his letter Of the % inst,
We judge to be Rev. Mr.. Conway. We
Judge from the tone of this letter that
the radicals are very much out at present
with the Washington Administration and
doubt its loyalty. The following extract
from Mr.. Conway's letter shows where
the shoe pinches the Abolition foot:
"A great fuss is made over Holt, CIttenden
& Co, because they are for the Union. But
let us wait till these men are tried. 1t is easy
to be strong upon the stronger side, especially
when that stronger side leaps with SELF But
wait until the issue is direct between slavery
and the Union, as it will be, and mark which
of these comes out on the side of the Union
Indeed, it does not require very deep analy
sis to show that man who wishes to preserve
the slaves Of men arrayed against the Union
has already preferred rlavery to the Union. 1t
is a logical necessity. Consequently serious
doabts are making their way into many minds,
tchetler our Oicn Government is loyal. Can Gov
eminent be loyal which to day stands balancing
slavery against the life Of the nation and the
men who defend it? A member of Congress,
who had been lately at Washington, imploring
change OF pol cy toward slavery, told me, on
his return last Wednesday, that he had grave
doubts whether our Administration desired or
expected to preserve the integrity OF our Union,
or meant only to fulfill the formulas of war,
so as TO fulfill their constitutional oaths until
! the people, exhausted and convinced of the i'm.
possibility OF conquering the South, would or
der division! Meanwhile our anti slavery
memories-proverbially long-wil not fail to re-
member several facts; among them, first, that
unner this Administration, elected in the inter-
est of liberty, more fugitive slaves have already,
in six months, been illegally returned into sla-
rery, than under the eight years OF Buchanan
and Pierce put together. Second, that freedom
has received more wounds that rankle to-day,
than under any Administration ever known
among us. Third that the papers which sus-
tain the Administration in its policy toward
Fremont, involving freedom are :he lowest ard
vilest Of the Democratic press--such as had to
be forced by mobs into seeming loyalty; that
the first Republican President has to find his
counselors and sympathzers in such papers as
the New York HeraM. the Boston Post, the
Cincinnati Enquirer, and Valandghams paper
in Dayton"
These men will have it that the rcbcll-
ion cannot be put down without lberat-
ing the slaves, an acknowledgment of
the power of the Confederates and
the weakness of the Federal Govern.
ment, that probably had better not be
} made. The Administration do not wan
to make such confession, and, there
fore, on that account, as well as for thu
infinite mischief a proclamation of eman
cipation would inAict upon the who'll
country, resist the importunatc demand
of the radicals to make this war fo
freeing the slaves. And because the Ad
ministration will not yield this point t
, the radicals, they try to poison the pub
lie mind with the idea that the Admins
tration itself is. not loyal, and is support
E ed only by the yilcst and lowest of tn
, Democratic press!
. 1t is plainly to be seen that the mos
bitter and malignant enemies of the Ac
ministration will be the radicals of ii
own party, unless the President an
Cabinet yield to their Abolition demands
4 And when they do yield, should they b
) forced to the committal of the suicid;
: act, the death-knell of the Union an
: our present form of Government will hay
s been rung.-Cin. ENG.