The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1861-01-16

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The Republican party, and cay II in all
eandor and as q truth, IS an organization Is in.
sdeqaats TO restore ordeEresiA its own strength
or act in harmony on sny great msasurs OF ns.
tional health, and the restoration of the govern.
ment That party has within its organzstion
an element. much larger than the more con-
servativs men in It suppose, that is resolved on
revelation and vengeance. Fanatical, mischiev-
Gus. reckless. with = secret organization Off
own, feeling its stfongth and importaacs for
evil twin he wholly uneoh'rollable, and will
follow the bent fits own inclinations 7, pla-
ces its own perverted ceaseisnce, scared as
with hot iron" above law; and platforms a.
bove constitutions 1t has no object in its ex-
istence but that Of disorder, and no higher aims
than those Of exercising Gods vengeance as
they understand it. Wistwsuch no conserve
tive Republican can longer affiliate, as his own
ruin as well as that of his country must be the
Consequence. II Is no longer question ofmen,
but one Of country. Notone Of political STRIFE,
but Of war or peace. Peace on honorable terms
or war as a last necessity--a war which ifonce
begun. n, man can estinassa either its duration
or violence. w @ @
And what Tsay above Of Ohio and Kentucky
applies equally to all the border States, Indi-
ana, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Tennessee, Vir-
ginia, Maryland, Deisware rnd Pennsylvania
1t is on these States that we must rely on the ir
patriotism and discretion we must depend -
The extremes win unquestionably give us
trouble. As distance @lends enchantment to
the view,' sodoes L intensity imaginary griev.
auces Massachusetts and Vermont, where but
few ofther citizens ever saw slave or south
ern plantation, were the States, which original
ed this national gpandoras box, and the extreme
Southern States joined issue with readiness
Of which no border State dreamed. Massa-
chusetts will be the last State to concede any
thing in the North, so will South Carolina in
the South. They are responsible forthe issues
now before the country, and it will be left for
the other States, more central and more dis
erect, to settle them. And when say settle,
mean what Isay. This great negro question
forced upon the nation until it is shaking its
very foundation, threatening immediate disso
luton, if it is not slready accomplished has
now got to be settled on some terms before or
der can be restored or government proceed with
its wonted energy and power There is no es-
Gaping the question-but it must be met, and
it will call into action the coolest as well as the
most courageous ofour statesmen. Mems con-
sisteney must give way to their country--their
platforms to constitutional provisions their
Eambitios and lo~e-eE Il 1,e toasbe paslie veal.
W hen this happf hour arrives hastened by the
uprising Of the people, as it should be, we may
hope for brighter future. = W. saas'''e
What we have most to dread at present is,
an attempt to form two separate coniederacies
--one north the other south. dividing the slave
and the free States from each other, and thus
perpetuate hatred and Treason by embalming
them in Constitutional and Legislative edicts.
Is there any one but a wild fanatic with nerves
strong enough to contemplate such thing for
a moment? Let him look over the map and
trace the lines and the water courses. Let him
contemplate a people, unrestraned from their
youth up in their liberties, shorn of their glory,
disgraced in the eyes Of all nations, crushed
with the excesses OF direct taxation to support
armies, seized by the power Of law to perform
military duty, restricted in speech and in the
ballot, and you will begin to appreciate the hor-
rors OF two hostile onederaeies, such as we
would be compelled to establish
Better, far better, that each State, for the
time being, should fall book upon its own SOW
ereignty and territorial boundaries until a new
government couid be peaceahly, and from ne
cessity constructed. And to such point. I
regret to say, our nation is drifting at this time
with the rush Of a mountain torrent, while our
national Congress, where vast deal Of this
strife and bitterness has been engendered, sits
stitching and patching, able to destroy, bat I'm.
potent to save. ,-r -s.. gs-.ses
Be not startled at any folly that may DO COM
mitted north or south. L is ia the nature o f
things that such should be the fact Men let
loose from their ordinary restraints Of mind or
body, are subject to ebuitions of folly. This
must be expected. Acts that appear trivial to
those who are near enough to witness them,
become monntains OF monstfous size by the
time they travel few hundred miles, The
news boys have learaed that they can extract
more pennies from the pockets OF miser by
exciting nerves, then by drawing on his reason
Let none OF us therefore be led astray BY false
ranofs sent over the country bv lightning speed.
They are the inventions of men paid for their
treachery to common sense, not to common de-
cency. They fan the emhers of national strife,
by an abuse Of the Understandings Of men.
The question, not only OF the slave in the
South, but Of the free negro in the North, will
now have to be setlled--settled in peace if the
people will it, or settled in blood il peace is
condemned. The good sense Of every man can ;,
not but instruct him in the right path. We
have had party speeches enough Tor personal
purposes, we must hereafter look to the higher
ele ment OF true statesmanship. When the
Wilson's and the Summers were thrown up like
froth upon the muddy wave. the Webstsrs and
the Eyeretts srnk to the bottom. and the coan-
try is reaping the reward in sack cloth and ash
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Having by letters and otherwise been asked
what grounds intended to take in regard to
he impending troubles, have thus alluded to
them, holding myself at all times ready to treat
each question that may arise according to its
merits, keeping in view at all times the resto
ration OF our government, IL unfortunately 1t
should at the present moment, be swung out oil
our reach. We shall cling with q vigorous
hope to the good sense apd patriotic devotion
OF the American people; when they prove them
selves unequal the crisis, wS, shall despair in.
deed. q That we shall have q year Of serious
troubles and difficulties to encounter, have no
doubt, and for this offer you "The Criss,''
which will treat every subject with oil the firm
ness and candor the fearful occasion requires.
IfI should lay before my readers some start.
ling facts, they must not ehrrge it. 10 partisan
zeal, but TO public necessity A Jury can only
return a just verdict when all the facts Of the