The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1862-08-20
The warfare upon the President.

stands charged, by the leaders ant
journals of his own political part,
not only those that are openly, bu
by those that are covertly Abolition il
their proclivities-with causing pro
traction of the war. The foundation
of this charge is. the fact that Mr.
Lincoln has been reluctant to permit
the use of the negro as hostile ele,
ment, in the way that these leaders and
journals have desired. A correspon-
dent of the Cincinnati Gazette---from
whose views the Gazette, when its at
tention is directed to the language,
does not dissent-puts the charge in a
form at once direct and emphatic:
mo one needs bc told that the Presidents
course has hitherto leaned largely to the pol.
icy OF the conciliation party; and there are
lew who are not now satisfied that but for
that policy, the war might by this time be
ended" ., .a ill.,. -. =. ,..'e' -. ...--
1.-The New York Evening Rost, treat.
ing upon the prospects of the war,
uses the following language:
s7''Eyen the warmest supporters Of the Fed
sral Government must confess that up to
thepresent, no progress has been made to-
ward extingushing the rebellion"
r. The New York Tribune, comments
ing upon the foregoing, says:
"Thc war has been aimless. We have
held aloit the Constitution, and sworn to re-
store the integrity Of the Union. A noble
political aim-if indeed it was an aim, and
not result Of some further aim. But we
have known all along that the Union was
impossible under the old conditions; every
thinking man sees the gigantic sin that for.
BIDS i; yet We have shut our eyes to it, in.
sis'ipg upon a merely political end, and gno-
ring the great moral responsibilities. l
And again, speaking more plainly,
the Tribune makes the following dec
laration: ......
s,"Unless the slaves are given to understand
and that speedily, that the Union wants their
services enough to give them liberty therefor,
then then the rebellion can neuer be put do,0n."
The fact that the President of the
United States, faithful to the oath he
took on entering into office, is desirous
to restore the Union as it was, is here
charged upon him as an offense. But
for this, the warwick has as vet
made no progress-might by this time
have been ended. But this does not
exhibit the full measure of the crimes
for which Mr.. Lincoln, in the journals
of his own party, stands indicted. IfI
no progress has been made toward ex-
tinguishing the rebellion, to say nos |
thing of future losses and expenses,
there IS o vast sum already standing
against him in the account: two hun,
dred thousand men and two thousand |
millions of dollars-things that, great
and opulent as we are, it is not easy |
to replace. If "every laboring man
is-.-as the Gazette informed us when
extending cordial invitation to the
negroes-"worth more than his weight
in gold to the country" and if white
man is worth as much rs a black one,
1t would take a good many figures to
express the vast aggregate to which
ne is required to respond. 'G
There is no doubt that this war
when it first commenced was under
stood to be for the restoration of the
Union by putting down those who were
arrayed in arms against the laws and
the Constitution. This * what it was
declared to be by the Government and
understood to be by the people. The
question in the beginning was: Shall
this rebellion be suppressed by force,
or shall itnot, and upon this point the
North was divided. There were those
who held, and, we doubt not, sincerely,
with the Cincinnati Commercial, that
"war for the subjugation of the Sece-
ders would be unwise and deplorable;"
with the New York Tribune, that "if
the Slave States, the Cotton States, or
the Gulf States only, choose to form
an independent nation, they have
clear right to do so;' and with the
Chicago Tribune, that elf this Union
Is to be dissolved, bloodless sepera-
tion is, by all means, to be coveted"
But war was determined upon--a war
for the restoration of the Union. This
was, or appeared to be, the sentiment
of. the majority; nor is there any rea-
son to doubt that Mr.. Seward, in his
letter to Mr.. Dayton, our Minister in
France, dated in April, 1861, when he
said that "the rights of the States,
and the condition of every human be-
ing in them will remain subject to ex-
actly the same laws and form of ad-
ministration,. whether the revolution
shall succeed, or whether it shall fail"
stated what at that time was the true
understanding Of the people and the
Government touching the end proposed
by and the policy to be observed in
carrying on the war. Congress also,
by a nearly unanimous vote, declared
that the war ID r,ot waoed sfs;p ony