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

the supremacy of the Constitution, AM
to preserve the Union, with all the dig
nifty, equality and rights of the severa
! States unimpaired." 1".t.-'a
Nothing can be more obvious thai
this: that when war is prosecuted fo
the recovery of lost political condi
tion, nothing should be done by tn,
party prosecuting to change the issue
and especially nothing which can give
color of right to the resistance of the
other. The pretext of the South fol
rebellion was danger to their domestic
relations, To give truth to that pre-
text, by making war upon those do,
mestic relations, is to give an aspect Of
justice to the rebellion. The obvious
tendency of the course of the leaders
and leading journals of the Admins
tration party has been to produce these
results: 1, to unite the South; 2, to di-
vide the North. The effect is percep-
tible on both sides. But we do not
say these things upon our own author>
ity alone. The cooler and ADLER jour-
nails of the Republican party, few in
number, bear abundant testimony in
corroboration of our opinions. The
veteran editor of the Albany Evening
Journal, Thurlow Weed, Stewards
friend and adviser, upon this point
uses the following emphatic language:
"fhe rebellion, in its progress, but for the
fanatic zeal OF those who aided in precipita-
ting it, would have indicated the means by
which it could have been and should be
crashed. Slavery, by its madness, would
have brought about its own destruction.-
But in anticipating, and in attempting to
force events, instead of awaiting their devel.
opment, the best hopes and highest pros
poets Of the Union have beeu thwarted The
more than incendiary, the scarcely less than
internal spirit represented by Mr.. Sumner in
the Senate, Wendell Phillips in the Forum,
and the 1ribunes Of the Press, has united the
Southern people, and now threatens to di
vide the North. The speeches, lectures and
fulmina'ions from these sources have been
used by Secession leaders and journals to
aggrayate and intensity Southern hostility.
Instead Of having, as would have long since
have been developed. powerful minorities of
Union men in the insurgent States, we now
see men, women and children, banded to-
gether against us, fighting, as they believe,
for all that is hallowed by domestic relations
ard social ties"
We see in these charges against the
President the beginning of war
against him which is intended to lead
TO unconstitutional despotism. The
President sees it also, as is evident
from his declaration few days ago,
that, if the people desired it, he was
willing to abdicate. The people may
observe, if they will take the trouble,
that wherever Phillips and Garrison
90, the New York Tribune and that
part of the Republican press of which
it is the type and example, follow
The press, under the necessity of a
hollow profession of support to the
Administration, is not SO open in its
attacks as these professional agitators;
but the difference is in form only: sub
stantially it is the same. The Presi-
dent is doomed man. The fire is
and the poker is heating that
is to drive him out Of his seat-not ip
obedience to the wishes of the people,
but because he is in the way of those
who are determined, at all events and
hazards, to abandon the Union and
The Constitution, and turn the war in
to a crusade against slavery ENG.