The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1862-06-11

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all your brawling and howling for free
speech, free homes and free niggers.
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RGg~ The Christian character of the
majority of the early settlers of this
country, is matter of recorded histo-
ry. They were not the men to deny
the gospel to any human being. The
Indian and African both received at
teution, and both were instructed in
the Christian faith. But while they
labored for the moral elevation of these
children of barbarism, they refused to
admit them to privileges of citizenship.
No morbid sentimentality, upon the
subject of human rights, could induce
them to overlook the dangers into
which they might precipitate them
selves, by comforting upon savage n en-,
or. even the half-civilized, equal privi-
leges in the Government of the coun.
try; believing, as they did, that the
perpetuity of the free Institutions they
hoped to found, would depend, not up>
on any magic in the mere possession Of
freedom, but in the intelligence and
morality of their pesterity. And,
when adopting the Constitution, (which
was to be a perpetual bond Of Union
between all the States they deliber-
ately excluded the indians from citi-
zenship, and forever fixed the Negro
in State sof servitude.
Slavery, under the Constitution, was
made strictly State institution, and
as far as the nation at large were con-
cerned, it was forbidden fruit" For
a great many years all went on peace
full and prosperous-the Slave States
and Free States living in perfect har-
mony, and all advancing with great
rapidity in all the elements of national
greatness and power. But at length
the serpent of Abolition entered our
Garden of Liberty, and beguiled the
inhabitants into sin and ruin. From
the day Abolitionism put forth its hand
from New England, in disobedience to
the commands of the Constitution,
from that day briars and thorns have
been springing up, whereves the ser
pent's trail has left its slime; and the
ruin now resting upon our Eden is
traceable, directly, to those who, adopt
ing abolition sentiments, taught trea-
son to the Constitution in reference to
the institution of slavery.
Abolitionism first taught the trai-
torous sentiment that there was a
"Higher Law than the Constitution"
to be obeyed in civil matters;
Abolition Legislatures first raised
the standard of revolt, by attempting
to annul Constitutional provisions and
Congressional enactments;
Abolitionism first proclaimed that
there existed an ''irrepressible conAict"
between the Northern and Southern
States--that the Union could not en-
dure part slave and part free;
1t is Abolitionism which has armed
brother against brother, and State
against State; faa sds .g-s q
Abolitionism has crippled our indus
try, wasted our resources, devastated
our towns and cities, made desolate
our homes, and brought widespread
confusion and disaster upon the ma
tion;
Abolitionism has made the fields of
the South fields of blood, and the
homes of the North houses of mourn
ing; ,asst. nssa 80
The black and bloody hand of Abo-
litiunism is upon the throat Of the ma
tion, and we must break its power or it
will strangle us. ,4 e.fa o'
Senator Carlisle, the Union Senator
from Western Virginia, spoke a truth
patent to the whole nation, whell he
said: "Jeff Davis seems to be running
two Congresses, and the one in Wash
ingtsn Is doing his cause by far the
most GOOD" a.i.11 q
Thad. Stevens, the leader of the
Abolition forces in one branch of Con-
gress; and Charles Sumner, the leader