The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1862-03-12
Tae L.0cOfOcO Lies which ;ll:ai ala
'-S ed the South into Rebellion.

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II is statement frequently made that the
! South was alarmed into it's present position
| by democratic newspapers and politicians o
the North misrepresenting the ends and pur.
poses of the Republican leaders. Unfortu.
natunately, those leaders, by their own avow.
ais, rendered "locofoco iies'' utterly superfu
Gus. They virtually warned the South that
| if they remained in the, Union, slavery
would be totally abolished utterly extermi
mated. I'm his speech at Springfield, Illinois
en- the l7th Of June, 1858, Mr.. Lincoln
made this memorable declaration: ..e
"We are now far into the fihh year since
policy was initiated with the ayowed object
and confident promise ofputting an end to
slavery agitation. Under the operation OF
| that policy, that agitation has not only not
ceased, but has constantly augmented. In
my opinion, it will not cease until crisis
shall have been reached and passed. "a
house divided against itself cannot stand.'-
I believe this Government cannot endure per-
manently halt slave and half free. /. / do not
expe.t the Union to be dissolved; ] do not
expect the house to fall; but do expect it
will cease to be divided. 1t will become all
one thing or all the other. Either the oppo
nents ofslayery will arrest the further spread
OF it, and place it where. the public mind will
rest in the belief that it is in the course oil
ultimate extinction, or tits advocltes will
push it forward till it shall become alike
law lul in all the s ates, old as well as new,
North as well as South, p Lincoln and Doug
las Bebutesl page |.
,Foula months after Mr.. Lincoln had made
the speech from which the above is taken,
Mr.. Seward, forgetting that this Union -par
slave and part lree--had continued to I'D
vance in prosperity, through three foufths Of
century, made the foiiowing declaration in
his speech, at Rochester: .5r l'ss
sees Thus, these antagonis istic system are con
tinually coming into closer contact, and scol
.lisien results. Shsllf tell you what this
collision mesns7 They who think II is acci
dental, unnecessary, the work Of Interested
fsnatical agitatorss and therefore ephemeral,
mistake the case altogether. u is an ire
pressible conflict between opposing and en-
during iorces and its means that the United
States MUST and WILL, sooner, or later, be-
come entirely slaveholding nation or entire
" free. labor nation. Either the cotton and
rice fields OF Louisiana, will ultimately be
titled by free labor, and Charleston and New
Orleans BECOME marts for legitimate merchan-
die alone, OF else the rye fields and wheat
fields Of MASSACHUSETTS, and New York must
again be surrendered BY their farmers to slave
culture and to the production Of slaves. and
Boston and New YORK become once more a
market for trade in the bodies and souls Of
men. 1t is the failure 70 apprehend this
great truth that induces SO many unsuccess-
ful attempts At final compromise betweenthe
slave and free States, and It is the existence
of this greatfact that renders oil such pfeten
ded compromise, when made, vain and ephe.
meral2's M 6a. H i.s.t,5 yij9i3,s Ia
Here was distinct and emphatic netice to
the South BY two great competitors for the
Chicago nominatioD, that the war on slavery
was to be. kept up by the, North until Il was
,verthrown il every State OF the Union.--