The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1862-04-02

ed in the rear by the Abolition enc
mics Of the Union, In the pulpit and
in the press they are trying to tone up
the public mind to their desires. They
are making frantic ezertions to inAu-
ence the President, who heretofore,
upon important occasions, has check
mated their plans. Let the people
look to them closely, or the Abolition
consi,irators will succeed in their un-
FAilowed and unpatriotic purposes
They are grossly hypocritical. In the
first months after the fall of Sumter
they professed to be for the Union and
the Constitution, but the mask long
since fell from them, and they now
stand openly arrayed against the re-
construction Of the one and the resto-
ration Of the other. Those who have
been guilty of this deception, and
whose opposition to the Union is now
confessed, have been the loudest in de-
nouncing Northern Democrats, who
have always been and are now for the
Union, as traitors.
One of the best exposures that has
been made of these anti Union, Abo-
lition schems is contained in the re-
port of the minority of the Committee
ON Territories in the House of Repre-
sentatives. They say of Ashley's bill
to strike out eleven States from the
Union:
"The Constitution is imperative In requir-
ing that Congress or the United States shall
guarahtee TO every State in this Union re-
publican form OF government and protect
each Of them against invasion and domestic
violence. But this bill, at single blow,
strikes out the existence and names Of eleven
States Of the Union. II is virtually an orai-
nance Of secession, by which the hitherto 10y.
al States sccede from the eleven. 1t consum.
mates the work done by the rebels, but which
they were too feeble to accomplish. 1t propos
es to extend a helping hand to them just al
the time when their failure is manifest. The
rebels, in their Jolly and weakness, vainly at
tempted TO destroy. But the discovery ii
now for the first time made that what one OF
even elevea States could not do by reason OIL
their weakness, a greater number OF States
by reason OF their greater strength, can &C
conplish by most easy and simple process
"The bill strikes down the Constitution
dissolyes the Union. and puts an end to the
Government. But this bill does not stoI
with the legal death and destruction Of The
States and State governments; but, with ar
unforeiving and relentless spirit, proposes tc
pursue the inhabitants OF those States out
side Of the Constitution and the Union, eman
cipates all their slaves at once and forever
seiSes and takes into possession all their lands
to be leased out to negroes, while even tht
privilege Of becoming lesseeS and tenants is
in most instances. denied to the white man
1t proposes to govern them by laws enacted
by q few irresponsible men sent among them
and not selected or chosen by them. Anc
after their State govern ments. Constitutions
and laws are blotted out dishanchised ant
stripped OF all their possessions and property
the people themselves are to be ruled will
an iron rod, and reduced to the lowest ant
debased condition OF colonial vassalage.
"1he undersigned regard the bin as no
only inconsistent with sound policy. but a
utterly at war with every dictate OF religiol
J and humanity. And they most earnestl
t and solemnly protest against it, asa mos
glaring, pal pab!e and Aagrant violation OF tn
, Constitution.
/ "a. HAKDING,
~. a. CRAVENS."
Mr.. Crayens is a Democratic mem