The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1862-02-12
The Ohio State Journal on Emau.
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The emancipationists and radical
Republicans receive no quarter at the
hands of the Journal of this city. It
has in each of its daily issues Of the
S1st ult. and 1st inst, long editorial
on the same subject, to wit: "Emanci-
patton as a Government Policy" In
these articles it advocates the doctrine
for which we, in common with other
Democrats, have contended since the
outbreak of the insurrection-that the
war should be carried on solely for, the
suppression of the rebellion and upona
constitutional basis.
We shall not undertake a review of
the Journals articles; bet few points
in them are worthy of special notice.
The Journal characterizes the asser-
ton that emancipation is ''the cheap
est and safest mode of suppressing the
rebellion" as an acknowledgment of
eur inferiority-ofour inabilaty tos
ourselves and our country, except by
the help of the African"
And il saved in this mode for the present
continues the JoaraaL how could it be kept
sale in the iuturey Nay-we deny that is
would be either cheapest or safest. The
feeling OF the South, in thousands OF cases
now longing for the Union under which they
have been always protected. would by sucA
an act become universally embittered, and
intensified IN its hostility to degree OF such
utter ferocity, that would render Tao war
against rebellion sanguinsry comsat tarough
indefinite years.
Nor can it be regarded as altogether safe
proceeding TO uproot at one stroke the domes
tic relations Of whole commonwealths, to
annul all the laws governing the relation o.
master and slave, to abrogate their relative
rights and duties, and to turn four millions o.
negroes, with their minds uninformed, their,
passions unregulaied, their lusts ::untamed
out upon civilization with no power to re.
strain but by the stern arm Of an omnipres
ent military force!-such proceeding might
well invoke the most prudential caution.
The Journal ''repudiates utterly
the adoption ofemancipation as emil
itary necessity" which its radical breth
rem put forth with the greatest conf
dence and urge with the utmost peril
nancy. 1t seems in this claim fo.
emancipation and exhibition of sit
; most hideous and revolving features,
) and adds:
But, when It is rendered that "militar,
Y necessity" is, and ever has been, SIMPLY an
: other name for military despotism, and al
t apology for crime and lawlessness, then tn
offensive features Of this measure Of emanci
5 patton become painfully conspicuous.
!. Of the assumption of the emancipa
j tionists or radical Republicans tina
"towards rebels we are not bound b
the forms of law-that by their owl
acts they have nullifed constitutions
. obligations, and that we of the loya
States are, therefore and thereby, eS
onerated from the observance of legs
restraints and constitutional provisions
. the Journal says:
g This assumption, we feel compelled to So
Q is even more monstrous than the measure
v emancipation itself: it Is revolutioo!-na.
= worse, it it moral treason! it is anarchy! FL
It when did it ever come to pass that becaus
o one man had violated law, other men wei
l. justified in disregarding the law as towaI
l. him? 1t were as we'll to say that, becau'
man was sinner and had rebelled again
g. his Maker, therefore Gods laws were null
fied-the constitution Of the moral world a
il rogated. Certainly. punishment the mo
ty condign should be visited upon the rebellio
is sinner never without law-but always
,e conformity with, and by virtue OF. law.
rt is on this ground that we would cling to o
" Constitution; and most fondly and firm
q, when rebellion and lawlessness were threa
ening the nation. This is indeed our on
refuge, our ark of safety wherein to outri
the deluge Of evils that are poured upon Il
al land. The plea of military necessity" ro
Is, US Of this refuge, and leaves us nothing
work by save the underlined and irrespon
BY bic requirements Of military despotism.
IS. In its second article the Journ
ne quotes the following resolution whi
was adopted by the House of Repr
sentatives in Congress, on the 18th
= February last, without single disse
:. ting voice:
o That neither the Congress OF the Unit
a. States, nor the people or governments Of I
he nou. slaveholding States have the constii
tional right to legislate upon, or interf
a. with, slavery in any OF the slaveholdi
ry States in the Union.
he 1t also quotes the Crittenden resol
g. ton adopted on the 22d of July last |
in the present House, with only two d
"a senting votes, and says:
We bring these records to mind, not
cause we presume any one is ignorant
them, but as landmarks to guide Us amo
the shifting currents aud enguphing viii
he pools Of the present tempestuous times.
L we 40 ~ iOf huotueT pufPOso-o suoW
Il, record Of some men in Congress, who
he now advocating the policy OF ofemancipation
!. We would have them remember that uni
y the solemn p'edge ofthat record, they call
IN upon the nation for half million of men q
ho hundreds ofmillions Of money. The peot
D0 locking at that record, and seeing there
on iaith OF the nation pledged to employ th'
m men and apply that money Tor the purp
ofdefending and maintaining "the sapremt
DIV ofthe Constitution and to preso ue the Unio,
We with oil the dignity, equality, and rights
the Several States unimpaired," gave th
en- men by hundreds oi thousands and th
Is, treasure by hundreds Of millions. This h
Ing been done, who can now honestly {
jasdy ask that this money shall be employ
in executing useless decree OF emancipat
IN In direct violation Of the most solemn pied
that were ever profered by Representa-