The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1862-08-06
Country above Party.

called Union party are habitually de-
claring that they have eschewed party
and will have no more to do with it
until the war is over. We go, they
say, for country before party; and if
this declaration were true and country
was first in their minds and hearts and
controlled their actions, it would be a
matter of congratulation, as the evil
dence of reformation in quarter
where it is much needed. But the pro-
fession is hollow>hearted and insincere,
and therefore those who make it, add
to their original sin, and stand before
their fellow men as monuments OF
wickedness, deception and fraud.
These same hypocritical pretenders
whose hearts are black with hate of
the Union as it was before the rebel
lion, have way of denouncing every
man who does not sympathiz9 with
their Abolition schemes as disloyal,
and they are especially severe on Dem
ocrats who do not see fit 20 to abandon
their organization, and have no hesi-
tation in declaring them to be, and
some of these rabid whelps would
swear that all Democrats are secession
lists.
The party creed of an Abolition
Republican is not consistent with the
peace and integrity of the Union. 1t
is sectional-intenscly so. His whole
stock in trade is made up in a war on
slavery, and in Remuneration of the
"slave power" In Ohio, for instance,
since 1854, what would the campaigns
of Chase, Dennison, Wade, Bingham,
Wolcott and the lesser lights have
amounted to, or would have remained
Of them, if their TRADES against slavery
and the "slave power" had been ex-
tracted from their speeches? Nothing,
absolutely nothing. They used every
form of expression and every mode of
argument to inAame the people of Ohio
against the South, and with boldness
made war upon the Fugitive Slave
Law, even to open resistance, and thus
were rebels against the Union and the
Federal authority.
If such men and such party were
really and honestly to abandon their
creed and go for the country, it would
be great and needed reformation;
bat the case with Democrats is quite
different. Devotion to the Union and
obedience to the laws is the foundation
stone upon which the creed of the
party is laid. BY its precepts and ex
amples Democracy has always taught
veneration and love for the Dnion.-
1t has always maintained that our sys-
TEN of government could work in per-
feet harmony, and that there need, of
necessity, be no conflict between the
States and the Federal authority. 1t
has inculcated at all times obedience
to the Constitution and respect for
the laws made in pursuance thereof,
and impressed upon its members that
if error was committed in the enact
lnent of any law, there was remedy
provided to get rid of the evil, as well
as for all grievances, in constitutional
way. The votaries of such party
and the faithful followers of its pres
cepts would not be justified in aban-
doning ut, in order to get into a better
Union party; for it is the REAL Es-
sENcE of Union and devotion to the
Constitution and Laws, and sound and
true loyalty. 1t is a Union party
without disguise and without deceit, all
its members being taught to love and
vcnerate the Union.
These being the facts as they exist
and which no man can truthfully deny,
it is the height of impudence, brazen
faced impudence, to hear an Abolition
Republican profess a love for the Union
and at the same time denounce as dis
loyal his Democratic neighbor who
will not fellowship with him politically.
-lStatesman.
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