The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1862-08-27
IFrow the Ohio SlsiesmanI
The two Extremes Alike Hostile
10 the Union.

Down in secesSia, man who is in favor o.
the restoration and preservation of the Union
as it was, is prescribed as an Abolitionist and
denounced as q sympathizer with the North
Up here in the North, man who stands up
Gor the Union as it was and the Constitution
as it is, is, by numerous class, who would
make the world believe that they are better
Union men than others, denounced as q
Secessionist and a sympathizer with the
South.
In Secessia the rebels make the preserva-
tion and perpetuation Of negro slavery para
mount to the preservation and perpetuation
OF the Union. For the sake ofslavery they
would destroy the Union, or, which is the
same thing, il they cannot be assured that
slavery will be perpetuated and houtish in
the Union, they are determined not to re
man in it.
Here in the Nsrth;we have their opposite
or the other extreme, which joins theirs, just
as the Atlantic and Pacifo oceans meet al
the poles and mingle their waters together
There is among us in the free States q large
and restless multitude, inesting every city
town and neighborhood, in greater or less
numbers, who place the abolition OF slavery
or freedom as they sometimes call it, mean
ing thereby the freedom of the negro, high
above the Constitution and the Union. Fol
the sake Of aboishing slavery or freeing the
negro, they would destroy the Union, or
which amounts to precisely the same thing
If they cannot be assured that slavery will bt
extinguished, or placed as they demand, ali
the course of ultimate extinction they are
determined, as much as the secesh rebels are
that the Union as it was, with slavery in it
and the Constitution as it isSYith the fugi
tive slave clause in it, shall never, with tbeiI
consent, be maintained or perpetuated.
In fact these Northern extremists are al
bottom just as much rebels as the Southern
ones. A slight change o. circumstances would
place them, as regards the Government and
the Union, in exactly the same position
Had a Southern man, strong advocate o
slavery, been placed, instead Of Father
Abraham" in the Presidential chair, and his
party been largely in the majority, the North.
ern radicals, who are now so bitter against
their brother rebels in the South, would
have openly advocated secession from the
slave States, their orators and papers, as
some of them now do, would have proclaim
ed mo Union with Shareholders" and de-
nounced the Constitution as "a Covenant
with Death and an Agreement with HELP
They would, in such case, have done just
as the Southern Secesh did; they would, in
every State where they could have got the
power, have seeded from the Union, and
used both forces and frauda il necessary to
that end. II the General Government had
sought to coerce or compel them to obey Ger.
tain requirements OF the Constitution and
certain laws of the Union, they would have
resisted unto blood, as many Of them would
at this moment. There can be no question
in any honest candid mans mind that red
hot anti slavery radical in the North is al
heart, and often in word and act, just as much
of rebel and traitor as red hot pro sla
very secessionist in the South.
The Southern Secessonists would il they
had the power, change the Constitution and
the Union, so as to make both more etfectu-
ally subserve the interests OF slavery; the
Northern Radicals would do the same thing
to more rapidly and surely advance the cause
of Abolition or negro freedom. Each OF the
CLASSES sees, or fancies it sees, in the continu
ance of long, desolating, cruel and bloody
war, the realization OF its avorite hobby.
The Union cannot be restored and perma
nent peace rein tated, either of these Disu-
MON classes gain the aScendency over the
country. Both must, therefore, be put down
or in other words, so far silenced and shorn
of their influence, that they will cease to plot
against the Union or disturb the peace of the
Republic.