The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1862-12-10

Yates should not have the choice either
to return home on an honorable dis
charge, or remain, as they might elect?
As they we're 'stnmped'intO the SER
vice, by what is pow admitted, and
which we from tirle to time suggested
from certain facts leaking out, under
false pretenses, they certainly should
have chance to decide whether TO
remain, SIP ce the truth has been so
candidly and publicly stated. If, as
thee Republican papers insist, the
whole army, or nearly SO, is made up
Of Republicans, the loss will be Int
Sight, if this, at least honorable,
choice should be given by very dis
honorable party. They ought to do at
! least one act which the world would
applaud as honorable and just, and
here is an opportunity to perform that
act. asr.
In this whole war, and the contro-
versies that have grown out of it, and
the new features which have from time
to time, it has been made to assume,
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nothing has occurred of equal impor-
tance--nothing Of higher assurance
for its truthfulness has appeared than
the evidence given in the above ex-
tract. 1t should, and We hope it will,
receive the largest possible attention,
and be given the widest possible
range of publicity. aa~
Those Democrats, at least, of high
position and influence who urged Dem
ocrats to enlist, and told them taleso
diametrically opposite to the above and
to the truth, owe it to themselves and
the poor fellows they got into the ar
my, of like politics with their own,
to see that no further harm comes to
them or their suffering families; and
demand of the authorities at Wash
ington, with the same holiness they
plead for cnlistments, that justice be
done not only themselves but those
they persuaded to enter the service to
fight, as they supposed, for the Union,
when it was only for the 'Republican
party" or Republican POLICY, and
which they had an understanding
among themselves should be settled by
themselves as a party measure; aud
that such soldiers be released from a
contract void for want of good faith
void for the want of consideration.
The very elect have been deceived;
and now the deception is exposed and
admitted, there is no excuse longer to
cover it over with excuses for those
who will not, from policy, longer e1,
cuse themselves. 'aae.. ... 'ss
Let no one treat this lightly; it can
not be passed over. 1t is spoken by
authority and posted on the very door
post of the temple that all who pass
may read.
We do not see but what it is piece
of impudent intrusion for any man
not Of the Republican faith, and a
party to the Understanding" to be
in the army. Its very demonstrations
al organization, by appointment, se-
lected by the authorities on party
grounds, as far as it could be done to
get an army at all, when the volun-
teers should have elected their own Of
hcers, as was their right, shows that
from the first there was design,
which it would not be safe to make
public, and many and often has been
the inquiry, what it all meant?
But no one could give more than an
opinion, and that opinion ubjected the
author to the charge of disloyalty, and
to a midnight arrest, and the bastile
his doom. Such were the threats and
terrors held over the people, that for a
time few believed it worthwhile to pro-
test or expose what they believed er-
rors of the grossest haracter-wrongs
without any legal authority. .g@
Those times are past, and even our
political enemies are coming TO the
relief of the popular credulity and con-
Tossing the whole programme, as long
ago, even before the election, entered
into, signed, sealed and delivered at
Chicago, and now in full tide of cxpe~
riment, after q two years practice on
| fraudulent pretenses, as We arc inform
ed by Joshua r.. Giddings.
This understanding was to be car
ried out, the same authority tells us,
in both the military and civil depart
ments; and it accounts fully--and it is
the first light we have had which ever
did explain why Mr.. Lincoln picked
for civil appointments from among the
most radical, the most brainless and
characterless of all his followers, to
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