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

sixty years, the storms OF partiZen persecu
ton and malignity in every form have beaten
upon his head, but though time and toll have
made it gray, the heart beneath beats still
to-day, as sound and true to its instincts Of
Democracy and patriotism, and of humanity
too, as when he laid his first offerings upon
the alter OF his country just forty years ago.
When others have heroicaIly suffered in ages
past. we, too, can endure. We are all, indeed,
still in the midst OF trials.
Here before me, is the gentlemen Of whom
-have justspoken, whom you have honored
with the Presidency Of this noble Conven>
ton, for forty years Democratic EDITOR for
forty years devoted to the Constitution and
the Union OF these States-a man who thro'
evil and through good report, has adhered
with the faith of devoted and the fi,mness
Of q martyr, to the principles and policy OF
that grand old party of the Union; and now
that the frosts of three score years have de.
scended and whitened his head-he, SAY,
has lived to see the paper to which he gives
the labor and the wisdom OF his declining
years, prohibited from circulation through a
part Of the mails, as "disloyal' to the Gov
ernment! (Cries of no, no, shame.) Samuel
Medary disloyal and Wendell Phillips a
patriot .r.. ,.. .s...t .... '. ...
| Sir, it Is not many months since, that in
the city Of Washington, in that magnificent
building erec'e1 by the charity oI an English
man who loved America wish there were
more like him, that art and science might
the more widely flourish in this country
the Smithsonian lnsttute-Wendel Phillips
addressed an assembage of men as false to
the Union and the Constitution as himself
| Upon the platform was the Speaker Of the
House Of Representatives, the third officer in
the Government; by his side the Vice Presio
dent Of the United States, and between
these two, i'll proportions long drawn out
The form Of "llonest Old Abraham Lincoln"
a m mistaken, and was it another and ear
lier abolition lecture by that other disunion.
st, Horace Greeley in the same place--there
have been many of tbenl--that Lincoln at
tended? The Speaker and Vice President
know we're there; and with these two or
three witnesses before him, and in presence
of the priesthood Of Abolitionism, the Sum
ners and Wilson's, the Loyeiovs and the
| Wades Of the House and Senate, (great
laughter and cheers) surrounded by these,
the very architects of disunion, he proclaim
ed that "lor Dineteen years he had abored to
|
| And yet this most spotted traitor was
pleading for disunion in the city OF Wash
ington, where women are arrested for the
wearing OF red, white and red, upon their
bonnets, and babies Of eighteen months are
taken out Of the little willow wagons drawn
by their nur. eS, because certain colors called
seditious a, ,e found upon their clothes! The
next day, or soon alter, this same Wendell
/ Phillips did dine with or was otherwise en-
tertane by his Execellency the President
of the United States, who related to him
one OF his choicest anecdotes. Yet Demo,
cratic editors, Democratic Senators and Rep.
resentatives. and those holding other official
positions by the grace of the States or Of the
Ipeople, are traitors forsoolh, because they
would adhere to their principles and organi
zation OF their noble and patriotic old party!
| Such arc some of the exhibitions which
Washington has witnessed during the past
winter. Congress, too, has been in session
Sir, saw it announced in one OF the dis
| iloyal papers OF this city Yesterday, that JEFF
Davis, and 1oombs, and Yancey, and Rhett,
land other secessionists of the South, would
derive much comfort from this days meet.
ing. .6
Well, sir, have just come from body of
men which would not for moment pre-.
tend to compare for statemenshp, rospecta.
bility or patriotism, with this Convention --
That body devoted its time and attention to
doing more in six months, for the cause OF
secessionism, than Beaurcgard and Lee, and
Johnston and all the Southern Generals
have been able to accomplish in one year
Said Senator from the South the other day,
M Z,
Congresses now, ana is making id sight
more out of the Washington Congress- than
the one at .Richmond."' Laughter, and
many remarks Of approval.
The legislation Of that body has been
almost wholly or the almighty African"
From the prayer in the morning flor, gentle
Imam, we are pious body, we are making
Hong faces, and som times wrv faces, too,
(laushter,) we open with prayer but there
is not much Of the Almighty Maker oil heav.
en- and earth in it, rom the prayer, 10 the
Fmotion .so adjourn it is negro in every shape
Fand lolm in which he can by any possibility
| be served up. But it is not only the negro
inside Of the House and Senate, but outside
also. The city Of Washington has BEEN
within the past three weeks, converted into
one universal hospital; every church, @ kept
one iorse each denomination, has been seized
or hospital purposes; and while the sanctuar-
| les of the ever living God-the God of Abrs-
4 ham, Isaac and Jacob--not the new God Of
the BurliDgames and Summers and other
AboliLionists, not that God whose gospel is
written in the new Bible OF Aboliton--but
the Everything Jehovah God, have been con
fscated for hospitals, every theatre, every
Loo ftl MD nf
ment, from the highest to the owest-from
the spacious theatre in which Forest exhi.
bits TO an enIaptued audience his graphic
renderings Of the immortal creations of
| Shakespeare down to the basest den of reyel.
ry and drunkedness, are open still; as in the
lneano of the great Italian poet
"lte gates of hell stand open night and day. "
Sir, il these places Of amusement inoccnt
some OF them, but not holy, certainly-had
1 first been seized as hospitals, for the comfort
and cure OF the thousands of brave aud hon.
able men, who went fourth believing in their
/ hearts that they were to battle for the Con.
sutution and the Union, but who now lie
wasting away upon their lonely pallets, with
| no vile or sister, or mother there to soothe,
groaning in agony wi h every descr ption Of
| wound which the devilish ingenuity OF man
can in1ict by weapons, whose invention was
inspired by the very author of all human
woe and suffering-wounds, too, rank ling
and iestering for the want Of surgical aid
itthose places, | say, had first been seized,
and then it had become necessary for the
comfort ol lie Of the thousands of other sick
and wounded who are borne into the city
of Washington, know OF no better or holier
4 purpose 10 which they could have been devot
ed. And now, sir, not far from the stately
capitol, within those marble walls abolition
treason now runs, riot is IA building, "Green's
Row" by name, in which HOO fugitive slaves
-"contrabands" in the precious slang OF
Infamous Buter--daily receive the rations of
4 the soldier, which are paid Tor out of the
taxes levied upon the people. One hundred
thousand dollars day are taken from the
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