The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1862-03-26
From The N Nstionsl inteiiieshesf.
AMOS RENUAlL's GEfTEEs:
LsEGta II.

L6zTEA Il.
How far the UaIsed states are
one pcOple-Tke defence OF 10.
cal Institutions mot rebeiTton--
A war upon Them is a war on
tile principles OF the CoHstitu.
iiOn--It is revOiuti0ss North ms
/ welt as S0utIl--Its fatal effects
/ at home and abroad.
To Abrdham Lincoln, Presideat Of Tie C. s.,
REsPEcaEp SIR:-In my first letter sn-
deavored to show that the only legitimate
object ef the pending war is the integrity Of
the nation as constituted by the Constitution
OF the United States. shall now attempt
10 point out some OF the consequences to De
apprehended fiom making Il was on ths
fundamental principles OF that Constitution.
Let it never be forgotten that we are one
people and one nation opfy 90 far az he Con-
stitution makes US one. Outside Of that bond
we are thirty.four people and thiIty. four ns-
lions, none OF which have any more right TO
interfere with the local laws and institutions
OF The rest than with the laws and instits.
tlons Of China and Brazil. The people Of
the States have right, under the Constitu.
tion, to defend their local laws and instits-
tons by arms, II necessary, and it m the
duty OF the United States to uphold and aid
them in the attempt. A war confined TO such
an object would not be rebellion, even tho
the United States were the sggressors. Just
SO far, therefore, as the pending war may be
waged against the Southern Institutions, the
Southerners in arms will cease to be rebels,
and the Northerners in srms will become ia
truth what they are COW islsely charged with
belng--the wan'o on assailants of Southern
rights. Let me not be misunderstood .--
Thus far the war has been confined to AZ en-.
forcement Of the Consultation and laws Of
the United States, and, in their armed resis-
tance, the Soutberners are unqualified and IN.
nlitigated rebels. But let the United States
abandon this firm and sac platform: let
them announce that the war rs hereafter to
be waged against the constitutional laws and
institutions Of tho Southern States, and they
will measurably relieve the traitors from ths
odium OF cauSeess rebellion, will give to
their cause color Of right, snd will neryo
their arms for more desperate resistance
Then, indeed, would the war become one Of
subjugation-p prosecuted, not for tho purpose
OF maintaining the Constitution, bnt in sub.
version of its fundamental principles.
Such q position would be attended With
il not fatal, consequences, both
at home and abroad. 1t would paralyse
a Northern patriot, who would give his life
for the Union, not because be loved Southern
institutions, but because he holds sacred the
principles OF the Constitution, and deems
their preservation essential to the mainten-
lnce OF order and law, as we'll in the North
As in the South.
All intelligent men know that republic
as extensive as the United States, embracing
such variety Of climates. productions, insti-
tutions, opinions and interests, can not exist
under one consolidated Government and st
he same time allow the highest practicable
ieg!ee of liberty to sll its parts. Hence is
$ that every true friend Of liberty rsvoItx
rom the idea OF an attack on that fundamen-
al principle Of the Constitution which leaves
very Slate free to govern itself in all things
shich pertain to its local affairs. In the
ubsersion OF that principle he sees nothing
n prospect but q cluster OF hostile republics,
ike those OF Greece, wasting each olher 10
oniinuai wars; Or great empire like that of
iome, in which liberty shall be crushed un.
er the iron rule OF an aristocratc Senate or
n usurping Caesar. With such prospect
efore him, how can any true friend Of hbes.
= sustain, with confident hope and uutlar-
ing enthusiasm, the prosecution OF this
lar?
But the parlysis which an abandonment Of
no Constitution would produce in many
Iorthern arm would not DO its only effect.
would, in an equal degree, nerve many .
outhern arm, and array in active hostility
Iany Southern friend Of the Union. Il
ould enable the rebels to say that tho
'orth is attempting to subyert the constita-
onal rights which the South is fighting 10
aintain. II would, in the eyes OF the
crly, mitigate the crime Of rebellion by en-
,ling the rebels to assert, with some plaus-
iity, that there was conspiracy in the
orth against their constitutional rights.-
would enable them to say TO Great Britain
I'd France that the North as we'll as gths
outh had abandoned the Constitution which
sde them one people, and become equally
volutioDary-tbat the one was as much en-
lied to ue considered and acknowledged y
parate aud independent people as the 9th.
But it is said that slavery is the cause oi
e rebellion, and, thereto it should be sx-
rminated. The assertion is but remotely
ID partially true, and, as far az il is true, BY
} means justifes the conclusion. Ii the
ere existence Of slavery were sufficient to
oduce rebellion, the Constitution would
yer have been formed; or, having been
fmed, it would not have lived to three score
ars and ten. II slavery were Of itself suf.
lent to make men rebels, then all slases-
lders would be rebels.
So far is this from the truth that most con-
lerate among them them look upon the
institution and the Union as the only out.
le protection which that institution has
their view. and in that Of all disintesested
IN in other States, that f ature OF the Con-
tuition which guarantees the return OF fa-
ives nom labor, commends IL to the cordial
d perseyering support oil all masters who
We DO object in view beyond security 10
cir lawful rights. No such international
gulation exists elsewhere in tho civilized
,ild, and lis maintenance ought on every
lnciple OF sound reasoning, to have made
the last to give up the Constitu.
n In this view slavery was Q bond cf
Non, so lar as the masters were concerned,
her than an element OF dissolutioB. And
i IN this view that certain men 10 The
nth have denounced the Constitution as -
que with hell"
10 another letter | will endeayor to point.
the true causes Of the rebellion, and how
slavery has tpsfsred them. shall ss4
apt to shUw that the warmest friends 81
ought to be satis fed with the
Fsgfess their principles are making through
madness Of slaveowners and the grove
necessities oil the pcndng conflict.
AMOS KENDALL,
February Is, 1869