The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1863-07-15

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/ A few days before the occurrences
of which We have been speaking, some
of this gang were engaged in a row at
Lloydsville, brought on BY an attempt
to tear Vallandigham badge from the
hat of country boy who had come to
town on business. This transaction
was Immediately heralded forth to the
world through the columns of the
Wheeling Intelligencer as great Abo-
lition triumph. This APPROVING no.
tice in the 1ntelligeLcer no doubt en-
cOuraged this gang to commence their
murderous assaults upon the Demo
Gratis as they passed to and from the
Democratic meeting on Thursday last,
As peace-loving and law-sbiding
citizen, we desire. to say to the Repub-
lican party that the DEMOCRACY OF
OHIO ARE DETERMINED TO EXERCISE
THEIR ANCIENT AND CONSTITUTIONAL
PRIVILEGES IN ELECTIONS, AND THAT
NO EARTHLY POWER SHALL DEPRIVE
US OF THAT RIGHT UNTIL WE ARE
BOUND IN THE CHAINS AND PETERS OF
A DEspoTIsM CLOSER THAN HUMAN
LIMBS WERE EVER BOUND BEFORE.
We intend to hold meetings. We
will form professions. We will dis
play and carry banners, with notices
! of our own choice. We will cheer for
it when it may seem good unto us, and
no man of either high or low degree,
shall interfere with us with impunity
in these matters. And all such inter-
ference may as well stop now as at
any other time, for stop it must and
shall. The Democracy have said it.
There is no provision Of the Con-
stitution of the United States over
which some official member of the Re-
publican party has not, since it came
into power, committed the foulest per-
jury. There is no statute which stood
in its way, that has not been ruthlessly
trampled under foot, and it is not to
be expected that these leaders can do
these things without communicating
the same spirit to the rank and file of
their party.
That those engaged in the foul at
tempt to commit murder at Lloydsville
have been misled and their passions
infamed to madness by reading such
papers as the New York Tribune, the
Wheeling lntelligencer, and the Bel
mont Chronicle, we have no doubt
1t is not many months since the Wheel
ing Intelligencer openly advised the
assassination of Mr.. Vallandigham
as he was about to pass through
Wheeling from Washington to his
home. And as we said before, it is
but few days since this same paper
applauded the mobites at Lloydsville
for most wanton breach of the peace
committed on the person of country
boy who came to Lloydsvllle with
Vallandigham badge upon his hat.
! If the men who mstigate and en-
courage such crimes could be reached
by the law, we would much rather see
THEM punished than their deluded
victims. But they are careful to keep
their own cowardly necks out of the
halter. Ever since the Inauguration
of the Republicans to power men have
been mobbed and torn from their
homes, and their families insulted.-
Men have been stricken down upon
the highways and by-ways of the land
by the minions of power. Men have
been imprisoned and banished for mere
opinions sake, and all this had been
borne by Democrats for the sake of
peace, but instead of peace We have
nothing but increased violence, and
were it not for that excellent provision
in our admirable system of govern
ment which provides ballot-box as a
remedy for all the ills of NAL l-adminis-
tration, longer forbearance would be
no virtue. Democrats will defend
themselves from this time forward,
first by an appeal to law, and if that
fail them, then by oil the means which
a christian man may use in self-de-
fense.
In view Of the great struggle through
which our beloved country is now
passing struggle in which liberty
is the prize that must be lost or won
we would exhort our Democratic fel-
low citizens to a strict observance of
the lawsin all their demands upon us.
Let it not be said of us in after times,
when the judgment of posterity shall
be pronounced upon our day and gen.
GRAFTON, that we were among the num-
Der of those who contributed by our
disobedience of the laws to the ruin of
our country, and to the overthrow of
the most glorious constitution and
form Of government the sun Of heaven
has ever shown upon. Now is the time
to consult our reason and silence our
passions: and if this can be done all
may yet be we'll. But if blind pas
sion is to WELD the destinies of the
country we cannot but tremble for its
fate. Passion when uncontrolled is
always violent, it obeys no law, it
tramples apon all rights, and breeds
anarchy and confusion, its whole path
is marked with blood. To avoid these
things we must obey the laws in all
things as a matter Of duty and of con-
science. Our constitution has proyi>
ded peaceful remedy for all the ills
of an unjust law, and that remedy is