The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1863-01-07

which has all the stars in equal luster,
and no black, interpolated between the
red, white, and blue.
Doubtless this popular will has
reached the gentleman from Pennsyl.
vania. Last session, he began with Q
bill which proposed, by uneonstitu.
tional legislation, to change the re,
lations of local interests from State tc
Federal control. Now he preserves,
as to that, a discreet silence In his
resolutions, and only proposes unity
of territory and Government. The
people demand the territory as it was,
the Government as it is, and no meddl.
ing with the area of tho one or the
functions of the other, by any party
with any force, by any laws, or fol
any purpose, in the interest of any
species of philantrophy, or for tn,
benefit of any race, rcd, white, O.
black .... ......... .....r
But, sir, I do not complain that the
gentleman has omitted in his resolu
tions any expression as to preserving
the rights, equality and dignity of tht
States Under the Constitution. Who
would believe that such expressions
were sincere, after the vote of the
gentleman on the 21st of July last
for resolution of that kind, offered
by the gentleman from Kentucky
Mr.. Crittendenl !? The gentleman
from Pennsylvania is no hypocrite.--
The time for pretcnses has gone by.
The masquerade is over. He will
drag no unpleasant corpse of memory
about with him. Great souls care not
for consistency. The Crittenden res
olution are in the dead past with him.
The State suicide doctrine is now
openly agowed. The constitutional
guarantees to personal liberty and
private property are set at naught.-
The purposes SO long limited at and
indirectly attempted-to abolish sla-
very br Federal legislation or execu-
tive proclamation-has become the
shibboleth of a party, and the avowed
object of the war, 1t would not have
done to have avowed this purpose at
the beginning of the war. AS has
been said by the ATLANTIC MONTHLY,
the organ of the Abolition DfLETTANTE
in Boston,:
The opposition to the southern secession
took its first form as rally by all parties to
the defense tthe Constitu ion and the main
tenance of the Union. For any anti slavery
zeal to have attempted to divert the aroused
patriotism Of the land to breach OF one Of its
fundamental cons,i utionsl provisions would
have been treacheroes nd futile; the MAORI
ty o. our enlisted patriotic soldiers would have
LAIN down their arms. II the leadIngs o
Providence shall direct the thicksning stIiit
intoan extefmihating crusade against slavery
doubtless our patriots viii wait on Provi
dence. But we could not have started in ouI
stern work avowipg that as an object Of oai
own. gf tG. a-g.t
The war begun for the holy object
of national salvation, by the defense
of the Constitution, The effort is
now made to end it as disgraceful
cru: ade against slavery, betraying. the
patriotism of the land, and knocking
the hopes of mankind. 1t begun for
the noblest purpose; it will end, unless
restored by the popular voice, now as
suming its olden tone again, in diabol-
ical and merciless extermination of ter
ritory, property, States, Government,
and Union. E#st .g5t
1t is not my purpose now to con-
denim or discuss the acts of the last
session. The nation has passed upon
them, and there is no need of resolu-
tions or speeches to explain their ac-
ton. If the gentleman thought by
Introducing his resolutions that he
could discover any lack of national
feeling, any sympathywith this unnat-
ural rebellion, or any desire to have
this nation changed in polity, symme-
try, or geography, he was mistaken
If the President, in his message,
thought that his argument in favor of
the physical union of these States, was
needed to teach the people true views
or new views, he was mistaken. The
meaning of the late elections is, that
no separation Of these States can ever
be permitted. The people have regis>
tered their oaths at the ballot~boxes,
that no infraction of the Constitution
will be suffered. They will have unity
without the aid of such counsels. They
will have their ancient and written
charter of liberties, in spite of all at
tempts to dcspoil them. There was no
need of such resolutions; th ere was no
need of other resolutions, voted down
by the other side resolutions to stop
irresponsible and arbitrary arrests;
resolutions against changing the form
Of our Government; resolutions against
and expensive philanthropic
experiments, which tend to destroy
The moral, religious, political and ply
sical substance and unity Of the ma
ton. ..1. Z.
l know the impression has been Gre
ated among the weaker portion cf the
now weaker party that the late cleo
lions are somehow an expression in ia
vor of secession. If this were true,
how pitiful would be the condition of
this nation. The rebels find no such
encouragement in these elections. But
the Richmond Examiner, of Noyen-
Der Fl, does find in the ''policy of the
party North that which alone
could have eradicated the deep-rooted
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