The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1863-05-20
"The Blood of the Martyrs is the
Seed of sIle Church."

Il aaC wa HS tltS
Seed of she Church"
We surrender large portion Of to-
days paper to the publication of the
evidence given on the trial of Hon. G.
L. Vallandigham before q court-mar-
tial convened by General Burnside in
obedience to orders of Abraham Lin
coin. Every thoughtful citizen will
peruse this evidence with lively inter-
est; but all may not think of the i'm
portance of laying it away for future
reference. We, therefore, enjoin our
readers to preserve this paper, that
not only themselves, but their children
after them, may know the aimsy pre-
texts on which a distinguished Amer
lean statesman, eminent alike for his
learning and for the purity of his pri-
vate life, was stripped of his liberty
and sent into exile by a Republican
Administration.
We thank God, that Abraham Lin
coin and his Administration are not
the American Government. If the
contrary were the case, persistence
in such arbitrary violations of the con-
stitution and law as have occurred in
the outrage on Mr.. Vallandigham,
could not fail to weaken that hold on
the hearts of the people which consti-
tutes the only assurance Of its perma-
nence. Let none, therefore, fail to re-
member the truth Dwell expressed by
NJ. Seward to Mr.. Adams, that the
Administration is one thing and the
Government is another.
The day is coming land of this let
our readers be assurod) when the peo-
pie, in their own self>interest, and in
their own inborn love of right and JUS
tice, will awake to the existing condi-
ton Of things and apply the remedy.
They will not-they CAN not, fail to
think, in silence though it may be, Of
the liberty Of speech and Of the press
which has existed under past Admins
trations of the Government as con-
trasted with the tyranny which now
seeks to deprive the People of all ut
terance except as it agrees with the
views of persons in POWER and OFFICE.
They will remember that in all the his
tory of the Democratic party, in war
and in peace, its acts and its policy,
both as TO Great Britain in 1872 and
Mexico in 1917, were ever open to
unrestrained criticism and denuncia-
ton, and that the public enemy were
told from the Senate Chamber, that
our brave troops, marching under the
starry banner of the Union, should be
WELCOMED with bloody hands to hos
pitable graves Under all this IL
cense of speech, the Democratic Adj
ministrations never trammeled the
liberty Of free discussion, bat under
their able management and wise pol
icy the Union went forward increasing
in strength and greatness. Never
since the foundation of the government,
has Democratic Administration used
It's power to stop the fullest criticisms
of its acts, or to check the widest and
most defamatory denunciations Of its
policy. Was this course wrong?-l
Ought the Democratic National Ad- f,
ministrations to have declared the
course of the Abolitionists inconsis-
tent with the peace Of the country,
and therefore stopped their speakers
by arbitrary force? Ought President
Pierce, believing, as he did, that the
course Of Chase, Hale and others in
1853, was weakening the peace of the
country and destroying the power of
his Administration tokeep the strength |
of the Union unimpaired--ou he to /
have arrested these cultiuators of the
bitterness which has resulted in civil
war, and sent them into Punishment?
lVhena Democratic. President believed
that q Massachusetts said Society" /
in Kansas, va, kiaating civil war in