The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1863-07-22


this declaration that they had put forth, that
any Of US could ever see the significance oI
the Constitution OF our country and the Dec.
laration Of Independence. Applause
We have accepted il, as | said, mentally
and intellectually; but why was it, when
these familiar words sounded upon your ears
on this occasion, as you have heard them
often before on the anniversary of your
country's liberty, that they stirred your very
hearts within you, and made your blood
tinge in your veins. My friends, we have
not now a more intellectual knowledge Of
the ConstituiIon--we do MT give it new q
I mere mental support-we have now, upon
that subject, a vital living piety that make
us better men and better patriots; and
wherever you go all over this land, you find
these sentiments now exist in the minds o
more than a majority OF the American peo-
pie. They are now fervent in their faith,
fixed in their purpose.-fanatics if you please,
for the great principles Of liberty, and fanati
cal in their determination to see that those
rights and liberties are established. Gaeat
applause. We have Seen in our land too
small parties, each an inconsiderable minor
ity in the section OF country where they ex-
isted, but men Of purpoSe-men of zeal
men OF fanatcism.
We have seen them wage war upon the
Constitution Of your country, with persls-
tence and power that has at last shaken it
to its very foundation, and brought US to day
to the very brink of national ruin. We have
seen what zeal and purpose could do when
it was opposed only by dull mental acqui>
eScence in great truths. What may we not
hope that We may do when the great maori-
ty Of the American people have fervent and
vital faith in these principles which you have
heard and read, and who propose to main
tain them at every cost and at every hazard
Great applause
Do you wish for peace? Do you wish for
victory? Do you wish for the restoration Of
our national privileges? Here lies the path
way, and let the American people once learn
the full value Of their liberties as our fathers
did, and the battle is fought and won -
Without this, my friends, war can bring you
no success-peace can give no quiet until the
American people are thus educated and ele-
waited; and believe they are rapidly becom-
ing educated and elevated. Until that takes
place, war or peace are the mere incidents of
the great underlying cause Of convulsion
which have effected our land and shaken our
institutions 10 the very center. Your par
ticular views may lead you to attribute it to
one special cause or another special cause
but there is one great UNDERTAKING general
cause OF this war which must be removed be
fore the country can be restored, and that
cause was indifference TO our rights, indilfer.
ence to our liberties, and want OF an elevated
wisdom that could understand the duties of
American citizenship. When you have gain
ed this, peace will be restored; when you
have gained this, all the world can see that
we have gone back to the wisdom of our
fathers, and that we are sgain sustaining in
stitutions that invited the whole world to
their shelter and protectIon-in nstitutions
that made us but three short years ago the
most glorious nation on the face Of the earth.
When we have again restored that virtue
and that intelligence, our country will again
be restored to its former greatness and to its
former glory. Great applause
But, my friends, any thing short of this
will dsappoint your hopes. No victory can
restore greatness, and glory, and power to
people who are worthy OF liberty. No peace
will briDg back prosperity to land which
can not understand the great principles upon
which governments should be protected and
the great objects for which governments
were instituted. But, my friends, l must
close. ["Goonl Go on!" Let us now, up
on this sad and solemn, as well as glorious
occasion, rededicate ourselves to the service
OF our country in pure and fervent patriot
ism, putting aside passions and prejudices as
far as we may, and preparing. ourselves to as.
sert and maintain the great principles stated
in the Declaration OF independence, and se-
cured to us by the provisions of the Consti-
tuition Of the United States. Let us resolve
from this time on to do our duty, and to de-
mand our rights. Great applause
In all that dignafes us, and so far as they
are acting in the sphere OF their constitution
al powers let us be obedient to rulers, let us
submit cheerfully, patiently and willingly to
those commands which they have right to
issue, whether we like them or not. When
we have done our duty let us claim our rights
in all their fullness, in all completeness and
in all their perfection. He who does not do
his duty without regard to the misconduct
of others is untru country. He who does
not claim his rights is untrue to liberty,
and humanity. [ Applau e. ! Our path
ways are clear before us if we will but
accept the simple and wonderful teachings
Of our fathers From this time let us re
solve that we will uphold all The just powers
of the General Government, and the rights |
Of the States, Tapplause and the rights of
persons, and, above ALL as their best and
surest shield, the independence and purity OF
the judiciary. Applause.
We stand to day amid new made graves,
we stand to day in land filled with mourn>
ing and our soil is saturated with the blood
of the fiercest conflict Of which history gives
US an account. We can, if we WILL avert
all these disasters, and these calamities and
revoke blessing. II we will do what?-
Hold that Constitution, and liberties and
laws are suspended-be untrue to them
shrink back from the assertion of rigSt?-
Will that restore them? Or shall we do as
our fathers did under circumstances OF like
trial, when they batiled against the powers
Of crown? Did they say that liberty was
Did they say that men might
be deprived of the rights of trial by jury?--
Did they say that men might be torn from
their homes by midnight intruders? Ire
mendous and continued applause. II you
would save your country, and your liberties
begin right; begin at the h'arth- stones which
which are ever meant TO be the foundation
of American institutions; begin in your ami.
ly circle; declare that their rights shall be
held sacred; and having once proclaimed
your own rights; take care that you do not
invade your neighbours rights. Applause.
Claim for your own States that Jurisdiction
and that government which we, better than
all others, can exercise for ourselves, for we
best know our own interestS and that which
will do the most to advance the happiness
and prosperity OF our country; and when you
decide that take care that you do not invade