The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1863-12-16

Democrats carried all the elections,
being greatly aided ipso doing by the
unpopalority of said ProclanlatioR.---
The party Of the President has carried
the elections in 1868, but the ProcIa-
nation, 50 far from helping to that
end, wasa drawback upon it. Before
the Proclamation was issued Mcclellan
was within sight of Richmond, and we
had fought severe battle in the CEN
ter of Mississippi. Have We advanced
further in either direction since the
Proclamation was issued?
The President claims that of those
who we're slaves at the beginning of
the rebellion, fully one hundred thou
sound are now in the United States
military service, ssabout one>half of
whom are in the ranks. So faras tcs-
ted, the President THINKS THE NE
GRoEs MAKE AS GOOD SOLDIERS AS THE
wHIrEsl The President then enters
into defense of the Negro Proclama-
ton. He declares that he will not re-
tract or modify the Proclamation while
while he remains in his present posi-
ton. sra.'. a..a ra t.r .ra r.
The Message, takeL as whole, is
better written than either of its pre-
decessors, and we miss many of the
little points that made them so ridicu-
lous and their author so absurd.
4, Appended to the Massage is long
and strange document called a Proc
lanation, which bears more the impres
of Lineoln's peculiar mind and mode
of expression. He offers full par
don to those concerned in the rebel
lien, provided they will take an oath
to carefully support, protect and de-
fend the Constitution of the United
States and the Union under it, and
abide by and support all laws Of Con-
gress, and all proclamations relative
to slavery, so long as they are. not
modified or declared void by the SUI
preme Court of the United States,
(Which Court will be reorganized un>
der his ADMINISTRATOR He excepts
a large number Of persons from this
act of grace. He also promises that
whenever in the seeded States ONE
TENTH of the voters Of the Presiden-
dental election of 1860 shall take this
oath, above alluded to, and shall es-
tablish a republican form of govern
ment, he will recognize such States as
again IN the Union.
We thought that in the estimation
of the President and his party, the
Southern States have never been out
of the Union; but here we find that
they have got to 60 through a some
what singular change in order to be
in position they have never left
The scheme is as crude and unconstitu-
tional as it is impolitic. Instead of
having the effect of dividing and dis
tracing the South, this Proclamation
will serve to unite and combine it to-
gether. It will be tremendous dead
weight Tor the Union men of the South
to carry, and it is very questionable
whether any of them will ever under
take to do so. ... ~. T..u.-.. ... il.
A Proclamation, offering the bene-
fits of the old Union and Constitution
to those who would lay down their
arms in a given time and return to
their allegiance, MIGHT HAVE helped
our, arms materially; but this restora-
ton of the Union as it was, the Ad-
ministration is as much opposed to as
theSccessionists. 1t is bound not to
have the old Union. Its main object
is not ito restore the Union, but to
abolish slavery, and to that endit i'm
poses upon the Union men of the
South the Emancipation Proclamation
as test, which, is most abhorrent and
disgustingto Neutrality-suspicious.
to their interests. nj d. Hr.r'a.
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