The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1863-11-04


rious feyer-patient should subside all
at once, before the ninth day, into a
coolrefreshing sleep, andawaken whole
and sound! Neither is the continuance
of the paroxysm thing to beregretted,
because the longer and more vehement
the excitement, the more utter and
prostrating will be the collapse. All
that high-wrought life is false, morbid
and hectic; it is not health, but mortal
disease, and the patient must either die
oft, or else, after hard struggle and
absolute exhaustion, slowly recover, a
sadder and wiser man.
The whole of that imposing struc-
ture, standing so fair and sumptuously
in the enemy scountry, is house built
on sand, or rather on paper. The
longer they can prop and shore it up
building additional stories on it all the
while-the greater will be the fall
thereof. When it shall have fallen
down, hideous wreck-whcn national
bankruptcy shall have come, and fur
ther disruption of the States, and civil
war and anarchy (the consequences of
bankruptcy then, and not till then,
we will see the end of the war.
And it is better so. To make sure
that our separation, as two distinct
political communities, be complete and
eternal, it is perhaps needful that the
war be fought out to the very end
that is TO say, to the entire destruction
Of the Yankee nation. The longer
they carry on the war, and the more
atrocious they make it, the more i'm
possible twill be that there should ey-
er be any sort Of union between us and
that dctested people. A year ago there
were many ''reconstructionists' in
Virginia, to aynothipg ofother States
we mean a sort of partial reconstruc-
tionists, looking to reunion with some
select States Of the Yankee nation, and
of course, on honorable terms"
Where are they now? The continued
and still increasing brutality of our
enemy in all the regions occupied by
their troops, but more especially the
distinct policy Of entire subjugation,
with the reduction Of these States to
Territories, universal confscation, dis
franchisement, disarmament, and a
settlement of our land by Yankee pro-
.prietcr8--the plain policy, announced
by Lincoln, and adopted by Generals,
Ministers, platforms Of Republicans
andnow deliberately sanctioned by the
Ohio and Pennsylvania elections, has
opened the eyes and nerved the hearts
Of thousands of weak and well-inten-
toned men, who dreamed Of peace on
''some terms" and who now know that
that they can have peace on no terms
save surrender at discretion and an alb
.}ect Vassalage to the meanest and most
vulgar race Of beings on all this earth.
Therefore, say we, let Black Republi-
canism grow blacker; let every Yankee
General be as Milroy, and Butler, and
Rosencrans, and Burnside; let the
printing presses of Chase rest not,
neither by day nor yet by night; let
Northern cities revel and run riot on
paper wealth, based on lands in the
Confedoracy or in the moon; let the
whole Yankee nation, drunk and mad
with passion, rush along in their insane
dream of conquest, and triumph, and
pleasure, to the very edge Of the abyss
of perdition, and then, down with them
all to the devil together.
1t is wholesome for our people to
look on and see that extraordinary ma
ton, thus possessed by an evil spirit,
and running violently down a steep
place to the sea, like swine in the
country Of the Gadorcnes. There is
small temptation to link ourselves to
their fate and fortunes; next year there
will be still less; and if there be yet liz
wing among us any soft headed recon
structionist or submissionist, he. will
then be cured.
Whereas, We should have dreaded
the evil effects of Vollandigham and his
copperheads, and his moral suasion,
united, as it would be, with vigorous
prosecution Of the war-in one hand
the sword, in the other money bribes,
party alliances, constitutional guaran-
tees, and "honorable terms" Those
influences would still have found, we
fear, certain of the meaner and more
stupid Confedorates ready to listen and
respond to the false promises Of the
Yankees. A crop Of Unionists would
appear again; the natural allies Of Nor
thcrn copperhcads are Southern block
heads; and original Anti-Exodists
would again snuff at the fesh-pots of
the Egyptians.
Far better as it is, the present pro.
gramme happily ensures to US a com
plete, final, and irrevocablc separation
from the Yankees, which is the para
mount political good. AS the Presi-
dent truly said at Selma, "OnIy by
force Of arms could the Yankees be
brought to reason, or their plans for
our subjugation be defeated" :"
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Alexander III. stephens.
The Cincinnati ComrnarcisI RanubI;oo,
publishes letter from well known citizen.