The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1863-04-01

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slavery, so that it be q real Union, sincere.
cordial, permanent and stable. fApplGuse. |
As to this strange and peculiar race OF
men which Providence seems TO have espe
eially marked for physical labor under a
tropical sun, ! claim 10 entertain toward
them as sincere so interest and pity as the
most eager advocate for their emancipation.
But have learned 10 distrust the theories
oi philosophers and philsnIhropis,s.
Rhe experiment now being made with the
negro IS terrible experiment.. The ciyized
world will bold US responcibe for bis fste.
eendition under his Southern masters
may have b en- bad. let US beware least in
our ignorant and headlong philanthropy We
make u worse. We have enough to answer
for. History will hold the American nation
to account for the lives the red men, the
aboriginal inhabitsnts Of this continent, who
have been mereiessly destoyed.
consider that great crime. The negro
in condition OF fixed and acknowledged in
ieriority, may have suffered much. But ell
evated suddenly to the level OF Anglo Saxon
clliZatioD, and summoned to perform its du-
ties, greatly tear lest his lot turn out far
worse. The sudden glare will be TOO dazzling
II may bewilder and blind him. and on the
whole the worst i'll Of bis former condition
to which habit had in large degree recon
ciled him, may soon seem TO him light and
easy as compared with the visisitudes Of his
new freedom. But however that be. is it
not clear that We are paying for this expert
ment, of at best but doubtful result terri
bic price? ....
Not alone treasure. That q nation can
laber TO replace. Not lives alone, though
those are more bitter loss. But reputation
liberty, law, principles OF government, the
mystic bond by which the integrity of the
nation was secured.
These are the blessings that we have put
in peril or lost Asa means of weakening
the Southern arms, the policy OF negro eman
cipation has signally failed The President
never said wiser word than when he com
pared it to The pope's bull against the comet.
vain attempt to subject the immutable laws
! oi nature to the petty projects of man, and
| Tor this the nation has wandered from the
sac road on which, fer seventy years oil
prosperity, power, and happiness it has
walked.
Fer this it has taken the first steps ON the
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perhaps to anarchy or despotism. Let it
draw back while il lis time.
But TO whatever course it may be mpelled
whatever error it nnay commit whatever dis
asters may be before it the great mass of the
American people are believe, sensible, wise
moderate and true. In the midst of the
storm that has burst upon us their loyalty
is sill, think, pure and unshaken. loyalty
not to faction whose polio es may change
with the men who lead or desert it, loyalty
not TO an office nor to q person who may err
through ignorance or bad advice, but loyalty
to principle, the principle of national union
oil national honor, oil national life, and to the
charter In which the principle is embodied
the Constitution OF the United States. Loud
and protractad applause
What is that principle; diversity and uni
ty? The principle by whose light the State,
were led into HniOu without surrendering
their sovereignty, like stars. each revolving
round the sun, each having its orbit, its owr
diurnal revolutions. forming one glorious
constellation, within which all are united anc
each is free.
The peoples voice must DO spoken and il
must be herd; for when the heart of the reo
pie is stirred it speaks in thunder. Theil
will must be obeyed The desire to silence
it on any pretext is symptom oil incapacity
or evil design on the part oil those who ex
press it. These three States at least, New
York New jersey and Pennsylvania, bound
together by common interests, traditions
and hopes by their geographical position
marked out tor peacemakers between the
warning elements that fret against their Dor
ders these in which Washington found his
trials, his reyerses, his suffeiings and his
triumph these at least will be true to his
teaching, will respect what be respected love
what he loved; and be guided by his spirit to
to the last, and even il the worst should
come on us-the tide OF fanaticism should
ran still higher, il the pillars of liberty
should one by one he snapped and over
whelmed even amid the waves of anarchy
OF despotism, some breas,ing the food, th,
people will liit their eyes to he memory o
Washington as the bright particular star O
their devotion, and holding alof # the Consti
tuition he revered, and 10 the last with un
falling hope, God save the Union-long liy,
the Republic.
The conclusion of the address was recelv
I'd with great applause