The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1863-01-14
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LIST inst; it is entirely too mysterious
and profound for our understanding,
but still VIC commend it to the inyesti-
CATION Of our cnqdiring and intelligent
community: ''''i,'
! INAUGURATION OF President LIN
CoLN.-Abraham Lincoln is to be in
augurated to-day. Hitherto he has
yielded his sound Judgment to the i'm.
petuosity of selfish and gross men,
Ills great heart has controlled his con-
Yictions, but the people may rely on
q positive sagaciouS policy from this
day to the close of his Administration.
Important changes are to be made in
the, Cabinet, and in various depart
ments of the Government, indicating
a wisdom inherent in the President,
but now fully developed. Such are
our convictions, based upon what we
regard as good authority, and correct
reading OF current events. s8i o '.a
1.-THE. Republican and the Chronicle,
two furnishing concerns published in
Washington city, are rival establish
mcnts, and each endeavors to obscure
the radiance of the other by the inten-
sity of its Abolitionism. Each claims
to be the organ of the Administration;
and in order to impress their readers
with their official Importance, they oc-
casionally publish such mysterious
paragraphsas the above quoted. These
organs subsist on such advertisements
as the departments furnish, just like
scedy and dilapidatcd individuals liv-
ing off the charity of their more for
tunate relations Last month the
Chronicle, Forney's paper, had several
startling articles about the "big, boat
ing heart" and "creative, tccning
brain" Of President Lincoln. One
would imagine, from the careful p.ru-
sal of these articles, that that "tcem-
ing BRAIN was as busy as spider,
weaving ingenious nets to catch the
leading rebels. The result Of the Fred
ericksburg affair, however, dcmonstra,.
ted that some one clsc's ''teeming
brain had been planning too; and
that our generals had led our forces
right into the trap which the rebel Lee
had set for them, That "teeming
brain of our President may be most
luminous; it may lift him to tho stars,
and carry him over heswollcn waters
of the angry deep, as swallows skim
the air, but his military strategy is
the worst VIC have yet seen, forcing us,
reluctantly, to the conclusion, that,
although fair humorist, practical jo-
jOr, and a country wag, the President
can neither compass the magnitude of
extensive warfare, nor successfully
superintend a third class hoteL '
But the Republican, the other or
gan of the Administration, assures us
that the President was only inaigu4
rated last Thursday, the first day of
the;present year. We were all under
the impression that he was inducted
into office on the 4th Of March, 1861,
when he sworc to Support and defend
the Constitutional the United States;"n
bat the time which elapsed between
that date and the first of the present
month, was mere oblivion. The de-
signs Of the ,Abolitionists were not
entirely consummated until the first
of January emancipation proclama-
ton was issued; then the President
arose to the full dignity of his posi-
ton, and from that date commences
his admnistration-this is our inter-
Epretation of the Republicans myste-
riops announcement. From the 4th
of March, 1861, until the 1st of JAN
uary, 18G31-twehty-two months the
President has been in d half torpid
condition, 1t is true that the rest Of
the nation WAS tqlerably awake and
Sensitive to the condition of affairs
throughout the country. Since the
first battle of Bull Run the sounds Of
death and carnage have been borne TO
US upon every rbreeze, incompetepcy
in the field and scism lin the cabinet
were visible all this time, while our
streets, crowded with the manned vic
Tins Of incolnpetency, painfully i'm
pressed US with the idea that the world
had not been asleep. All this time
the head and front of our government
was insensible, but now he is awake to
the Importance Of the crisis. The thun-
dering echoes and reyerbcrations Of
hostile cannon, carrying death with
every peal, were incapable,of arousing
him from the lethmgy wherein he lay
bound; but now he, starts up, like the
followers Of Rho lRFIbpopfdlerick Dhp, and one
bllastlfor emancipation lifts him to the