The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1863-08-26

SIR, tnat prove all L say as go along
Now, to prove you Secessionist, ] have
here a speech Of President Lncnln.. printed
by himself at the office OF j. & @. 8. Gid
deoa. in reference 20 the Presidents Message.
IL was delivered January IA, l848. On the
eighth page he declares that ANY people.
any where, being inclined, and having the
power, hsvs the right to raise rp and shake
off the existing Government and form ne v
one that suits them better. Any portion oi
such people may revolutionize and make
their own Of so much of the territory as
they inhabit" You voted Tor Lincoln!-
Did you approve of that doctrine? l will
prove that yon did, for you supported the
men who plotted. by violence to nullify and
overturn the Federal authority in Ohio.
} This people will remember the Wellington
} rescue cases. A batch OF revolutionists oi
Oberlin strove to break down the Federal
authority right here. This man before me
may have helped to rescue the negro boy
, John from United States officers. He is a
pretty person to call on others to support
the Federal Government Laughter, l.
, These Oberlin rescuers were tried. convicted,
and about to be sentenced by the Urited
States Court at Cleveland. .swhen a meeting
was called at Cleveland, to revolutionze
and by violence overthrow the Federal pow
er. They sought. like South Carolina, the
agency Of the Sia'e TO do 1t. The Repub.
lican Governor, Chase, and his Attorney
General helped it o.. have the account
J Of that meeting in Republican paper
Here it is! Here Mr. Cox held up the
Ohio State journal of NAV 26, 1859 pretty
well worn.] 1t has seen some service. this
paper; llte the worse for wear-like the
Republican party Laughter.
DR. B-L"t me see it, il you please, -
MIR. Cox handed it to the Doctor. He look
ed 1t over, wiped his specks and pronounced
it "genJvine."1
Il Mr.. Cox--This paper says there were ten
or twelve thousand Republicans from the
Reserve present. No doubt 0berlin was
there. Laughter ] Perhaps you were
there, sir.
4 DR. B.-I was, and anu proud Of it,
Mr.. Cox-And you approved Of their DC
tions and their resolutions? ..s
DR.. B. Yes, sir; do, and did. ~
Mr.. Cox-Now, have you. II l do not
prove you to be secessonst, tevolutionst
and nulhfer, then there is no truth in your
own statements. | read further that this
vast meeting marched into Cleveland with
banners, with revolutionary devices and mu
sic. John Brown had not then been hung
else they would have sung his march, instead
Of playing the "Marsellise " Old men were
put at the head of The procession, with flags,
imprinted with "l776" Then came the
Lorraine County delegation--you crowd, sir,
of mob Gratis against the Union. You were
in it. Perhaps you carried the banner in
scribed Lorraine" ON one side, and on the
other
"Here is the Government
Let tyrants bewale,"
Do you remember that? You do. Well
where was the Government? 1t was not
then in the Admi: istration--oh! no--you
had not then got Lincoln and his Cabinet at
Washington. Here is the Government
in this mob Of law haters and higher law
revoutionistsl Here is the power to over
throw and destroy. What a commentary.
We Democrats said then, as now, that the
Government is not in men; not in mobs at
Oherlin, nor agents at Washington, but in
the Constitution Cheers. We saw let
tyIants beware who violate the governmental
chart Cheers. We say stand by the
Government against mobs in Ohio, in 1853
or in New York city in 1868; against usur.
patton OF State authority IN 1859. or OF Fed-
erai authority in 1868. [Cheers Yet it
is the Democracy that is reproacbed as dis
loyal by such scum of sedition as hoated
since.
This meeting was type Of tbeRepubIicau
party. 1t 'ollowed Lincoln's doctrine. Ev
cry prominent Republican in Ohio was
there, in person or by letter. You my sweet
evangelical friend, voted for one Of the Com
mltee on Resolutions, Mr.. Blake, and made
him Congressman. Chase approved by
speech, and Dennison BY letter. Of the meet
ing ard it's objects. Giddings was Presi.
dent. Perhaps you have heard Of him.
DR. B--A nobler man does not breathe.
Mr.. Cox-No doubt you approved oi his
course. He told Mr.. Ewing in his letter OF
the 7th of November 1860 that when be
"held up to the Republicans, the humbug OF
dissout ION that he was coward, and an
unvirile minion OF the slave powsr."--you
though HIM prophet. When he advised
you to n OF down United States officers,
with warrants for fugitive slaves as pirates,
you thought him loyal patriot. When he
g!orifed the State habeas corpus, and the
guarantees for the liberty Of negroes, you
though HIM wise man But now, when
your par dest is,s habeas corpus, outrages
personal freedom or whi'e men, and, by the
p ijury oil an Ohio Governor, permits white
men b btr SHE'D o tor crime but for
preven ion. You think you are so high in
our !, va tha, all Democrats are "Cop
head ,iaitora." [Cheprs Somuch ior
Gtdd rgs and the incivism he taught and you
followed. Who else were at this revolution
ary meeting Of traitors, to revolutionze "a
portion" OF tn people against the Federal
Government? Here is the Committee Oh
Resolutions: B. f. Wade; Republican Uni-
: ted States Senator, James Monroe; now
, Counsel at Pernambuca, an Abolitionist and
! gentleman, Congressman Blake, ashley
Edgerlon, Philemon Bliss; Bascom, Republi
can eduor at Xeria; Peter Hitchcock, Repub
lican Senator; Lieut.. Governor R. G. Kirk,
and a long list. will not name all here
The whole Republican party were there rep
} resented, D. X Carter, one Of Lncoln's
, appointess to a judgeship at Washington.
, and loud Union man now; Root oil Sans
, dusky; Delane, O Mount Vernon, who, pre-
tends 10 be shocked at traitors now; Judge
Spau ding, the Cleveland Congressman; Pres
ident Assa Nj shan, Oberlin, and others,
including the inevitable negro Langs,on--
Tod's orator for back troops--and Governs
, or Chase. These were the trumpets Of Sc.
ditUn, whose voice inspired the revolution.
lists. One said: ''Ohio shall not, in Gods
name, she shall not, be made hunting
ground for slave catchers." You applauded
{ THAT.
DR.. B. assented.
Mr. Cox II, said, "S;and steady. trtst in
God and keep your powder dry, aud look to
! ths ,biugs that shall be-" You had dry
powder too Laughter Chase made ball