The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1863-01-07

sert here that the report of the quar-
termasterat Beaufort, South Carolina,
will show that for the month of Sep
tember four general superintendents
received $3.50 per month, and sixty
four other superintendents received
$50 per month, for taking care of
ninty-three negroes. This report
shows $4,000 per month, being at the
rate of S45,600 per annum for the
care of ninty-three, big and little,
male and female ''free Americans of
African descent" A thousand dollars
per year would astonish western far
mer for such service. But we are
refused all information as to this and
similar infamous abuses. But the time
is near when all will be out. Why are
these things hidden from the people?
l think my colleague might have given
US some Of his observations on this
head while he was in the. South. The
consolation for this the Executive gives
us, when he tells our people that white
men can go down and take the places
of slaves, if they do not like having
the slaves coming North to jostle and
GUST them from their places. '
I, too, like the ga:Seman from Il
linois Mr.. Richardson ] am anxious to
support the Executive in crushing this
armed sedition in the South, and will
support him whenever he is upon the
proper path. The elections never
meant to withdraw from him the con-
servative support, if he had pursued
the policy marked out at the extra
session. But the people have con-
demned the chimerical scheme of COM
pensated emancipation which he has
again announced, and which my COLI
league defends; scheme which the
President thinks will save the enor-
nous outlays for the war, by abolish
ing its cause-slavery. How can we
apply those simple Mother Goose mel
odies of the message-that it is not so
easy to pay something as nothing, or
easier to pay a large sum than larger
one-which emancipation will add to
the larger sum something larger
still, by "reinvigorating the rebel>
lion!" One important question
seems never to have been consid-
cred at the White House-what if
abolition does not end the war? If the
fear of abolition was in part the cause
Of the war, will abolition stop it? If
there we're anything true in the motto,
'like cures like" this might be logic;
but, unfortunately, likecauses produce
like effects. 1t is utterly wild to ex-
pcct that the South will disband or be
reconciled or be conquered by aboli>
ton, since abolition banded them In
arms against us. 5t.sirf
If the President, make real the
the fears which led them to arm
against the Government, the war will
ce embttcred, prolonged, and made
more expensive. Untold millions will
be added as well for the idle purpose
of turning over to the Treasury for the
poor house, the Africans feed from their
masters, as to pay for the slaves when
freed. -
But we are told the integrity of the
Union will be assured; and the gen.
tlcman from Pennsylvania Mr.. Ste-
vens has introduced resolutions look
ing TO this end. .
The import of his resolutions is con-
fined to the unity and indivisibility of
the Union. The second and fourth
are all included in the
first. The second expresses the stig-
ma which ought to be fixed on him
who would violate the national integ-
rity, which is asscrtedin the first; and
the fourth expresses the resolve never
to have that integrity broken Sin two."
But, sir, there is carefully omitted all
expression against destroying or i'm
pairing our Government as established
by the Constitution, with it's present
departments, and in its present local,
State, and Federal relations. Mem
bers can vote for those resolutions, yet
be in favor of throughly changing
these relations. The gentleman can
defend forever the unity of the Uni
ted States, it's territory and Govern
ment, yet insidiously favor system
of centralized power. A dictatorship
has already been heraldcd by him here
and it is not inconsistent with these
Every inch of our do
main might remain under our flag, yet
that flag might be made the emblem
of a new and odious political system. |
The trainers of the Constitution ad>
us that if We should crush
out the States, though the territory
might remain, yet our liberties would
be lost. w .l5". fes'r a.','
The unity of a parcel Of provinces,
held by martial iron grip, ortet her
ed by prison bounds, is not the unity
of the American Constitution. In u
nifty like that, with the States cclipscd,
who could you make Senate, an
electoral college, or a President
Strike out tho the planets, and you
have no system. He is an idiot who
thinks our geography ought to be pre-
served at the price Of our freedom. -
Do you want to reproduce the alliance |
of Ireland with Englands Venetia !
with Austria? How will you hold it2 |
BY large armies, at enormous cost?--
How, in case Of foreign war, could you |