The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1863-11-18
Radical Inconsistency and Ky
pOCrisy.

POCEaSyh
Three years ago, we had, as the
Radical leaders have constantly assert
ed, "the best Government the sun ever
shonc upon" That National Gov>
ernment had existed for over seventy
years. 1t owed its existence to, and
derived its authority from the Nation
al Constitution adopted by the States
and the people. The enormity of the
rebellion consists, as the Radicals cons
stantly assert, in the attempt to over
throw this "best Government.
But mark the inconsistency of these
same radical revolutionists. While in
one breath they extol the excellence
and superiority of our National Gov
ernment, in the next they decry it as
having tolerated one of the worst forms
of despotism, and as having nursed an
infant demon of revolution and anar-
chy into activity and gigantic strength.
They assert that our National Consti-
tuition was SO formed and our Govern
ment so organized under it, that mi
nority section of the Union--a hands
ful Of aristocrats, as they denominate
Southern siavehoiders-had ruled the
country during the seventy years of
our National existence as with rod
of iron-that during ali that time we
had in consequence no genuine peace
or real prosperity, and that in fine our
Government, SO far frem being the
best, was in truth the worst ''the sun
ever shone upon"
The object of the radical Jacobins
in these contradictory statements is
transparent They play the hypo-
CTstS anu Illk dDUUJ tHiS illlttlldl re-
bellion against the best Government
in the world" while they themselves
are secretly plotting and conspiring
for its destruction When they want
to excite tie masses of the Northern
people to madness, in order that they
may be able to carry out their plans
for the overthrow of the State Gov
ernments and the subsection of the
people to consolidated despotism
like that Of France or Russia, they
prate about the "best government
and the awful crime of any opposition
to their pet measures for sustaining it.
But in the mean time, as necessa-
ry instrument to their ultimate sue
cess, they are insiduously sowing the
seeds Of dislike and hatred to that old
Government of seventy years standing,
in order to educate the masses of the
people up to the point that they will
not only not desire, but violently op-
pose the restoration or the retaining
of that "best Government. The
Jacobins have already, as they imag
inc, got the mass Of the Northern peo.
pie committed to the idea that Wash
ington and the fathers, in establish
ing our National Government commit.
ted one great error--a fatal errol
that has brought upon us, as these
Jacobins allege, this terrible civil wal
with all its awful horrors--its slaugh
ter. misery and desolation. All these
things, they say, are due to the origi'
nal sin of the fathers in setting up thai
old Government upon the basis of tht
Constitution.
In order to bamboozle the people
into the support Of their leaders ant
measures. the Jacobin "Unionists" ex
i tol the Government to the highes
pitch in one breath, and in the mex
degrade it to the lowest depth. Sucl
is the inconsistency and madness o
the fanaticism and corruption nov
running riot in our nd.-LStatesman