The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1863-04-01
The Handwriting on the Wall
In Uht0.

| A telegram from Cincinnati informs u
| that it has been found Necessary TO send I
military expedition into one Of the interior
counties Of the State OF Ohio in order there
to arrest certain deserters from Ine army
The expedition, we are futbeF assured, i
likely to meet with an organized resistance
on the part Of the iDhabuants, and in thai
case we are cOmplacenily told "there will bG
bloody work IN Noble county,"
II the power OF reasoning and OF reflector
has not utterly abandoned the men who now
dictate the Government, tidings such a,
as these from the great and loyal State o.
Ohio should make them pause and consider
whether il is that we are drifting. Thai
desertion is the worst OF military offenses
that the protection ofdeserters in their de.
sertion is q crims against the nation, nc
man in his stnses will deny. These are
points in the order Of those things which
''the cour; may be supposed to know" II
is beyond question that the Government |,
simply dong its duty in enforcing the re.
turn to their regiments OF men who have
dishonesty and basely abandoned their ban.
ners, and that no combinations ofcitizeas can
be safely permitted to thWaIt this action o
the government.
But how has it come to pass that any con
siderable number Of the people OF northern
Siate are found willing to condone this crime
Of desertion and to project the cri minals al
the risk OF their own lvesr The capture o
all the deserters in Ohio, the b boodiest o
"bloody work in Noble county" will moi
answer this query.
Yet the answer is not far to seek. It is
be fore the whole country n the perversion
OF the war-in the mismanagement of the
war SO perverted-in the obstinate refus al o
radical faction to heed the remonstrances
to consult the interests, or to obey the be-
hests Of the people. Two years ago the dis
graceful spectacle ola Northern county com
PEELED by force OF arms to do its duty to the
nation would have been. impossible. Upon
those who have made it possible let the scan
dal rest to sting them, il it may be, into an
honorable and profitable shame. Let it warn
them Of the real nature Of the work they
have done and still are doing They have
exesperated the people OF Western State
into the protection OF so clear wrong a.
6eserti0n. Do they suppose the same peo>
pie will accept with eageruess and execute
with accuracy the CONSUMPTION act, with all
that it involves oil odlous IN point 0 its per,
sonal effects aud of questionable in point o
its constitutional legality? The present out
break in Ohio is an opportunity as well as a
danger. 1t reveals to The Government the
extent OF popular diSafftc'ion which it has 10
fear from an obstinate perseverance in its de-
clared policy To deal with that disaffec
ton as Napoleon dealt with the sections
in Paris, to silence it with grspeshot, II
neither mitigate its intensity nor avert its
eventual triumph. 70 deprive it of'fuel by
a saner and more constitu ional policy will
be indeed to kill ito suppress it without a
single wrong to Liberty, TO convert into a
loyalty as frank and as active as that which
lit up the land from East to West in reply
to the first fash Of the guns from Sumter
two years ago.--N T. World. 2lst.