The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1863-09-09

As a general rule, they seemed to be
in favor of the Constitution and the
Union, but tried to make the people
believe that George Washington form
ed it for negro freedom and negro
equality! People ought to have been
too sensible to have been humbugged
with such stuff, but many were. .
We now proceed to notice the sem
timents of the so>called Republicans.
WHAT LINCOLN SAYS.
believe this government cannot endure
permanently half ifslave and halt free.-Abra-
ham Lincoln.
That is, that it cannot endure as
Washington formed it, and as it ex>
listed for seventy years. Mr.. Garri-
son was of exactly the same opinion,
and though Mr.. Lincoln does not say
all that Mr.. Garrison does, yet the
person must be ninny who cannot
see what Mr.. Lincoln's real meanin G
is. And if any proof were needed of
the identity of their principles, tits to
be found in the fact that Mr.. Lincoln
has at last openly come to Galrison's
platform!
We will now see what Mr.. Seward
says. He has always contrived to
cover up his IDEAS in words, words,
words, as much as possible. The fol-
lowing is an extract from his celebra-
ted Ohio speech:
AGGRESSION is THE WORD!
4 1t (slavery) can and must be abol-
ished, and you and | must do it.
Correct your own error that slavery has con-
stitutional guarantees which may not be re-
leased, and ought not to be relinquished.
x You will soon bring the parties Of the
country into an effective aggression upon sla>
Oery.
There it is again, aggression on
slavery"-that is, on the rights of the
States-or the Union.
We now propose to show, from
speeches and addresses of lesser lights,
that all the teachings of this party
and its leaders have let to just thepro-
gramme laid down above. AS Gar
rison said, they were "mouldering
public sentimentfor the dissolution of
The Union and the abolition of sla-
very" We ask every candid man to
read the record, and then say, if he
can, that they are not disunionists.-
We will commence with
GEN. N. p. BANKS.
Governor Banks, of Massachusetts,
who was elected speaker Of the House
of Representatives in 1856, by the
Black Republicans, now oLe of Mr..
Lincoln's Maor-Generals, in speech
delivered in Maine, in the preceding
year, said:
Although am not one of that class Of
men who cry for the preservation of the u
nion; though l am willling, in certain state
of circun Stances ID let IL slide, have no fear
for its perpetuation. But let me say, il the
the chief object Of the people OF this coun-
try be to maintain and propagate chatel prop
erty in man--in other words human slavery
- this Union can not and OUGHT NOT TO
STAND.
SENATOR WADE, OF OHIO.
In a speech at mass meeting in
Maine, in 1855, the same at which
Mr.. Banks spoke, Senator Wade, of
Ohio, gaze utterance to the following
reasonable sentiments:
There was no freedom at the South for
e'ther white or black; and he would strive
to project the free sJil of the North from the
same blighting curse. There was really NO
Union betUeen the North ana South; and he
believed no two nations upon earth entertain
ed feelings oil more bitter rancor toward each
other than these two sections of the Repub
lie The only salvation Of the Union, there
fore, was to be found in dvesting it entirely
from all faint of slavery. There was no U
Mon in the South. Let us have Union, or
sweep away this remnant which we call
Union. 60 for Union where all men are
equal, or for no Union at all, and l 60 for
right.
And, as if to mark their approval of
such doctrines, the Black Republicans
of Ohio, the very next year, reelected
this disunionist to the Senate Of the
United States. His brother, the Hon.
Edward Wade, for number Of years,
occupied seat in the House of Reps
resentatives, and we find him, in a
speech delivered in the House, Aug.
2, 1856, indorsing the reasonable doc
trines of his Senatorial brother. We
quote:
Sir, il the Constitution and the Union are
to be used as an ins rument for the propaga.
tion Of human bondage, they cannot be pre-
seryed-neither is it desirable that they
should. The spirit which has taken posses.
sion Of the Shareholders and their base tools
the Democracy OF the free States, is the un>
clean thing Of propagandism; and just as
sure as animal lie pershes in mephitic gas
es, SO sure is it that the Constitution and
Union must perish when smothered in the
fond embraces oil these allies of human sla-
very. ,t,...
"Allies of human slavery Wash
ashington, Jefferson, Madison, jack
son, etc., etc.