The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1863-04-22
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''i!s opponents, It's erects its own''politicai
"a opinionsas God and then calls upon
al people 70, fall down, and worship
s7s them as. their God. Himself a slave
Il 80 the ADMINISTRATION he adopts the
nj manners Of the Tycoon Of Japan, and
thinks that ssstsubj ject' must not hold
n .r5i an opinion or express a thought not
sisdhcld or expressed by his great Kipg.
''' abraham. Tfc appears to claim that
"a all must foilow bllndly thee Admins
atri.tion, no matt if If was as plain as
I ,rdny that thatAdministration was leat
72b'3n at ing 6 thS country. to swift dcstruction',
vs. Nh. Hattow says ptAat heais in favor
a1g'of- "lfis coahttyright or wrong bnt
.5aawhen he speaks of 14shisg country he,
ode means simply 'the Administration,
which lasts but four years, which may
be superseded by another pursuing an
q, entirely different policy; so by his own
dsa.iogic he has a different government ey-
: oaj cry four years, and lives in a different
s country. a. Now, We are ''for our
s'a country right or wrong" in the sense
rsa that true citizen should be, when
right to approve, and when wrong to
ID. sight her. The lGoYernunent We are
''loyal' to is not the reignof lincoln,
an but it is TO- the government founded
l by the Revolutionary fathers; and it
does@ot consist in allegiance to any
fl znan+-recognizos not a royal court
with obedient subjects cringing as
Slaves before a Monarch, fearing even
to look displeased at its corruption,
Nd lest the prison or the guillotine should
s7 stare them in the face. No. Our f;s~
s-thers, when they formed this governs
mcnt, discarded these despotic forms,
p. and sought to establish a Republican
government, having for its foundation,
y and deriving its powers, as all just
governments should, from the consent
Of the governed. Loyalty, if there be
such word in a republican govern
ment, certainly must mean devotion
to the principles which underlie the
superstructure, and fealty to the writ
ten Constitution, which is the emblem
and agency for the fulfillment of these
principles.
jaa Now, in our government We arenot
taught that any man or set Of men are
superior to the rest. On the contrary,
it teaches as. a cardinal principle,
equality. 1t is government of the
people. Officers are elected to serve
them, and to the people are these Off
GERS responsible. Now, to presume
that the people have no right to indi-
cate to their servants the manner in
which they want their government d-
rected, and the policy they wish it to
pursue, is to presume that our old
n yrt % RI MI
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.r .,es This despotic policy is the one now
being attempted by the Republican.
- a Y
~ hateVef aoes not sun. tnolf iancilul !
taste B ls prohouncea .'fal'orouS' oH'r anu
an lnyeetlye at tnef command ON are
orough' lor'h 70 uehounce fl' y. f1>oW o', nc
eetieYos' or processes e % i%oelleNe' .haV
war Wiltreseofe 'he y mon. We eoeAe'e t
tnae therf il no element 81 union N "S@f'
eena tnass war alohe VIII never restore :,
Ine l mon A. ihis m he cans cans Ifai'ofo'lS'
Ae loeneses that IN ofaef 10 cement
the e.. onlon m togetner i = '' necessary 10
HATE the people WIN "nom' you WISH 4
70 pc oe ,unlpeu worse worse sn"n you Woui"
nate iat Y the @ MENUS Ioi nsli' ana 'lls mas
sbeen the principle ne mas consistently ISt''l