The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1863-02-04

iy ioliows the standards of the zoe. from
Great Bethel to Vicksburg. the battle has
not been to the strong. Yet every disaster,
except the last, has been followed by call
! for more troops. and every time 30 far they
have been promptly furnished. From the
beginning the war has been conducted like .
! political campaign, and it has been the Jolly
OF the party In power that they have assu-
med that numbers alone would win the field
in contest not with ballots but with mus
ket and sword. But numbers you have had
almost without number-lhe largest, best
appointed, best armed, fed, and clad host Of
brave men, well organized and well dfscipli-
ned, ever marshallsd. A Navy. too, not the
most formidable perhaps, but the most nu
merous and gallant, and the costliest in the
world, and against ibe almost without
navy at all. Thus with twenty millions OF
people, vnd every element of strength and
Iorce at command--power, patronage, iDHu
encs unsnimity, enthusiasm, confidence,
credit, money. men, an Army and q Navy
the largest and the noblest ever set in the
field or afioat upon the sea; with the support,
almost seryile, Of every State, county and
municipality in the North and Westi with q
Congress swift to do the bidding of the Ex>
ecutive; without opposition anywhere at
home, and with an arbitrary power which
neither the Car of Russia nor the Emperor
OF Austria dare exercise; yet after two years
OF more vigorous prosecution Of wsr than
every recorded in history; after more skir.
mishes, combats and bat ties than Alexander,
Cesar. or the first Napoleon ever fought in
any five years of their military career. you
have utterly, signally, disastrously-I will
not say ignominiously-- to subdne ten
millions Of rebels" whom you had taught
the people oil the North and West not only
to hate but to despise Rebels, did say2
Yes, your fathers were rebels, or your grand
IA hers. lie who now before me on canvass
looks down SO sadly upon us, the false, de-
generate, and imbecile guardians Of great
Republic which he founded, was q rebel
And yet we, Graded ourselves in rebellion,
and who have Iostered and lraternized with
every insurrcctio6 IN the nineteenth century
every where throughout the globe, would
now, torsooth, make the word ''rebel" q re
pfoach, Rebels certainly they are; but all
most gigantic wsraie Of modern times have,
through your incompetency and folly, ayailed
nothing to crush them out, cut off though
they have been by your blockade from all
the world, aid dependent only upon their
own courage and resources. And yet they
we're to be utterly conquered and subdued in
SIX weeks, or three months! Sir, my judg-
ment was made up and expressed from The
frst. learned it from Chatham: my
lords, you cannot conquer America" And
you have not conquered the South. You
never will. 1t is not In the nature OF things
possible, much lesss under your auspices
But money you have expended without limit
and blood poured out like water, Defeat,
debt, taxation, sepulchres, these are your
trophies. In vain the people gave you treas
ure and the 7soldiee yielded up his lie
Eight, tax, emancipate, let these" said the
gentleman from Maine, Mr.. PIKE,] at the
last session, "be the trinity Of our salvation"
Sir, they haye become the trinity OF your
deep dafnnation.- The war Tor the Union is.
in your hands, most bloody and costly
failure. The President confessed it ON the
22d Of September, solemnIy, officially, and
under the broad seal OF the United States.
And be has now repeated the con ession.--
The priests and rabbis of abolition taught
hi.n that God would not prosper such cause
War for the Union was abandoned, war for
the negro is openly begun and with stronger
battallons than before. With what success?
Let the dead at Fredericksburg and Vicks-
burg answer.
And now, cir; can this war continue?
Whence the money to carry it on? Where
the men? Can you borrow? Can you tax
more? Will the people bear it? Wait till
you have collected what is already levied
How many millions more OF legal tender
to day iorty-seven per cent, below the par OF
gold can you Hoal? Will men enlist now
at any price? All, sir, it is easier to die at
home beg pardon, but trust / an not
"dlscouraging enlisiments." /! | am, then
first arrest Lincoln, Stanton, and Halleck,
and some OF your other generals; and will
retracl; yes, will recant. But can you
draft again? Ask New England-New
York. Ask Massachusetts. Where are the
nine hundred thousand? Ask not Ohio--the
Northwest. She thought you were IN earn
est, and gave you all, all-more than you de-
manded.
~ he wife whose babe first smiled that day,
The lair iond BRIDE Of yester eve,
And aged sire and nlatron gray,
Saw the loved warriors haste away, a
And deemed it sin to grieve"
Sir, in blood she has atoncd for her credu
hty; and now there is mourning in every
house, and distress and sadness in every
heart. Shall she give you any more?
But ought this war to continue? ] an
swer no--not u day, not an hour. What
then? Shall we separate? Again I answer
no, no. no! What then? And now, sir,
come 10 the grandest and NEST solemn prob
lem OF craftsmanship from the beginning OF
time; and to the God OF Heaven, Hummer Of
hearts and minds, | would humbly appeal
for some measure; at least, OF light and wis.
dom and strength to explore and reveal the
dark bu: possible future OF this land.
CAN THE UNION OF THESE STATES DE RE-
sToREDi HOW SHALL IT BE DONE?
And why not? Is it historically impossi-
Bile? Sir, the frequent civil wars and con
fcts between the States of Greece did not
prevent their cordial union to resist the Per
sian invasion; nor did even the thirty years
peloponDesian war, springing, in part, from
the abduction ot slaves, and embittered and
disastrous as 1t was-let Thucidides speak
wholly destroy the fellowship OF those States.
The wise Romans ended the three years So
ciaI war after many bloody battles, and much
atrecity, by admitting the States of Italy
to all the rights and privileges Of Roman
citizenship--the very object to secure which
these States had taken up arms. The bor4
der wars between Scotland and England,
running through centuries, did not prevent
the final union in peace and by adjustment,
Of the two Kingdoms uncer one m0harch -
Compromise did at last what ages Of coer
cion and attempted conquest bad failed to
effect. England kept the crown, while Scot
land gave the king to wear il; and the mem
ories Of Wallace and the Bruce Of Bannock
burn, became part of tho gloriss of British
history. pass by the union Of ireland