The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1863-06-17

States into two parts or destroy ant
weaken the growth of the Mississippi
country. Twenty-Five years ago
when she fairly inaugurated the sla'
very agitation under the auspices o.
the British Anti-Slavery Society; ant
later, when petitions were sent to Con
gress, asking separation from the
Slave States, the whole South rose up
and defended the integrity of the
Union and denounced these petitions
as reasonable, and tending directly tc
dissever the States, and drench the
country in civil war. 1t was on one
of these occasions that Henry A.
Wise made his celebrated speech for
the Union and denounced these Nor.
thern agitators with great vehemence,
predicting, if they were not arrested
in their course, the very lamentable
state of things we now witness on ev-
cry hand.
These New England agitators, and
their allies in the West, for they had
sent out here colporteurs in every ca
pacity to spread their treason, under
the garb of religion, education, tenn
perance, anti>Masonry, and morals of
all sorts as well as politics, when they
discovered the tending unpopulaity of
their doctrines, fell back on the 'sright
of petition, "}and Congress and every
State Legislature of the North were
bedeviled and bewildered with the
'rigbt of petition" as the most sacred
of all rights, and through this clamor
they alarmed many aspirants to office
who become SO enamored of the "right
of petition that they voted to receive
them, Extensively demanding the sep,
GRAFTON Of the States into free and
slave.
These agitators continued their UNI
ceasing work for over quarter of
century, before they succeeded in cre>
ating sectional prejudices and divis-
ions strong enough to split the Union
asunder.
Fortunately for THEM they found in
Charleston, heaed by a New England
er, who was imported there to edit the
Mercury, knot of politicians which
exactly suited their purposes, and
played we'll into their hands. For
time the Democratic party of the
South and Of South Carolina became
strong enough to turn every man in
hat State outof Congress who follow
ID the incendiary course ofthe Mercury
'ut one, Mr.. Holmes, who represented
The Charleston District. This Mr..
Holmes and Joshua r. Giddings from
his State, were great chums in Con-
yress, and we caught them swapping
speeches, made of the strongest tine
lure of their sectionalism, to agitate
each others constituents. This was a
deliberate purpose of these two men
20 excite sectional hatreds and in the
end divide this noble Republic.
Giddings succeeded in sectionalizing
Ohio, and Holmes South Carolina and
other States, operated upon by the
same influences; the sections split asun-
der by a common hatred intensified by
the churches, which split first and
gloried in the mischief they were pro-
ducing. Aware of all that had been
done to bring about these sectional ha-'
treds, and satisfied the people wanted
but time to see the monstrous political
and religious fraud, we felt as though
death hung over our destiny when we
saw the soul depressing sight of our
brave and innocent boys North and
South, being led to fields Of slaughter
by these wicked political agitators.---i
Had Charleston and Boston been sunk
long ago in the depths of the ocean,
this terrible strife, the horrors Of which
are not yet half told, would never
have taken place, is our sincere con-
Crisis. . ,a
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