The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1863-01-07
CADlz OHIO WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 1 1869

it all reverently, God himself has been
called, by an Abolition divine, Dem
ocrat. The appellation is true, il
, Democracy be the synonem Of eonser-
yatism. Providence organizes and
conseryes. 1t is part of His estab-
lished order. Besides, it has been
Z said that the voice of the people is the
voice Of God. Surely these walters on
! Providence should heed the voice Of
. the people speaking from the political
Sinai. Amidst the thunders and
lightings and thick clouds and the
: quaking of the mountain, the trum-
pet has sounded; and yet ye, unlike
Israel, "have not sanctifed yourselves
lest the Lord break forth upon ye.
The trumpet voice has spoken:
We are the people who haveI set you in
high places.
Thou shalt have no her source Of power
before you.
Thou shalt not make unto thee any craven
image Of ebony, before which to bow thyssll
nor to seryeit. Laughter.
Thou shalt not take the name OF liberty in
vain, for thou shalt not be held guiltless for
such sacrilege upon personal aud constitu-
ticnal freedom.
Remember the days Of October and Novem
Der, to keep them holy. daughter
Honor the Constitution and the Union, il
you would have your days long in the land.
Thou shalt not kill = in vengeance and in
vain.
Thou shalt not degrade the white race by
such iuterlnix as emancipauon will
bring.
Thou shalt not steal, nor suffer money Of
the people to be stolen by the army OF job.
beis and cor tractors.
Thou shalt not bear false witness against
thy neighbors, charging them falsely with
disloya,y.
Thou shalt NOT covet thy ne;gbor's servan s
neither his man servant, hor his maid servant,
nor anything which is thy neghbor's, nor
tax the people for their deliverance.
Will these commandments be heed>
ed? l fear not. Too many of the
other side have lost their sense of re-
sponsibility by losing their Offices.
Among all my colleagues of the last
Congress, upon the other side, but one
remains-but one-the. member from
the northwest, Mr.. Ashley and he
was elected by the divisions Of the con-
scrvative force of the district. As
with the children Of Israel, the sea di-
vidcd and his virtues enabled him to 20
over dry shod-[ Laughter My COL
league Mr.. Hutchins who was so
kind as to write my epitaph at the last
session, picturing me as going down
in colored ''sunset," had not even
the appreciation of his own party by
nomination. lis. will allow me, with
tender regret, to borrow the apostrophe
of the poet Willerforce as suitable to
his case: S
.oh! shade Of the fallen; Oh! genius sublime;
Great friend OF the NiGRo from A!ica's clilne
Alas! hos low he licsi (Laughter,l .HSI
Night sudd,nly-cane, and his day was done,
His sun was sci and anothur sun
lliuoes the dusky skies. [Laugbtrl
/ doubt not, his speech at the last
session in favor of the blacks settling
where they pleased, was the reason of
his premature setting and settling
He should not complain. He was
bright light of Republicanism in the
dark places of Ohio; but he must re-
member "that all that's bright must
fade" His demise was civil neces-
sity. The people have said to him and
his fricnds-all defeated, l believe,
but about dozen-"Wayward sisters
depart in peace" Laughtcr.] Let
them return to private life. 1t is their
destiny. Their political graves are
dug. Their winding.shcets are prepar-
ed. Their grave>stones are ready
Methinks hear the clods. fall upon
their collins at noon on the coming 4th
of March, They should not complain.
The earth itself must atlast pass away,
and be rolled uplike scroll. Nature,
trembling and in flames, will one day
give way. Let them not complain,
but bow to the decree of dissolution
None knew them but to curse them,
none named them but to damn. Prop
erly and philologically speaking, they
are here as the r. prescntatives of per-
dition, for they are lost to us. Laugh>
ter. Their loss will, however, be our
gain Their calling and election not
having been made sure, they now seek,
in the little span allotted them, to con-
tlnue those political transgressions for
which they are condemned already
My colleague [Mr. Hutchins1 has,
however, it seems, turned practical
humanitarian since the elections. l
commend him for it. He is no longer
a political Mrs. Jellaby, manufacturing
here moral pocket handkerchiefs for
the picaninnics of Hilton Head; but
he has been there, observing how the
young African learns to shoot in alb
abs, and how the black brigade learns
to shoot in platoons. He has no doubt
observed what the President told the
preachers, "that they eat and that was
! all" Perhaps he might tell us how
many thousands, under this humanita.
rian regime, VIC have already living at
our national festive board, and sing
ing the song:
"Old Uncle SANS the landlord-we eat and
q drink our Gil: ta 'N"
And the wisdom of the measure is--there's
nothing for the BILL"
The House refused us thiB informa-
tion last session; and since then they
have increased and scattered over tho
lands until they number hundreds of
thousands. We hear of four hundred