The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1863-02-18

Speech for stopping the War Iu
the H1use OF Representative.
at Washington. by Mr.. Conway
the able Republican Member
from Kansas-iRe Proposes iht
4 Acknowledgment Of the Con.
federates-A Radical View 0l
the Question. ea. .7
A few days since, Mr.. Conway, o.
Kansas, one of the most ultra, as vel
as one of the ablest Of the Republican
members Of Congress, nade aspeeel
in favor Of peace and the stoppage oi
the war. The speech is. said to have
the approval of Governor Andrew,
Charles Sumner, Wendell Phillips,
Horace Greeley, and other leading
i,Abolitionists, who held a caucus in
Washington just before it was deliv.
ered- 1t is very important demon.
stration. We take the following ex-
tracts from it, which show its charac-
ter:-- a| ..s ,15f
| HE Is AGAINST RE- UNION.
Sir, sm not In favor Of restoring the con-
stitutional relations Of the slayehoiders to
the Union, nor OF the war to that end. On
/ the contrary, am utterly and forever oppo-
sed to both. am in favor Of the Union ss
it exists to. day. am in favor Of recogni.
zing the loyal States rs the American nation,
based as they are on the principles Of free-
dom Tor all, without distinction OF race, color
or condition. l believe it to be the mani.
fest destiny Of the Amer can nation TO ulti-
mately control the American continent on
this principle.
conceive, there fore, that the true object
Of this war is to revoluiionize the national
Government by resolving the North into tbe
nation and the South INTO distinct public
body, leaving US in position to pursue the
latter as separate State. believe that the
direction of the war to any other end is 4
peryersion of it, calculated to subvert the
very object it was designed to effect.
HIS UNIoNIsM,
have never allowed myself to Indulge in
that superstitious idolatry Of the Union SO
prevalent among simple but honest people,
nor that political cant about the Union 80
prevalent among dishonest ones. have
simply regarded it as a form OF Government,
to be valued in proportion to its merits as
an instrument OF national prosperity and
power.
THE SOUTH INDEpENDENT.
The war which has come in between the
North and the South Tor the past two years
has made revolution. 1t has substituted
in the South another Government for that
OF the Union. This is the act, and the TACT
in such matters is the important thing 1t
settles the law. No technically in ques
ton OF this kind can stand. The war has
utterly dissolved the connection between the
N orth and South, and rendered them sepas
rate and independent powers in the world
This Is the necessary legal effect ot civil
war anywhere. 1t makes the b lligerent
parties independent for the time being, and +,
unless the one succumbs to the other, they
continue independent Of each other forever
The principle is laid down by Yat,al as
follows.
"When nation becomes divided into two
parties, absolutely independent and no Ions
ger acknowledging common superior, the
State Is dissolved, and the war between the
two parties 81 ands upon the same ground. in
every respect, as publ C war between differ
ent nations. p Book III, chap, II, p. 428.
It is not to be wondered at, therefore
that SO learned and profound juist as the
honorable member from Pennsylvania Mr..
Stevens] should express the same opinion.
*1- Er$ n IF
THE DEMOCRACY TRUE TO THE UNION.
The Democrats will not, OF course, listen
to separation for an instant Such a sugges
tion, in their eyes, is treason-a proposition
to dissolve the Unien---for which one ought
to be banged. They expect the question
whether the Union shall be restored by force
or by compromise to be submitted to the
people at tho next elecnon; and urcn that
to carry the country. Their plan is to op>
pose the Administration simply on ITS anti
slavery policy. They put in issue the Com
fiscation Act, the Missouri Emancipation
Act, and the Presidents Proclamation OF
Emancipation. These measures they pro>
noupee unconstitutional, deny their validity,
and every thing done, or to be done, in pur-
suance of them. In addition to this, they
attack the administrator on account OF its
suspension Of the writ Of habeds corpus, false
imprisonment corruption, imbecility, SC,
and a thousand other incidents. But on the
war and the integrity Of the Union, they
are like adamant itself They clain TO 70
vor the war for The sake OF the Union. but
to be for compromise rather than war; They
say very truthfully that the Republicans
have tried force tor two years, and exhausted
the country, and upon this claim the adop
ton oi their method as all that is left 10 be
done. This is the manner in which the pol
iticians OF the country propose TO terminate
this great conflict. 1908 4 -D.H gr Ak
81. THE GREAT CONSERVATIVE fARTT. a.
An alliance seems recently to have beon
eftected to this end between certain clemens
heretofore hostile. The border State poll
ticians are the remnant OF the old Wing and
Know Nothing par, les, who, all their lives,
cherished an intense hatred Of the Democra-
cy. They now unite with that party TO OF
feet this object. The Republicans Of the
Albany school, under the sagacious leader
ship OF Mr Weed, who, for long years fought
the Van Buren regency, and fiaaily broke it
down through the agency Of Tree soil, are
also hand in glove with their old opponents
Thus the army Of ths Democracy takes the
field for the next great political battle, sup.
ported on the lett by the followers Of Clay
and Crittenden, and on the right by tho spe
cial friends Of William H. Seward. Such q
most may well feel confident. 1t is q comb.
nation for victory. The elements have been
we'll shaped. Not inyain have the border
State politicians thronged the ball OF the
Presidential mansion. Not in vain has the
discreet Secretary of State incurred the rep
utat on Of having become itnbecile. Not In
vain has the whole Administration suffered
tho odium OF drifting with the tids for lack
OF a policy. They conld we'll afford TO dis
Epsnss with the applause fthe radicals, while