The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1863-08-26
DANGERS IN THE PRESENT
CRISIS OF THE WAR.
Letter n ON Wm. WhItIug, Esq
solicitor 90 the War Depart
ueut.

The following letter. although addressed
to the Union League in Philadelphia, sees
the light FIRST in the Boston Traveller:
10 the Union League cf Philadelphia:
GENTLEMEN: Your letter has been re
eeiyed, in which you have done me the hon
OF OF requesting me 10 address the members
OF the Union Lesgue OF Philsdelphia upon
the subjects connected with the present state
oi public affairs -s-- .. Er.
have expected, until recently, to be able
10 comply with your invitations; but as my
ensagements will. for the present, place il
out OF my power to do so, beg permission
to make 9 lew suggestions for your consider
alton. a.a
DANGERS IL THE PRESENT CRISIS OF THE
WAR.
However brilliant the success OF our mill
tary operations has been, the country is en-
compassed by dangers. Two wars are still
wsged between citizens OF the United
States--a war Of arms and war OF ideas -
Achievements in the field cannot much out
strip the victories OF the forum While we
fix our attention upon the cfeckered Iortunes
of our heroic soldiers, and trace their march
es over hills and valleys, made memorable
thro' all time by their disasters or their tri
umphs, while we are filled by alternating
hopes and tears, with Civilizations and dis
appointments; while our brothers and sons
are rudely torn from their homes, and the
weeds Of the mother and sister record in the
family the fearful glory OF the fallen brave;
while the movements Of our vast armies, in
all the pOmp, pride and circumstance Of glor
ious war.-the thunder OF their guns--the
news OF their brilliant successes fill the head
and heart--let US not forget that there is
another war waged by men not less brave,
for victories not less renowned, that are woD
on battle fields.
The deadly struggle is between civilizs
ton and barbarsln, freedom and slavery, re
pubicanism and aristocrscy, loyalty and
treason.
The true patriot will watch with profound
interest the fortunes o. this Intellectual and
moral conflict, because the issue involves the
cOuntry's safety, prosperity and honor. II
victory shall crown the efforts OF those
brave men who believe and trust in God.
then shall all this bloody sacrifice be conss-
Grated, and the years OF suffering shall exalt
US among the nations il We fail, no triumph
OF bru;e force can compensate the world tor
our uufathomable degradation.
Let us then endeaycr to appreciate the
difficulties of our present position. .
VI several subjects to which, were it in
my power, would ASH your earnest atten-
tion, can speak Of one only. -.
As the success Of the Union cause shall
become more certain and apparent to the
enemy in varions localities, they will lay
down arms and cease fighting. Their bit
ter and deep rooted hatred Of the Govern
ment, and of all Northern men who are not
traitors, and Of all Southern men who are
loyal, will still remain interviewer in every
fibre of their hearts. and will be made, il
possible, more intense by the humiliation oI
conquest and subjecton The loot OF the
conqueror planted upon their proud necks
will not sweeten their tempers. and their
defiant and trecherous nature will seek to
revenge itself in murders, assassna ions,
and all underhand methods OF inventing a
spite which they dare not manifest by open
war, and in driving out OF their borders all
loyal men. To suppose that Union senti
ment will remain in any considerable mum
ber of men, among q people who have
strained every nerve and made every sAcri
flee TO destroy the Union, indicates dishon
esty. insanity, and feebeness oil intellect.
The inhabitants OF the corqu.red districts
will begin by claiming the r'ghtto exercise
the powess OF government, and under their
cons ructlon OF State rights to get control
Of the lands, personal property, slaves, free
blacks, and poor whites, and legallzed pow
.er, through the instrumentslity OF State
laws, made to answer their own purposes, 10
oppose aud prevent the execution OF the
Constitution and laws Of the United States,
within districts Of the country inhabited by
them. ~.
Thus, for instance, when South Carolina
shall have ceased fighting, she will say to
the President: "We have now laid down our
arms; we submit to the authority of the
United States Government. You may re.
store your Custom houses, your Courts ol
Justice. and il we hold any public property,
we give it up; we now have chosen Senators
and Representatives 10 Congress, and de
mand their admission, and the full establish
ment OF all our State rights, and our restor-
alton to all our former privileges and immu-
nifty as citizens Of the United States."
This demand is made by men who are
traitors in heart; men who hate and despise
the Union; men who never had patrioii ic
sentiment, men who, if they could, would
hang every friend OF the Government. But,
for the sake oi getting power into their own
hands by our censession. which they could
not obtain by fghting--and for the sake OF
avoiding their national crimes, they will de.
mand restoration under the guise Of claiming
State rights.
What will be the consequences Of yielding
this demand? -@.
|. They will gain the right of managing
their affairs according to their will and
pleasure, aud not according to the will and
pleasure Of the. people OF the United States.
They will be enabled by the intervention
Of their State laws and State Courts to put
and maintain themselves in effectual and
perpetual opposition to the laws and Con
stituton oi the United States, as they have
done for thirty five years past. They will
have the power to pass such. local laws as
will effectuslly exclude all Northern men,
all soldiers, all free blacks and all persons
and things which shall be inconsistent with
the theory Of making Slavery the corner
stone of their local Governmr mt; and they
may make Slavery perpetual, in violation OF
the laws OF the United, States and procla
nations Of the President. They may con
tnue the enforcement OF those classes OF
laws against free speech and freedom Of the
Press, which will forever exclude popular
education, and every other means OF moral,
social and political advancement. They
may send back to G ,ngress the same trai>
tors and conspirators who have once betray-
ed the country into civil war, and who will
thwart and embarrass all measures tending
to restore the Union by harmonizng the in
tercsts and institutions OF the people; and so,
beng introduced into, ss the wooden horse
into Troy, gain by fraud and treason that
which they could not achieve by feats OF
arms. The insanity Of State rights doc
triueS will be nOiirisbed and etronpthaned nv