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

apology, and you should adopt resolutions
: the most .'ioyal" kind. Allow me to su,
= gest that the committee on resolutions
selected from contractors and Office holder
particularly suggest one Cooper, who hs
= recently been appointed Assessor for th
large. rich and populas District Of WEI
Tennessee. He was originally from Ne,
r York. True. he was never in West Tennes
see until sent from this CITY on his ofici,
erY. nd: but O no doub, knows. by intuition
E the true value of the goods and chattels, Ian
and tenemepts, &c, OF q people he neve
knew and a country in which he never kne,
and q country in which be never lived. Blu
he is so loyai--so much so, that doubt no
he is better fiued for the office than any on
OF the native born sons, brothers or father
Of the thousands OF soldiers whom, betor
the 22d Of last September, West Tennessee
had furnished to the Federal army. Let tn
committee initiate the LOYAL Leagues" o
Baltimore, and resolve that you not only ap
prove all the present wise and patriotic Ad
mipistra,ion has done, but that you will sus
tain and uphold it in every thing it ma,
hereafter do. Let the committee make aI
elaboTats report, accompanied with resolu
tions denouncing all who find fault with oul
most excellent President. For instance
the last Congress Gn July, 1922 passed q
law to confiscate the property OF certain reb
els. That Congress. though q very wise
body, did not possess as much aggregate wis,
dom as our great and good President. In
proof OF this, we need but refer to the fact
that the Congres aforesaid provided that,
under this law, trial should proceed convic-
tion and forfeiture, and that guilt should be
proven, not presumed. Worse still. it offer
cd an amnesty to repentant rebels: it merci.
fully CAV them sixty days in which to accept
il; and provided, further, that our most no
BILE President might suspend for period ,he
operation of this law As our armies advanced
southwark, so as TO afford oil an opp ortunity
to accept pardon. Worse still, this law &C
tually applied to no one but the rebels
And it is astonishing that it applied to them
every where North as we'll as South--in
Springfield. Illinois, as well as Springfield,
Tennessee. But worse STILL it did not effect
the rights or property OF Union men, woman
and children, or lunatics, in any section OF
the country. That Congress, strange as it
may seem, did not perceive that the way to
end the rebellion and restore affec,ionate re
lations between the section was to place the
Union men, women. children and the insane
upon perfect footing Of equality with the
vilest traitors in the land. That Congress
believed that the crime Of refusing obedience
to the usurpation Of Davis and Co. in Misss-
sppi, Arkansas, North Carolina and else>
where, amid the terrors of m litary des-
pe,irm, did not merit the same or worse pun
ishment than that they had denounced
against titled and official traitors. That
Congress spared the woman and children; it
also shielded from harm the Union men who
still adhered to the national symbol of pro
lection. What weakness! But Congress
has adjourned. What was to be done!-
Thank Heaven, our sagacious President was
found equal to the occasion. You will per-
ceive that on the first Of January last, under
| this 80 called Confscation Law, the slaves Of
every rebel in the United States who had
not accepted the amnesty therein provided
we're de jure free. But now were we to end
this rebellion If the Union men, woman and
children in the so>called Con federate States
were left in undisturbed possession Of their
legal and constitutional rights? II this poll
icy was adopted, the rebels might become
angry with these monuments OF Federal
mercy" and in that event the spared mon.
uments aforesaid might cling more closely to
the Federal flag: This division among the
people might cause still mere unhappy
state of affairs in Dixie; our friends there
might have to bear additional indignities.
As before remarked, our. mercful and
considerate President was found equal to the
crisis, In long conversation with some
inspired apostles from the sanity city OF
Chicago place where Oncerdonk 'ng and
other worldly amusement are unknown
the President candidly confessed that he
was endeavoring (hs did not sta to the means)
to ascertain the will of the Lord upon this
difficult question; that so soon as be learned
the divine pleasure he verliy would do the
will of the Master who sent him. The rev
elation came. doubtless, "by due course OF
mail" Judging from "that which is writ
ten." it amounted to this: That in portion
OF Virginia and Louisiana, In Delaware, in
MARYLAND, in Tennessee, and Missouri, 1t
was u was iaw'ui iof traitors VINO haa &C"
cepted the amnesty provided oy tne Conns,
cat'on Law, ana Oil other persons, 10 hoia
slaves ous tnat in the sioe watei regions OF
virginia, ana In tnat part OF LOUISIANA wnich
mad not been con ecrated TO slavery oy the
military occupation OF denerai Butter, az
also IN North Carohna, fiorida' urorg'a'
Alabama, mississippi, Arkansas and Iexas'
1t should no longer 90 lawful ior the on,on
men, women and children 20 hold our A'ris
can teliow'citl1snts 10 service or LABOR Ana
yet there are tnose Oh the "coppernead per
Suasion" who profess not to see the wisdom
o. this great mas'er stroke OF our mes. no
Die and exalted fres'dent. Sirs oio II NOT
immed,ateiy dlVioe the south ana unite .ne