The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1864-1911, 1864-10-26

the South 20 her former Jraternal RELATION
ship without saying that all they have done
for the last three years has been wrong
Suppose there is victory, aud you call up
on Mr.. Lincoln to give us again peace, pros
perity.. ana national happiness, to do the
work of pacfication, by assuring the people
of the South that if they return they shall
have again at least the security of their
homes Mr.. Lincoln lifts his manacled hand
and says Il cannot; there is the confSca-
ton law, which | must obey" We beg
him that at least he will allow them to live
under their own State governments, so
that we may be relieved of the taxation
necessary to maintain q military govern
mcnt
again, Mr. Lincoln lifts manacled hand
and says, II can not; there is my proclama
ton; | stand before the country shackled by
proclamationS and shackled by acts Of Con-
cress ! can do nothing to pacify the South.
He is powerless, unless he can induce Con
gress to undo all that it has done; he can
not disregard the wishes of those who have
become his masters-for one man makes
another his master when he critters into an
arrangement with him that will not bear the
investigation of the laws of the land. Loud
cheering. The Democratic party can re-
store the Union, and believe it will. Great
applause. If that is true, then appeal to
my Republican friends if they are not bound
to give the government into our hands
Will any man say THAT we engage in this
contest for political triumph? What is a
political triumph? | stand before you to-
night, candidate in my own state for an
honorable office. Cheers ] What matters
it if politics alone were to be considered,
whetherI | am elected or beaten? A few
brief years and | shall pass away and slum-
ber in the grave Voice: God bless you "
In little time, we, with all our passions,
our hopes, and our fears, shall be no more.
No: the issues in this contest are the des-
tiny of our country, the liberty of our land,
the preservation of the Constitution, the u
Mon of the States, We do not battle for
constitutional law and for personal rights for
ourselves alone. A change of parties may,
perhaps, make you, my Republican friends,
the objects of wrong under the precedents
that you yourselves have established; but
We battle for your rights as well as ours. =
There is no man living who values the good
opinion of others more than do; but when
the Democratic party comes into power, If
any man in this land sees fit, in the most
public place to stand up and denounce me
as all that is bad and base, | pledge myself
here | will battle for his right to do so at the
cost of my life. Tremendous and continu-
ed cheeringl wish that all could feel as ]
do on matters Of retigion-that they should
love the gospel of peace and good will, that
they would speak kindly even of the erring,
and that Christian love and charity should
abound in all the relations of life buff there
be those who would convert the temples of
God into arenas for fierce, yindictive, par
tisan demonstration, will stand in front of
his porch and defend to the utmost their
right to do so We battle not for party,
but for all.
In ordinary political elections the interests
Of the party may be a sufficient object, but
now there is too much at stake. therefore
aver that when our Republican friends say
to you and to me: "You sympathze with
the South; you have kindly feelings for the
South" They only say, "You can make
peace with the South better than we =
When they charge that we have ancient
affiliations and cordial relations with the
South, and that we desire the political help
of the South, they only give another reason
why we should be permitted to avail our
selves of those peculiar advantages to bring
back our Union. Laughter aud cheers Is
it not monstrous that the charges brought
in the selt-same breath-,frst, that we desire
a separation Of the Union, and next that all
restoration of the Union? They, on the
restoring the Union. If this is true, they
ought to give the work up to us. They
ought to say to us, "You have supported us
for four long years; you have given us three
millions of men and three thousand millions
of treasure; you have burdened your States
with taxation, and loaded down your NUM-
cipalities: your homes have been deprived
of many comforts; more than all you have
given up your loved ones to die, and sad va
cancies are left by the Ereside. We have
tried our policy fer four years; we have
failed to restore peace and to bring back the
Union, and now. in common fairness, you
should be allowed to try the effect of your
policy" We are not parties to their vim
dictive legislation.
Let me tell you of this Confscation act
Before you can confscate property you have
got to get it. After wasting men and arms
you will find that those who fight for their
homes are the men who fight on and fight
ever. Applause. And when you have
got the property it will be in desolated
country, and its value will be destroyed. =
But in attempting to confscate the proper
ty of the Southern people, the Administra-
ton have in fact confscated yours by the
increase of taxation which their policy threw
upon you. 1t is dangerous for govern
nent to have more power than it can exer-
else wisely and well, Our fathers wished to
avoid this danger. They did not fear for
the rights of the States, for these cannot be
trampicd out of existence The armed heel
of military power may tread upon them for
u day, but in the end they will rise again il
their might and integrity.
But our fathers said, 'If we give this
central government power which it can not
exercise ,judiciously, it will become odious to
the people They were called upon to form
a government for vast extent Of country
They said IF we have king, he can not
know the peculiar wants Of the people in the
Middle OF Pennsylvania or in the middle of
New York He lacks the intimate knowl-
edge of these localities necessary to one who
is to egislateapon their affairs"
With an aristocracy the same difficulty
would arise. They hit upon the common
sense idea which you all act upon in your
daily life. There is no man in the con,mu-
nifty who is efficient ut all trades and profess
sons. There are lawyers, doctors aud cler
gymen. If you desire lawyer you go to a
peason especially learned in that profession
You say he may not be very honest man,
but ne understands law thoroughly. Laugh
ter. Your family is sick--you do not 60
again to lawyer but toa doctor He may
know nothing of law, but he is an excellent
physician. One man, or Que set of men
cannot govern this country. There must
be men of skill in all departments, i'll all To-
calities, to do their separate work.
The people of Schuylkl county in Penn
syvania or of Oneida county, New. York.
from which, came, may NOT BIO the best peo-