The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1864-1911, 1864-09-21
CADIZ OHIO, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER q, 1854


fare. Man cared little for the light tax;
ton assessed upon him under good Go,
crnment. Go where | might, / saw the e'
idence Of public and private prosperity
| Three years have passed away. You hay
given up to war 0neshaf the number ofyou
young men capable of bearing arms.
your work shops and on your iarnis labor
10 longer cheerful. Men are told that the
must leave their hores; that they must {
handon their plOughin the fulrow; that the
must turn away from the spindle and loon
and devote themselves TO war Mother
and sisters are in trouble by the family heart
and when there is trouble there, there is n
happiness in life Under the policy of tn
! Federal Administration. this is not to be tn
I last draft upon you. When I said to tn
officers of the Administration that ma
/ enlisted from my State for three years ougil
to count as three men for one year in tn
coming conscription, ! was told that th
proper credit would be given i'll the mex
! draft to be made.
Now is there no mode by which the PEG
| pie can BIZ protected from these frightfu
sacrifices, and the Union be saved? Il
God name, are there no means ny whicl
we can save the lives of husbands and bro
| theirs? We mean to save the Union Fo
tIrcc ud - haIi' ve,rs we bayo t,iad w,r !,
vain-in vain. rs believe, lccausc Of fb,
! nolicv If tha Goye,nn,rnf That nol;cv la
tended to nrpyant ona not to tastorG H.,
old Jfnion Tae, NV. rennhlicon f.;nnds +,
tbipl, conSideratcIv l3nnn tbn rircnInst,nnc
in which no ire niaced Wa loffIa Cn,vo,
~ fir o,,,Salvas SVbcp yo sbalI ~,;, ,,or,,
er ,~ain tharc is ,n.r;cbt ,yb;ch yn % I'd 81,
ourselves wc shojl ndf secrln to Won | n,
have been dcenIv amgrieycd, as we f1ol h,
thc nolicv Of dui. ,sI2lTs Onr r;ohfs hoy,
been infripred unon The freedom IF ynnrrI
and of the press has been denied us. The
sacredprss of orr homes hns bncn ;n,noirod
We could not behold the fearful cIcspoilinf
Of o,,r country goi8g on without = feeEnr 81
humiliation, This division of our neontc
among themselves painS me, But here
pledge myself that # democratic admin.
istration come inte newer md van. nv rn
publican friends. shall have rp,Son IN co,n.
plain of these wronrs, 7 will foht to thr
death to prcscrye TO Won these RIGHTS Which
have becn drnied 70 ne TboI,rb T, INV onnn. orrI
ncnts make the pulpits Of the land source
of deadly asrer<ions upon me, | will take
my stand at their doors and give nv Blood
to maintain their night to do so.
No thoughtful man will approach these
questions without feeling Of humility. No
man can contemplate these new made graves
Of our land without feeling al the passions
Of his heart hushed, and his pride ofcpinion
crushed by the events of the last few years.
We believe the policy of the administration
has placed hindrances in the way of the
Union. Its measures have hampcrcd our
can bring to us neither, Union nor pcase. =
1t is nearly two years since the Government
serted the mouth of the Mississippi river,
and yet notp foot Of land there is yet rcsto-
red to the Union. The border States are
held to MS by the force of arms. Had you
been in the Convention in Chicago YOU
would have seen men from Kentucky who,
less than three years ago. were vtncratcd in
Congress. who bore on their faces thu,;m-