The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1864-1911, 1864-11-02
LINCOLN TEHE sEGEssEGNESTS
BEST AEEY-TEEE HEDEPEN-
fsENCE GE TEE SOEEEa sE-
CaREIs BK HE'S RE-ELEC-
eENERE

II tharcfe single man who thinks that
IA, rebels, (thc original secessionists of 50,
30 and Gl y do not regard Mr., Lincoln az
the man OF their choice fer President Of the
CG!tel Stats, W, ask him to read the arti-
ce which We reprint below from the Rich
uoal Ettasl'er This paper va th e frat
IA that city to come out for secession, md
than which no journal at the South has more
at baar. the Independence OF the so-call@d
Confederate S.ataA Mn OF the North,
WI you vote for aman whom the rebels long
to zoe roeec!ea, or will you vote Eof Gen
eral Mcclellan, in who's, es. 9ior they see
tbs dosAtlu Of their oonfederacy and the
restoration Of the old Union? This question
is.o he decided in November
From the Richmond Examiner, Oct. II 1854.
Some donbt remains Us to the political
e,np!cxion Of Pennsylvania. The press Of
the unltea States ha, become 50 radically
,nenlatious that it is Impossible to put trust
IA the first accounts even of au eyentso pub
liz and plain as the result of an c!eetion. --
eomc days may yet elapse before eertitude
i,attaincd Rut we entertain strong hope
ktAht LhS Az CpuDIlStthH IHlS uphG hiiAt iiISt
seemed at first TO have donc, and confess u
deep disire that the present result may fore
sha&ow the reelection Of Abraham Lin
c1ln. For AbrahuM LjncolA Is He .Soath.s
best oNn This confederacy had million
lod : quarter Of men capable OF bearing
arms Mt the outset Of the contest; force
sah 'lent to ina get any invading power and
defy the possibility Of subiugation. The
only danger lay in the difficulty OF bringing
this force into the field. 45whom Lincoln
remored that dtpteutty By the character aehich
Mio,parted to khe. ecdr. lie made Goths
and Fanda.a Of his troops, and proclaimed
devastation, confis,atioa and determination
"a his purpose It was then that he invok-
ed into the field those powerful southern
armies which have so successfully resisted
his assaults. 1t is scarcely possible to con-
ceive how conflict could have been render
cd more envenomed than the present one
has becorne through that truculent policy OF
Mr.. Lincoln, Yet This man found = means
Of ofintensitying its terocity He proclaimed
insurrection to the slaves and armed ali the
blacks which he could seduce into his SER
vice, against the whites who had been their
masters. BY this policy he eRectually sue
soeded in calling out and combining every
clement of resistance in the South-a strong
will appear soon after the meeting of the
Confederate Congress. The enemy talk of
the despotism which drags conscrpts into
the southern. armies, and forces old men and
children into the bitches, but the despotism
which coerces the South is seated at Wash
ington, and not at Richmond. The confed-
oracy has proved that it had nerve and res-
olution to achieve an independent destiny;
but it is indebted to lincoln or forcing these
1ultIes into action. rgr
The disruption of old political associations
is always hazardous experiment. The
great majority Of minds in wealthy and
prosperous community are averse to change
and revolution, preterring to endure great
evils rather than resort 10 sanguiRary meas
ures for redress. No men ever felt the
weight of this truth more forcibly than those
who inaugurated the movement for seces-
SION The whole danger and risk Of the ex-
pertinent consisted in that conservative
avertion to change and convulsionwhich pos
sescs the popular masses On this rock the
secession cause might have split, if it had
not been safly pitotel past Il By the pains Of
abraham Lincoln. The cause was saved in
1862 by the conscription; and Lincoln-----not
the Escdminer newspaper-may be said to
have been the author Of the c0nscrlption,
pVOsu"SI SASSpt Iul Illc lcIUClOu5 PoiiOy
which he pursued, it could never have been
enforced. He has rendered resistance an
absolute duty and necessity, and brought
thatduty and necessity home to every man S
door; inasmuch, that no man in the South
having any selfrespect or regard for the
opinions of his neighbers, dares to disobey
the call OF his country to arms. a
But for the incentives supplied by Mr..
Lincoln, the South, by want of union and
energy, might have failed to deserve the re-
spect of mankind; might have been unable
TO levy greatarmies: and the forces in the
field might have fought with little energy or
for restoration. The popular majority might
have been disposed at the first soft words.
from the enemy, to renounce the southern
cause and return to the enjoyment Of repose,
prosperity and dishonor. Mr.. Lincoln has
prevented sucha contingency, and relieved
the South of all these dangers by course
Of policy which rendered reconstruction i'm.
possible. By drtriag as TO- extremity, he has
oon,bined every element Of orr strength, and
ensured orr success If the South could be
conquered at all, there is but one way by
which il could be done. If the armies Of
=