The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1864-01-20
W hat mnst be accomplished In
tsse Year 1864.

In conversing a few days since, says the
Ohio Statesman, with an aged, inteliigen
and resepatad citz3n of Uhio, vino has,
through the partiality of his fellow citlzens,
occupied many important posts Of trust and
honor, We asked him question: "What is
/ to be the end o our present troubles" HIS
answer was thus: "Everythirg looks dark
and gloomy. and lear the end Of our diff,
culties will be a Military Despotsm." This
venerable man has been steudfast member
OF the so>called Union party ever since the
| war began, and now at the close of the year
1868, his opinion is such as we have stated
above Our valued friend, for sucn we es
teen him, is not alone in thus opinion. The
miserable ineffcency, inlbecility, corrup-
tion and gross usurlation Of those who are
10 power in the civil administration otthe
Government, is beginning to have its effect
upon the thinking and patriotic men who
have hereto ore stood stead'astly by and sus
tanned the Administration in all its acts;
notwithstanding the many alaI ming and
gross violations OF the Constitution OF which
1t has been guilty. They were willing to
tolerate all, under the hope and expectation
that they would be only temporary and that
and patriotic. But gradually such men b.
gin to discern tha evil Of tolerating usurpa>
tions which have steadily and rapidly IN
clsased until there is now scarcely YES
tige o Constitutional liberty lett. Between
the usurpauons OF the legitimate Admnistra.
ton at Washing on; and Davis's illegtimate
government; at Richmond, public iberfy and
the liberty and rights of individual citiytns
are rapidly disappearing in he Uni ed S ates
and ii a change does not take place. and that
right speed y, the worst fears Of our venera
be iriend must come to pass
Can nothing be dpne to this terrible re.
suit? Is thsre no way lett open by which
our troubles may be composed the Constilu>
tion preserved and our Union restored? p
Have the In Of this day and generation SO
degenerated as to b, unable or incompetent
TO preserve the precious legacy ofFREE Gov
ERNMENT which the Revolutionary fathers
established, and which has been transmitted
to us, from destruction? This simple ques
ton (what reflection on the patriotism OF
the age that it is necessary to PROFOUND it)
should arouse all lovers OF eur country and
its hallowed institutions to energetic and
nitea action. Immediately and at once, to as
vert such dire calamity and to save il pos
sible, our liberties and institutions. -
There is not Democrat In the whole
land who is not impressed with the belle {
that the continuance Of the Federal Admin
istration n the hands Of the ultra fanatics,
beyond the present term OF Abraham Lin
coin, will be fatsl; that within the next con
stitutional term OF . President, il things 90
on in the same way they are now tending
our Republican Institutions will be blotted
out, and the people become the victims Of
such form OF government as force or chance
may give them. The opinion is not confined
20 Democrats. Hundreds, nay thousands
upon thousands OF conservative men, who
never cast Democratic vote in their lives,
are strongly impressed with apprehensions
and fears as TO the iuture OF our country, If
mad and fauatical influences which now con.
troll the Illustration are not arrested;
and these men stand ready to unite with the
Democracy in effort to take the Admins.
trati0n out OF the hands of the radicals and
place it under the control oI a conservative
constitutional man, surrounded by patriotic
and Union.loving influences. And this il
necessarily tho first step. Put man at the
head OF the Nation as its Chief Executive Of
ficer, who, when he holds up his hand and
swears co support, protect, and defend the
Constitution, means to regard bis oath, and