The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1864-1911, 1864-09-14

| FroWn, sirS, fret, faan, prepare your weap-
OnS. threat, strike, shoot, stab, bring on civil
war, dissolve the Union nay anuihilste the
/ solar system If you will, sirs, you can Meth
CT foil or intlnlidate us oiir purpose Is firm
! ly fixed rs the eternal pillars OF Heaven;
we hive determined to abolish slavery, and
/ 50 help us God, abolish it we will Take
. this to bed with yea tonight, sirs, and think
about it. dream over it. aud let US how you
feel tomorrow morning. Page lS7.
Not content with he endorsement of this
treasonabe book 80 well calculated to in
fame the people of the South and bring on
civil war, John A. Bingham, in his place in
Congress, tsee Globe, 81 Congress, Part |,
page 34Sl publicly proclaimed the same in
| famous doctrine. On January Is, 1862
while the House had under consideration IA
bill to raise one hundred and fifty millions of
revenue, he said:
Pass your laws liberating the four mil
lions of slaves held by the rebels, aud there
by break every unjust yoke in that rebel re-
! gion. Let the oppressed 60
free in obedience to that command which
comes to us as a voice from heaven, \ \
| And do you say we have not the Con
stitutional power to enact such a law?-
Why not? Because you say the slave is
the rebels property. cannot admit that
But conceding it for the moment, has he
not forfeited his property as well as his life
t. the Government? Have you not, by
your laws, authoriz d the taking Of his life,
| b tn by the sword and galows?
Pass your laws, proclaim it at the head
of your army, execute it summariy by al
lowing these unwilling supporters of the re-
belIiOn to escape from their masters, through
your lines, and receive your protection in re-
turn for their loyalty, and these children Of
oppression will make such an exodus from
the house of their bondage as the world has
not seen since the exodus Of Gods people,
which the dark eyed daughters Of Israel eel
ebratcd in that sublime song. &c.
Pass this law, require its faithful execu-
ton by your army, and the rebellion must
cease, or It's ditas and abett0Ty must pcriSh
for bread. Do this, aud crown yourselves
with the immortal honor of giving liberty to
one portion of our people, AMI the serene
blessings Of peace to another,
This is only one Of many similar passages,
and it not only illustrates the revolutionary
notion Of John A. Bingham, but proves
him to be the worst Of prophets, false in
every particular But to proceed,
III. We charge that while the danger Of
question of peace or war hung trembling in
the balance, John A. Bingham was an ac-
tive, energetic and most efficient agent to
prevent any compromise Or peaceful settle
ment Of our difficulties.
". We charge that John A. Bingham
is in favor of opening wide our doors for the
admission of negroes and mulattoes into the
State of Ohio.
I We call attention to debate in Congress,
March 2l, 1862, Appendix to Cong Globe,
part 4, page l56. Mr. Mallory said:
Il ask the gentleman from Ohio if he is
willing to throw open the doors Of that great
and noble State-that rich, fruitful and pro-
ductive State-tothe three millions Of slaves
that may be liberated by these emancipation
and conliscation bills? ....... ......
Mr.. Bingham. Its doors are open now,
Mr.. Wickliffe. When did you repeal the
4 law prohibiting them?
Mr. Bingham Assoon as. we turned the
Democratic party ont of power. .,
Mr.. Mallory. know that the gentleman
from Ohio does not intend that this exodus
from the South shall find its way into the
State of Ohio, as the lsraelites did from
Egypt into Palestine No, he has too much
regard for that State, and is too anxious that
its fields shall be TILED by free labor, and has
too high IA sense of the character and attri-
hufes of the Anglo-Saxon race, even to be
willing that the blacks shall go there and be
the competitors of the free white men OF
4 Ohio for the reward of labor. 1t may be
that Ohio may now permit the entrance OF
negroes occasionally, but when that immense
swarm of locasts that destroyed Egypt com
mences to pour itself over that State, the
doors will be closed against them, and he
knows it. -.-. .
Mr.. Bingham. desire tosay to the gen
tleman, that have no idea myself that un-
der any possible pressure | will ever consent
that am man born upon the soil OF this Re
public, by any vote or word Of mine, shall
: be excluded from the limits of any State, my
own included. -, ia. ..--.. -. ,..
V. We charge that JohnA Bingham is
, not only in favor OF encouraging an influx
f of blacks to the fair soil of Ohio, but that he
is in truth In favor Of negroes voting and
], holding office.
In speech which he made in Congress
, on April II, 1862, (see Cong. Globe, part 2
page l639,) he said
"You cannot, as Federal legislators pre-
: vent the exercises Of this right, the right tC
vote by the cotorcd citizens; you cannothelE
, it. The old Bay State, true to her sacred,
herimmortal traditions recollecting that hel
soil is holy ground, marked with the foo
prints of the Apostles and Martyrs Of civi
and religious liberty, has held to her ancient
faith, that rights, even political rights, are
2 inserparable from manhood and citizenship
and in nowise dependent unon c0mpIeci0J
or the accident of birth. | trust in Goo
f whatever States may falter, Massachusetts
may continue in the ancient ways for ever
f more.
In the speech of Mr.. Mallory of May q
., 1852, (Appendix to Congressional Globe
Part a, page 1867 Mr. Mallory said
\ Having obtained from the gentleman
t from Ohio Mr.. Bingham an expression o
humanity and benevolence for which | wa'
r not unprepared. let me go further and ash
. him If he is willing to grant to this horde o
p blacks, let loose from the Southern States
. . free ingress into Ohio, and bestow upol
them all the rights and privileges and attri
5 butes Of American freeman? VIII he al
, low them to be Judges, and members OF the
' Legislature, and members of Congress ant
:. Senators from Ohio?'
| Mr.. Bingham. II am ready to answe
: that question: answered it once before,
thought to the satisfaction of the gentleman
venerable colleague Mr.. Wicklife. | sale
f then, what every gentleman in this Housc
; knows right will, that political privileges
e among which is the privilege Of the elective
franchise, belong exclusively and necessari
! ly, under every form of government beneath
0 the sun, where it is exercised to the aetint
) majority and whenever it accords with til,
h popular sentiment and will, and not before
9 they may be extended to either black citi
: zens of the United States, or any other clas
& of citizens of the United States now exclud
ed from the elective franchise. The funda
mental law of the State of Ohio excludes thC
e entertainment of that idea by the citizen, be
n cnnsp II limits the aIentive franchise to whit