The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1864-04-06
Mr.. Lincoln and his Administra.
ttOn Impeached by a "LOyaf'
Paner

|. Mr.. Lincoln and his Administra
h tiOn ImPeached by a Loyal
! Paper.
The crowded state of our column
has prevented us from laying the i'm
s portant article, which we copy froI
S the New York New Nation, befor
our readers at an earlier day. LIE
no person fail to peruse it carefully
The New Nation is the organ of tn
Fremont faction, recently started
and, of course, is intensely 'loyal. y
A more scathing review of Mr.. Lin
coins public acts-a more terrible e.
posure of his pretensions to honest.
and capacity. has not been and, w
might almost say, could not be writ
ten: We have nothing to add to tht
Indictment, which is summed up in the
conclusion that Mr.. Lincoln "is, of al
the citizens of the United States, the
least honest and the most dangerous.
No one of those who opposed Mr.. Lin
coins election has ever pronounced
upon his career with such severity as
marks this manifesto from his quon.
dam friends. We submit to the party
and it's organs whose business it is to
defend the President, that the engine
ry Of denunciation and terrorism which
for three years past has been held to
bear upon the Democracy, must now
be turned upon this new and more
savage and relentless foe.
The fate which awaits all ''trlm~
mers' has at last overtaken Mr.. Lin
coin. The small shrewdness which he
brought with him from his law prac.
tice in Springfield inspired him with
the idea that he might hold o middle
course between the great parties
that he might maintain an appearance
of respect for constitutional obligation
and yet retain the support of the fac
tion which secuted every such consid-
GRAFTON. The Conservative masses of
the country accepted in good faith
the assurances and pledges he gave
them; the Radicals discovered the
double game he played, and. discard
ing him as leader, only tolerated
him for the future as tool. Such a
character as Lincoln's bent on pleas
ing two parties, will invariably be rul-
ed by the more exciting and hostile of
the two. Accordingly, while the
Radicals were never tired of vilifying
the President they had elected, and
demanding from him new surrenders
of principle, he was as unwearied in
his readiness to concede. Without a
sign of conscientious conjunction he
violated every pledge by which he had
bound himself to Conservatism, and
ran with servile agility to the farthest
length of Abolition policy in order to
conciliate the favor of his insatiate
friends" the radicals. His utmost
sacrifices have been unaviling. He
sold himself, but the pay is not forth.
coming. His masters, for whose sake
he has forfeited the support of the
Constitution-loving people, having ac>,
complished their end with him, are
now the first in their contempt and
hatred of the tool they formerly en-
ployed. They know him; they helped
to make him, they used him; and it is
out of the fullness of their knowledge
that they now speak of him. ~ /
1t is not likely that in the face of
such exposures as the Radicals are
and are able still to make,
that the cant about Mr.. Lincoln's
''honesty'' will be much longer cons
tinued in circulation. Nor, when it is
proclaimed by the most 'loyal' fae-
tion of the only "loyar' party, that
three years of prodigal expenditure !
and reckless bloodshed have only |
brought the nation to the verge of
ruin, will there be much room for
boasting about the Capacity of the
Executive who is now running the
Government machine in the interest
If his ownre-nomination. More prob
ably the popular voice will echo the
ruth which comes so unexpectedly
rom the Radical quarter whose utter,
ances we have been considering. The
country will conclude, with the New
Nation, that ''we have been imposed
Upon long enough!ioaThe ruin which
you (Mr. Lincoln have been unable to
accomplish in four years, would GER
;aiply be consummatcd were you to
,emain in power four years longer
Your military Governors and their
Provost Marshals override the laws,
md the echo Of the armed heel rings
'orth as clearly now in America as in
Austria. d You HAVE ENoReAcHED up
IN OUR LIBERTY WITHOUT SECURING
5IcToRY; AND WE MUST HAVE BOTH"