The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1864-1911, 1864-07-13

end that deliberately and dcterminedly cnul-
! pleted ths overthrow Of that party by bo,ting
| from the Charleston Convention AMI nOhi-
mating BreekInridge and Lane against Doug
las and johnson. All through the canvass,
We Republicans recognized and treated the
boters az our virtual and powerful allies.
And when, through their aid, we had slect-
ed Lincoln and Hamlin, our triumph WAS no
where more generally OF. openly exulted over
than In Charleston the fountain and focus
ofthc rebellion, +"
This is explicit-to the point. It. admits
the fact that there was factionin the South,
laboring TO bring about a separation, and
that faction hai its counterpart in the North.
The Hanceys, the Rhettsr the Keitts, had a
counterpart in the G1rrisons, the Grceeys
and Lnc0lns-all working together and for
the same object, And, after the people had
been scduced into the vortex Of disunion cte-
ated by the Joint efforts of these flnatics,
and elected Lincoln To the Presidency the
work passed from their hands and was there
fter.eonducted by these engineers, to the
utter ruin Of the country. And how did it
happen that thism faction Of secession
lists, at first, succeeded in carrying their
point so well as to involve the whole cotton
States and enlist the sympathies of the en-
tire South? 1t was by inhaming the alrea-
dy excited southern people by pointing to
the efforts of men in the North to strike at
the equality of the States, by putting the in
stitutions of the South under the ban of the
Union; to the efforts TO confscate slave
property in transit through the North, the
possession of which, during such transit was
guaranteed by the same constitutional pro-
visions which secured to citizens of the
North the right to 90 with their property,
or other domestic rights, through the South
ern States to reclamation of fugitiyes from
service; to system of agitation and propa-
gandiSm by means of societies, Incorporated
and Others for the purpose OF preaching at
the North a crusade against the institutions
Of the people Of the Southern States to the
open ayowal by Mr.. Lincoln that slave and
free labor States could not co-exist in the
same Union; to the nomination Of the au-
thor Of. this sentiment to be the candidate Of
these Republican agitators for the prcsiden-
ey; and, finally, to his election by purely
sectional vote.
And in this work Nh Lincoln, after his
election, assisted most successfully. Il, after
he was elected, he had given strong assurau-
ces to the Southern people that their rights
should be protected, their interests guarded,
the Constitution and laws enforced and that
they should be shielded from invasion in
rights or property, South Carolina,
Alabama, Mississippi and Georgia would
have stood alone in their acts of secession,
and the balance of the States would have
stood to the old Unton and the rebellion
would have been put down within year,
But, instead Of this, he chose to work 1cjh
and for the rebellion, by acts and procama-
tions most insulting and damaging to the
whole South His proclam2tions Of Eman
cipation, Confscation, Amnesty, &c, &c,
aud other acts as disastrous. These had the
effect to unite the whole South, and to-day
they stand out in rebellion against the au-
thority Of Abraham Lincoln a thousand fold
stronger than at the beginning Of the war.
Can any one doubt this? None but one will
fully blind to passing eTents Or incapable Of
perceiying g plain truth when presented to
his Judgment will doubt it for moment.
And the radical Abolition leaders rejoice in
the present state Of things for now, they
say, they will carry out their design Of de-
stroying slavery without doubt. And we
suppose they will do it, even if it takes the
last white man and the last white man s
dollar to accomplish it. ...
This rebellion and war, and their natural
results, destruction to the best Government
on earth, being the work Of disunionists and
fanatics North and South, al! laboring iii the
same line, for the same common end, will
the people not arouse and assert theirrights
and liberties, and stay the hand of desola-
ton and destruction, by changing their ru-
lcrs? Humanity, common sense and regard
for their own interests and rights demand
this at their Lands.