The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1864-1911, 1864-07-13
The Republicans and Rebels
E.abOrsERg for one End,


The Brown County Ohio Argus says that
Notwithstanding it is very certain to every
rejecting mind that Aboitionism sowed the
seeds Of disunion many years ago, in its at
sampts to disregard the national authority as
between the North and South, yet We have
daily fang before our eyes that the rebels
caused the war. History shows that on two
or three distinct occasions Massachusetts, had
declared for disunion, for separation from
the Union, for secession. At the Louisiana
purchase the Abolitionsts resolved to sace3e;
again in the war Of l8i2-l4, and still again
in 1856, during the Mexican war. These
facts are matters Of history.
From these facts it may safely be inferred
that these same Aboitionists, standing firm
ly to their principles, and after succeeding
to power, sought to carry out their long
charished idea of separation from the South
ODthis head we have abundant proof of its
truth w e suppose no one, at this day, even
who is possessed ofany historical knowledge,
or who is capable OF reasoning from cause to
effect, can for moment doubt the fact that
the old Puritanic Aboltionists of former
years desired a dissolution of the Union.
destruction Of the Constitution, which they
ayerrod was league with he'll and Il cove
nant with death, and ignored the flag Of
the country which they derided in pootical
terms; t,, .
H. "Tear down the Haunting lie,"
Aa1, having suceaeded in engrattiug their
prin9inlesupon the dead carcass of the Know
Nothing party, and in resurrecting a portion
Of its spiritual remains to unite with them,
finally triumphed over the Democracy in
1850, and proceeded at once to the compile
ton of the work of demolishing the faircst
Government on the face Of tn earth.
1t is well here to observe that the old inter-
wedding spirit of Abohtionism, in passing
personal liberty bills in violation Of the Con
stitution, and refusing to enforce the Fugi-
tive Slave Law in most of the New England
States and in Ohio, had engendered a coun-
-rcr spirit of distrust amounting to hatred, in
the South. Thus things stood at the open
Jag Of the campaign in 1860. 1t was virtp-
ally the North against the South, and the
Sor.h,against the North 1t was the first
time in the history Of the Government when
purely sectional parties, organized in Nation
#iconfct, contending for power in the ad
'1ninistration Of our national affairs. The
North, planted upon Mr., Lincoln's grand
ideavof . Irrepressble Conflict which AZ
serted thatthe Union could not be preserVsy,
asit then stood, but must finally all be slave
or ali free States went forth with the cham
pion Of that doctrine as their standard bear
er, fighting for the freedom of the negro or
a dissolution Of the Union, an annulling of
the compact Of States as formed by Wash
ington, .T2fferson, Madison and their associ-
ates. The South, with Yancey, Keitt,
Rhett, and associates were equally persis-
tent, and dosirous of severing the bonds of
union. In this state of the case these ex-
tremes met. The election terminated in the
success Of the Abolition party, and the re-
suits Of that election are fastmatuiing to
make good Mr. Lincoln idea Of either abol-
ishing slavery or destroying the Union
which we have no doubt he designed from
the beginning. j--a qC lt ef
a0 Now for a little proof as to the oneness Of
purpose and of design, if not really in coraial
feeling, of the Abolition party North and the
radical party South. ar
A few days since the New York Tribune,
the very head and front of the Aiministra-
- ton party, in giving its opinions upon Nc
Clelan recent speech at West Point, denies
Mcclellan idea of the cause of the war, and
says: 't'The engineers of the rebellion desired
and .labored for the very Republican triumph
Of 1860, which is here made the cause Of
their revolt.
That admits at once the wi ole theory that
the enemies of the Government in the South
and the Abolition disunionists-th leaders
on both sides-were laboring together for the
!, same object and end. 1t admits that the
Abolitionists were in the interests of the reb-
els, and both parties working together like
David and Jonathan in unity Of purpose
and design that Of destroying this Govern
nonta Republicans--you who voted for
Lincoln and love your country--think Of
this.
NJ The Tribune continues titus;
ssIt vas to, this end that they 1.-THE engi-
neersl forced through the Senate OF that year,
5ls6O) the JEFF Davis platform whereby MIR.
Ii ',uQfas and his friends were virtually read
Tthe Dsmocr tic party. Itwastothis