The Xenia sentinel. [volume] (Xenia [Ohio]) 1863-186?, 1864-05-03

o. the Union has recruited some of its brav
W est aad most unselfsh champions. But
IN there is no ground, none whatever, fol
Re believing that the Rebels would cease to
ID be Rebels, if there should be aDemoerat-
D, ic restoration effected. Not even the
le election Of Mr. Buchanan to q second
of Presidential term would lead them to
p abandon their purpose and he was the
IF most useful tool in 1860, and without his
II assistance they could not have made one
d step in the road to rebellion, or rain.
4 Their purpose is to found a new nation,
e as they have never besitated to avoW, with
It a frankness that is as eommendable asthe
It cause in which it is evinced is aBomina-
= bic. They would be glad to see a Dem
e ocrat chosen our next President, because
: they would except from him an acknOal-
: ejgment Of their independence y; but
S they would no more lay down their arms
a at his entTeaty than they would at the
e command of a President of Republican
opinions. Their arms can be forced from
their hands, but there exists no man who
could, from any position, induce them to
surrender, or come back into the Union
on any terms. They mean to abide the
wager Of battle, and are more likely to
be moved from their purpose by the bold
actions Of General Grant than by the
blandest words of the smoothest-tounged
Democrat in America To any mere per-
suader, Lo matter what his place or opin-
ions, they would turn an ear as deaf as
that of an ADDER refusing to listen to
the voice of the charmer, charm he never
so wisely.
As there should be no change made in
the political character Of the Govern
ment, so there should be none in the men
who compose it. To place power in new
hands, at a time like the present, would
be as .unwise as it would be to raise a
new army for the purpose Of fighting the
numerous, well-trained, and jealous force
which the Rebels have organized with
the intention of making desperate effort
to re-establish their affairs. Trere is no
reason for supposing that a change would
give US wiser or better men, and it is GER
tain that they would be inexperienced
men, should they all be as many Solo
mons or Solons. As we are situated, it
is men of experience that we require to
administer the Government; and out of
the present Administration 1t is impossible
to find men Of experience that Is needed t
at this crisis of the nations career. The
errors into which we fell in the early DAYS t
of the contest were the effect of want OF I
experience and it would be but to pro J!
vide 1or their repetition, were we to call a
new Administration into existence. The y
people understand this, and hence the +
very general expression of opinion in ia r
vor of the reelection Of President Lin
coin, whose training through four most
terrible years-years such as no other 6
President ever knew-will have qualified :,
him to carry on the Government during =
a second term to the satisfaction of all ..
men. Mr.. Lincoln's honesty i
is beyond question, and We need an hon II
est man more than ever. That the Reb- c
els object to him is a recommendation in 81
the eyes of loyal men. The substitution G
Of a new man would not dispose them to "
and they would expect to d
profit from that inevitable change Of pol m
cy which would follow from change Of " "
men. AS to the one term principle =
ne never held It in much regard; and we .,
ire less disposed to approve it now than NJ
We should have been, had peace been it
maintained. Were the President elected of
or six or eight years, it might be wise to he
mend the Constitution so as to prevent hg
he reelection Of any man; but while m
he present arrangement shall exist, it III
7ould not be wise to insist upon a COM y
lete change of Government every four ~,
ears. To hold out the Preside cy as a Pr
rize to be struggled FIR by a new man at die
very national election is to increase the wo
rOubles Of the country Among the ele
auses of the Civil War the ambition to Wh
e made President must be reckoned. EY- da
ry politician has carried term at the
White House in his portfolio, as every Th
rench conscript earriesa a marshal's baton
/ his krapsack; and the disappointments
f SO many sspirants sWslled the number
f the disafected to the proportions of M
4 army, counting all who expected Office ~ ~
) the Consequence of this mans or that - -
ans elevation to the Presidency. We're s,,i
lere no other reason for desiring the re-
ection Of President Lincoln, the fact lie
lat it would be the first step toward a fay
turn to the rule that obtained during col
e first half-cenury Of our national exis- tan
ng Constitution should suffice to make cnl
all advocates # his nomination for a -
cond term. That the Baltimore Con. 81.
ntiOn viii meet next month, and that VIII
viii place Mr.. Lincoln once more before ter
G American people as a candidate for iste
cir sufrages, are facts now as fully es- mir
blished as anything well can be that de, scr,
nds upon the future; and that he will arm
reelected admits of no doubt, The rel1
pular voice deslgnates him as the man cha
the time and the occasion, and the ac- to (
n If the Convention will be noting be- s
nd lorna! process, that shall give reg tim
3 e4pIession % z PuollS sentiment as {
i be found Of irresistible force. @ ~,
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