The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1864-1911, 1864-10-26

| some signal yictery won at the common cost
/ of all the citizens of the Northern States,
I you display toward those who differ from
you, an arrogance that you did not display
the day before?
Has the policy of government been made
magnanimous national sDd patriotic by vic
tory? point you to the legislation of last
winter after the wonderful successes of our
armies. II you had visited Washington
you would lave found thirty thousand men
lying in your hospitals. Day after day the
dead were borne forth to be deposited in
| th,ir graves, and your hearts would have
been sickened at the sight ofpain and death.
Then il! you had left the hospital with its
rude and hamble appointments, after haTIng
seen the devotion of these suffering men
whose eyes, perchance amidst their deepest
agony or in their dying hours would light up
at the sight of their cOuntry's flag, after
| having been impressed with their virtue,
| their courage and their patriotism; if you
had passed the Capitol and walked through
its gilded halls, adorned with all that art and
riches could place there, with every emblem
that told of our former greatness and liberty
and listened to the representatives of the
people assembled there, you would have
heard with astonished ears that in this hour
| of victory they were pouring forth the Ian
guage OF bitterness, vindictiveness, and strife
Has this government been made magnan-
imous, just or generous, by victories? mo,
no Cheers. ...-.
| | appeal to you again, my Republican
! friend, if it is true that in your daily walks
Of life you have manifested the same cour-
tesy and consideration toward those who dis
agreed with you in matters of judgment in
the hour of victory, that you did when, in
the darkest hour of the republic, you cried,
Let us lay aside all differences Of opinion,
and rally once more around the flag of our
country" Loud cheering.) Read over
the acts of viudictive legislation, passed in
the last three years. acts of con6scation, acts
Of punishment, acts Of expatriation, acts
sanctionng the violation of your most sacred
rights and liberties, and say whether the
| history of the past gives you q right to hope
for wisdom and magnanimity in his future?
These acts must he repealed before the coun-
try can be united and tranquilized The
administration must say to the people of the
South: Come back again and enjoy with
us constitutional liberty; for if it is denied to
you, in the end it will be denied to u.s. Let
us forget the immediate past and go back
to the story of the Revolution Our flag
would not be complete, the glorious catego-
ry of the States of this Union would be inn
perfect if we were to strike out the homes
of Marion or Sumpter, the grave of Jack
son, and the birthplace Of so many men as
sociated with our history" If they tell you
they will repeal these acts, they tell you they
intend to do what they should have done Il
year ago.
But they can not and will not repeal these
laws. / would not say one mkind word of
the President of these United States |
would speak of him respectfully as the head
of the Government. But neither Mr.. Lin
coin nor his cabinet have now control over
national affairs. | believe most sincerely
thatif it was in the power of Abraham Lin
coin and the members Of his cabinet to undo
the past, they would cheerfully wipe it out.
believe if they were able to resume again
their private stations and felt themselves
safe from an injured, outrage. and deceived
community, if they felt that the laws they
had violated would not be used against them,
they would with joy leave the places Of pow
or. and give the Government into other
hands. Why was Mr. Lincoln nominated
at Baltimore, against the Judgment of three
tourths of his own party; against the judg-
ment of almost all the Republican members
of the Senate. They were opposed to the
nomination of any man who had Unidentified
himself with Illegal arrests, and with viola
tions of constitutional law. | ask you this
question, my Republican friends and / ask
it with all respect and sincerity. God knows
my heart, that in this sad moment | cherish
no resentments. wish for nothing but the
good of my country, and the salvation of its
| llrnInpnftns rf
| plause. The chairman proposed three
cheers for Governor Seymour, and the au-
diencc rose enmdsSe and gave them, with
waving of hats and handkerchiefs, and with
the widest enthusiasm
! In their private conversation they freely
acknowledge that they preferred some other
man than Mr.. Lincoln. 1t was natural, Of
course, that those who held place under
him should desire his nomination. But the
one great operating cause that produced his
nomination was this, that there were men
in the army and others surrounding him who
did not dare let him go into private life, who
did not dare to be brought back under the
jurisdiction of the laws of the land the
judgment of their peers. Cheers. The
nomination was made because men who had
enriched themselves by unworthy means
| from the treasury Of the country feared to
! be brought to that account to which they
will be brought when our government is re-
stored and our Union reinstated. [Cheers. |
Mr.. Lincoln and his administration will not
repeal the law that denies you any remedy
against wrongs done by them to your person
or property, because they know that to do
| this is to bring themselves to Judgment
| They will not pursue course that will give
us a restored Union, because a restored
! Union reinstates the authority of law, and
there would be an investigation Of the
frauds and failures that, in an unusual de-
gree, have marked the conduct of affairs
during the last three and half years
| | do not mean to say that the adminstra
tion is to be condemned because under cir
cumstances SO unusual as those which have
existed during this war bad men have taken
| advantage III the confusion of affairs to do
acts Of wrong, but do complain that when
these wrongs are done, the government de-
libertcly passes laws that protects the doer
and thus makes wrong-doing its own act
Moreover, in an election like this, when the
government is spending such an enormous
amount of money, and the liability to pee
ulation is so great, the administration that
will say to contractors, as has been openly
said in circulars, ''You have had good
contract, out of which you have made mon
ey and, we expect you to use part of that
money to assist to replace us to power" rend.
ers itself partner in fraud and corruption,
The contractor will say to this government,
you shall not make peace that will put
and end to all my profits, You called upon
me to give my money in violation of the
laws, to put you in power; you called upon
me 70 do that which every great man has
said is subversive Of Constitutional liberty
and good order, and now when you have
gained your share Of the triumph, you shall
not turn round and cheat mo out of my
share Of the spoils. daughter and ap.
plause.l
| Has the Administration nndnr thnsa err.