The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1864-1911, 1864-09-21

years have led them to position whicl
they cannot rctract. Their.tOlly Is illUstra
ted by their action in Congress. Atthe no
ment when our armies were forced to i.bau
don northern soil Congress was lcgislating
to cOnfiscate southern property CuuhSca
ton laws, however, apply more to the
North than to the South. st the South they
are Intellectual and do not pay the expense,
Of their execution. 1t is your property, the
property Of Northern taxpayers which i,
coniiscation law? 1t takes one man ; per.
son, but it taxes another man S property -.
Reason seems blind with these persons. -
Congress was absurdly eEpeuding its time
confscating Southern property the very
/ moment Lees army was within sight Of the
dome Of the Federal capitol. We Of the
north did not know the power Of the South.
We did dream even of the power of tic
North, and We are disappointed.
The party III power has become so cntan-
gcd by its own policy, that no door is left
open for its retreat. Those who have visit.
cd Washington the past winter, may have
seen the hospitals filled with dying aud
grooming men. Gong to the capitol, you
heard only the language Of sectional bitter
ness and hate. The measures advocated
there, if persisted in and sustained, will
oyerWhe,m the country i'll common ruin.
! We see in Lincoln $ reelection no hope for
! us in the future. We cannot do worse -
4 We don claim to he better or wiser men
thaA our opponents. God knows that the
I poor weak nature Of man has littlc to boast
! Of. but ou views came from our fathers.
They told Us that great armies would bring
! rum with them sud bring Il horde Of tax
! gathers in their train. Mere arbitrary gov
! crmncntS may possibly sometimes be u bless
/ lngS but there never was Il aX-gatherer who
/ was blessing anywhere.
Our fathers told us that with national
| debt would come a vast array Of Office hol-
| derS, and we behold them already present
now, There is another principal against
which Our fathers warned lis, and ical it is
the rock upon which We have split, You
hogan to have Capitalization OF power
| constitution understood the principle that
the people in the several localities knew
what they needed best. So we made gov
crnmcnt Of States with State rights. We
have States Of different size. Missouri is
larger than all New England. Our fathers
had this difficulty before them. We Of n
\. then had not as large population rs
Massachusetts, or Pennsylvania. We said,
let us be generous. We said, take care that
Rhode Island has as equal power as a State
with ourselves, and like ourselves control its
own local affairs that there may be no jar
in political system. Now what? We are
told that we must have more power in the
Federal Government The end of that is
less power. That might be shown in a few
words Place more power in the Federal
Government and few States may rule over
all others. Taxation would become une-
quad, and be made TO fall heavily upon par
tIculaf branches Of industry. The inequali-
ty which exists as to the States becoming
Centralized, and the power OF the Federal
Goyclnment will be unequally exercised.
W. hen men feel that the tribunal by which
they are governed is not equally constituted
there IS Il danger OF perpetual war. We Of
New ork wish to i've on terms OF peace
with you Of the " est. But to do that we
must not be permitted to exercise an Unjust
power over you through the Fedral Govern !
mCnt. 10 preserve peace we mast not be |
permitted to inteimeddle with your local at: |
fairs, and you must not be permitted to med |
Gle with ours. The reservation of power !
to the States tends therefore to the peace
and security OF each and ALL 10 give more !
power to the Federal Government renders |
it, not Stronger-Lut weaker. This making !
the general Government stronger by cen |
trallzation Of power is illustrated by the feat I
of the barrel which attempted to become
hoghead by bursting it's hoops, when it be- |
came, not a hogahGad, buta bundle oi slaves. |
II the day ever comes when the general l.
Government shall exercise more power, il
will destroy itself 1t is this idea Of cen
tralzation--this idea that the Federal Gov
crnment should exercise the powers rcsery-
ed BY the Constitution to the States and the
attempt to do so-tlat is causing strife ail
over our land
implorc you, therefore, to turn again tof
the wisdom Of your ltrciathers. Turn
again toward the light of experience Turn
again to the worship Of the principles en-
which our Government was founded and
you will find Union, peace and prosperity
Remember the eighty prcposterous years Of
the past | am confident, fiom a careful
study Of the theory OF our Government,
that if this doctrine OF cent,alization pre-
walls, our Government must be destroyed,
and destroyed forever! Read again the
Declaration of Independence read again
the Farewell Address of Washington; read
again the history Of the revolution, and
learn how it was that we became great and
united and happy DO notsay,
you who have faith in the policy Of the Ad-
when we complain of dCpar-
tTe from these principles Of orr fathers,
that it is evidence Of our disloyalty. | re-
member that on one occasion you refused
obedience to the Federal Government here
in Wisconsin. When you did not like one
of its laws you declared determination to
resist its execution. You were then little
forward i'll the doctrine of secession, if |
may judge Of the fact from your statues. |
do not advocate any disrcSpect Of the grner-
Il Government. / have labofcd in my own
State to secure obedience to all the lawful
behests of the Administration, and We have
humbled ourselves as to the deity to satisfy
It's demands, so as to deserve no imputation
of disposition to.deny the support it need
I'd in the hour Of danger
/ feel convinced as Edo of my existence,
hat the policy Of the Republican party
eads to popular discontonts, which are
.predmg wider every day. If you expect
70 govern Florida in accordance with that
policy, you must pay the cost in blood and
rcastre. Let me tell you men Of Wiscon-
lin, if you undertake to govern South Caro-
ina by denying her the rights secured to her
oy the Constitution, it will cost you dearly,
IF you attempt these things, then you will
wipe out your property, and our country is
n ruins. Eighty years under a prosperous
government and three years of opposite cx-
years Of sad and bloody
,xperience-ma the contrast! We are
llrcady driven to the verge Of ruin. Every
nan knows that there is an amount Of debt
which leads to bankruptcy. Every man
eels that there is a waste Of life and blood
which leads to anarchy. God grant us wis '
lom for our own government God grant
PATIENCE to our people to resist these threat. I
ned calamities Place that man in pow t
r whose personal integrity and whose pur.
ufts of life were never impeachcd by the
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