The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1864-1911, 1865-09-20
A VOICE from IIN(OLN'S llBIAET!
WHO ARE RESPONSIBLE
FOR THE REBELLION!
SPEECH OF MONTGOMERY
BLAIR AT CLARKs-
BURG, MD. -
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Hon. Montgomery Blair made a speech
at Clarksburg, Howard county, Md, on
Saturday. the 26th of August, defending
the Presidents reconstruction policy, in the
course of which he made some bitter at
tacks upon Secretary Seward and Secretary
Stanton. charging the former with having
played for and against the Union before en-
tering upon the Cabinet of Mr.. Lincoln,
and afterwards, by his dallianee with the
Confederates up to the fall of Fort Sump-
ter, prolonged the agreement made with
Jefferson Davis by order Of Buchanan, be-
fore the termination of his administration.
1t was apparent, from the whole course of
public affairs, that Mr.. Seward acted in
concert with Buchanan administration
during the last three months of its term. =
Il was coalition formed between Seward
and Stanton, then in Buchanan Cabinet,
that the latter became Secretary of War to
Mr.. Lincoln. Mr. Blair charges that Stan
ton was originally in full sympathy with the
rebel leaders in Congress, was most violent
in his denunciation of any attempt to main
tain the Union by force, and continued his
denunciations till he ente red Lincoln's Cabi-
net. EtstE tr
In commencing, Mr.. Blair says:
1t cannot be said that States or loyal men
to the Union, that remained steaG!ast to it
until vapquished by the superior force of a
victorious usurpation which reduced all the
civil and military authorities within the
States to subserviency, became rebels by
submission. Much less can it be said of
such States or individuals, entitled by their
allegiance to the General Government to its
protection, but which were surrendered to
that usurpation without a blow struck in
their defence by it, became traitors by ceas-
ing to resist when effectual resistance was no
longer possible. Now. this was exactly the
case of the loyal people of the South a ma
iority of whom were unquestionably loyal
before the fall of Fort Sumter, but who
found themselves at that moment absolutely
at the mercy of the conspirators against the
National Republic. This state of things
was the result of the connivance of the
United States with the traitors, who by the
aid of secret societies. had organized an
overwhelming military force, and secured
by political intrigue the executive, legisla-
tive and judicial power in the slave States.
After showing the connivance of Seward,
Stanton and other leaders with the South
ern leaders to bring about war, and prov
ing that Seward prevented re-cnforcements
TO Fort Sumter, Mr.. Blair continues:
Il is apparent, from the whole course of
public affairs, that Mr., Seward acted in con-
cert with Buchanan's administration during
the last three months of its term, He was
no doubt, advised, through Mr.. Stanton.
who was in Buchanan's Cabinet, of the pol
icy it had adopted in reference to the seiz-
ure of every thing that appertained to the
nation in the South. 1t was to the coalition
then formed between Mr. Seward and Mr.
Stanton that the latter became Secretary of
War to Mr.. Lincoln. Hc apprised Mr.
Seward Of this treaty of the War and Navy
Departments, under Buchanan, to make no
resistance to the policy of dissolving the
union--to offer no coercion to impede its
march to independence-and Mr.. Seward =
course shows that the approved and adopt
ted this policy. 1t is not strange that Mr..
Seward should have kept that paralysis on
the country from the 4th Of March to the
18th of April, when the contlagration of
Sumter aroused the people? Did Mr.. Sew
ard partake Of the feeling which prompted
Mr.. Chase, his colleague in the Treasury eN
claim: Let the South go, it is not worth
fighting tor?' 1t is possible that these am
bilious aspirants, who have shown such ca
gefnesS Tor the lrestuencN, are Wiling TO
sacrifice that vast, rich scctlon,of our mon
to the party object OF personal aggrandize-
mcnt =; .,..
Let ne illustrate by examp, 9 how the bold
est Union men were paralized by the condl-
tion of things | have erdeavered portray.
Judge Campbell, 1T Alabama OF whom. |
have spoken as transformed into a reb
commissioner, had teen a devoted Union
man. | knew of his heroic resistance to
notification. he had been the first man to
breast the.e torn in A ALBANIA in 1882, which
thrcaten.d d to bring on the rebellion then. =
| naturally looked to him to meet the new
danger, and his feelings Were unchanged,
| and ne wrote and published earnest rcmon-
strances. against the secession nlovemeut. !
begged HIM to 60 again before his people N
person as In 1855 he replied that 1t would
be OF no USE, His private letters which he
read to me showed that the unsupported
Union men we're Obliged to succumb before
the organized and armed consplrators. The
circumstances In the e, two erass, he said, were
widely different, Then jackson was here
asserting the authority OF the Government,
and be telt that he could with such back
ing resist to some purpose, but no sensible
man, however patriotic, could think SC
now :.
| Nor was It Southern Union men alone
whose natural prompting to defend the cn,
ion were checked! by the efforts OF the exist
ing and prospective authorities in Washing
ton who were cooperating III this purpose.
1t was through these influences, that tht
movements throughout the North for the
armed defense Of the Union were represscd
and the impression conveyed 70 the South