The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1864-1911, 1865-09-27
CADIZ,. OHIO WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1866.

| nerOeS--tnel WHO steep tile lOllS tIetp "
death-that they, too, died upon the field
of honor. Applause. Fog .tr ...lt
THE CITIZEN ALSO HAS HIS DUTIES AND HIS
PERILs.
In times of political convulsion, there is
nothing which so intoxicates the mind and
unsettleS the reason as the exercise of arbi.
! trary power; it develops the worst passions
! of the heart, and brings into action elements
| of personal character not before known to
| exist. The late conflict has been no excep-
| tifn to the rule, and the cause Of the In
ion was more than once put in Jeopardy by
| BY the violent, unconstitutional and tyran-
cal acts OF those in power. Unfortunately
! for the country, an individual was appoint
ed to the War Office who has proven to be
as destitute of patriotism as he is devoid OF
conscience Cruel by instinct and a tyrant
| by nature. he trampled the Constitution be
meath his iron heel; violated the liberty nt
speech and the press; insulted the intelIi-
gence of the army by excluding from circu-
lation such Journals as his caprice might
procribe, and thus denied to the soldiers the
opportunity Of torm and impartial judg-
ment upon the public questions under dis
cussion before tie people. a
The country was thus menaced by two
| fold danger armed secession threatened the
! integrity of the Union on the one hand,
while bad men obtained a dangerous inhu-
ence over the President, on the other; the
| States were reduced tn the dependency Of
provinces, and life, liberty and property
were held subject to arbitrary control.
The Democracy desired the overthrow of
| the rebellion, aud, from first to last, contrib
! uted fair proportion to keep full the ranks
Of the army, and maintain the integrity of
| the Union. Applause. Acting upon the
maxim of jefferson. that ''elror Of opinion
may be tolerated, so long as GcasOn is left
! free to combat it, they insisted upor the
right Of free speech free press, and the in
valuable right Of trial by jury.
| Taught from my cradle, that without free
discussion, civil liberty must perish, while
| yet a boy, at my native home, | was one of
| seven persons who protected an abolition
lecturer from the assaults Of an infurated
crowd, who would have torn him to pieces;
although believed the doctrine taught by
him to he both dangerous and unconstitu-
tional. 1t may then be well understood that
| while being, in heart and soul opposed to
| the mad scheme of secession, that | was
ready to dcnounce and oppose every attempt
to smother the inestimable right of free dis
cusSion, Applause. ..
So welded rs Mr.. Stanton to arbitrary
power, so avcrse is he TO the establishment
Of civil liberty, that he continues to inter
ferc with the bayonet to control elections,
until at lenght the .Nr,o York 1ritwpe, the
Cjncinaa7i C0mD,nciaI, and other diStin-
guishcd journals Of the Republican party,
have denounced these usnrpatons with
equal courage and ability. But the evil still
exists, and the people alone can apply the
remedy, for these and ike abuses have
grown into such common use, that one vio-
lation Of the Constitution is cited as a pre-
cedent to Justify anSSher, and many of our
public men have eeemed to believe that
Constit"tion. Co, thus, fen. OK, the distin, ~
g,i,hed nominee Of tie Republican party,
in his speech at Ripley on the 18th of Au
gust, complained that lie Democratic party
maintains that State ri&ts must be main
tanned, and the Union nf the States only
exists through the Constitution, and that
the National Government hin no authority
over the States only what R delegated by
the Constitution. J ApplauFc.
Such is clearly the doctri1e Of the Democ-
racv. such, too, was the doctrine taught by
Washington and Franklin, by Madison and
Jefferson, and By all the early fathers Of
the Republic; but while we believe in State
rights as defined by the Constitution, We
tenv that State has the right to secedc
from the Union, or nuliiy Il law Of Con
grcSs.
General Cox maintains that the Federal
PrcSident-can do as he wills, without ref
Il, lnr
words, thatthe power Of the President, like
the power Of an absolute monnfch, Is with
out control But such, | am glad to believe
are not the views of our patriotic people,
and if they desire to preserve our free lnstl-
tutions as legacy for their children, 1t be-
hooves them to rebuke and resist the en-
croachment of despotic power. Applause.
General Cox is at this moment military
commander of the State Of Ohio. and his
views as to arbitrary power are the more
dangerous, as they arc backed blythe sword.
RESTORATION or THE UNION.
The bloody contest which has just closed
has cost the country $4,0OQ0O0,0 600, or
about one fourth of all the real and person
al property in the United States. and the
lives of 900 600 of our best and bravest
citizens. This is no fiction, but a stern re-
ality.
Fer what, fellow-citizcns, was all this Law
t ish expenditure of blood and treasurer
Y ou answer, for the Union. Yes, and such
is the response of the surviving heroes Of
the war. What, then, will you say to the
men, who, after all this sacrifice, are oppos-
ed to the restoration of the Union until five
ten, twenty or thirty years, or such other
future time as it shall please the people of
the South to place themselves upon an
| equality with negroes? And such, my coun-
trymen, is the position of General Cox In
substance, he says, it is true we lost a mil
lion of men, and expended one-fourth of
the wealth of the nation; but what of that?
| We have more men and more money, and
| the Union must not be restored until white
men are placed upon an equality with ne
groes
On the evening of the day that General
Cox was nominated, General Schenck, a
distinguished leader of the Republican par
| ty, entered the arena as his chief champion;
and from the steps of the Capitol, accord
ing to the report of the CINCINNATI papers,
he said:
"I would not bring them (the Southern
States back this year, or the next year.,
new wood grows, and by new wood the
speaker meant until new generation sprang
up; and that, thus, the brave men who had
fought through the four years of war should
not be allowed to see the Union, for which
they had fought. restored.
What is the Union? 1t is an association
of States under Government of delegated
powers, and those powers clearly defined by
the Constitution Each State isentitled to
an equal representation in the Senate, and
a pro rata representation in the House of
Representatives, but the politicians who
support General Cox are opposed to allow
ing the Southern States a representation in
Congress; or, in other words, they oppose
Al. Il L