The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1864-1911, 1865-04-26
HOW THE CoNQUERRD SOUTH
Is To BE TREATED.
The Policy ofConsIllatlon Urged
ARADICAL RKPUBIICAN VIEW,
lFfom The NeW York Tribune, April I3th. ]
magnant nifty In Trtumph.

lFrom The Few York Tribune, April Iath.
magnantmsf In Triumph.
We had hoped TO print herewith tho
Presidents Proclamation Of Amnesty and
oblivion 20 the partirzns 0f the bafBed Re
belllon, and we do not yet despair of receiy-
ing 1t before We go tn press, though no por-
non Of II has yet been received. We are
iapprised, however, by telegraph from Wash
tngton, that Its tenor va. publicly debated
IN that city yesterday, while our State Sen
ate was agitsted by kindred discussion
We can not shut our eyes to the fact that
strenuous efforts are being made 10 swervs
the President from the course to which his
Judgment and his feelings alike incline him
BY stigmatising it as involving infidelity to
principle or TO party. Others will be heard
on this front, though we were TO keep 81
lence: We claim, therefore, our equal right
10 set forth our views, that they be accorded
such weight as they shall be deemed to de-
ssrye. 81. -
We hear men say: "Yes, forgive the
great mass Of those who have been mislcd
Int rebellion, but punish the leaders as
they deserve" But who can accurately
draw the line between leaders and followers
in the premises? By what test shall they
be Disseminated Some of the areh-p plot
ters OF disunion have never taken up arms
In its support, nor have they held any i'm
portant post in its civil service. Where is
your touchstone Of leadership? We know
none. g .l... ..-.# ~ .r......
Nor can we agree with those who would
punish the original plotters of secession yet
spare these ultimate and scarcely willing
converts. On the contrary, while we would
revive or infame resentment against none
Of them, We feel far less antipathy to the
original upholdcrs of ''the Resolutions of
sSp-to the disciples Of Calhoun and Nc
Dufhe-to the Nullifers of 1882, aud the
State Rights" men of l850-than to the
John Bells, Humphrey Marshalls and Alex
u. II. Stuarts, who were schooled in tie
National fats, and who, in becoming dis
unlonist and rebels, trampled on the protes-
sions of q lifetime and spurned the logic
wherewith they had so often unanswerably
demonstrated that secession was treason.
Whether they weakly yielded to the mad
ness of the hour, hoping that so they might
ultimately ride the whirlwind and direct
the storm" to some ill-defned but benefit
cent purpose, or surrendered their Judge
ment and their loyalty to that imposture of
State sovereignty" which they had always
held In just contempt, or were driven by
sheer cowardiee and fear of bodily violence
into course condemned by all their better
impulses, we protest against discrimination
whereby this class shall be screened or ia
vored. We consider Jefferson Davis this
day less culpa Die traitor than John Bell.
But we can not believe it wise or well to
take the life OF any man who shall have sub
mltted TO the National authority. The exc
cution of even one such would be felt as
personal stigma by every one who had ever
aided the rebel cause. Each would say to
himself, II am as culpable as he; we differ
only in that l am deemed of mparatively
little consequence. A single Confederate
led out to execution would be evermore en-
ehrlned in million hearts as a conspicuous
hero and maytyr. We can not realize that
it would not be magnanimous-- give the |
shrine. Would the throne OF the House of
Hanover stand more firmly had Charles Ed
ward been caught and executed after Cul- |
loden? Is Austrian denomonation in Hun
gary the more stable to-day for the hanging
Of Macy Sander and his twelve cempatriot
Generals after the surrender of Vilagos?
We plead against passions certain at this
moment to be fierce aud intolerant but on
ISu
cory. we plead for the restoration of the
Union, against policy which would AFFORD
momentary qualification at the cost of
years OF perlleus hate and bitterness. "a ~
We have borne for quarter of century
the unjust lmputation Of hating the South,
when we hated and ght to subyert only
slavery, the scourge alike of South and
North and the sole cause of discord between
them. We hove done what we could-ef
course, not always wisely to battle, to cir
sumscribe, and ultimately to overthrow the
aaEe-power. At length, through success
sion oil events which no human being could
have devised or forseen, the end which we
slncerel y hoped, but hardly expected to see,
Is plainly before us. American slavery is
visbly in the agonies of dissolution; if we
lives year longer, we shall amost-certainly
see 1t laid III the grave and, whenever aboI-
ished here, its expulsion from the last rood
OF Chrlstendom that it now curses, can not
be postponed five years Let us take care
that noyindictive impulse shall be suffered
to impend this glorious consummation
Unqueshonably, there are men in the
South who have richly deserved condign
punishment. Whoever is responsible for
the hatchery Of our black soldiers vanquish-
edlhfights or the still more attroeious mur-
der Of captives, by wanton exposure and
prVatlonla prson.canlps, stands in the this
category. But the immediate issue con-
Germs not the dispensatiou OF justice to indi-
viduals, but the pacifeation- -of a vast Re
public. lie who fancies that al the exhi-
bitions of cruelty OF .perfdyr have been the
work Of rebels, has but superficial 'knowl-
edge of our current history. : . -- -
Those who invoke military executions for