The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1864-1911, 1865-08-09
Very truly and sincerely yours,
i. Ii. FAlRCHlLD,
SAMUEL PLUMB;

To tlis letter General Cox replies in q
long and elaborate cpistle. We publish all
he says that directly bears upon negro SUI
frage.
CoLUMBUs, July %, 1865.
GENTLEMEN: Your letter Of yesterday,
inquirug what are my opinions upon some
of the phases of the question Of the recon
struction OF the Union, was received this
morning. You sign yourselves as a Com
mittee, but have omitted to inform me
what body er organization you represent, or
to give me the instructions or resolutions
committing the subject to you This acci-
dental omission would be of no consequence
since know you both to be member Of the
Union party Of this state, and, though We
have scarce seen each other for some years,
! have believed you to be personal friends
OF mine; but my relations to the Union men
of Ohio are such that 1t may become OF
some Importance to know who are those with
whom you are acting, and for whom you de-
clare that hearty and honest concur
ence in the principles which you and the
other loyal people Of Ohio adopted in con-
vention on the 2lst ultimo, expressly as the
basis of united political action in the coming
State election shall not be sufficient to Sc
cure your votes.
Political organizations, like every other,
are founded upon mutual waiying of some
articles of personal belief for the sake Of
securing united and effective action upon
others which are avowed as the common
creed; and the bond of union can hardly be
said to be kept in good faith when individ-
uals of party PROFOUND as tests to q can
didate questions which were not acted upon
| by the Convention, especially when such
questions were netoriously excluded from the
list of those upon which community to be-
| lief was demanded, because the opinions OF
loyal and patriotic ment had not yet fully
| ripened, or taken definite form in regard to
them, and the time had not come when, in
the logic of events, it was necessary tO
act upon them. In the political phrase Of
the great conflict we have upon US, as in the
military strife which has just ended, organi.
zation will be found to be Of the last impor-
tance, and though guerrilla warfare has its
attractions, am well convinced that results
will be determined by the surer, il slower,
march Of the heavy columns.
How, then, it will naturally be asked. can
there be any practical difference between us
as to the mode Of carrying out these princi.
ples2 1t is found in the views we take oi
the mutual relations of the two races in the
South. You, judging from this distance,
say: Deliver the four millions of freed
people into the hands of their former op.
pressors, now embittered by their defeat,
and they will make their condition worse
than before. |, starting from the same
principles, and after four years of close anc
thoughtful observations Of the races where
they are, say / am unwillingly forced to the
conviction that the effect of the war has not
been simply to ''embitter' their relations,
but to develope a rooted antagonitm which
makes their permanent illsions in one po-
| litical community an absolute impossibility.
| The sole difference between us. then, is in
the degree of hostility we find existing be-
wcen the races, and its probable perma-