The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1864-1911, 1865-10-04
President John,on Am RIgbt.

EEesfueHt Johnson All Right
u The Republicans have opened with ex
treme bitterness against President JohnsoI
for the liberal and Democratic way in which
he is dealing with the lately dissafected peo
pie Of the Southern States To vote tn,
Republican ticket IS a vote Of condemnation
to President johnson. Hear the President
ia addressing Southern delegation in tn,
city of Washington-he said:
"Yes, the issue was made by the South
against the Government, aud the Govern.
ment has triumphed, and the South, true tC
It's ancient instincts of frankness and manly
honor"
Imagine such sentiment as that coming
from the lips of Jacob Dolson Cox, or Ro.
bert Z. Schenck. to say nothing of the lesser
lights OF the Abolition party! Why, what
is that but rank disloya'ty sympathy with
secesSicn! Arrest Mr.. Johnsonl Why
doeSn some military commission arrest
| him.
The South, true to its ancient instincts
OF manly honor, comes forth and processes
its Willingness to abide the result of the de-
cision in good faith.
So says Andrew johnson. And yet that
South which is true to those noble instincts
and willing to return to the Union-that
South, to accommodate Mr.. Cox, aud Mr..
! Schcnck, and Mr.. Sherman, and others like
| them, must be kept out of the Union for
thlriy years, until the negroes of the South,
through the Freedmen's Bureau, can be ed
ucaed up IS that high point of civilization
Of doing abolition voting.
And further, the President, in addressing
this delegation, says:
But, gentlemen, if I-know myself as |
think do, know that am OF the South
ern people ~
Why, what rebel What! the Presi-
! dem of the United States dare to admit
that he belongs to the Southern people, a
native of Southern State, when men have
been denounced as traitors, secessionists and
enemies to their country, simply because
they desire that, peaceably and through
compromise, our Southern brethren should
return to the Union which their fathers and
cur Iathers made in the good old days of
the Republicl But, listen to this
Il love theml"
What! love traitors! love rebels! love
Southern Copperheads Why, next he will
take Northern CoppeIheads to his bosom.
''Ilove them, and will do all in my pow
err
Well, being President, he has a great deal
of power. Lincoln bad; we know that.
VIII do all IN my power to restore them
to that state of happiness and prosperity
which they enjoyed before the madness of
misguided men, in whom they had reposed
their confidence, led them astray. -
| That is precisely what the Democratic
party is after. He could not have hit it bet
ter.
IF there is anything that can be done,
on my part, on correct principles Of the
Constitution, to promote these ends, be as
sured it shall be done"
And be assured Andrew johnson, that
so far as you do it, on these principles, the
Democratic party, one and undivided, will
stand by you.
Again, said the President.
The institution Of slavery is gone. The
former status of the negroes had to be
changed, and we, as wise men, must recog-
nlze- so patent a fact, and adapt ourselves to
circumstances as they surround US
True wisdom, that! And accordingly
the Southern delegation responded, I'VE
are willing to do So" The President re-
Piled Il believe you are Jacob Dolson
Cox says, No! They have been unruly.-
They must be chastised 1hey are bad
boys, and the must be kept behind the
school. house door, and not permitted to
enter for an indefinite period. Don't let
them return again. 1t is true we have pun
ished them, but not enough" The Presi-
dent says, Il believe you. | believe when
your faith is pledged, it will be maintained
in good faith. y What rebels maintain
faith! What! traitors on whom we spent
four thousand millions of dollars and mil
lion Of lives-through the laundering of the
Administration during the first years of the
war, because they made it a political war,
until Grant and Shermon took hold and
wouldn carry it on for the benefit of the
Republican party.
Again says the the President:
Our county has been Scared all over
Then why cannot we approach each other
sOn FsineipIes Which arc right in Themselves,
and which will be productive of good to
all?
'+Ihc day is not distant when We shall
feel like some family that has had a deep
and desperate feud the various members
Of which have come together, and compar-
ed the evils and sufferings they had inAict-
cd on each other. They had seen the infu-
ence of their error and its result, and, gov
erned by generous spirit of concilation,
they had become mutually iorbearing and
forgiving, aud return to their old habits Of
fratcrnal kindness, and become better friends
than ever. Then let us consider that the
teild which alienated us has been settled and
adjusted to mutual satisfaction; that we
come together to be bound by firmer bonds
/ of love, respect and confidence than ever.
The north can not get along without the
South, nor the South without; the East
without the West, nor the West without
The East; and | say it is our duty to do all
that within our power lies to pcrnetuate and
make stronger the bonds of our Union. see
Ing that it is for the common good of all
that We should be united feel that this
Union, though but the creation of a cen
tury, is to be perpetuated for all time, and
that it can not be destroyed except by the