The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1864-1911, 1865-09-20

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ident, Withdrawing the Powhattan, the ar
med vessel assigned to the expedition by the |
Secretary of the Navy, without the knowl- |
edge of the Secretary, and without the
President knowing that the Powhattan was
the vessel ordered to relieve Sumter. The
men and provisions came but not sailor
with them to put in the fort, the Powhat
tan having been withdrawn. 1t was in def
erence to him that Gen. Scott recommended
the surrender of the fort, because the Gen
eral during the previous Administration,
| had wished to re-enforce Ii and had been
refused permission to do so by Mr.. Holt,
then Secretary of War. - 90 97aag
Mr.. Holt, now the head of the bureau Of
military Justice, was also then a power in
Washington. While Secretary of War, as
already stated, he refused to permit Gen.
! Scott to reinforce Sumner and he had,
while Postmaster General, written and pub
lished letter dated Both November, 1860,
iustifying the rebellion He says in that
/ letter, the people of the North have been
taught that they are responsible for the
domestic institutions of the South, and that
they can be faithful to God only by being
unfaithful to the compact they made with
their fellow-men. Hence those liberty bills
which degrade the statute books of some ten
of the free States, and whicharc confessed
| lya shameless violation of the Federal Con-
stitution in point vital to her honor We
1 have here presented from year to year the
humiliating spectacle of free and sovereign
States by solemn act of legislation, legal
izing the theft of their neighbors' property.
| say theft, since it is not the less so because
the subject of the despicable crime chances
to be slave instead of a horse or a bale of
! goods" Aftermuch to the same purport,
he says: II am still for the Union, because
| have yet faint, hesitating hope that the
North will do justice to the South and save
the republic before the wreck is complete
But the action must be prompt If the
free States will sweep the liberty bills from
their codes; propose convention OF the
| States, and offer guarantees which will af-
ford the same repose and safety to Southern
homes and property enjoyed bp those at the
North, the impending tragedy may yet be
averted, but not otherwise. Simutane-
ously with his refusal to permit succor to
Fort Sumter, and his arn,istice with the
rebel Secretary, he refused his sanction to a
bill introduced into the Senate by Mr. Pres
ton King to authorize the Union men of
the South to organize themselves under the
authority of the United States, refusing
thus to allow them to defend themselves.
Mr.. Stanton, now cc.etary of War, then
| Attorney General, was in full sympathy
with the leaders in Congress who dragged
the South into rebellion. lie met Senator
Brown of Mississippi at the door of the
Supreme Court as he passed from the hall Of
the Senate, after taking leave Of it as Sc
cessionis. forever He encouraged him;
told him he was right; it was the only course
to save the South; he mus keep his con-
stituensup to it, &c. This is proved by
! Mr.. Brown, former Senator from Missis-
| sippi who mentioned it at the time to the
Hon. James s. Rollins of Missouri. MIR.
Salisbury, Senator from Delaware, by res
oluton offered to the Senate last winter,
proposed to suhstantiate it before a COM
niittce was not granted. The fact is con-
firned, too, hythe known relations of the
Secretary to parties at the time, and | have
been assured by one of his colleagues in
Buchanan's Cabinet that in his intercourse
with his associates of that ilk he was most
violent in dcnouncing any attempt to main
| tain the Union by force. and continued his
derunciation till he entered Mr.. Lincoln S
Cabinet. .y ra.a ri...~. ID,
Is it not for this that he was so laudcd
and glorifed by the Thad, Stevens party in
!
| Harrsburgh, IN which President johnson is
Substantially pronounced an usurpcr for
presuning TO set up governments in the
gress to take the subject i'll hand, to which
clare also that these States should not be
allowed State governments, and their mo-
tive for claiming authority for Congress is
/ thn,, l.,
would not sanction tie organ:z .ticn of such
goyeinmt nts. Mr.. Stanton ccncurs with
them, and has cen aud is yet aiding them
the ret' ntion So long Of a vast and mnneces-
sary military force and some Of the remark
able niovenlel Is made by partitions of it, in
lieye, against the Nisher of the general-in-
chief aid the remonstranees of the Secre-
tary Of the Treasury. Beside the corruption
treasury, and thus compel the call Of Con
gess, great point i'll the game of his
associates. s,...,. l,,nT ..
i Government of the United Sthtes-thc great
fiinctionar;es intrusted with the adnnistla-
tion-are responsible for the subjugation of
Inc DoutieIn pcoiic W lie usu Idu:i VI
the conspirators who plotted secession in the
held in the Capitol. 1 ...
| Mr. Blair alludes to the scheme of Thad
Stevens, of Pa, to reduce and keep the
plot OF Stanton and Seward to establish an
/ try, by means of the negroes, and condemns
| th., IL, str ln,n Ia
of Stevens. ,Glr
He is radical from the foot to, the crown
of his head. p He is u root and branch man,
and could spare nothing Of the Government
but the body-the Congress-and that he
would turn into revolutionary club. He
wants Marat to work itup. Who can fill
wants gulllotinc. He wants Santerse, the
butcher, to reign on its scatfold and ply its
axe. Can any one doubt that Mr. Stanton
would take this part?, And if Mr. Ste
vcns would add peculiar bitterness to the
execution of; the process of his revolution
ary tribunals in wasting the South and har
rowing the feelings Of its victims, could
there be better selection of an agent to
gallinto wounds than Mn. Stanton. have
already referred to his urging on the rebel
lion He was the new member brought in
to the Cabinet, when Cass left on the ground
that it would not ''coerce'' -4especia " that
it voted SUMTER should not be re-enfaced
and defended, which he considered as giving
aid to the rebellion, and resigned. Now, Il
this man. Who was the prompter, the Cabi-
4 net adviser of the measures which contrib
uted to carry the South out--If this man,
who Unsupported because of his full sym
pathy with Mr.. Buchanan in his whole con-
nection with the Southern chiefs who con-
Quoted its schemes touching the dissolution
of. the Union--if this man., who brought
them into the treason for which they are to