The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1864-1911, 1865-09-27

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it. On this point the testimony is consis-
tent and overwhelming a.. ...- 49,.
The Tiibme then gives the following ex.
tract from conversation between the cor
respondent of the New York Herald aud
General Hardee, of the late Confederate
service:
General, do you think we will have real
peace?
i do. think that the people of the
South are anxious Tor it. They wanted
peace two years ago. .-
do you think. General, we will have a
guerrilla warfare?' -f
If we do" the General replied, $50
help me God, am willing to fight to put
an end to it. f.....
General Hardee expressed the wishes and
feelings Of the people of the South, ard the
Iijune well remarks
Here is manifested spirit which every
generous mind must respect. The South.
s1-callcd, is beaten, and acknowledges the
| fact Slavery has made an issue of life and
death with the Union;-h been worsted,
and submits to the decree of Providence. =
| General Hardee says the people Of the South
want to live in peace with the people of the
| North and will do twill do it cheerfully
if the Government docs not resort to harsh
measures This is language" says the Tn
Jtme, which all can understand, and it ap-
peals forcibly to sane craftsmanship, as well
as to every niagnanimous impulse of the
| human heart.
Here, then, my friends, we have the tes-
timony of the leading Republican Journal
| in the United States that the Southern reU-
| pie wish to renew fraternal relatians with us
! and once again, in spirit as well as in law,
! form part and parcel Of the Union. IL,
then, you areas | believe you are-truly
friends of the lNion; if you desire the old
| Union of our fathers; if you wish the sears
| of war to be healed, and peace, prosperity
and happiness once more to smile upon cur
| land-rise above the prejudices OF partisans,
and act alone for our country Applause !
The questions at issue are too grave to be
controlled by mere partisan drill. Their de-
cision involves the life Of the nation, and
1t bcho0veS us all to act os patriots, and not
as partisans. And in this spirit ! am de-
| termiued to yield to President johnson my
cordial and hearty support III every consti-
| tutlonal measure to restore all the States to
the Union, and to sustain him in all other
constitutional measures in administering he
affairs O. the Government; and, in 50 acting,
| | Will but move in concert with the two hun
dred thousand Democrats OF Ohio. s
MIR. STANTON s IDEA is SI'BJUGATIoN AND
NOT RESTORATION.
While our young men who went forth to
battle were inspned by Il pure and lofty
| patriotism. the single desire to preserve the
| Constitution and the Union, the Summers,
aud Wilson's, and Chambers, and Beechers,
and the Stantons Of the North, only regard
the war as a means to destroy slavery. with
! out caring neither the Union survived or
| pelished IN the conflict. They used every
| effort to prevent the overthrow Of the re
helhOn until slavery was ahUlished thanked
| God for our failure to take Richmond, in
| 1867; and opposed every advance made by
the South, to secure peace and mon abs
negotiation. In 1868 Alexander II. Stelss
ems sought Tor permission to visit Washing
ton to treat for peace on the lasis Of the
t'non, but the President, ovclrulcd ly
Stanton and his adherents, rejected every
proposition to end the rebellion by hcgotia-
tion.
In the New York TiiJnne, of August l6
1865, from which read, in speaking of the
proposition to neeotiate, Mr., Greeley says:
Had this wise and brave course (hegotia-
tom been taken when Alex. II. Stephens
first publicly solicited permission to visit
Washington, | believe it would have saved
quarter of million lives, and an awful
amount Of devastation and misery, and lett
our National debt full billion less than it
| is to-day "
And, again, in the 7ribqmc Of August "A,
1865, nj speaking of the bad policy OF retuS
ing to allow the South to propose terms, he
says:
Il would have welcomed every overture
looking 10 pacitication, and if compelled to
have refused the proposed terms, would
have shown to the wo Id why must do so.
think tits course, wiz ely and
studiouS'y persisted in, would have been
worth an army to the National cause, and
would have saved full year Of the war -
At the outset of thosinsurrection, it was
well krown at Washington, 1t was proclaim
ed by the Republican press, thata majority
| of the Southern people were opposed to
secession Wis1om and ratriotiSm would
have dictated a policy calculated to Inspire
confidence in the hearts of ii at portion Of
the people who remained loyal TO the Union,
and to conciate all those who were not in
arms. unhappily, an opposite policy was
adopted and there was settled purpose on
the part of Mr. Stanton, aud other leaders,
to force the whole Southern population into
the vortex of civil war.
Every soldier from the General to the pri.,
vate in the ranks, appreciates the advan-
tage of having intelligent friends in the
sphere of active military operations. In
formation, guides, supplies, all come from
such population. But, instead of 'cnncili-
alton, the only idea at Washington was war
NOT against armed insurgents. but against
every man born under Southern sun, pro-
vided he hac white skin Thus were the
innocent and the guilty condemned tngeth-
er, and thus did Edwin M. Stanton prove
himself to be the most efficient recruiting
officer for Jefferson Davis. Applause :
1t has only to be known at Washington that
the single motive, which inspired the con-
duct of General Officer was the restora-
tion of the Union, and that officer was, as
far as the Wa. Office could make him so,
doomed man. Hence the defeat of our
army in front Of Richmond, in 1862, not by
Lee, but by Stanton. Hence the assassin's
I blow which was aimed at the heart Of Gen.
Sherman, and which only tailed 10 reach
him, because his army formed shield sixty
thousand deep, through which the murder
Gus blow could not penetrate. Applause.
THE NEGRO.
No feeling Of personal unkindless, no
vulgar prejudice, controls my action in op-
posing Negro Equality. ! have ever re-
garded, and now consider, the negp as an
object of commiseration, and not of ha-
tired or contempt. He is not responsible for
being resident of America, but hi, misior
tunes neither give him sufficient intelligence
to become a citizen, nor do away With the
lnsurmountable obstacles against his being
placed upon an equality with thu white
man. And, although General Cox declares,
in bis Oberhn letter, that ''the white and
black races are from the antipodcs of the
human family" yet he substantially says,
in the same letter, that if majority of the