The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1864-1911, 1866-09-26
Gen. Tom EsyiRg's SpecCga-The
Rupture EE2 the Republican
Parfy.-WhO are Fsle follow ers
of Abraham Lincoln.

GieB. OsEf ESssseSIs r1G
Rupture IE9 the Republican
Parfy.-W VINO a the follower
OF Abraham EinCOln.
The following is m extract from the mas
tcrly speech of Maj, Gen. Ewing at Clc,e-
land. He shows con2lusiycly that Presi-
dent johnson is only following the policy
pursued by Lincoln:
But when the triumph of orr arms was
assured-the valley OF tile Mississippi won
and the Confederacy was Seen to stagger
in obstinate and hopeless conflict, the coun-
ellis Of our rulers became divided. The Rad
ical leaders in Congress, anticipating the
end Of the war, AMI the early dissolution of
the war party, began to consult how to wind
up the struggle, so as to secure the domin-
ion OF their theories, and their sectional and
personal interests. But they found in Pres
ident Lincoln an infexible opponent, who
would not turn from the direct path Of i'm
mediate restoration, and who repudiated
their theory of State suicide, then newly in
vented for their party purpose. On the Sth
of December, 1868, President Lincoln issu-
ed his proclamation of amnesty and plan of
restoration. All the Governments Of The
insurrectiola y States We're then i'll the hands
Of rebels sworn to the C~onftderacy. Did
he treat the States as being therefore with
out valid constitutions or laws? No. He
treated them as being merely without the
m0chaneyy of the law-the officers Of Gov
eminent. Did he assume to confer suf-
1rage on whom he pleased? No. lie said
suffrage was fixed by State constitutions
and laws, in force then, las when the REBEL
ion began, and recognized it rs purely OF
State. concern and control. He called on
all the voters qualified by State constitu-
tons and lawson all who had been loyal,
and all who, having been rebels, should take
| the oath of amnesty and allegiance, to join
in e~xpunging from their State constitutions
and laws all provisions in conflict with the
Constitution and laws of the United States,
aud in electing State officers and Members
Of Congress-thus restoring the suspended
relations Of tire States to the General Gov
arnment. lie imposed no new conditions
precedent, and assumed no power as exist
inc in any department. of Government to
impose any. He merely recommend meth.
| cd for the people Of each State-recognizine
in them the sole power to elect officers and
modify laws, So as TO place the State in al
~lcgiance to the UnitGu States--and pledged
himself as Executive Of the Nation to rec
ognizc and sustain each of such recognized
| State governme, is. He recommended tie
people to insert in their constitutions .
clause declaring the then accomplished fact
of the abolition Of slavery. But in doiDs
this he departed not from the principle thai
reunion was the sole object of the war. II
was no demand Of a new or extraordinary
condition, but only the recognition of ar
accomplished effect of the war as plainly
irreversible as the path Of the sun in the
heavens, and to the maintenance Of which
the Government had been compelled. JyMt
uar itself, to pledge its irrevocable faith.
Within a week after that proclamation
was issued, the Radical leaders brought for
ward her plan Of reconstruction, in thu
bill of Henry Winter Davis. 1t proposed
as conditi. ms precedent to restoration
amendments to State constitutions prohibit
ing slavery, repudiating the rebel debt (botl
which amendments all the excluded State
have since made by the advice of Presiden
Johnson), and DISTINGUISHING about one
fourth as many Of the leaders as the amend
ment now insisted by Congress proposes tt
disfranchise; and authorized the Presiden
to recognize such State Governments onl,
J after Congress had given its consent. Thi