The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1864-1911, 1866-08-15

account We have Of the conversation, h,
seemed 10 be smaHting under the affection
ct heavy rccent wrongs, aud he spoke viii
feeling OF ind gn1'inn ane resentment com
mon 10 men and UNSUITABLE in their pTivat,
stations; but when he became President o.
the United States those feelings ought Il
have been, and | trust they were, suppre.
sed. and his personal wrongs forgotten
His Office was then the r%eStorer Of publ,
peace and order, not the avenger Of private
wrongs, or the instrument by which private
vengence might be gratiied, and il became
a question what was the best mode of recon.
CLING all men to their conditions and estab.
fishing peace and harmony in the country.
That popular passions and rreiudices still
exist in the South, is undoubted. The
opinions of men as to their abstract rights,
are not changed; for no man or men were
ever reasoned into a change Of opinion by
the cannon or the bay0net. Though hex
may be well fought to i've at peace an
enjoy freedom and safety of life and proper
ty under a regular Con stitutional Govern
ment, rather than suffer a repetition of the
horrors and dissolution of a civil war.
Ii is the remark Of a writer, who lived
through the French Revolution, who rea-
soned sagely, aud observed much. that 'the
remedy for popular passions is to be found,
not IN the despotlSm or arbitrary infection,
but in the assumed sovereignty of the law. -
For these reasons | do MT unite in the
censure which Senator Trumbull casts upOn
the President, because we discover humane
feeling in his official action, for the miseries
Of thnSe who had most wronged him, es-
pecially as | an conscious that his kindness
and torbcarance tended much more than
severity to the establishment OF union and
harmony.
! am not the apologist of the President,
It's simply my aim to do him and all others
right and Justice according to my own CON
ceptions. In these | may greatly err, but
my opinions are formed on passing events,
and with a view only to the interests of my
country. 1t is idle to impugn the motives
and apply personal abuse to those who differ
with us i'll political opinions-to call names
Ito use cOntemptuous epithets, and thus
deprcciatc personally those whose argu-
mrnts we find to be unan>werable.
There is much of this that is neither cred
table or statesman-like in the speech Of Mr.,
Trumbull, which is now before me, but |
will not comment upon it.
My wish is that the Republican party.
very many of whose members | high Y re-
spect. may return to the path Of Constitu-
tional rectitude, and walking in that path,
| wish them a long and successful admins
tration of their appropriate sphere in the
affairs Of government, but if they and the
Constitution can not exist together, | as
earnestly desire their overthrow.
Practically, my opinion is that a humane
forbearance in the execution Of penal laws,
which should make it the cntercst of men
to prefer the Union and the laws and order
to anarchy, is the only sound policy. Som
will undoubtedly become outlaws, bat as
few as possible should be driven to that CON
dition, and the few that have been allowed
the privilege Of citizens aud the rights OF
property, who choose to form themselves
into predatory bands, whether they plum
der upon land or water, should be cXtermi-
mated as enemies Of the human race.
| hope much from the good effect of your
convention. | am sure that it will be CON
Citation, at the same time with firmness
and decision. ! trust much in its effect on
public opinion-mnch, indeed, in its effect
on the opinions and actions of the present
Congress.
Indeed hope that the next session o.
this Congress, to find a state affecting such
that no considerable changes may be neces-
sary to secure the triumph of Constitutional
law, and the union, peace and prosperity Of
each and every part of orr common country.
| am respectfully, yours,
i. EWING.
To the Hon 0. II. Ba0wNlN, Washing
ton City. d. G..
The Convention then took IL recess till 3
o'clock, T.. NJ.