The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1864-1911, 1866-09-26

sophisn itsefis'' says he that every State
OF the Union may, consistently with the
national Constitution, and therefore lawfully
and peacefully withdraw from the Union
without the consent of the Union or of any
other State"
In the same message he remarks
Lest there be some uneasiness in the
minds OF candid lnen as to what is to be the
course OF the government towards the
Southern States after the rebellion shall
have suppressed, the Executive deem it
proper to say, it will be his purpose then,
RS ever, to be guided by the Constitution
and the laws; and that he probably will have
no different understanding of the powers
and duties of the Federal Government re-
latively to the right of the States and the
people. under the Constitution than that
expressed in the inaugural address.
lie deslros to preserve the government,
that it may be administered for all, as it
was administered by the men who made it.
Loyal citizens everywhere have the right
to claim this Of their government, and the
government has no right to Withhold or
neglect it. 1t is not perceived that in
giving it, there is an exercise, any conquest
or any subjugation, in any sense of those
terms.
In the Secretary Of Wars letter Of the
Sth Of August 1861, to Gen. Butler, he
says:
''It is the desire of the President that
dHeriSting rights III all the States be fulv
respected and maintained. The war now
prosecuted on the part of the Federal
Government is awar for the Union, and for
the preservation of all constitutional rights
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the Union.
In his message of July 18TH, 1862, he
insists that no person who shall incite, set
on foot, assist or engage in any rebellion
or insurrection shall be punished withou
regular trial in duly constituted courts,
unler the forms and all the substantial
provisions of law and the Constitution ap-
plicabe to their several cases.
The State of West Virginia was admit
ted by Congress on .he Dist of December,
1868. This act was done, not upon the
ground that Virginia had gone out of the
Union, but especially upon the opposite as
sumption, as you will find by reference to
page 1885, Of the History of Lincoln $
administration.
At the same session, that of 1S62,63, of
two members of Congress were admitted to
to the House-their credentials were not
referred to a joint Comittce-tbat mode
had not vet been discovered but to IA Com
mittee of the House. Why is louisiana
ont now, when she was in then?
In his message of December 9th 1868,
Mr.. Lincoln preferred recognition, and
guaranteed under the Constitution to any
State which would cease being retollious,
and in his proclamation appended to that
message he acknowledged all of the States
in rebellion to be "States," and call on
them to establish State governments He
held acts of secession to be absolutely void,
and that while tho rebels had rendered
themselves individually liable to be pun
ished for treason, they had not in any res
pect changed the relations of their States,
as such to the general government.
Such were tie views of Abraham lin
coin such are the views of Andrew John
son, and such are the views of every patri-
otic citizen, who has energy enough in this
day of trial to elevate himself above party
for the sake of his country.
We prefer not now to comment on these
facts, but content ourselves in laying them
before our readers, as matter for reflection,
trusting they will loan the Sentinel to their
radical neighbors. who possibly have for
gotten the words of the late President.