The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1864-1911, 1866-05-30

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par. / return my thauksqto you. gentle
men. and will endeav0r 10 merit the conf
dence you have repOsed in me. And to d.
50 | am sure, will not be a difficult task;
f0rneref did greater harmony prevail III our
grand and timr- honored party, and never
did its Delegates assemble IN Convention
with more Of ifa,enal feeling or with a
6rIner resolntion to stand by the principles
thar have made the name Of The party a
'synomymnf whatever expresses gOud gov
eminent, and that will in the FIXTURE secure
to our organization an existence as enduring
as time. Where all are actuated by the
same noble motives, and neither envy, jeal-
ously or selfshncss finds a place. the duties
Of a presiding officer are so simple that it Is
scarcely possible to err. - g
Gentlemen, We have very often met in
Convention before and under the most vari-
Gus circumStances-at times when all was
SO bright around us that the mosttar7Aght-
ed and distrustful could perceive no speck
of danger in our political tky; and again,
when that sly la so overcast md menac-
ing that even the most Gon-heartd and
hopeful could scarce refrain from despair
We have seen our country. under Demo
cratic rule, the abode Of the most free pros
porous and hspfy peorle on earth; and,
again. we have seen it, under the dolDinion
Of our opponents, a prey to all that hunan
nature has ever developed of deSpotism,
.orror and calamity,
But, Whetherin sunshine or in darkness,
IN calm or in tempest our party has ever
followed the path Of duty according to its
honest convictions. To say that it has new
or errel would be Ia claim foe ii a more III
human intelligence. to say that 1t has sell
dom erred and never Intentionally, is but to
speak the verdict of history. 1t is sixty
five years since the inauguration of Mr..
Jefferson. During forty-eightSears Of this
period, the Government was Nj the hands
nf the Democratic party. During nearly
eight OF the remaining seventeen years,
though presided over by Presidents not Of
our choice, 1t was administered in The main
upon Democratic principles. In this long
lapse of time there was witnessed, what had
never been Witnessed before, a total absence
Of civil commotians, and a profound peace
for fifty out of ffty-Six yrara. And not
peace alone. but also, uHexampled freedom,
growth prosperity and happiness. Norman
ever lost life, liberty or properly, for a pc
litieal offense, under a Democratic admins.
blullVIis ANp mari hio 0fCi 0CIiiINIi " HuIi
an administration, of lille, liberty or proper
ty, without due process Of law. No politi
cal Bastile ever then darkened and disgraGed
the face Of TIL land. No prison doors We're
ever then closed against the sacred writ Of
hubeas- corpus. No military commission.
organized to convict, ever then usurped the
functions Of the law.makef and Of the civil
courts. No tongue.or press was ever then
sllcncGd by arbitrary power. AM never,
no never, was such Il thing then heard OIL
as an American exile. ,# .,rR
Who can look at this picture of liberty,
security, happiness and national glory, fee
bly, though it be drawn, without feeling hi,
heart swell with an honest pride at the tho
that he belongs to a party that has such q
history? What a sad reverse the last few
years present, | need not say. Tlleirevent,
are too fresh in our recollection to require
recital. .
And now, gentlemen, we arc again Assem-.
| bled in council to consult and to act for the
comuon welfare. The storm. Of war ha,
passed by but we are yet very far, | fear
from the. hiyen at peace and safety. In
deed, it may well be doubted, whether We
have everseGn q time of more peril thar
the present. After four years of bloody
war to preserve the Union, a, we were told
we see the party that %arrOgates to itself eX
c~Iusivcly the name Of Union, practicalll
dIssoIylng what it pretended to preserve
We see eleven States that have laid dowr
their arms, are obedient to the Constitution
and the laws, and are anxious to lie sume thu
exercise oil their const tutlonal rights, torci
bly, deprived of them, heavily taxed with
out representation aud ruled by laws III thu
making Of which they haze hot the siightes
voice. And this is done by q party tina
calls itself Union and Republican. Pray
gentlemen, if this be Union what is dissolu
ton? Ii this be Republicanism what i
despotism? Did any one ever hear EhglisI
rule over ireland, Austrian rule over Hun
gary, or Russia rule over POLAND called re
publican? | fancy poland yet wherein d.
our Abolition so called Congress exercise
and is striving to consolidate overtle South
ern States? And who does not see that
the precedent be set and approved, of Cor
gress excluding a State OF, States from ,reE
reSentation, there never will be wanting
pretext for a like exclusion Of any State OF
~noxious to majority Of the Congress, G
whose representation would oppose a bar t
the >chemes of that majority OF to the pei
p 7tuation of its power? II the represents
ton Of a State is to depend upon the wi
Of Congress, in,tced of the provisions {
the Constitution, Of what use is the Cnnst
tuition, or what vitality has our form {
Government? What would have been sai
had the Congress, when the Hartford Coz
%vehtion was in session, and when rMas;chu
sets for babe her militia to, pass her ow
borders to defend the country, excluded tn
, New England States from Representations
What would the, Summers, and Wades, an,
Stevenses If that day have said that? An
yet there was just as much right to do :
then, as there is to exclude the Souther
. States now-that is to say. here was and
no right Of exclusion in either case. Lj
no Dfandeceive himself, or be deceived b
sopblstry upon this question. 1t is vital t
the existence Of our Government. Tn
wrong done to the Southern States is NJ
Fd0ne to them aIone-it Is a wrong to all til
States-to Ohio as much as to South Care
lima. It,, upon some pretext. or another,
majority in, Congress may disregard an
override the Constitution, and exclude tia
State from representation, majority in an
other Congress, may, in like manner an
uponNome pretext, exclude Ohio. And
besides, the right of a State to represents
ton is not her right a''one--it is the right 4
every State that all the States shall be rer
resented. The Union into which we enter
ed is a Union of all the States. The law
of Congress that We agreed should bind I
are law made be representatives from a
the States. Our fathers never agreed
have never agreed, that States obedient t
the Constitution should be excluded frol
Congress, and our laws be made By the r,
nainder of the States. There is not
word in the Constitution or in the hiStol
of the Republic that gives the slighte
sanction to such an idea. On the contral
il is directly subyersive of the CONSTITUTION
and, carried into practice, is an overture
Of our Government. And in view Of the,
Facts, lido not hesitate to saw that the d,
iDgs of the present called Congress