The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1864-1911, 1866-09-19

sluNeTy Dy IUnsJltullOnaI amenQment, an
am t day unalterable opposed toits restora
/ ton. II that is Democratic, then am
, Democrat.
am in favor of the payment Of the las
dollar of our National debt, and opnosed {
paying one ceut of the rebel or Confederat
debt.
| am opposed to taxation without repre-
!. sentation, as your fathers and mine were
|, | amin favor Of every loyal man in tn
lately rebel llious States having representa-
ton in Congress. am in favor Of ever
man in this country being equal in the ey
of the civil law, but am opposed to negr
suffrage. And last, hut not least, ! an i
favor of egualizing soldiers bounties, an
opposed to members of Congress votn
themselves $1,000 extra pay to elcctionee
on, and refusing to give the soldiers of thre
years service hut $lGJ. In a VOID, | az
in favor oi whole, ard not part of
Union; in favor Of peace, and opposed t
any more civil wars in this country; il
favor of the Union, Constitution and tt
laws.
Ii these principles are Democratic, ther
you may set me down as a live Democrat. -
lf.they are reasonable, then | am rebel
see some Of my old Republican friend
present here to-day, and trust they will b,
considerato enough to elaot me the priv
lege OF expressing my own opinion can
didly.
The National platform of party is tn,
exponent of the principles Of that PARTY
and, in the absence of any thing to contra
diet the declarations laid down by pre-
vious convention, those principles are bind
ing until changed, upon all who profess t,
! follow them.
| stand to-day where stood two year.
ago. 1t WAS my privilege TO be delegate
to the Baltimore CHnvs ntion and as {
delegate J ted in framing the platform
laid down for the guidance OF the Unior
party in 1864. and after ward supported
that platform during the campaign which
resulted in the election Of Mr.. Lincoln. -
Every member Of Congress was elected
upon that plrtform, aud if they have
failed to carry out the principles enunciattt 4
in it, | do not propose to allow thor. tc
question my fidelity.
To day | il.dorse the platform of the
Philadelphia Convention, not as distinct
from the former, but as built entirely on
the results which followed the declaration
embodied in the platform of tie Baltimore
| ConTcnton.
That was the object Of the war if it was
not to preserve the Constitution ard main
tain the rights of the State entire? Why
do not then those members of Congress who
were elected under this proposition anoun-
ced at the outset of the rebellion, fulfill the
mission for which they were sent to our
National halls, and ignore the circYmstan-
tial incident ofnegro suffrage?
hnt rJ hn o
What was so regarded during the time of
the Revolution? Was it not laying down
ct arms, an acknowledgment of conquest by
to Washington? Has not the South done
al this through the hands of John: on and
Lee? What more could you expect them
to d?, But how has Tennessee-a State
that furnished 27,0O0 Union Soldiers been
treated by Congress?
Why have they been almost entirely dis
regarded ibis State elected Representa-
tives while out Of the Union, ard they have
beeu admitted. at last, to their seats in
Congress. Is Tennessee in the Union; and,
# So, are not all the States entitled to the
same rights with her? Are not the postal
routes established in all the States? Are
not the Southern peop!e taxed to pay our
National war debt as States? Are they
not regarded, in fact, as States, and not
teri tories? Have they not then, upcondi-
tionally surrendered? and what more can we
ri htfuly demand Of them, that tdey may
have immediate representation in Con-
gress?
Mr. GaddiS nent examined the subject Of
taxation without representation, declaring
that it was instructive in the hearts of
American people not to be taxed without a
proper repard for their rights as taxable
people, and spoke of the causes which de-
veloped tho'war of. the Revolution. But,
said the speaker, some of our Northern
men are afraid tc trust Southern men in
our legislative halls. He alluded to the fact
thar our prowess was not less to-day than
it had been during the war, and we were
fully able to crush cut any thing having
the semhlauce Of rebellion, whenever and
however it might appear. 1t was our dnty
to try them, and test thei fealty now to tn
Union.
With The present Congress the elective
franchise means anything that suits their
tastes. While in Washington J was an eye
witness Of the manner in which that hon
orable committee OF fife endeavored to
produce final rp rt upon tho subject Of
Cons it lal amendment, and to me it
seemed nothing more than boys play -
Men trifIing with the dcstinies of great
nation that was clamoring for peace all over
the land, and disregarding the hundred
thousand claims of widows and orphans
whose tears was appealing to them for
bread, that their lazy, idle legislation was
withholding from them. These were. facts
which eight months of an improbable ses-
sion declared all over the land. They vot
ed themselves an increase Of pay to carry on
their electoneering scheme, and help cen
hands, while they were totally unmindul
of the interests of the soldiers who had
better earned the amount appropriated by
themselves.
The great work of the present campaign
was to look well to the fruits of the victory
which our army had placed under our con
troll, and to declare that the Union must be
represented by every State that is named
within it.
The speaker continued his eloquent ad-
dress be denounced. in the severest terms,
the Hon. r. w. Clarke, the present mem
Der of Congress from the Sixth District,
who has insulted the soldiers of Clermont,
by alluding to the poverty of few who had
exercised the right Of questioning him on
the leading point now at issue.
Mr. Gaddis was repeatedly interrupted
by the enthusiastic cheers Of his hearers,
and was greeted with shower of boquets
from the ladies that occupied the seats near
the speakers stand.
NEGRO DELEGATES TO THE PHILADEL-