The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1864-1911, 1866-09-12
ESTABLISHED A. D. 1882
RESTORATION,
Letter From Henry Ward Beech-
er
HE HEARTILY IN99RSES PPESI-
DENT JOHNS0N'S POLICY.

Cias. G.. Hdlpine, Brccet Bligadier G
erdl II, w. SlocHn, Major General; Cor
don Granger, Major General, Committee
GENTLEMEN: am obliged to you for the
invitation which you have made to me to
act as Chaplain to the Convention of Sail
ors aud Soldiers, about to convene at C'eve-
land | cannot attend, but, heartily wish
it and all other conventions, Of what party
soever, success, who.c object is the restora-
tion of all the States lute in rebellion to
| their Federal relations.
Our theory of Government has no place
for State except in the Union. 1t is just
| " taken for granted that the duties aad re-
spon>ibilities of State in Federal relations
teud to It's political bea'th, and 10 that OF
the whole na.ion. Even Territories are
hastily brought in often before the preScr'-
bed conditions are fulilled, as if it we've
dangerous 10 leave community outside O.
the great body polite.
Had the loya Senators and Representa-
tives of Tennessee been admitted at once on
the as emal;ng Of Congress, aud, in moder-
ale succession, Arkansas, Georgia, Alabama,
| North Carolina and Virginia, the public
mind Of the South would have been far
more healthy than it is, and those States
which fingered on nrobation to the last
would have been under more salutary IN
fuence to good conduct than if dozen ar
mics watched over them.
Every month we dclav this healthful step
complicates the case. The excluded popu-
lation, enough unsettled before, grew more
irritable; the army becomes indispensable
10 local government, and supersedes it; the
Government at Washington is called to in
terfere in one and another difficulty, and
this will be done inaptly, and sometimes
with great irustice-ior our Government,
wisely adapted to lis own proper functions,
is utterly devoid of those habits, and u1-
equipped w'th The inst "uments which mt
centralized governmen, to exercise authol-
ty in remote States over local affairs Eve
~ attempt to perform such duties has re-
sui ed in mistakes which have excited the
na,ion. But whatever imprudence, there
may be in the me,bod, the real criticism
should be against the requlSlton or such
duties Of the General Government
The Federal Government is unfit to exer-
else minor police and local government and
viii inevitably blunder when it attempts it.
TO keep half score of States under FEEDER.
al authority, but Wi ,hout nationalities and
responsibilities; 10 oblise the central au! hor-
ity TO govern hall the lei tory of the Union
by Federal civil officers and by the army, is
policy not only upcougenlal to our ideas
and principles, but pre- emincnt'y dangerous
70 the spirit of our Government. HoWeyer
, humane the ends sought and The motives,
it is, in fact. course Of instruction, pre-
} pairing our Government to be d. 7potic, and
familiarizing the people to stretch OF ,au-
: thority which can never be other than dan
gerous to Liberty .., >,
I am aware that good men are withheld
T .r.om advocating the prompt and successive
admission of the exiled Safes by the fear,
chiefly, of its effect upon partles and upon
freedmen. :. =,
it is said that if admitted to Congress the
Southern Senators and Representatives ". ~
coalcsce with Northern Democrats and rule
= the county. Is this nation, then, to remain
dismcmbered to serve the ends OF parties!
Have we learned no wisdom by the history
of the last ten yeacs in which Just TINS
course of sacrificing the nation to the eXl'
gencies of parties plunged us into rebellor
and war?
Even admit that the power would pass in
to the hands of party made up OF onuth
'' ern men, and the hitherto disbonored ano
misled Democracy of the North, that power
e could not be used just as they pleaa ed
The war has changed, not alone institutions
but ideas. The whole county has advanc
ed A new parry would, like liver b
u oblic ed to seek its channels in the alread!
existing slopes and forms Of the continent
}. We lave entered new area OF liberty
The thought is iteer and more noble. Ih
g voung men OF cur times ae reSenerated.
The great army has been a school, and hun
70 dreds of thousands OF men are gone nome u
preach a Il uer and nober view Of humaI
iigh,s. AN the Industrial interests OF socle
= ~ are moving with increa.ed wisdom to
/, ward telligencc and liberty. Everywhere
in churches, in literature, in natural Science
in physical industries, in socicl questions, a
we'll as in police, the nation feels that tn
winter is over and a new spring hangs
horizon and works through all the elements
l. In this happily changed and advanced cor
dition of things no party of the retrogaad
a. ~ can maintain itselG. Everything marche
III ID parties mush march,,
t. hear with wonder and shame and scor
he the fear Of few that the South once nor
in adjustment with the Federal Goyernmei
h will ru this nation. The North is rich
never SO rich; the South is poor-never
poor The population OF the North Is nea
" double that of the South Ine lndqstr
y of the Moth. in diversity, In torwardne
a. and productivencsss, in all the machinery an
- education required for manufacturing,
III | nan century Ill AtNdIiSO W WV D'''
d, Churches in the North crown every, hi
on and schools swarm in every nelghborhoo
es, while the So tn has but scattered lights.
nd long dis an es, like lighthouse tNinklir
1T along the ed res of continent OF darknes
let In the presence of such contrast, nc
mean and craven is the fear that the Sou
- will rule the policy Of the land! That
will have an influence, that it will cont
, butte, in time, most important influence
&, restraints, we are glad to believe. But if
rises at once to the control Of the Cover
q ment it will be because the North, demor'
a1 h1 lied by prosperity, and besotted by grove
s' Sc ing inte ests, refuses to discharge its saa
Ia, of political duty. In such case the Sou
+ not only will COZ troll the Government, but
- ought to do it. :,
8. 1t is feared, with more reason, tn
the restoration of the South to her full
dependence will be detrimental to the free
men. The sooner we dismiss from our min
the idea that the freedmen can be elasslfe
Dr and separated from the white populatic
and nursed ar defended by themselves, t
iiv better it will be for them and us. The r
Re- rro is part and parcel of Southern soce
or lie cannot be prosperous while it is unprt
pered. Its evils W rebound upon him.
md its happiness a d reinvigoration cannot
ied kent from his participation. The resto
ton of the South to amicable relations W
the North the reorganization Of its Ind
- 4ho ;,eniration of its pnternrisa a