The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1864-1911, 1866-10-03

ana Ill electlng state OIIlcerS ana MenDers
of COngress-thus restoring the suspended
relations of the States to the General Gov
ernment. He imposed no new conditions
precedent, and assumed no power as exist
ing in any department OF Government tC
impose any. He merely recommend meth
cd for the people of each State-recognizing
in them the sole power to elect officers and
modify laws, 50 as to place the State in al.
legiance to the United States-and pledged
himself as Executive.of the Nation to rec
ognize and sustain each of such recognized
State governmer ts He recommended the
people to insert in their constitutions a
clause declaring the then accomplished fact
of the abolition Of slavery. But in doing
this he departed not from the principle that
reunion was the sole object of the war 1t
was no demand of new Or extraordinary
condition, but only the recognition Of an
accomplished effect Of the war as plainly
iTeverSible as the path of the sun in the
heavens, and to the maintenance Of which
the Government had been compelled, byhtc
unr Itself, to pledge its inevocable faith.
Within week after that proclamation
was issued, the Radical leaders brought for
ward their plan of reconstruction, in the
bill of Henry Winter Davis. 1t proposed
as conditions precedent to restoration,
amendments to State constitutions prohibit
ing slavery, repudiating the rebel debt (both
which amendments all the excluded States
have since made by the advice of President
Johnson), and DISTINGUISHING about one
fourth as many of the leaders as the amend
mcnt now insisted by Congress proposes to
distranchise; and authorized the President
to recognize such State Governments only
after Congress had giVcnti its consent. This
bill President Lincoln refused TO sign, stand
ing fast to his own plan of unconditional res
tOration. He was forthwith sSsaiIed with a
violence, and rancor, only paralleled by the
assaults OF the same men on President
johnson. Wade and Davis, who led the
assault, denounced him by manifesto, as
guilty Of ''dictuforM uSmpotio0,' and
warned him, in very II uch the tones OF the
threats Of Impeachment now made against
President Johnson that "the authority Of
Congress ON the question Of restoration IS
pGiJtn9ouH md mR$t be re&pccf0i. " \ Ma
tionAl Convention was called to meet in
Cleveland to nominate Fremont or Chase
for President, denouncc Mr.. Lincoln's poll
cy of restoration, and read him out OF the
party.
The call of that Convention so,inds like a
Blast from the buge Of Greedy or, I'orney Of
to-day. Cheers and laughter. Hear it. y
"lhe imhccie and vaciIlating policy Of
the present administration, its troacheiy to
Justice and freedom in its plan Of recon.
Struction, Whereby the honor and dignity
Of the nation have been sacrificed in conci-
iaying the arrogant slave power and to fur
ther the ends Of an unScrupuI0us ambition
call in thunder tones upon the levers of
justice and their country to come to the res
cue Of the impoIiiled nationality, aid the
cause Of impartial justice aud universal
freedom threatened with betrayal and over
throw
1t is hard to realize the fact that this
thunar,bolt WAS aimed at President Lincoln
two years ago instead ct at President John
son this year. But the thundelhoit> Of to-
day are crecd on the same anvil, and hurl-
ed by the same hands, as those which fell in
noi*p impotence at the feet Of Abraham
Lincoln.
Nearly all Of the present Radical leaders
Of Congress were notoriousy in full sympa-
thy with this movement, but only few of
them were bold and rash enough to commit
themselves to it openly and in advance. -
They knew Mr.. lincom'S high place in the
hearts and confidence Of the war party, and
though they then as now had the organza-
ton Of the party in their hands. they halted
and banked when the issue came,
"Afraid
10 De the same in their own act and valor.
AS they We're in DESIRE
C,atz Brown, Fremont Wade, Davis,
Cochranc, Pomeroy, Wendell Phillips
&b, n,.1 ,,f bn
die" \ voice, and Anna Dickinson. VI
No! Anna Dickcrson did not respond to the
call fthe Convention, but Mrs Il. Cady
Stanton did, Saying she took it for granted
the callers Of the Convention Of the "Radi
ca men Of the Nation used the word men
in its largest sense" and therefore she res
ponded! Laughter. The Convention
nominated Fremont and Cochrane, denoun-
ced the Presidents S restoration policy,
claimed that all power over the subject be-
longs to Congress- and insisted on the dis
fi'anchisenIont OF all rebels repentant and
unrepretant, and the confscation of all their
lands for our soldiers Its platform was
pretty Radical, but fell low shot of the
Radical programme Of to- day, quitting, as
it did, negro outrage.
Then followed the Convention Of the war
party at Baltimore, which Unanimously in
dorsed President I,incoln's polcy-renoni-
mated him by accimatiob, admitted to seats
and votes in the Convention the delegates
chosen from Arkansas, Tennessee and LOU
isiana, which had been reorganized under
his proclamation; and declared in platform
reported by Henry j. Raymond. that the
only condition Of peace and reunion "shal
be tie unconditional surrender Of Hostility Iy
the rebels, dRd heirretuH to Mc,r oNegjunce
to the Constitution and lars OF the Emtel
States " 10 make reputation of the
Theories Of the Radical faction more marked,
The Covention nominated Andrew johnson,
of Tennessee. for Vice president, against
the protest of that faction, led by Thad.
Stevens, who declared that patriot State
was but conquered province, and her loyal
hailed the triumph of the President and his
restoration po icy, over the Radicals, and
indorsed them Overwhelmingly The lead
ers of that faction, baffled and overthrown,
CLING to the skirts Of the Administration,
and were carried with it again into power.
The Radical ship launched at Cleveland,
was abandoned, almost before it touched
water; and after drifting idy--a month or
two-sunk unnoticed, and lregret to add,
without its crew. IAppaus.l But moth
ing daunted by the defeat of their recon
stluction policy, and triumph Of that of Mr..
Lincoln, they renewed their issue with him
forthwith, denouncing his policy with una
bated rancor and arrogance; and his last
public act of his illustrious life was speech
on the 18th of April, 1865 in vindication
of his policy and in favor of the immediate
and unconditional admission Of the Senators
and Representatives from the reorganized
States APPLAUSE. ... l.u =
Now, | ask. in the light of this recital, is
it President johnson or Congress who Is
false to the principles Of the war party
The fundamental issue between them il
precisely the same as that between Congress
and President Lincoln-both Executives
holding tho States as existing with their
constitutions and laws, as before the rebel
lion, and as entitled to resume their rela.