The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1864-1911, 1866-03-21
NEW SERIES--VOLUME 1. NO 81

BY request We re-eopy the following able
article from the New York Obsarer, the
organ Of the Presbyterian Church, and one
OF the ablest and most influential papers in
the Union. These words of soberness and
truth, coming from such source. will have
their effect umoug religious people, und vii
have much to do in turning the popuIar
tide IN Favor Of President johnson. The
OLsorrer says: ... g. .tpf
SUSTAIN TIE PREstDEST.
1T Is high time that the Union men Of tina
whole country made their sentiments known,
~ v0lce Of thunder. nt. the doors of tho
National Legislature, With a patriotic anil
intelligent President, called to his high
place by the voice of God tnd the people,
the country Is in danger of h. .Hg its will
defeated by the action of Congress. 1t is
the night Of those of Us who are uncondi.
tlnnal Union men frnn the beginning. and
who have never given place for an instant
to the hereSy OF diSunion, should assert the
rights that We as majority of American
people, have under the Constitution, which
has now been established hy the sword. as
once more the law of the whole land.
Andrew Johnson was dominated and elect
ed to the Vice presidency, whence, in the
Providence OF God. he has been elevated TO
the Presidency from the State ofTernessee,
Ii 1t VAS and is out Of the Union, he was
not citizen of the United States. Tennes.
see has, under all the forms known TO our
laws. rcasse rted her own rights to an equal
standing in the Union with her sister States,
and has SEN TO her Congress and ours true
and tired Union men, who, like the Presi-
dent, have been true to the old flag through
the long and bloody war. 7hose men hare
right to go 'nto the hall ofheT House of
Representatives.. present thor credentials,
and demand their seats. They are as fairly
entitled to their place as Andrew johnson
is to his! SO the President says and so we
say. Mr. Speaker Colfax may as Justly be
locked out by the doorkeeper as Mr.. Rep.
resentative Hawkins Who has fought gal
antly on the field Of battle for the right that
is now denied him, That he, and such as
he, are refused admission, is a defiance Of
OF the Constitution and laws; notification
by the House of the law of the land; re.
sistance Of the will of the people as expires.
sed by the election Of Mr.. johnson, and by
the ratification of the Constitution. This
is a high ground, but it is tenable. Ii does
not invade the right of the House to Judge
OF the qualifications ofits own members. Ii
may tender the loyalty oath to each Tennes-
see delegate, and we must stand or fall by
il, But Tennessee has as good a right to.
day to be heard on the floor of that House
as Massachusetts or New York. IF She has
not sent true Union men, she can send 9th.
ers when these now waiting are found want
ing But she has her rights and this aw-
ful war has been all in vain if, in the morn
ing Of peace, we are to have the rights OF
the people trampled in the dust BY che men
whom We have sent to re.bG:ll ;he shattered
walls Of our glorious republic.
The question, and the only question, is
the integrity Of the Union. Has it been
d ssolved2 Was secession an accomplish
ed fact? Ifnot then the States are there,
and the restored Constitution is their pro-
lection and the bond of our Union. We
whose watchward in all phases OF politics.
and in all disaster and desponding hours Of
the war. has been ''the Constitution as it ia
and the Union as it was, will not abandon
that watchword now that peace and order
reign from the St. Lawrence to the Cult.