The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1864-1911, 1866-08-29
NEW SERIES---VOLUME 2. NO. s.

ton of the United States, aud tu all laws
! that may be made in pursuance thereof
APPEAL TO THE NATION.
| FELLOW. w.COUNTRYMEN:-We call upon
you, in full reliance upon your intelligence
and your patriotism, to accept, with gener-
| Gus and ungrudeing confidence, this full
1 surrender on the part Of those lately IN
arms against your authority, and to share
with them the honor and renown that await
those who bring back peace and concord to
jarring States. The war just closed, with
all its sorrows and disasters, has opened d
new career of glory to the nation it has
saved. 1t has swept away the hostiities Of
sentiment and of interest which were
standing menace to its peace. 1t has de-
| stroyed the in, titution of slavery, always
cause of sectional agitation and strife, and
has opened Tor our countrT the way to unity
of interest. of princiI lie and of action thro'
all time to come. 1t has developed in both
sections a military capacity-an aptitude for
achievements of war, Doth by sea and land,
before unknown even to ourselves, and des-
! tined to eqercise hereafter, under united
councils, an important influence upon the
character and destiny of the continent and
tho world. And while it has thus revealed,
dlcipllned and compacted our power, it has
proved to us beyond controversy or doubt,
by the course pursued toward both contend
ing sections by foreign powers. that we
must be the guardians of eur own indepen-
dcnce, and that the principles Of republican
freedom we represent can find among the
nations of the earth no friends OF defenders
but ourselves.
We call upon you, therefore, by every
consideration of your OWN dignity and safe
tx,o op1 ~, tho of Ehartu fhcnuubnr,t
the world to complete the work of restora-
sion and peace, which the President of the
! United States has so well begun, and which
the policy adopted and the principles assert
ed by the present Congress alone obstruct.
CONGRESS TO BE REMoDELED.
The time is close at hand when members
of a new Congress are to be elected. 1t
that Congress shall perpetuate this policy,
and, by excluding loyal States and people
from representation in its halls, shall con-
tinue the usurpation by which the legisla
tive powers of the Government are now
exercised, common prejudice compels us to
anticipate augmented discomfort, sullen
withdrawal from the duties and obligations
of the Federal Government internal dis
Sentions, and general collision Of senti-
ments and pretensions which may renew, in
4 still more fearful shape, the civil war
which we have just emerged. We call
upon you to ltltcrpose your power to pre-
vent the recurrence OF SO transceudent q
calamity. We call upon you in every Con,
grcssional District of every State to secure
the election of members, who, whatever
other differences may characterize their po-
litical action, will unite in recognizing the
right Of ere,y State Of the Union to repre-
seatntiOn IN Congress-, and loho aoM ddnst
to seats, az either branch, ece,y lQyaJ Repre-
Scntahre from crery State ~ dlletgance to
the Government, who may fourd by each
House, in the exercise Of the power confer
red upon it by the Constitution, to have
been duly elected, returned aud qualified for
seat therein.
THE SOVEREIGNTY OF THE STATES.
When this shall have been done the Gov
Ity. the Constitution of the United States
premacy and the American Union will have
again become what it was designed to be by
those who formed it, n sovereign nation,
composed ofseparate States, each like itself,
moving in a distinct and independent sphere,
exercising powers defined and reserved by u
common Constitutions and resting upon the
assent, the confidence and cooperation of all
the States and all the peopl, 'uhiect to its
authority Thus reorganzed and restored
to their constitutional relations, the States
and the General Government can enter in d
traternal spirit, with common purpose and
a common interest, upon whatever reforms
the security of personal rights, the enlarge
ment Of popular liberty and the protection
of our republican institutions may demand.