The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1864-1911, 1866-01-24
Esae Radicals.

Tbe Radicals.
The Radicals are just now in a desperate
strait. Stevens, Sumner, Bingham & Co.,
have commenced to get scared not near so
badly, however, as they will be before the
matter is through with. They are laboriug
with oil their might to defeat the policy OF
President Johnson, while at the same time
they pryess the greatest friendship for him,
aud elleavor to scare that gentleman from
his wise policy bocemse they have different
ideas. They.are in3eayoring to smooth things
over until they gain their point-but mark
our word, they will be deteateN
just now they are decaring-and Bing-
ham has made speech to that effect, which
X published in the RepaJhcra of this week
that there is no difference betg cen the
President and them. Let us see: The
President considers the Southern States
States in the Union, anil atks for the imme-
diate admission of their Representatives to
thsir rightful positions in the Congress
The radicals say they agree with the Presi
dent and yet deny th.m admission. The
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Governors, AMI the proper officers exercise
their functions just as lcgitimately as in
Ohio, and yet the ratlicas treat them as
conquered subjects and endtaYor TO destroy
their Statehood. Do they agree with the
President The President is Withdrawing
the troops from the Southern States, while
the radicals have passo 4 resolution protest
ing against it.
Senator Dootle, of Wiscon ,in thus sans
mp the difference in a speech in the Senate
on last Thursday, Of which we only have
the telcgraphic synopsis. Read carefully,
and don't be deceived by 'canting" phrases
We extract the following
On motion of Mr.. HOVE, tha bill rccom-
mending the establishment Of Provisional
Governors for the Southern States WAS tax
en up an Mr.. Doolitlc ad Ire 3iad the Sea
ate at length in opposition to th4 resoiu-
ton
Mr.. Doolttle addressed the Senate at
length, saying in the course of his remarks.
two radical ideas, radically false however,
brought on this civil war which has cost
the nation more than halt mi lion lives and
untold millions of treasure Ist, that States
had right to secede ID, that slavery is a
blessing. The surrender of these two ideas
by the South is now the ia is Of permanent
peace This question. whether tho States
are still States in the Union unlcr the Con
stitution, is no tvGiu abstraction, 10 idea
without immediate practical and most grave
consequences. sit G! no practical conse-
quenee whether to adopt an amendment to
the Constitution it requires the ratification
of RI or 2l States? Is it ofno practical i'm
Iortance whether eleven Sta+es with their
ten millions of people, shall he taxed and
governed without representation. with less
than one third of that number Of pcople2-
Our forefathers, because the Parliament Of
Great Britain, in which they had no repre-
sentation, passed laws to tax them, declared
the independence of these States. 1t is of
no practical Importance tlat these eleven
States and ten millions OF people shall gov
ern themselves under Republican tnlm O.
Government, subject only to the Constitu-
ton of the United States or whether they
shall he held as snbie vus'als, to be gov
erncd for an indefinite peri ,d ty tn, unllm
ite1 will of Congress or ty tie sward2 ltis
of no practical importance whether the flag
of our country, for whijh half million
have laid down their lives, and which hears
36 stars as an emblem Of a Union of 36
States, speaks an untruth, or is a mln trouS
falsehood? These and like questions are in.
Colved in this discussion and depend upon
the answer to the first. This IL, therefore,
in my Judgment, q question of the first mag
nitude, question which must be met a
question ghch neither men nor parties can
avoid or put aside. 1t demands and will
have an answcr question, too upon
which there is. and there can be no compro-
mise and ne aeatraity. They are States in
the Union under the Constitution, or they
are not. We paust affirm the on: or the
other We must stand upon one side, sup
porting the Lincoln and johnson policy of
maintaining the Union of States under the
Constitution to be unbroken, or we must
take our stand with the Sena or from Mas
sachusetts upon the other and maintain that
the Union is broken, that secession is a sue
cess and not failure, so far at least as to
Withdraw II States from the Uaion, or re-
duce ! | States to the territorial condition. -
First. call to mind the language of Prcsi-
dent Lincoln's Proclamation Of Dec. 8. 1863,
In that he said: II make known that when
ever in any of the States of Arkansas, Tex
az. Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Ala
bama. Georgia, Norida South Carolina and
North Carolina, number OF persons, not
less than one tenth in number OF the votes
cast in sgch State at the Presidential cleo
tIcn OF the year or onf IDrdi on" thousand
eight huadYed aud sixty. each having taken
( the oath aforesaid and not having since Vio-
I lated it, and being qualified voter by. the
election law OF the Ssatc existing Immediate
B IL before the so-styled act Of secession, and
4 excluding all 0tAss sba re.establish a
I state government which shall be Republi-
can, and in n, wi4e broken said oath, such
( shal be recognized as the trn' Government
Of the State, and the State shall receive the
\ benefits of the Constitutional provision
which DECLARES that the United States shall
4 guarantee to every State in this Union a
Republican form of Government and shall
vrotect each OF them against ineursions.'
Mr. Doalittle CONTINUED his remarks at
4 considerable length, upon concluding which
Mr.. Nfsmith obtaining the aoor aat th'
senais adjour2es