The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1864-1911, 1866-10-03
52 .CADIZ OHIO WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER g. 1885,


clared their free assent to four out Of the
six, to wit: Equal civil rights to all, repudia-
tion of the rebel debt and maintenance Of
the National faith inviolate TO National
creditors and to soldiers and sailors of the
Union and their families. These, with the
abolition Of slavery already secured, woul
have satisfied the American people. if they
had been foreign States annexed by con-
quest instead of States alrea ly in the Union.
Applause. | But by coupling the guaran-
tees with reduction of representation and
sweeping prescription, as one indiyiSible
article, the amendments became impOssi
bic.
While believe the great body of the
Southern people are anxious toresume their
relations to the Union, in harmony and
good taith--rocognizing the principle which
triumphcd in the war, and all its logical re-
suits fell sure they can never be coaXed
Or forced to brand, as political outcasts, one
or two hundred thousand of their best.
ablest, and most influential men; or to sur
render onc-lourth Of their representation
in Con ress, and the Electoral College, as
a penalty for Withholding suffrage from ne
groes who arc wholly unfit to exercise it.
The conditions precedent, proposed by Con
gress, being implactieable, are therefore
merely plan Of indefinite postponement
of reunion.
This was well understood by the more
ultra leadels Of the party. Trey only inten-
ded to bridge the fall elections. They will
demand far rmorc than these conditions, as
their price for permitting the Union to be
restored. They intend to reconstruct those
States on the basis of negro suffrage. And
in case the Union does not quietly acquiGsce
in that-as it will not-then Nn the basis Of
negro rule and white disfranchisement. A
plan more full of mischief and National
woes never was devised for man. The
white people Of the United States are of
that family which has led in the govern
mcnt and civilization Of the world, through
out the four thousand years Of its authtn-
tic history; while the freedmen, themselves
but generation from naked barbarism, arc
of a race which has never once, in the his
tory Of man, given proof Of capacity for self
government. a proud, high spirited white
people can be forced to submit to disfran-
chiscment and negro rule; and if that plan
be persisted in, it result in war Of races,
the horrors Of which sickcn and appall the
world.
The New Orleans Convention was the
6r,t step in this programme OF rcconstruc-
ton. and the brutal massacre which follow
cd, its first significant result. That extinct
Convention was revived at the dctation of
Radical leaders in Congress to disfranchisc
the white people Of Louisiana, and place
them under government Of negroes, with
their hanGful OF white leaders. The ultras
in Congress stood ready to recognize the ne
gro government. and the white people of
Louisiana knew it. Hence that unauthor-
lied Convention which would, uuder other
circumstances, have excited only contempt,
filed with dread .he good citizens Of the
State, and aroused the ticrcest passions of
the bad, and led to the revolving and bar
barous massacre Of many Of the instru-
nsntS in the atrocious plot.
But the solemn lesson Of that conspiracy
against the liberties and peace ofthe State,
and Of that brutal massacre, causes no hes
iaton in the eXo cution Of the Jacobin pro-
gramme. On the contrary it is cited as
showing the wisdom and necessity OF max
ing subjects Of the whites and rulers of the
negroes. The Convention is ore, assemble;
elections We're held on the 9th inst to fill
vacancies, the polls guarded by negro mill
tia. When it shall have assembled, and
done its work, Congress will recognize the
negro government Of the State, unless, in
deed the warnings of the fall elections or
the intervention Of the President, prevent
the consummation Of the conspiracy. IF
in Louisiana, the same plan
will be applied to the other prescribed States;
and we shall then have ten States in the
Union with governments usurpcd by three
millions ofbiacks and a few thou sand whites,
rpling five mil.ions of disfrancEised whites.
How long will thaS Iass?' Not month. -
The army with which Grant split the Con-
fedoracv in two could not hold tie one State
Of Touisiana at neaee. under negro rule, .
single day. The fires Of relentless intes-
tine war would break forth throughout the
South, and wrap the whole land and its
flames, The feht would not be one OF. army
against army in the field, conducted by OPP
posing Governments, under the usages o.
warfare. Passions would be arous-
ed, fjercer than ever mustered Or inspired
armies, and white and blacl, incendiaries
would lay waste cities anl villages, and
farms, and assassins gIake their thirst for
in the blood of men, woman and
General Wool-The war would not stop
IN the South. I.
General Ewne-No, sir; it would extend
to the North. and its ashes would probably
cover the ruins of the Republic.
But VIC are told the blacks will be oppress-
ed unless given the ballot, and that they
have earned it by the sword. Horace Gree
" who is not signaly successful in states
before the war, was for
ncaceful senaration-during the war for
comnromise, and since the Var, is provok-
inc another fight. laughter says the callers
Of the Cleveland Convention are ''base and
trcacherous hounds" because they will not
nrevent reunion until negro soldiers oct the
ballot am nct aware that we fought for
Nero ,,,.v suffrare, any more than for Socialism
nr m : |wo,non' Tiobts or anv other ism of
wh;ch the H,Imne i a chamniop Now,
Tonnnssee Tr,,Tn zoe and tbe oyal Sntns furnished
tw, tbirds of tle ncaro troons, and vet pone
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