The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1864-1911, 1866-03-14
SUSTAIN THE PRESIDENT

rtoi!hl-' liiE thENlDENl.
1t is high time that the Union men of the
whole country made their sentiments Known
in voice of thunder, at the doors Of the
National Legislature With patriotic ana
intelligent President, called to his high
place by the voice sof God ind the people
the country IS in danger of having it's will
defeated by tho action Of Congress. 1t is
the right of those of US who are uncondi
tional Union men from the beginning, and
who have never given place for AN in.tant
to the heresy OF disunlon should assert the
rights that we as a majority of American
people, have under the Constitution, which
has. row been established by the sword, a,
once mere the law Of the whole land.
t.Andrew.l ohnson was nominated and elect,
ed to the Vice presidency, whence, in the
Provi lence of God, he has bsen elevate to
the Presidency, from the State Of Tennessee.
If it was and is ouJ of the Unon, he was
not citizen Of the United States. Tennes-
see has, under all the forms known to our
laws, sorted her own rights to an equal
standing in the Union with her sister States.
and has sen to her Congress and OURS true
and tried Union men, who, Ike the Presi-
dent, have been true to the old flag through
the long and bloody war. ,1hose naes haze
q right to 90 into the hall Qfhe Honse Of
Representatives.. present their credentials,
and demand their seats. They are as fairly
entitled to their place as Andrew johnson
is to hisI. So the President says and SO we
say Mr.. Speaker Colfax may as Justly be
locked ont by the door-keeper as Mr.. Rep
resen tative Hawkins, who has fought gal
lanty on the field Of battle for theright that
is now denied him, That he, and such as
he, are refused admission, is a defiance of
Of the Constitution and laws; a notification
by the House Of the law of the land; q re-
sistancc of the will of the people as expres
SD by the election of Mr.. johnson. AMI by
the ratification of the Constitution, This
is high ground, but it is tenable. 1t does
not invade the right Of the House to Judge
ofthe qualifications ofits own members. 1t
may tender the loyalty oath to each Tennes.
see delegate, and we must stand or fall by
1t. But Tennessee has as good right to.
day to be heard on the floor of that House
as Massachusetts Or New York. If fsho 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 m6rn-f|
ing OF peace we are to have the rights of
the people trainpled in the dust by the men
whnnl we have sent to rebuild the shattered
walls of our glorious republic.
The question. and the only question, is
the integrity of the Union. Has is been
dissol o II. Was secession an accomplish
ed tactl 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 despon ling hours q +
the war, has been s'the Constitution az it is
and the Union as it was, Twill not abandon |
that watchword now that peace and order
ign tioal the st. Lawrence to the Gulf