The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1864-1911, 1866-10-03

him to control or destroy the political pow
er of the South; and of Northern Jellybys,
who insist on giving him ballot he doesn t
want, cant read, and is notoriously unfit to
/ use.
The dangers to white loyalsts from the
| violence of the rabbie, are urged as reason
against prompt reunion. How will pro-
! longed disunion help them? In the mcun-
tain districts Of those States, aud in Western
Texas, there are many such patriots who
| are numerous enough to protect themselves.
| Outside of those districts, venture to say,
there arc net in the whole ten States one
! thousand men so devoted to the Union dur
! ing the war, as to have incurred the violent
hatred Of the rabble. Adopt all the laws
and Constitutional amendments we may,
cover the South with standing armies, en-
| franchise The negroes, disfranchise the late
rebels-apply any or all these prescribed
remedies and we will not thereby give adj
| diti0Aa security to those few scattC red 10y
| alsts, but only environ them with new per
lis. Th IL only possible security is in the
prompt restoration of law and civil order,
not in anarchy, Or negro or military rule. -
Their real hardshlps is want OF local politi.
cal favor and bower, rather than want of
safety. Gladly would see them rewarded
for their heroic sacrifice, with every office
in the gift of the General Government
| and hope to believe they will be remem.
bercd and rewarded by it. But ace could
not afford to turn traitors to the ConStitu-
ton of our country, to reward them for
their devotion to it. Applause,
Aut we arc told if there be no amend
ment of the Constitution reducing the rep
resentation of the South, her increase
through emancipation will be such, that, by
an alliance with the Northern Democracy,
she can repudiatc the National debt, or as
sumed the rebel debt, or otherwise ruin the
the country. This argument is founded on
the apprehension that majority Of the
people in the Northern States will want to
| destroy the National credit, or double the
National debt; or else that the Democracy,
after getting power again, will forthwith
commit suicidc.by an attempt to destroy the
country. Nonsense! But it such danger
did exist, th. proposed amendment will not
prevent it. Ifit were part of the conStitu-
to-day, the South would still retain the vote
to which it is now entitled in the Electoral
| College, until 1872. and in Congress until
1873. If the aledged apprehended mis-
chiefs be done at ALL they will be accom-
plishcd before the amendment has taken et.
| feet on Southern representation. tOr, not
only will the National credit grow stronger
and the disposition to disturb it, weaker,
each year, but the relative power Of the
| South in Congress and the Electoral Col.
! lcge will be less, Notwithstanding emancipa-
| ton, under the census OF 1851, than it now
is-for it is less popular to-day, than it was
in 1850, while the North has increased since
then aratio equal to the increase during the
last decade. This amendment, therefore,
isno,needcd National safeguard. 1t is all
right if voluntarily adopted by the South,
and all wrong if its rejection is to be the
pretext for protracted disunion.
And, finally, we are told that if the I'm
ion be now unconditionaly restored trai-
tors can not be adequately punished. 1t is
idle to deny that in thenow excluded States,
practically all the white population volun-
tarly took part in the rebellion. Never
were people more united; and never did a
people more firmly believe they were right.
The theory that they owned allegiance first
to their States, and, therefore, must stand
by them in rebellion, has a logical sequence
| Of that notification doctrine which was az
itatcd but not clearly rejected in framing
the Constitution-wa maintained by JET
terson and Madison, and indorsed by resolu-
| tions of the Legislatures Of all the South
crn States, under the Administration Of the
elder Adams-and which the Southern peo-
pie, through three generations, were taught
to believe. it has been often avowed by
the Democratic party in the North, and, l
am sorry to say, was adopted by the Repub-
lcan party in those States which enacted
personal liberty bills, and in those which
| treated the fugitive slave law as nuliiied by
Estate decisions. 1t is not just therefore,
to treat the rebellion as wholly a revolt
against recognized, acknowledged authority.
1t was the combined result of that false
theoly OF Government, and Of devotion to
slavery, which their fathers and our fathers
planted among US. The Southern States
have now, by their Constitutions, abolished
slavery and renounced the doctrine Of Sc
ccssion-the two causes OF the war-and
have repudiated the debt createdin waging
the war Slavery being abolished by the
Constitution Of the United States, if the
Nation needs any further Constitutional
guarantees from the excluded States. land
think it does not,) those are all it needs.
Through their delegates to the National
Union Convention in Philadelphia, they
| unanimously declared Of sacred obligation
the National depot, and the National t aith
pledged to soldiers and sailors Of the Union,
and declared also the freedmen entitled to
equal civil rights with themselves. This, it
seems to me, is sufficient evidence that
they seek reunion in a spirit Of alle2iance
and concord Their substance has been
consumed by rebellion. Half their cities,
| and towns, and railroads, and farms lie
waste an desolate. Their once rich aristoc-
racy, now stripped Of wealth and honors,
aretorced to exc out IN humble toll the long,
stern penalty of their political crime. All
the people Of the South, who wllfuly par
ticinate in the rebellion, are forever eXclud-
by National law from Federal Offices
The worst of their leaders are yet unpar
loucd, and may be tried and punished for
treason. The woes and desoations Of war,
the humiliations Of defeat, the hard uses Of
Unexpected poverty, and the pari~hmcnt
which may yet he legally Inflicted, are
enough TO vinGicate the Offended majesty Of
a great and magnanimous uoY@nment.-
/ Applause. This would be enough to sat
lfy wise tyrant.
Edo not envy the heart Of the man who
wishes further rnnishnent inflicted for re-
vcngc. 10 atlict them now with protraot-
ed anarchy, would be rebellion not only
against our Constitution, but also against
every precept ofstetesmanship and Christi
anity. Five millions of people--as brave
and high spirited as we are -oan not be
held long in vassalage; and the attempt to
subiugate them. if persisted in, will SHAKE
our great Republic from turret 30 tounda-
| tion stone.
In the civil war Of Rene between Pom
pey and the greatest statesman and soldier
Of the Republic when Pompey army was
put to fight on the plains Of Pharsalia,
Caesar rode betweea his victorious legions
on the fleeing enemy and cried out "spsre
the citizeusP' And on returning to Italy,
notwithstanding the clamors of his parti-
sans for blood and coniscations, lie pro-
claimed fun pardon and trights Of citizen
ship to all who had opposed him. '"phat