The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1864-1911, 1867-03-20
-Ge Thirty .0intf Congress.

The Thirty ninth Congress has passed
into history. No legislative body that ever
met enjeyei such grand opportunities for
achieving Immortality. At its inception
foaY years war more terrible in its Incidents.
noro extensive in its range, more tragic in.
rs details, aai more fruitful in hotly con
tested battles, and its lists Of .ki'lcd and
woQ4i,5si, han any civil war recorded irr
the his'"ry cf snoient or modern times, had
JUS. ended. a declaration of peace, honor
a5o allie to boil! parties engaged " the
strugg,e, had been. declared TIE van
raished had laid down their arms, under
the pledge c: the contracting parties to the
peace neeoaStions, tia, they should be al
lowed to rssarse :heiF peaceful avocetions
Rad 1heir status as cilizers without diStur-
tanc: from the Government on account Of
their participation in the REBELLION, except
SO far as they might be held snenahle by
abe courts Of laW Tor ofierses against the
Law. The President Of tie Unite. States,
81 his executive capacity, undertook to tide
ever the period between The atTogation of
rebel State Governments and the establish
ment Of loyal State organizations under the
usw condition Of affairs. In this be had
succeeded. New State governments were
organized in oil the revolutionary States. -
Eycry d,n n!erd made ty either the Exccu-
tire or Congress was complied With. Each
ana erery one Of tho seeded States was
brought fully up to the standard establish
cd ty President Liuco'n and the Thirty
eighth Congress. Nothing remained to be
due except the reception into Congress Of
the Southern repre- sentat!ves to complete
the reunion Of all the States, to restore the
integrity Of the RiFaL.ic in ILL its parts,
and to make us ouce more
a Union Of lakes, Unian Of lands,
a Union that mono may sever;
4 Union of hearts, "a Union of hands,
AN American Union forever
When the Thirty ninth Congress Assem-.
hled this simple act Of receiving tho South,
ern Representatives would have accomplish
ed the srdeatly desired result Of re-cemert
ing the Union, of healing all II bleeding
wounds, Of restoring prosperity to the whole
country. and enabling its people, by enter
prise and industry. rapidly to reduce the
pubiie debt, aud vinGicatc to the world The
triumph Of the democratic republican sys
tam Of government. -!
This Cou,ross found something else Il
do than TO attend to the public interests
Carried away, absolutely crazed with th'
IDEA of rnsintainine party supremacy; at
t.i:htod at the prospect of the participa
ton Of the Southern States in the Presi
dspsial election, and determiRed, at oil haz
ards, 10 retain in its own hands the politics
power Of the county,, ths majority in thi
Congress industriously ie,a.ei itself TO tn
work Of destruction; Of .,uiiirg down a
that kai bean Effected toward. rcconstrue
lion og the National Union; of so~-ihg ane'
lae seeds Of discord where the olive ,'fane
Vi peass htl alrcali b.sla to flourish Q
tearing open afruAh the fast-healing wouno
iia.~isd upon the'couutry by the war of tn
,si1iliop; and, in mocsery Of the words Tn
igE aui Liberty, Of cncomI,assing by legis
iAsieu the dissolution Of the Union and til
destruction Of civil liberty, which the re
teiiioa h.i'failcd to pnlish by It's az
zeal to armS. Such IS the ,nly record c
tie Congress whose daysara numbered wit
,as past Appsaling for support - tn
l..ssiona and prsiudices Of the still excite
;epulacs in the North, under the prete,lc
OF des:sinc tpmc scheme Of reconstruction
r at assoattise work Of destruction; in th
,H4a.a Of sEa Union il has accomplished i
s,.sss, s.sxs~r. r,< ,,,rn,s-aer a~nainn