The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1864-1911, 1867-11-20

amazed and demoralized enemies a.e every
where driven from the field, baflsd, and
dismayed Radicalism lies crushed and
bleeding. The mighty and restless hosts of
the Constitution have met the banded pow
ers of the rebel revolutionSts and struck
them to the earth. The desperate enemies
of peace, and union, and law, fly TO their
caves and fastneSses for shelter from the
raging tempest of popular Indignation. -
The vindication by the people Of their Con-
stitution and their laws, which they have
dragged from the accumulated rubbish
heapcd upon them by designing and de-
Structve Radicalism, is splendid as morn
ing sunrise Tuesday October 8, and Tues.
day, November ), were glorious days for
the American people; it took up the dis
tracted and diScordant political elements,
and created out Of them, as t were, new
heaven and a Qcw earth. The Constitution
tine great central light and guide of our
syytem-has been (or is being) restored to
its rightful and natural place in the new
armament; and the goodly assurance is Civ
en- that not a star shall be lost; that the lu-
minous symbolical representatives of States,
which sparkle in the national banner, shall
not be forever quenched, but shall be res
endowed with their wonted fire, and shine
again with more than lormer brilliancy.
Never before in the history of this coun-
try did political contest involve so much;
never before did the triumph of the people
avail so much The struggle is one of the
people for the supremacy Of the laws; the
success of the people is the mighty and all~
detying decree that that supremacy shall be
had and maintained.
The power of the people is majestic and
irresistible. A party rendered notorious
for its crimes, and, detested bey ond paral-
lei, attempted to DEFY the people and to
overthrow that which they had ordained
and taken ninety and odd years to build up
and the people, in their omnipotence and
wrath, turned upon it and crushed it like a
worm. This, broadly, is the very gist of
the whole matter This it is which has
driven Radicalism, cursed and scorned, into
IT'S hidirg place, and set upon it tee burn
ing seal of nations condemnation. What
else could the nation do? Its very existence
was in jeopardy. The lcagued assassins,
secret or open, were at its throat. The SER
pent lifted up its cnvenomed head to sting
and take the nation life, and what course
was left but to strike the yipor DOWN.
There should be no surprise at the tremen-
dous uprising Of the people which had ta~
ken place-it was looked for, longed for,
needed, aud it has come. The uprising IS
in its self defence and for solfprcServation.
Its effect will extend into far years to come;
it will extend through all the borders of the
land it will lift up. eventually, ten States
bowed down with tyrannic chains in dust
and ashes, AID place them, emancipated,
upon their feet; it will lift the grinding bur
dens Of taxation trCm the shoulders Of the
poor; and, in doing these things, it viii cast
out for uuiveral exacraion the most infa>
nous political organization that adversely,
or aught else, ever fastened upon this or
any other country.
When we contemplate for a moment the
vast, the stupendpu4 changes which have
taken place, politically, in the last few
mon>h5, it seems indeed, kindred t. ma
tional resurrection from the dead. One
short year ago the destructive powers OF
Radicalism went over the Union Tor what
there is of it) like a raging pestilence, or a
flood of fire, leaving desolatiop and dread
behind. How different now! Then all was
wild, reckless fanatical, runous. Madmeu
reigned and ruled AMI they evidently felt,
and not, we must own, without reason, that
their reign and rule would be without end
A frenzied populaco sustained blindly we
would believe-a frenzied party. The coun-
ty was given over to disea of mind, and
there seemed to be no physician nigh
"The worm, the canker, and the grief,
were at the hearts of conservative and
thoughtful! men, as they reluctantly, almost
despairingly, bore witness to the mad, re-
sistless sway of the urgoverned and un>
governable destroyer. All the evil powers,
that in times of turbulence and disaster
hide themselves in the machinery Of Gov
ernmeat, seemed to break loose, to assert
themselves, like an embodied Luciter, to
gain supremacy, to take the lead, and to
drag, with the concentrated hatred Of in
furiated fends, the nation, over which they
had usurpod dominion, to the precipice and
topple it over into the abyss of engulfng
ruin. We peat, how different nowi-
How different that cleansing tide, which is
carrying off the debris of years of disorder
and dest 'uctiveness, and the residum of fo-
mentation, washing clean, after bacchanal-
Ian feasts and orgies, the habitation and the
alter.place of the American people How
great and how welcome the change ordained
from lawessness to law. Terrific thunders
have shaken the atmosphere and left it pur-
er. From collision Of the elements comes
forth fresh and remaining breath. We
have been trudging Oh in the dark, but,
though the dividing clouds anl a purer air,
we can sec an Illuminated future beyond.
The righteous cause Of the people is in pro-
cess of complete triumph. To Radicalism-
drurk as it is in saturnalia of ruin, has
been uttered the decree, thus far shalt thou
go, but no farther. Before Radicalism has,
arisen greater than adamantine wall,
against which it has dashed itself and been