The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1864-1911, 1867-02-13


Twenty-Five months have now passed
since all attempts at resistance to the Uni
It'd States authorities ceased in the South
ern States. For year and half every
legal process has been as easily and unob-
structedly served there as in any pait Of the
Union. The peop.e have all returned to
their allegiance to the Federal Ccnstitu-
ton. Vet they are still deprived Of their
Constitutional right Of representation in the
Congress Of the I,Hicd States. They are
deprived, although while the war was rag
ing such Of them as chose to ndmembers
were even then admitted They are de-
prived, although Congress, by its Apror
ionment Law, has assigned them. in com
mon with other States, their due share of
representation in the National Legislature.
They are deprived, although their votes
have been counted in no less matter than
the amending of the Constitution of the
United States, They are States that can
help change the fundamental law of the
land, but arc not, it seems, States for repre-
sentation in Congress In order to keen
them out, the dominant faction in Congress
originally designed an exacting and iega,
oath of Office, not required by the Constitu.
ton, for that purpose, and proposed to ad-
minister it to such OF their members, as
presented themselves for admission The
Southern people elected members, many of
whom are ready and willing to take that
oath, but even upon their own terms they
will not admit them--not ifthey had fought
in the Union armies during the whole war
Time pc sses on, and these States are no
nearer, apparently, admission thon they
were two years ago A party in Congress
from twenty six of the States have chosen
to usurp all the power that properly belongs
to and can only be legally exercised by the
whole thirty, six. The usurpation is SO
proftabletha they have not tho least idea
of its SURRENDERED abdcating the rcins
they haye seized by violence or fraud. The
Long Parliament of England and the Ma
tonal Convention in France were not more
resolutely determined that they would be
the only power in the State, and would ev-
or after govern It's destinies. There was
never more open and bold revolution in a
government. The men concerned in 1t
know as well as they know their own exis-
tence that the ten excluded States ave
precisely as much right 10 be Omitted into
Congress as the twenty six States that are
there. The pleas which they make for the
usurpation are too transparent shans--too
much opposed to human reason and COM
mon scnse--te deceive any bat she most
willfullyblind, and they ere well known to be
false by those who make them The real
ani-only motive which prompts the contin
nance Of tho usurpation is, that the men ,4in
power believe that they can not continue
there If the people Of the whole Union are
consulted. They may be the choice of
twenty six, but not Of thirty-six. S ate. -
1tis only in broken Union they can rule
not in whole one; hence it must continue
broken for their benefit, =
The Southern States must not come in
because, uniting their representations with
about half of that fronrthe rest Of the
country, they will help make up maioritw
Of the whole that will govern 1t. This wac
the original reason dnat lea to The usurna
tion, and,it is tho,only reason thar centin.
ues II. 1t is part Of plan or couspiracy
by which minority is to rule majority in
bis country