The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1864-1911, 1868-07-29

presents. The Republican party has bee,
+, for eight years in absolute possession Of eve
ry department of the Federal Goyernmen
lit has had the executive. and the legisla
tive, and the Judiciary, obedient to its be
hests. 1t has had possession Of every Stat,
| Government in the Union, with very few
exceptions; so few that they scarcely sery,
to illustrate the rule, 1t has had every de
partment Of governmental power, botl
State and Federal, entirely in its hands. II
vetoes have been interposed, they have
been overridden by twosthirds vote. |
adverse judicial decisions have been expect
ed, the Court has been reorganized by {
diminution Of the judges, or the case has
been taken from its cognisance by change
Of the law Of appeal. IfStates have inter,
posed an obstacle, their assumptions have
been derided, that their efforts have beer
met by the strong arm of the Federal pow.
er. ~
But in what condition do we find the
country to-day? Where is the Constitution
which they swore to uphold? Where ia the
Union which they swore to maietain? Were
are the rights OF the States which are essen.
tial to the maintenance of,that Constitution
and Union?
now THEY HAVE RESTORED TUE UNION
&c.
We have had three Years of profound
peace; not hostile arm has been raised in
opposition to the Government, and yet to-
day ten States are held blythe strong arm Of
military power in acknowledged subjuga-
ton, or else are compelled to submit by
that same power to frames of State constitu-
tions and government which they abhor,
whose foundation and sole purpose is the
enfanchisement Of the negro and disfran
chisement of the white man. l know they
tell us that the work of reconstruction goes
bravely on. 1t does, forsooth, but it is not
the restoration OF South; not the restoration
of the Union: not the reestablishment of
civil government! Read your telegraphic
dispatches to-day, and you will see that in
Georgia men are b.ine tried by military
commission, upon charges Of murder. Read
the telegraphic dispatches of yesterday, and
you will see that the military commander Of
that State declines to recognize the validity
OF the Legislature until the House of Rep
resentatives shall tu. n out the Democratic
members.
PERIPATETIc CoNGREssMEN.
Read the dispatches cf the day before,
and you will see that one Of the newly elect
ed Senators from Louisiana was, six mouths
ago, citizen of Illinois, and the other a
citizen Of Indiana; that the Governor of
Florida was, year ago, the President of
an Agricultural Society IN Iowa Ii | am
not mistaken the State of Virginia rejoices
in the possession OF a Governor fresh from
the soil of Ohio; laughter and If the
n,r,o,,>o.. L., ,ot boEa h:,,, n o;t;ror oF
our State has declined to be candidate for
Congress in the district in which he lives,
for the reason that he expects to be Sem
ator from Alabama before the fall elections
in Ohio shall take place. Laughter and
applause.
CONGRESSIONAL. USHRpA1IoNs.
Congress has usurped to itself all power
oyer the State governments of tho South.
1t has destroyed them. 1t has made use Of
the Federal Government to destroy the
States, and now. with the insatiate spirit Of
revolution, it turns upon the Federal Gov
ernment itself 1t has destroyed the inde-
pendcnce of the judiciary: it has struck at
the Executive. Our fathers thought they
had solved the problem of free Government
in the creation of the three department.
This Republican Congress has destroyed all
the divisions which were thus created, and
seeks to collect, in its own hands, all the
powers which belong to the system, and by
an incxorable law of It's existence, it now
stands ready, in case of party necessity, to
transfer them to the grasp OF the military
dictator. 1t is reproducing in our country
the lessons Of all history.
DEsPOTISM AND THE SEQUEL
HISTORICAL ExpEKIENtE
The dcspotism OF legislative assembly is
the worst despotism in the world; it is the
most selfish, the most cruel, the most au-
dacious and the most short-lived; it ends in
anarchy, aid is speedily followed by the
calm repose Of tyranny under the order of
the sword. Recall tie history of the Ro-
man Senate and the Emperors; recall the
history of the long Parliament and the
tyranny of the Commonwealth; recall the
history of the Legislative Assembly of
France, and of the Consulate and the Em-
pire, and read in them the certain prophecy
of the fate Of this Government if Congress
sional u, urpation shall run its course.
OUR OWN EXPERIENCE.
Have we not already part fulfllment of
these examples2 Congress has despoiled
the Executive ofthe just powers Of his Office,
and has invested them in the sneral Of our
armies. 1t has despoiled the States, and
vested them too, in same officer. 1t has
given him power over all the military COM
manders, and to his decision it had referred
every question OF Interpretation or execu-
ton OF the reconstructit laws. And &his
same oficer-wieldng this enormous pow
er--backed by the army-s sustained by all
the military organizations, by whatever
name they may be kmwn, appealing to the'
fervor which yet remains after the struggles
of terrible war--demands that he shall be
elected President of these United States.
And the party which supports him, declares
that if they can not do it by the vote of you,
men of the North, it will elect him by the
vote of the negroes and carpet-baggers in
the reconstructed States of the South!
THE DANGER ILLUSTRATED AND THE REMEDY
SUGGESTED.
Gentlemen, do you see no danger here?
When, years ago, we predicted this result,
and warned against the first step in revolu-
tionary progress, tho Republicans laughed
at our fearS--called US Copperheads' and
traitors. [Applause.] When Napoleon
was called on-young, unknown to his
countrymcn, never having had command
even Of regiment-to quell the revolt Of
the secifbns, he did it effectually. In four
years he-was first Consul and Master of the
French people. Here, grand party,
through the General of our army, attempts
a similar usurpation, which the Democratic
party opposes, as inimical 20 the whole sys-
tenn of Republican government, and it pro-
poses safe and simple means by which it
may be averted; read" from. their delara-
tion of principles.
Immediate restoration OF all the States
to their rights id the Union, under the Con-
slitution, and Of civil government to the
American people.
SO Amnesty for all past political offenses,
in the States by their citizens"
CORRUPTION AND ExTRAvAGANCE OF THE
REPUBLICAN PARTY.
Thn II .,,bl; .an ,.aSfhy tho arfv nf n e.