The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1864-1911, 1868-03-11
1882 20 q AK CADIz OHIO WEDNESDAY MARCH H. 1888

revolt. aud were slrobably less organized
for war than any civilized nation on the
face of the earth. But now all this is all
changed. We are burdened with monstrous
taxes. and our public debts-taking State
and National together-must exceed Five
Thousand Miionsl More than a million
of our present citizens have been educeteG,
more or less, in the trade of fraternal blood
shed; and the passions of all have been in,
famed for years to the very highest pitch
The old time reverence for law and cstab>
lished usage has been shaken to its centre
on every side. One whole section OF our
country is in condition bordering on star
vation; while in the other more favored
section, there has never heretofore been
felt such pinching dearth of employment,
and of the steady habits and whnes ONE
comforts which employment brings with il
We have, also war Of races going on
peacefully, for the most part, as yet; Lut
with mad ening frenzies in the develop
ment of its continual exasperation. THOU
SANDS UPON THOUSANDS OF VETERAN Off,
GERS AND soLDIDRs-THEIR HABITS OF THE
CAMP UNABANDoNED' AND MAKING THEM
FEEL THE RESTRAINTS OF CIVIL LIFE 2K>
SOME-ARE TODAY ROAMING THROUGH
CITIES without work to do or the will to do
it; too u any of them, we fear, still longing
for the license of their late military life, and
willing at this very hour to hire out their
swords wherever pay and booty can be
most freely offered. Probably not less than
one hundred thousand ex.rebel soldiers are
to day quartered in our great Northern and
Western cties-felce, desperate and rv-
-,
LARGE BODIES OF OUR COMMERCIAL CLAtr!-
Es ALREADY VEHEMENT EFFORTS ARE
BEING MADE TO SQUIRE THE REPJDIATIoN
OF oU1 NA4IoNAL DEBT. CAPITAL, IN
THE NATIONAL BANKS, is ARRAYED
AGAINST THE TAx.PAYING MILLIONs-oR
AT LEAST, A VAST NUMBER OF THE TAx>
PAYING MILLIONS SEEM TO THINK so; AND
FINALLY, A CONGREss WHICH HAS PLACED
ITS LF ABOVE THE LAW AND OUTSIDE THE
PALE oE LAW, Ids A UsURPED CONTROL
OF ALL THE MACHINERY OF OUR GOVERN
MENT-CIVIL, MILITARY AND FINANCIAL; A
CoNGRESL RESOLVED TO PERPETUATE IT'S
POWER, AND WITH NO POSSIBILITY OF DO
ING 90 EXCEPT BY FURTHER USURPATIONS
FURTHER VIOLENCE!
Why, then is it not possible for a revo.
luton to be attempted here? Why, then,
is it,not possible for that attempt to be sues
cessful. If we refer to history, it will be
seen that no great civil wars have ever
fought themselves thoroughly out in less
than generation-that is, the generation
of able bodied fighting men by whom they
were commenced-or, let us say, in less
than from fifteen to twenty years, We
have all the combustibles now piled togeth>
er in mad confusion and profu ion, so that
it only needs spark to kinde the explos-
i've elements. From the People, whom
they have outraged, the present leaders of
Congress can have no hone; so that only by
me revolutionary comp de'etat, can their
power he CO. inued Under th precedent
established in the case of Senator Thomas,
can they not refuse forevermore to receive
any new members Of either House of Con
greas who are not of their own way of
thinking? Who are net in the present
great conspiracy against American freedom,
for that is the plain English of it. Or-to
go step yet further: If at any time be-
tween now and next November they shall
see no hope for carrying the Presidency and
re.electing themselves by fraud. force, and
bribery conjoined, what could be easier for
them, with such desperate agencies as they
have under control, than to excite riots, in
volving boodshed, rapine and arson through
all the Southern States and in half our
ctief Northern cities?--thus alarming the
monetary and commercial interests into sid,
ing with them for the sake of ''peace at
any price," and thus furnishing to them
selves that convenient excuse of Supreme
necessity" with which the revolutionists Of
every coup a etdt have never failed at first
to cloak, or strive to cloak, their seizure of
permanent and irrespc nsihle power?
We live, let us all understand, in revor>
tionary times. and the game here indicated
is clearly on the cards. Look at the press
ent leading spirits of Congress, and see of
what stuff they are made! Look at their
present courti,g of the military alliance
remembering what ambitious soldiers have
aspired to 10 every age.--and then answer,
on your conscience, does this mean mis-
chiet, or does it not?
The danger of renewed and more terri
bic civil war may be looked at in one turth-
er aspect Let us suppose that the constl-
tntional ard conservative Democratic party
shall carry the great Northern and Western
States, by from five to six hundred thous-
and popular majority; and that an ATTEMPT
shall then be made to count out their can
didates in the Electoral College, by count
ing in the seventy odd votes which are to
be thrown by Congressional machinery, in
the name of the negroes, from the ten
Southern Satrapies--what then shall hap
pen? :.
Will the free and intelligent white citi-
zens of New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania.
Indiana, Illinois New Jersey, Connecticut,
New Hampshire, California and such other
States as the Democrats may carry-wll.
they, with legal, constitutional majority
of more than half million white voters,
be likely to submit with patience to having
their legal votes overborne, and their legal
" elected candidates for President and Vice
President defeated, by the swindling, de>
graded and unconstitutional votes OF the
ten military Southern Provinces, in which
only black men are allowed voice, and in
which the helpless whites are held down,
under black and barbarous subjugation, by
the bayonets of this usurping Congress,
and its military allies2
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Worthy the Attention Of Capital
lists and BOndhOiders. s.
Hon. John 7. Hoffman, in his speech al
Il