The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1864-1911, 1868-09-09
Let us Reason Together.

over the county tor a vigorous campalg
In behalf of Grant and Colfax and the puf
lie crib. True, there is no enthusiast
among the masses of the party. The ran
and fle-we mean the honest laboriDg poi
tiun of the party, and the merchants ant
small traders who have heretofore acte
with the party-are ground to the cart
! with taxation. Still the leaders expect t
whip In the disaffected. This is to be don
by grand displays and lavish expenditure
of money Thus the eye is to be please'
and the ear delighted while the pocket il
picked. Then old animosities are to be re
| yived. The memory OF past bitter contest
is 70 be stirred up.
1fue, there is nothing of reason in all
| this, but so tnuch the letter for that. Rea
son does not appeal to the passions OF tht
vicious. Reason does not inhame the bittel
feelings of the unthiDking. Reason pres
ents facts and figures. Reason appeals tt
mems judgments and consciences. Reason
addresses all alike, whether they be Repub
licans, Democrats, Conservatives, ex>Con'
federates or ex4something else.
Reason shows to the honest people of the
United States the true condition of public
affairs and the remedy.
1t informs them calmly and dispassion
ately that there is discomfort North and
South among the masses. :,
That these discohtents are not wholly
without cause, and that it is the business
of TRUE craftsmanship and American mag
nanimity to look seriously into them.
Reason makes known to the voters of the
country the fact that the war has been
crushed for over three years and that there
is more uneasiness and dissatisfaction in the
South and in the North, too, than when
johnson surrendered to Sherman, at Chap
ell Hill, North Carolina, and the cause of
these discontents.
1t shows them that the Confederates sur
rendered to Grant and Sherman in good
faith, that they returned to their homes
feeling, realizing that the cause in which
they had been fighting, whether wisely or
unwisely, was lost cause, and that their
best interests consisted in demeaning them
selves as good citizens of the Republic and
in building up the waste places of their
desoated homes j..
1t shows that in following out these good
intentions the Southern people went on to
reorganize their State governments in ac-
corlance with their altered circumstances;
That they declared slavery dead beyond
resurrection;
That they declared the rebellion" and
secession at an, end now and for all time;
That they, declared the Confederate"
debt lost and not to be paid;
That they affirmed most solmnly that the
Federal debt should be punctually paid,
and that it was alike binding upon all the
States;
That they intended in good faith to sus-
tain the Constitution and the Union, and
stand by the ''old fag;'
That the freedmen were entitled to be
guaranteed in the exercise of their rights
of property, and to be protected in their
persons;
That they should have the right to sue
and be sued, and testify in the courts.
Reason shows that these measures were
being accomplished in the South quietly
and peacefully under the advice of its best,
wisest and truest men, and in accordance
with the suggestions of the President.
1t shows, likewise, that while these
peaceful measures were in process of ac>
complishment, the Jacobin Rump Congress
came together and maliciously demolished
the whole work, disfranchised the leading
white men, disefganised, by the force Of
the bayonet the State governments, dissolv.
ed their legislative assemblies, deposed the
fightful Governors at the point of the
sword, substituted drum>hcad courts~mar-
tial for The regular courts Of law, and plac-
ed the ten States of the South Under an
absolute military despotism.
And these dastardly. and Infamous out
RACES the Radicals had the impudence to
call Congressional Reconstruction.
Reason, common sense, justice infofms
the people that these outrages are not re
construction" but the very essence Of dis
integration, ruin and civil commotion. Re-
fiectlng. Republicans, can you not take time
to look into these things? Will you act
with the Jacobin party, the party of mill
tary dcspotsm and lawlessness, or will you
act with the Democracy who are pledged to
administer the Government upon the prin-
ciples OF the Constitution.