Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1856-10-16
Speech Of John m. BOtts...


of Mr.. Bolts made in Richmond, Va,
some few weeks since, to quote from tn at
overbearing sheet, the Richmond Enquirer.
the following sentences:
Mr.. Bolts can be convicted of Black
Republicanism on the evidence of his OWL
declaration in the speech which he recent
ly delivered, and if Bolts is not arrested
andsr the act of the suppression ofineendi-
arg language, the law is either dead let
ter or our prosecuting attorneys are not
true to their duties
There, fellow citizens, is Democracy with
a witness! The leading Buchanan organ of
the South would arrest man for using
the following language:
And l charge them, (the Democratic
party) with exciting a revolutionary and
rebellious spirit throughout the limits of
this broad land, and having taken posses
sion of the government when all was peace,
they have brought us to that point when
threats of dissolution are heard in every
quarter of the land. And now they come,
as l said before, with that old deceptive
syren song of Help us to save the Union
THE Union cannot be saved except by the
Democratic party They have had Con-
vention at Cincinnati, and they have fully
endorsed the policy and measures of Mr..
Pierce's Administration that has produced
civil war, that has sacrificed all the Terrific
ry of the United States to the cause of
Free Soilers, and that has brought about a
condition of things in which Disunion is
openly threatened, in greater or less de-
gree, in every Congressional District
throughout the United States. They have
endorsed all their measures and they have
put their candidate, Mr.. Buchanan, upon
the Platform, and he tells You that he
stands not only upon that Platform, but
that he is no longer James Buchanan, but
merely the candidate of the Democratic
party. (Cheers and laughter,) Well, now,
1 want to know if the Democratic party
can accomplish all this from the. 4th Of
March, 1858, how much longer it would
take them to bring about the dissolution of
the Union. Laughter.) They have ac-
complished more than three-fo -fourths Of their
task a'rea1y. Let this poicy be pursued
but little longer, and the Union is gone;
and if anything can dissolve the bond Of
this Confederacy, it will be another Ad-
ministration of the Democratic party. b.
Of the ehivalry of the Hon. Preston S.
Brooks, Mr.. Bolts disposes thus:
l have one word to say in regard to the
Brooks affair, and it is only because l have
referred to it before q Northern audience
that l choose now, in the presence of a
Southern audience, TO repeat my entire and
absolute condemnation of the attack made
upon the Senator from Massachusetts.
Ifmy own brother had acted as Mr..
Brooks did lin the discharge of a solemn
pnblic duty, whatever might have been my
personal feelings) should have voted for
his expulsion. .5t.....er ,.4..
Mr.. Bolts concludes his speech like a
true patriot as follows:
With regard to the frequent threats Of
disunion, let me say the Union is in no
danger of a dissolution. There are but two
ways of dissolving the Union; one is by
revolving and force, which the strong arm
of the general government will always be
able to put down; and the other is by a
convention of the States that adopted the
constitution, and framed the government Of
their choice. Newspaper editors and cross
road politicians have no power to dissolve,
and there is now, and always will be, good
sense enough among the conservative ele-
ments of the country now engaged in their
daily avocations in the workshop, in the
field, in the factories, and in every pursuit
of Life, not needing nor caring for the cry
of wolf! wolfp with which the ears have
become familiarized, but who will, when
occasion calls for it, raise up in their mighty
strength and trample under foot these noisy
mischievous malcontents, who make might
hideous' with their yells Of disunion; and
let me tell them that when they attempt it
for no better cause than it has yet been
threatened, for one will meet them at
'Phillippi,' and on that field they will find
me kneeling at no other altar than the al
tar of the Union, worshipping at no other
shrine than the shrine of the constitution
and fighting under no other flag than the
stars and stripes of the United States.
Let some of our Northern dough-boys
put that speech away, and learn and con it
till November.
SETTING HIM RIeHr.-"I stand," said a