Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1856-10-23

REPUBLICAN STATE CKsTEAL CoxNITIEE RooN,
CoLumus, OHo, Oct. l6, 1855.
We have Just past through an exciting con-
test: and. sfier the smoke Of the battle has
passed away, we are again proud to announce
to Won that our glorious Gag Of freedom still
waves in victory over Ohio. We have achieved
splendid triumph. Wehave carried the State
by twenty-five thousand majority. We have
depaonstrated that we have more Republicans
than the combined forces of our opponents. We
have expressed our condemnation of the policy
Of the Slave Democracy in terms that cannot be
misunderstood. The great central State of the
Confederacy has nobly responded to the East
and the West--to Maine and to Iowa. Her two
millions of Heemen have indicated the policy
Of JEFFERSON and the Fathers of the Republic
and have again, in thunder-tones, pronounced
against the policy of slare-extensiOn, and the
brutal, murderous conduct, which has charac-
terized the present National Administration in
the Territory of Kansas.
But the contest through which we have just
passed is but prelude to the great struggle
for freedom and the right which is to be decided
by the American people on Tuesday, the fourth
of November next. We then elect President
the chief executive of this great nation. We
are then to determine who shall rule over us,
and our destiny for forty years to come. 1t is
not our purpose here, TO discuss the great vital
questions that are involved in this election. We
simply desire to say to the Republicans of Ohio
that we have carried the State and elected our
ticket by a large majority, and that it is now
cur duty to prepare for final struggle without
moments delay. Do not imagine that our
opponents will cease their efforts. They hope
we will rest upon our laurels and relax our ef-
forts, and thus enable them TO triumph in No
vember. .s~
Republicans of Ohio! Is faithful watchmen,
We call upon you to rail- and again go forth to
battle, and TO victory. Our gallant leader,
JOHN C. FREMONT. is worthy our best and
ncblest efforts. But the cause of which ne is
the exponent, and which. through him, we hope
to reinaugurate as the settled policy Of the Re-
public, is far greater. nobler. and more worthy
of our labors than any or all the men that are
now aspiring for the Presidency. That cause
s,ua again prevail. Each freeman owes to it
his labor and his means. II freedom is better
than slavery; if free soil is better than slave
soil; if free schools free speech. and free press,
are better than Ignorance, servility and barbar-
ism. then is our cause worthy your ardent and
continued efforts from this time till the day of
election.
To our County Committees we would say,
keep up your organization; hold township and
school district meetings. see that electoral tick
cts are procured, and properly distributed.
You now know your weak places; strengthen
your lines, perfect the details of your systen of
operation; see that every voter is at the poIls,
and supplied with Republican electoral ticket;
omit no reasonable effort to increase the vote
of your counties, and your mite to the swelling
tide which, with proper effort, is to give the
electoral vote of Ohio to FREMONT and DArToS
by forty thousand majority.
Republicans; friends of the Constitution Of
the Union; of free territory and free labor; the
millions of freemen from Maine to Iowa are now
shouting over recent victory. Ohio is yet the
banner Republican State: SO act to retain that
proud title; so vote to win the plaudits of the
hosts who are now marshaling, and who, in No
vember uext, will elect JOHN G. FREMONT,
President of the United State.
WIN. DENNISON, Jr., Chairman.
W.T. BAsCoM, Secretary.