Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1856-12-25
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not seem to find favor with subscribers
DR.. Dunn English, Virginian, is trying
his hand with a volume; but the Soutf
Side Democrat says of him.
If the doctor hailed from Boston o.
New York he would encounter no Difficult
tv in procuring subscribers to his work.
Surely this state of things ought not tt
exist. Why will the South persist in pay
ing tribute to Northern literature to the
neglect of its own? Why wear the badgt
Of inferiority-the SSaxon collar of litera
ry serfdom-when, by a little exertion and
a little encouragement, the genius OF the
South could be made to outshine and
eclipse that of our constant and systematic
reYilers and slanderers.
CENTRAL AMERIcA.-The New Orleans
Picayune, of the 25th ult., turns the cold
shoulder TO any acquisition of territory in
Central America, and says
What the future may bring forth may
be left for the future to demonstrate
manifest destiny" will work out its own
mission-if it be destiny-and in the long
vista of years we may perhaps foresee COM
binations and assimilations which may give
to our posterity rational grounds and hon.
orable motives for extending the American
flag and American institutions down to the
Isthmus. But these are dreams of pos
sible future-visions of effects which san
guine Americans trace as the inevitable
consequence of principles certain in their
work, and too mighty to be resisted; but
they are not the practical works of this
day and generation. They make phant-
asm which disturbs and distracts us, and
should be laid aside, in the bitterness Of
to-day, with the visions of the night.
ANOTHER SICK MAS.-The daily Gre
ole, of New Orleans, Nov. %, says of Mex
leo what the Car of Russia said of
Turkey
What next in the calendar of national
events? The Mexican republic is the sick
man of the North American continent
The pear, to change the figure, is ripening,
and sooner or later, must fall into the lap
of Los 14mericdnos del Norfe. The ac-
QUESTION of the land of the Montezumas-
mark ii, reader-is only question of
time.
Mr.. HALLETr A CONVINCED SINNER. -
The Boston Bee, of Dec. 5, speaking of
Mr.. Hallett, one of the shining lights of
the Democratic party as at present under
stood, says
Mr.. Hallett made "a spread" at the re-
cent Democratic festival, and mauled his
old friends and intimate associates, the alb
olitionists, at great rate. To read his
speech, you would think that he had always
been 'true to slavery" yet the time was
when he was the sworn friend of Mr.. Gar
rison, and when he wrote as strong aboli-
tion articles as ever appeared in any abo-
lition journal. .-.s F..
PRESIDENTS MEssAGE.-The Philadel-
phia Bulletin, of the I'd inst, says:
Almost every condemned criminal that
has ever been hung has made last dying
speech, and the more hardened his viliainy
and the more plain his guilt, the louder
have been his declarations of innocence
The narrative of his career, from his own
pen, is generally quite touching and SEN
timental story, and it is made to appear
very plainly that the world, and not he,
was to blame. The condemned President
of the United States, whose career is about
to terminate, has made his last dying
speech, containing all the characteristics
that we have referred 10, and it has before
this been read by the American public with
pretty much The same feeling of astonish-
ment and of horror that seizes on them
when they hear of condemned convict
going out of the world with a lie on his
| lips.
How CENTRAL AMERICA IS TO Blossom
AS THE RosE.-The New Orleans Creole,
of Nov. 9th, says
Colonel E. ]. C. Kewen, Special Agent
of the Nicaraguan Government, left to-day
for Alabama, Mississippi and Georgia via.
Mobile. The Colonel says that he wants
men enough to "walk over the Central
American trackw When that is accom-
plished, if the South will send few thous-
and negroes to Nicaragua-the institution
of slavery being now re-established there
- the whole of the Central American
States will "bloom and blossom as the rose"
That's the talk.
SOUTHERN DEPENDENCE on THE NORTH
The New Orleans daily Creole, of Nov.
26th, utters the following lamentation:-
The Southern gentleman cultivates his
cotton or sugar with agricultural imple-
ments made in the workshops of the North,
and sends his crop to market in hogsheads
or bales manufactured abroad. His car
riage is of Northern build-his horses are
of Northern birth-their harness comes
from Pennsylvania or New Jersey, and oft
en- their food from the valley of the Wa
bash. He himself is surrounded in his
beautiful home, with furniture from the
looms and shops of New Hampshire and
Massachusetts-he eats from ware manu-
featured in Connecticut-uses Northern
knives, forks, and even toothpicks is
clothed from the sole of his foot to the
crown of his head with Eastern fabrics, and
when he dies, New England shroud en-
velopes his inanimate form and New
England coffin preserves his lifeless remains.
Pretty bad this, We confess.
PRo-SLAvERY CONVENTION IN KANSAS.
The Kansas Squatter Sovereign, of the