Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1856-11-06
0riainaI Gommuniiatiors.
For the Holmes County Republican
Politics.

F011t1CSs
The genius of our government directs the at
tention of every citizen to politics; its spirit
reaches to the utmost bounds of society; eve
~ citizen is more or less Influenced by the po-
litical mania which has manifested itself since
the opening ofthe present campaign. 1tspaths
are Shiny with corruption; no bounds have
been SIT to the malignity with which it is pro-
life. Men not only become political enemies
but feelings of hatred are engendered which
cause distrust and suspicion in private matters.
The yirulelce of some of the presses, and the
desperation of bad men, has driven many con-
scientious and good citizens from any concern
with politics. Divines dare not open their
mouths in polities-thev dare not utter sylla-
bic in favor Of right against wrong, or they are
assailcd on every side with the vilest impreca-
tions that can be found in the vocabulary of the
professed politician. bastard meanness is en-
tered into by party to secure the victory. By
them. any means is iustifable; lift insures sue
cess .all is fair in politics. A man must make
no pretentions TO morality; no rule of the BIZ
BILE must govern his actions; absolute necessity
is palliation for resorting TO the foulest VII
lainies; and if a moral man chooses to say
ought againt them, the mos; slanderous and un-
meaning epithets, such as "wOolly-head," &c.,
are heaped upon him; and that, too, by men of
notorious immortality, whose deeds and private
habits would disgrace the ditch-men into
whose minds a pure thorght never enters-such
men are the most powerful and popular. If an
honest citizen is called urcn, man in whom
the people can repose confidence, as candidate
for some important Office, unbridled ISLANDERS OF
stupendous magnitude are heaped upon him by
reckless opposition whose political plots are
hatehed in noisy grogshops.
The most envenomed shafts of calumny are
aimed at the heads of honest citizens for daring
TO assert their rights or maintain them when as
serted; and that, too, by Inen. recognition of
whom in public, would crimson the cheek OF
the most deformed demon of Pandemonia with
shame.
hunt is taken among rotton rubbish to find
fault, to be adduced as evidence of unftness for
office.
If q candidate should be SO unfortunate as TO
have but one good eye, it must be inserted in
the columns of slang of some county paper, by
man who probably thinks that the control of
press and type gives him perfect license to
slander everything in the shape of opposition;
by jackpuddings who suppose that their own
lives are gilded with specious respectability;
by beings who have the physical appearance of
men, but whose writings exhibit very little
more intelligence than is discernable in the in
coherent rawlings Of stark madness. For fear
that the imposition of the most infamous frauds
upon community, and the most fragrant false
hoods ups1 individuals, should fail to secure the
success of their own candidate, other means
than those just enumerated, equally mean and
doubly contemplate are resorted to. The most
deformed representations or engravings must
stand at the head of the editors columns as an
index of what is to follow; by them, parties,
principles and men are said to be represented.
Such things are positively the legitimate Off
springs of the meanest principle possessed by
depraved mortals, viz: Envy-insuriated and
rendered desperate by the prosperity of others.
they serve the devil without wages. How lit
tie, how "ridiculous" and contemplate cit is
to see character mongers" drawing portraits of
some party ''or of some great man." and per-
picking their mighty little minds by trying to
make every feature of that party's or that mans
conduct conform strictly 10 those lines and lin
eaments which they have laid down. Such
things are too contemplate to notice for any
other purpose than to concentrate upon them
the withering scorn which thei. besotted mean
ness deserves. W.