Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-12-24
strange the Mutineers.

The New I ork Herald, which assumes to
speak as the special organ of Mr.. Buch-
anan, in its issue of Tuesday, after citing
the rebellion of Burr and Calhoun against
their party, as memorable instances ofmu-
tiny, says:
The suggestive examples of Burr and
Calhoun indicate TO Mr.. Buchanan his
mode of treatment in regard TO the latter
day munity of Walker and Douglas. 1t
must be grappled with firm and resolute
hand, and it will be strangled. We are
glad, too, that Mir. Buchanan has shown
that he possesses good deal of the self
possession ofJefferson, and something of
the indomitable resolution and fxedness of
purpose which were the crowning qualities
of Old Hickory. This Kansas rupture has
gone too far, we apprehend, for halfway
accommodations on either side. One par
ty or the ether must go to the wall-the
President or Mr.. Douglas.
This is decidedly cool from leading
journal in the Great Republic, Are We
living under the dominion of the Spanish
Inquisition, or the gends d'arme of France
Is the utterance of thought or sentiment
in favor of freedom, conscientiously held
in accordance with the convictions of q
free people to be the signal for political
crucifixion2 Must we humbly beg of the
autocrat who sits in the White House by
the grace of the people, and who in the
simple apprehension of the founders of the
Republic was deemed but the representa-
tive of the people, permission to entertain
an honest opinion, and to use the free words
of fee tongue to utter that opinion? Is
lisp of dissent from the views of the
President to be strangled in the throat by
the iron grasp of party fngers9 Let us
no longer talk of free thought and free
speech. Let us at least be consistent, and
adopt system of effective espionage that
shall detect the first struggle Of a free
opinion, and smother it ere by utterance
it offend our mighty Highness at Wash
ington. Let the political bow string sup
plant the ballot box. 54..f
We have anxiously looked for an express
sion of opinion upon these novel doctrines
from the Plain Dealer, but in vain. 1t
has not been wont to be timid. 1t has
valliantly combatted the ghost of a defunct
alien and sedition lay; it has waxed fierce
in its denunciation of Northern intolerance,
but upon this new doctrine of party gar
roting it "roars you an 'twere a nightin-
gale" Gray, the statistics of the reports
of the Secretary of the Treasury, of the
Navy, and of the Interior, are all very
well, but in the midst of this terrible strug-
gle, not of speculation or anticipation, but
of painful and pressing reality, when the
diction of Executive power to force upon
an insulted and abused majority constitu-
ton to which they are not parties, is ar
rayed against that majority, and against
the avowed and indignant convictions of a
free people, We desire TO know where you
stand.
Do you subscribe to the new dogmas of
the Presidents organ? Will your fingers,
too, clntch at the throat of your former
idol, the Little Giant, in obedience to the
mandates of your masters! 1t will not do
to talk of the future, and guess and guess
at some contingency that may happen
The struggle is now pending. Where do
you stand in the present, actual position of
things! The Post Office is not suffici-
ent excuse for silence. Where do you
stand , Clerelaad Herald.