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Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-08-20
Judre warden,s Letter.

We publish in another part of to-day's
naper. the able letter of Judge WARDEN
in which he announces his determination
no longer to vote with the so-called Demo.
cratic party. The Judge like many Others
of that party has maintained his connexion
with it for years, while one by one the
ties of sympathy and principle which link
ed them with it have been cut off, severed
BY the repeated acts of treachery to Demo.
cratic principle, and the repeated surrender
and denial Of them at the demand of the
slave power. This class of men are really
democratic at heart, and have clung to the
organization bearing the name they love
and reverence-clung to it while their very
souls grew sick at the enormities commit
ted in that name-hoping, confidently at
first-hoping against hope at last, that a
change of policy would take place, and the
name be accompanied by some advocacy
and practice of the principles. In the De-
mocratic party of Ohio there have been
such men-men who, like Judge WARDEN,
were STRONGLY attached to the Democratic
party,"-men who have seen for years its
tendency to southernism and centralism, y
and endeavored to restrain that tendency
men who will now also "give up the task
as hopeless" To these men the position
taken by the Democratic State Convention,
pledging that party unreservedly to Doug
lasism-and adopting by endorsement the
dictum of the Supreme Court in the Dred
Scott case, denying, both to Congress and
the Territorial Legislature alike, the power
to prohibit the introduction of Slavery in the
Territories; is the severing of the last link
which bound them to an organization re-
creant to very great principle to true
Democracy. When the friends of H. B.
AfNE-IHC NlIc- -NOIhtTS VI luS SOu-
vention which nominated him, shall cast
about them in their discontinue after the
October election for the cause of defeat
so much more ignominious than was an
ticipated, they may trace that, to them,
disastrous result, to the loss of the votes
of such men as WARDEN, all over the State,
and may safely say "this is our work"
"Judge R. B. WARDEN was placed on the
bench of the State Supreme Court by the
Democracy, and he has long been accus-
toned to wield an important influence with
the best men of the party. We hereby
notify the Douglas, Nebraska Dred Scott,
Panyeites, that there is bound to be land
slide in this State next October, which will
make them shake in their boots
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-08-20
Missouri Election.

The st. Louis Democrat says that return:
from all the counties in the State except
nine, give Rollins 10, 1882; Stewart As,
297. Rollins thus leads Steward 1,435
The nine counties gave Buchanan 1905
majority, and gave Benton 744 votes, max
ing the issue to depend upon the Benton
vote.
From indication however there is but little
doubt that Rollins will be beaten by foul
means if fair means fail to do it. Already
has the game of amended returns been
commenced, and the county of Polk, which
was certified as one majority for Steward
has amended its returns SO as to give him
two hundred and thirty-one majority. The
Democrat says that the same man who
by fraudulent returns from this same Polk
county caused the Lieut. Governor to be
fraudulently declared Lieut.. Governor, is
again in the business, and has brought
about the result indicated above.
The st. Louis Republican of the 18th
has despatch of the evening before from
Jefferson City, saying that reliable returns
had been received from ninety nine coun-
ties, giving Rollins 552 majority, leaving
nine counties to overcome that, and that
Stewart is certainly elected.
The contest is exceedingly close, and
whether Rollins is elected or defeated by a
small majority secures victory in fact
to the emancipationists. Snch a ques-
tiou never retrogrades in Slave States,
when, as in Missouri, it is made ques-
tion of dollars and cents. This eman-
eipatlon movement, haYing its dawn in St.
Louis, has raised the wild land of that
State from dimesin value to dollars: il has
fully demonstrated that the best specula-
ton the State can engage in is to free its
slaves Cieyeland Herald
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-08-20
. community may rightfully enslave an

community may rightfully enslave an
other.
10. We hold TO the old-fashioned notion
of our Fathers. "a fair days wages for a
fair days work. and repndiate with scorn
the sentiment that slavery is the natural
and moral condition of the laboring man,
and will resist as anti-Republican and un-
just every attempt, by whomsoever made,
to degrade the free labor of freemen here
and elsewhere, and proclaim it as one Of
the leading objects of the Republican party
in seeking to prevent the further spread Of
slavery, to secure to the free white labor Of
the country its just reward and its full So
cial and political rights.
IL. We condemn without qualification
the embezzlement of the public moneys re-
Gently discovered, ,and edemand the prompt
and rigorous enforcement of the laws IN
the punishment of every person implicated
in the same.
II. We are in favor of the free grant Of
of the public lands by the General Govern
ment in limited quantities to actual settlers.
13. We approve the acts of the last
General assembly providing for the better
security of the State Treasury; rectifying
abuses; reducing State taxation and ex-
penditure, and limiting the amount of local
taxation by county and municipal authori-
ties; and we demand such further legisla-
ton as will most surely and effectually pro-
tect the money of the people from embez-
Element and misapplication, and, most
perfectly secure economy and efficiency in
every department in the State adminstra-
ton.
IA. The administration of Salmon P.
Chase as the Chief Executive of the State
Government, has been honest, able, and
dignifed, commanding the admiration and
confidence of our own people, and the re-
spect of the people of our sister States.
The following note was read by the
Chairman:
To tie Republican State Convention:
The Republican young men of Franklin
County have honored the complete ticket
with 81 guns.
In harmony complete,
Wejoin the fight again;
While all with zeal compete,
To Chase away that PAINE.
After which, on motion, the Convention
adjourned with three cheers for the ticket,
which were given in full and hearty man.
ner.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-08-20
Southern SpecuiatOrs in N Ortern
Lands.

The New Orleans Delta is knocking
Toombs, Orr, Breckenridge q Co., over the
knuckles, because of their speculative ope-
rations in Northern lands. 1t concludes
an article on this subject with an argument
in favor of the re-opening Of the slave trade.
We make the following extract:
The cause of the development of the
Free States can be soon told. Europe has
furnished that section with an abundance
of cheap labor. The tide of emigration,
which rolled from the shores of the Old
World and overflowed the Northern cities
and States on the Atlantic, naturally
enough flowed westward. There was
sample room and verge enough!' Lands
were cheap-labor was cheap and abundant,
and Federal favors showered upon the Free
States without stint. On the other hand,
labor in the South has not been diffused,
but concentrated. The supply of our great
staples and the development of the country
depend solely upon the natural increase Of
the slave population. Suppose the African
slave trade had years ago been re-opened.
Labor would have been as cheap and abun-
dant as in the Fee States, and, with a
more genial climate and soil of inexhaust-
ible fertility, the whole South would have
now been in state of unexampled pros
perity. Itwas long ago the duty of South
ern statesmen to have advocated and insis-
ted upon the adoption of some measure
which would have supplied all Deficiencies
of this kind.
The facts disclosed in the statement of
the Herald and the Times should wake up
the South. 1t is time that the Brecken-
ridges, the Orrs, the Slidells, the Wood
wards the Aikens and the Toombs, who
thus, by their pernicious example, render
futile the efforts of better men to protect
and build up the South-who refuse to lend
the aid of their political and personal in
fluence towards furnishing a supply of Ia
Dor which is essential to our prosperity, but
on the contrary, by acts like these, lead the
North to believe that they have no conf
dence in slavery, and its power to develop
and enrich the section in which they live
it is time, we say, that the people should
discard such leaders and call to their assist
ance more reliable men. Let them look
to it in time.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-08-20

Coshocton County.-The Democracy of
this county have put in nomination for Rep
resentative, CHARLES F SANGrER, for Clerk
LEMUEL KINsEY; Sheriff, DANIEL RHODE
HAvER; for Treasurer, SAMUEL KETCnUM
for Prosecutor, CHARLES Hoy; for Com
missioner WIN. DoUK.
This Ticket, our friend DIMMocK thinks,
will be "hard to beat" Perhaps so. But
our Republican friends there have put one
in nomination which is composed of good
men and which they feel sure, acW aOin.-
Each party has the reins in good hands and
as they are pretty evenly balanced numer'
isally, the contest is likely to be an excl
ting one.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-08-20

Gov. WALKERS LIQUOR BILL.-Wher
"ye little Governor" arrived at Leaven.
worth the City Council rendered him the
hospitality of the city. The way he accep-
ted it was to order an immense amount Of
liquor for big drink, the bill for which,
s21O, the Council now refuses to pay, on
on the ground that that was not the kind
of hospitality that was offered him. A
model Governor is he who can make one
days liquor bill foot up s2l0.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-08-20

A SHAM.-The New Orleans Delta,
which supported Buchanan, declares that is
"so longer any healthy vitality left in the
National Democratic party" and adds:
"The truth is, the union of the Democra-
cy, North and South, at Cincinnati, was a
sham; Mr.. Buchanan went into the canvas
as the exponent of sham; he went into the
Presideny to carry out sham, and he has
been commercially faithful to sham up to
this writing
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-08-20

A Coon HoRsE.-The New York Spir-
It Of the Times gives tho following charac-
teristics of a good horse: 1. His eyes, even
when seen in the stable, are perfectly clear
and transparent, and the pupils or apples
of the eyes are alike in color and size. 2.
On being nipped in the gullct, he will ut
ter sound like that from bellows. IL,
on the contrary, he should give vent to a
dry, husky, short cough, beware of him.
His wind is unsound. 5. His legs are
smooth and ''clean." If YOU find lunches
or putts, or difference in size, though he
may not be lame, disease hrks there. 4.
If broad and full between the ewes, he is
susceptible Of being trained 10 almos, anv
thing. 5. II some white or parti-colored,
he is docile and gentle.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-08-20
What Won't the human Frame
Emdureg

We see in the Watertown On. J) Jour
nal an account of a buzz-saw accident which
taxes our eredulity, but yet is no doubt
nothing but the truth. A Famed Smith,
in Dexter, Jefferson Co., was caught by a
buzz-saw and drawn directly over the ma
chine. One arm was cut off Just above tho
wrist, the other arm was cut off just above
the elbow, the saw passed between his ribs
cutting off two of them, it also crossed the
lower point of the breast bone and made
serious cut in the liver. The incision in
the body was eight inches in length, and
through this cash the stomach, pancreas,
and small lobe of the liver protruded.-
The saw also laid open the flesh from the
knee to the thigh. The man begged to be
allowed TO b,eed 10 death, but surgeon,
dressed his wounds, amputated his arm,
and the man is in fair way to recover.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-08-20
Broke Jail.

Robert Bevington, Henry Bevington and
George Feasel, committed to our Jail about
month since charged with horse stealing,
left that "institution" for parts unknown,
on Sunday night last. They got out by
boring through the logs with which the
dungeon apartment of the Jail is lined, and
then tearing away enough of the brick wall
to afford them passage out. This brought
them into the Jail yard, and rather than
scale the walls they hoisted window and
got into the Court House. Court not be-
ing in session they concluded not to wait
for trial, but quietly walked out into the
street, which being deserted, left them no
opportunity of leaving word where they
were going, or when they might be expec-
ted back. 1t is unfortunate that the usual
amount of loafcrs were not on the street at
the time making night hideous with their
drunken orgies, for then we might have had
the excitement of foot race, as a partial
remuneration for the board these men have
"spunged" off the county.
Though everybody expected and had
predicted their going, Ito hear them talk
now, yet the announcement on Monday
morning of the flight of the prisoners, came
like thunderclap upon our usually quiet
village. Men who before had suspected
1t, were now sure Of It, If nobodyelse be-
lieved they were prophets, they believed it
themselves. The stock of certain candi-
dates Immediately fell so flat as not to be
quoted, whilst that of Others, went up in
the same ratio. Much honest Indignation
was expressed by many of the ''unterrifed," }"
whilst others contented themselves with
looking at the "hole," declaring that if the
horse thieves, had come out of the @little
end" of il, they knew of some Others that
would soon be following their example.
Sheriff Rockwell has offered reward of
$500 for their arrest.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-08-20

WHAT 1T CosTs TO CARRY ON New
YoRK.-The Tax Levy of New York city
for 1857 foots up ss,166, ,5e6, being an in
crease over last year of million of dollars
The levy for 1854, the year before Mayor
Wood came into Office, was S4,e41,255.-
During his first year it went up million
the next year million and quarter more,
and this year another million. The rate Of
taxation in 1854 was LOS; in 1857, it is
l.53.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-08-20

In the course of the evening n largo pumber
waited upon Gov. Chase. at his residence. and
the interchange was very pleasantly and profit
ably passed. The Refreshments, together with
the topics of the day, We're discussed with
spirit and will.
A Ratification Meeting was held in tbe eve
niHg in front of the State House, and was ad-
dressed by Judge Warden and Hon.J. N. Root.
and others. +
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-08-20

SLAVERY AND DEMocRACY.-Aref fast
becomelng synonymous terms. The Mat
toon (lll) Gazette, strong democratic pa
pers came out lately in favor of the prompt
establishment of slavery in Illinois. Ifthe
south demands it the whole party north
will soon come into an advocacy of the
same thing in the other free states.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-08-20

HORSE ExHIBITIoN.-The fourth annual
Ohio and Pennsylvania Horse Exhibition
will be held at Salem, Columbiana county,
on the 9th, 10th and llth, of September.
R. H. Patterson, of Pittsburgh, has been
elected President, and the Managers will
make every necessary preparation for n
large show of Horses.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-08-20

H Attention is directed to the Adver-
tisement of the "Etna Insurance Compa-
ny" in to-days paper. Whilst some other
companies offer TO take risks at less per
cent, it is worth more than the difference
to insure their paying. In the Aetna you
have no such risks to run.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-08-20

PROFITABLE CRoP.-It is stated that a
farmer in Northern Illinois harvested forty
acres of barley this season, which yielded
81 bushels to the acre. He employed
reaping and threshing machines enough to
cut and thresh it in two days, put the crop
on the evening train of the second day, run
it to Chicago, where it had been marketed
at sl,60 per bushel, and took back with
him s4,96s, the cash for the produce of
| forty acres in one season.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-08-20

REsULrs.-Alabama and Texas have
elected nine locofocos to Congress. The
returns from N. Carolina show but one
Know Nothing member from that State.
In Kentucky even Underwood is beaten
leaving the Know Notlings, but one men,
Der. Allowing Buchanan eight members
in Tennessee (and we are inclined to be-
lieve he will have nine) the next house will
have locofoco majority. Glad oft! Be
ing the architects of ruin, let it come on
their own pates. Being body and soul
bound and delivered over to sin, let 'em
"pitch in" their own way. The day Of
reckoning will come some time.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-08-20

HThe attention ofparents and others,
is directed to the Advertisement of Mrs.
H. F. and Miss NJ. BATTIN. Thief term
of their school was literally patronized and
the satisfaction given, general. We hope
to see both increase.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-08-20
cooKY TO GEN. BLARNEY.

FoKr RILEY, July 81, 1857.
To Gen. Blarney at Fort Riley, Commanding:
GENERAL:-I have just received authentic in
telligence Uf the approach OF seven hundred
millions of Cheyenne Indians, who are laying
the prairie waste, killing the buffaloes in def
anee OF the organic act, and without regard to
our blessed constitution, remorselessly shedding
the blood of the wild deer and antelopcs.
These insurrcctionary movements must be
quelled, or the Union must be dismembered. I
appeal to you, therefore, general, by your hatred
of the Indians, from whom and whose friends
YOU have won the honored title of butcher;
appeal to you in the name of the stars and
stripes, and our blessed commissioner, to send
ME forthwith detachment ofcavalry-
In haste,
ST. GEORGE CooKy, commanding.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-08-20
RESOLUTION.

Invoking earnestly, the favor of God and
relying confidently upon the intelligence
the patriotism and the discriminating JUS
tice of the people, we, the delegates of the
Republican party in State Convention as
sembled, submit to the candid and enlight-
ened judgment of the freemen of Ohio the
following declaration of Republican princi-
pies and measures:
1. We adhere to the platform adopted
by the Republican Convention held at
Philadelphia in July, 1776, and re-affirmed
in June, 1856, and solemnly consecrate our
political and moral powers to support its
doctIines.
2. We maintain the Union of the States,
the Rights of the States and the Liberties
of the people.
3. We submit cheerfully to the legiti-
mate and constitutional exercise of the
powers of the Federal Government; but
we protest against the arrest and vexatious
prosecution, under writs of Federal Com
missioners of our Judges, Sheriffs, Justices
of the Peace and private citizens, for acts re-
quired by State law, as oppressively tyrani-
cal and unwarrantable.
4. We insist that the lawful process by
the State Courts for the maintenance Of
right, and the prosecution and punishment
of crime committed within the limits Of
Ohio and against her sovereignty, shall be
executed without let or hindrance of FEEDER
al officials.
5. We deny the right of Federal author
tiles, under the color of Fugitive Slave
act, to suspend the writ of habeas corpus,
or defeat its due execution and operation
in this State.
6. We condemn the doctrines of the
majority of the Federal Supreme Court in
tll ed Scott case, as anti-constitutional,
antfrepublican, anti-democratic, incompat-
ible with State rights and destructive of
personal security.
Z. We regard Slavery as great evil
and wrong, ever aggressive, constantly mis-
chievous, and prospectivity fatal both to
Union and Liberty; and we therefore ear
nestly oppose its extension or encourage
ment by the Federal Government.
8. We concur with vast majority of
the people of the free States, and with a
respectable portion of the people of the slave
States, in reprobation of the action of the
Fedral Government, under the control of the
Slave Power, in breaking down the barriers
against slavery extension provided by the
wisdom of our fathers, and in forcing slave
ry into free Territory under the fraudulent
preferences of the Nebraska-kansas Bill, in
disregard of settled national policy and
plain Constitutional provisions
0. We adhere cordially to the doctrine
of Popular Sovereignty as taught in the
Declaration of Independence; but condemn
as gross perversion of that doctrine the
modern pretension that one proportion OF
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-08-20

~Where is the "man init der dog but
tom" That "varmint" is becoming entire
" too numerous again in this locality.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-08-20
REPUB.

are as follows:
REPUB. LOCO.
Gorernor. Edward Stanley. John B. Weller.
1t. Gov....D. W. Checseman. Joseph Walcup.
Controller. Lewis c. Gum. j. W. Manreville
Su Judge. .Nath, Bennett. S. j. Field.
Ircdsurer.L. Stanford. Thomas Finley.
The Republican candidate for Governor
is Hon. Edward Stanley, formerly Whig
member of Congress from North Carolina,
and very eloquent speaker. He has ac-
cepted the nomination and commenced to
stump the State. As he will be nomina.
ted by the Settlers Convention, with whom
he is very popular, we have strong hopes
of his election.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-08-20
cooKY TO wAIxERrs.

FoRT RILEY, July 81, 1857.
Ny DEAR WALKERUs:-I have sent co urier
to General Blarney demanding reinforcement.
1tis understood, (between ourselves that the
Indians have attacked this Fort, and that We
are in imminent dangeri!! Great is humbug.
Yours, truly, ST. GEORGE CooKY.