Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-07-30
walkers Proclamation.


We have before us a copy of Walkers
proclamation to the people of Lawrence, Of
which the telegraph had before apprised
us. It's TRADE of the most ridiculous
bombast we have ever seen, and would oc-
cupy column Of our paper, the words in
it being many and ideas extremely few
Bombastus Furisco was lamb beside this
truculent little piece of pomposity. His
style reminds US forcibly of the terrible yet
ridiculous proclamations issued by Chinese
officials.
1t seems that the people of Lawrence,
not inclined to. recognize the laws made
for them by the Border Rufians of Missou-
ri, have framed and accepted a city charter
for their own local government, and put in
operation-an exercise, solely, of the inner
ent right of self government, growing out
of the necessities of their situation, and in
volving no serious consequences to any
one. 1t was mere voluntary agreement
between themselves to regulate their local
concerns, to which no one was bound 10
consent, and was simply temporary ar
rangement to meet present exigencies.-
But the fancy, dapper little fellow who i'm.
agines he is the great man Of his nation,
fumes and frets over it with an amount Of
sputter that would do discredit to back
woods locofoco editor, and spits at it like
an incensed kitten at the approach of a ca
nine enemy. He calls it "an insurrection-
ary government" an "open conflict with
the government of the United States" an
attempt 10 ''involve the whole territory in
insurrection and renew the scenes of blood
shed and war;" invokes upon the heads of
the people of Lawrence "the blood that
may be shed in this contest;;'' says
if the scheme is permitted to go on "the
territorial government will be overthrown;" !"
"the territory will thus be involved in in
extricable confusion;" (when, pray, was it
otherwiseD . denounces the Lawrence char
ter as ''founded on insurrection and usurp-
ation," and "based on insurrection and rev.
olution;" and informs the Lawrence men
that "a rebellion so iniquitous and necessa-
rily involving such awful consequences, has
never before disgraced any age or country"
Having fumed thus far he begins and
goes over the same ground anew; tells
them "you are inaugurating rebellion and
revolution" "you stand now upon the
brink of an awful precipice," }" and it be-
comes his duty to warn them ''ere you
take the fatal leap into the gulf below~
He warns them to desist; appeals to their
reason and patriotism; and asks them Gin
the name of our common country, in the
name of the constitution, and of the Union
to desist frnm this rebellion" But evi-
IDENTIFY he has no faith in his appeal: for
be says, with the sorrow of man wound
ed in the tenderest part of his sensibilities,
that as all his previous arguments have
been unheeded by them flor the good rea-
son that they were not worth heeding) he
has deemed it necessary "to order an ade-
quate force of troop of the United States
into your imemdiate vicinage, to perform
the painful duty of arresting your revolu
tionary proceedings" He then implores
them not to shoot: adjures them not to in
involve themselves sin the crime of treason,
and subject the people of the city of Law
renee to all horrors and calamities of insur-
rection and civil war;" and promises to be
gracious to them if they will only desist-
Otherwise he will have to put them down
by force if necessary. He promises to ac-
company the troops himself, to avoid
bloodshed, and ventures a doubtful appeal
to Providence to save him from the folly
of makeing most egregious ass of himself.
Thus ends this tremedous tempest in
teapot-the most ridiculous effusion since
the days of Gen. Quattlebum. 1t must
be hard up, politically, with the conse-
quential, puppyish little dandy when he has
to come the imperative, thus, over such a
small affair, and magnify legitimate exer-
'ise of "Squatter sovereignty" into treason.
nsurrection and revolution. Pifs5urg
Gazette.
R Gov. Walker meets with but little
Encouragement from the Northern Press.
The Philadelphia North american, which
las hitherto looked with much favor upon
lis course in Kansas, treats his late proc