Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1859-09-08

vor Of the revival of the Slaye-trade; when
he told me that, I thought he was spsak-
ing unadvisedly with his lips, and it could
not be; and yet have lived TO see the
Slave-trade revived before tbe Presidential
contest has arrived. Is there anything We
may not apprehend? What is it if q ma
iority of this demoralized Democratic party
don't like these things2 What good does
that do, my democratic friend, if you still
swell the ranks, if you still give your votes
and influence for a parry which you see is
controlled by the Slave power, and which
must submit to its dictates.
L have already spoken to you too long.
| have devoted good deal of time to our
State affairs because | thought them i'm
portant. l have devoted some time to
questions of national administration in re-
spect TO economy, because have thought
it worthy of your serious consideration,
but l am free to say to you, the great ques-
tion whether this country shall be ruled by
this Slave-holding oligarchy, or by Free
people, such as stand before me, trans
cends in importance all other questions.
FoREIGN-BoRS CITIZENS.
There are other topics upon which l
would like TO speak. On that cry why
men see fit for their own interested purpo-
ses, to utter, that the Republican party is
unfriendly to the foreign born citizen. l
shall not speak of that day, except simply
TO say here, that / brand it as falsehood.
My own course is before you. No man can
point to the act or word of mine which has
not breathed the broadest spirit of liberal
ity and freedom for all, without regarding
the country from which be came; and l
here enter my protest. and l believe l pro-
test in common with the Republican party
against any such discrimination as the Fed
eral Government has lately proposed TO
sanction, in its Cass letter, while | also
protest against any such discriminate as
has been imposed by law in the States of
South Carolina and Massachusetts.
! THE. HOMESTEAD BILL.
There is another point to which | should
also like to speak to you, because | regard
it as vital. Irefer to the Homestead Bill.
The Republican party stands by the Home
stead Bill; that is to say, they stand by
the principle that it is great deal better
that the public lands of the country should
pass into the hands of settlers. that they
should have all opportunity to take up
those public lands, with little or no price,
and cultivate them, the country looking
for remuneration, not to the price of the
land, but to the increased wealth resulting
from the settlers industry. 1t is the poll
cy of our party to have free homes for all,
and because this homestead bill contributes
to that end, we have endorsed it. l know
that the Democratic party in the S;ate
Convention endorsed it too, but what do
they at Washington? In solid phalanx
they voted against the bill. All the
shareholders in the South, aided by great
body Of the Democracy of the North,
united in voting down that proposition
They so united last winter. They will so
unite again. What good does it do that
your Democratic party here protest against
it? None! We want votes and acts, not
words. Votes and acts the Republican
party have been given for it, and these they
will continue TO give, and this in my judg-
ment marks it as the party of the people,
and not as the party of an oligarchy.
have said now, believe, all propose
to say. l have not said it, under circum-
stances which surrounded. me, precisely as
| would. l have not, perhaps, said all |
would have said, or in the way l would
have said it, but | have spoken in sub
stance what | desired to say. l have laid
before you, l believe, facts, true facts. l
submit them to your judgments, and in
laying before you facts, and in asking upon
them your honest judgment, | believe |
pay you higher compliment than | should
by any exciting appeal whatever.
| submit these facts to you farmers and
working men, submit them 20 you citi-
zens of all occupations and classes, and
ask simply that you will take them in
to your serious contemplation, and then
vote as conscience and reason require. Do
not, either be content with voting your
selves alone; We have an indefatigable op-
ponent; we have the Treasury against us !;
they are mighty, and naught, but the will
of a free people can overcome them. You
must not expect the issue of the battle to
be with the careless, but to the vigilant,
the earnest, the active.
You here in Erie county have more to
do besides electing your own ticket. You
have more to do than that. You ha: got
to contribute to the election of the State
ticket, and thus put your voice on the side
of freedom and true Republicauism; all
through the county you have got to do
something more than fight your own ba:-
tie. You have to fight for freedom through
out the Union, for the example of this peo-
pie will be potent in that struggle. There
fore ask you, men and woman, to take
these things to heart, and not merely that
you may do your duty, but that You may
see that all your neighbors come up; that
every man who can vote is brought to the
polls; that the protest of Ohio against op-
preston, this fall, be as believe, from all
the signs that greet me, it will be more
significant and more emphatic than it has
ever yet been.
NEW MARRLEWoRKS