Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1860-09-06

placed before the country by the Balti-
more Convention, to preserve this glori-
Gus Union. (Cheers and cries of "And
we will do it.")
His speech has made most favorable
impression here in Norfolk. Numbers
of Breckenridge men publicly proclaim
their detection from that party and their
adherence to Douglas.
On Monday Mr. Douglas will visit Old
point Comfort, and thence proceed to
Petersburg. He will address the people
there on Tuesday. and proceed to Rail
eigh to attend convention to be held on
Thursday next, He will speak there and
then proceed to Richmod. He halts there
and addresses public meeting on Friday.
Patriotic Letter from Hon. Geo.
e.. PugE.
The following able letter from Senator
Pugh, OF Ohio, in response to an invita-
tion to attend the Kentucky Democratic
| State Convention, came to hand some
days after its adjournment. The letter,
however, is too good to be lost, and we
hasten to lay it before our readers. -
| LOUtSUtl(e J/CUtOCFU,
CNcINNATl, Aug. 10, 1860.
GENTLEMEN: | have postponed an
swering your letter of the 26th inst, in
viting me to address the Democratic State
Convention at Louisville, because | in
tended to comply, if possible, with your
wishes. returned home several weeks
ago, after an absence of nearly eight
months, and have felt myself under obi,
CATION to attend, first of all, to an arrear
of professional engagements. These are
not yet dischargod-a hoped they would
be-and | must now disappoint myself,
as well as you, by failing to be at Louis
vile to- morrow
| assure yol, gentlemen, that it would
have afforded me the utmost pleasure if |
could havesbQen with you upon so inter
esting an Sccasion, d wish TO applaud the
true and loyal Democracy Of Kentucky,
face to laces for their noble courage in ad-
herring to the principles and the pledges
Of the democratic party, (even as against
the temptation Of Mr.. Brockenridge's can
didacy, in regard to the single question
which now menaces the stability and per-
petuity Of our Federal Government ]
am not, as Mr.. Yancey expressed himself
at the Maryland Institute upon the occa-
sion Of MIR. Disadvantages nomination,
merely neutral with respect to the contin-
uancc of the Union or its destruction;
am for the Union, and against disunion,
at all times, without apology, or contin-
gency, or qualification The Constitu.
ton may be violated (as it often has been
by unfaithful public servants, or in the
tempest Of factions, or from other causes
but our plain duty as patriots, in every
such emergency, is to invoke again and
again, and again, until seventy times sew
en-, the sober sense and calm Judgment OF
the people.
If our Revolutionary fathers, under
, Washington, could proong an apparent
ly desperate struggle for seven years
driven from city to city, from camp tc
camp, from State to State, by superior
numbers, trampling the SHOWS and ice o
midwinter with bear icet-sufering two
or three disasters from each victory-and
at last, by sheer fortitude, achieve the lib
elty and Independence we now enjoy, he
'l'tN llNllN lblpi w NV ll'Ilol VI NNtl
ancestors (as it seems to me) who would
now, in our zenith of national and indi,
vidual prosperity, abandon the great result
r. of their labors--thc Union which they es.
) tablished-wthout an equal exhibition
Of hcroism. What can be more criminal
than this modern habit of betaking our.
selves, upon every trivial occasion, OF
! pnlnpn "a tho 10
gon of Disunion, and Secession, and Rev,
olution? | am not only opposed to it
!. gentlemen, but am tired of it, and dis
! gusted with it. hope to see the day
o when public declaration from any mar
= lever SO eloquent and distinguished tha
o he is "nethcr for the Union, nor agains
D the Union" will, instead of provoking
thundels of applause as in the Brccken
ridge Convention at Baltimore, be rccciv
J., ed with universal Indignation and abhor
i renee. ! have been faithful Democra
$ ever since had vote; love the Demo
cratic party, its principles, its policy, it
usageS OF organization; | am proud o
. its history, and have always felt my hear
l throb with noble pulS0tions in musing ol
; its future achievements but with all thi
I affection, and even with more than hav
! expressed, or can express, / declare t
= you, gentlemen, in all eame,tncSS, that
o Di,wionists, or those TO whom Union o
Q DiSunion is an affair of Indifference, ar
1 now to become the leaders of the Demo
= cratic party--to prescribe the language c
Il our platiorm--to dictate by means serc>
L sionS at Charleston and Baltimore, whor
n we shall choose for candidatcs--it vii
d be high time for me, at least, t. seek an
Q other and more congenial association,
8 am against the "irepresibe conflict o
! both sides-as well as that now personitie
d by John G. Breckenridge, as that personi
II fed by Abraham Lincoln.
" Snch is the issue propounded to tn
d American people in the Presidential cam
% paign OF this year-propounded fairly dis
3 tinctly and in manner which cannot /
'c mistaken, 1t is immaterial, therefor,
3 what assurance Mr., Breckenridge or Ger
II eral Lane-for both of whom, PERSONAL
70 | entertain the utmost regard may voucl
'r safe in letters or in speeches; they will be
y if elected, and must DO. captives like Nj
OF Breckenridge) of the bold spirits to who,
10 their nominations are due, and whose po
6 icy they now represent. turn from thes
1 II