Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1860-08-23
Political Items.


! The Bellville (Ill.) Adroeate Of July 18th con-
iains call for Grand Ratification meeting oI
| Douglas Democrats TO be held on Sunday, the
ed of July. Comment is unnecessary.
! A letter from Minnesota says that Lincoln
and Hamlin will receive 10000 majority in the
State. since the Presidents veto OF the Home
stead bill.
The Freemdn's Journal Catholic and Douglass
repudiates all idea of fusion with the secession
lists. With such men," it exclaims, "God save
Us from any further alliance. Let them answer
each to his own constituents as to what idea
tEey have given us of southern honor. Let them
never come forward again as spokesmen to us
ON tie part of the chivalroaus people. Let
them go back TO their gambling shops, or dis
appear otherwise from the political field, in or
der that, by their Withdrawal, we may preserve
| the fra;ernal respect we have heretofore enter
tanned for southerners.'
a Washington despatch says Judge Douglas
is in receipt of pressing invitations to visit sew
eral Southern States, and it is not improbable
that he may make 4 short tour during the sum-
mer."
In their Address 10 the people of Missouri
the Republican State Central Committee says
There are now in Missouri at least fifty thou
sand men who cannot get full employment for
their energies and enterprise. owing to the de-
preston of the past two years, and there are
now in Missouri more than one hundred thou
sand slaves, occupying and filling the most lu-
crative agricultural and mechanical position in
the interior. 1t is the demand of the Republi-
can party that slave labor, should make room
for free white labor, and take itself away"
A southern paper expresses the confident be-
lief, that, in the event of Mr.. Lincoln S election
no man will dare to accept Office under him in
any slayeholding State. To this, the Louisville
,Jo'unalsays: ave should regret exceedingly 10
see Lincoln elected, but, sooner than let all the
offices in Louisville remain vacant, we would
take few of them ourselves-if only to show
we were not afraid"
At recent meeting at Hartford, CT, Senator
Dixon said: abraham Lincoln. let me assure
you, my friends, is no ordinary man. Indeed
we are peculiarly fortunate in our candidates
both for the Presidency and Vice Presidency
combining, rs has well been said, the faith of
Abraham, and the courage of Hannibal"
Caleb Cushing speaks of the Republican can
didate as follows: Abraham Lincoln is much
ab er man than is generally supposed, even in
his own party. In his canvass with Douglas
he beat him in law, beat him in argument, and
beat him in wit; and the published debates of
Sauth Carolina stands alone in her attitude
in the Presidential election. Not press in
the State advocates the election of Mr. Doug
las or Mr. Bell 10 the Presidency. Squatter
Sovereignty and "the Union and The Constitu-
ton party-so called-have not a single rep
resentive in the press of the State.
The WABASH Plain Dealer, the only Douglas
organ in Wabash county, Ind, has hauled down
the name of Douglas, and announced its pur-
pose to support Lincoln hereafter. There will
be enc Plain Dealer" that does not belle its
name.
The signs in Pennsylvania are all auspicous
for Lincoln. The Pittsburgh Gazette states
that there are over one hundred papers in that
State supporting Lincoln which opposed Ere
mont in 1856. But two of the Fillmore papers
Of 1856 now support Bell.
When Buchanan retires from office. and his
legacies are paid, the public debt will have in
creased 10 about $S0,000,000, exclusive of $780,
OO0,G0O which Gen. Pearce turned over to him.
Lc! it not be forgotten that with all his pro-
fessed desire to have the people of every ccm-
munity govern themselves, Douglas was the
most bitter in his denunciatiOns of the people
of Kansas, and never raised his voice IN favor
of their admission into the Union.
An Illinois correspondent to the New Nork
Times says-"We have absorbed the Fillmore
clement TO such an extent that vote for Bell
will he vote lost for Douglas. So you see we
have clear field, and though DIS friends will
fight with desperation for the control of the
State, we shall drub them souAdly. We also
regard Indiana as safe.
The Addison AdUertiser, published at Addi-
son, Steuben county, N. Y, heretofore an Amer
lean organ now hoists the Lin colin and Hamlin
flag. Old Steuben will give laundering ma
jority for Lincoln and Hamlin.
new Breckenridge paper has been started
at st. Paul, Mimi, called the North Star. Any
peculiar appropriateness in the name is not easi-
ly discoverable.
a Congo Club has been formed in Port Gibson,
Miss. The object is to secure State Legislation
for the supply of more African labor The
Club design to be somewhat quiet, however, I'M
I'll after the coming election.
The Peoria (Ill( Transcript says that fami-
ly of Germans in that city, consisting of faith
or and five SONS, all hitherto stanch Democrats,
have joined the Republican ranks since the
great speech of Carl Schurz at that place. A
Democratic Committee waited on them to coax
them back, but the sturdy Germans gave them
4 decided rebuff.