Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1860-11-01
Republican, sport and rTypoc-
risy'

risy'
There is," says nm ancient writer.
"There is that scsttereth fire brands and
death, and saith, Am not in sport?"
Nero iiddling while Rome was burning,
and Greeley's exultation over the incen-
darism in this country, which he and
his Republican co-workers are kindling
and tanning are parallel cases.
The people of the South are iustlv
alarmed, and are taking precautionary.
measures against instructions at home
and sggressions from abroad. Their fears
are made sport of, and are fertile subjects
OF ridicule and satire for the New York
Ir'5uhe and other Republican journals o.
the smaller fry. These declare that tho
very life and existence OF the Republican
party depends on determined and com
tinued opposition to African slavery in
these States, and that the conflict must
! so on until the States become all free or
all slaveholding. Northern emissaries are
sent into the South, "whose vocation it
is" to use the language of Judge Grimke,
''to disturb the relation between master
and servant, and to interpolate in the
New Testament thein Injunction, Servants,
murder your masters in place Of the
beneficent precept, Servants, obey your
masters And this insane preaching has
been actually followed by the connagra-
ton of towns and by deeply medtated
plots to massacre the inhabitants. -
This is the genuine fruit of the 'irre-
+ pressible conflict" sentiments uttered by.
/ nn1,, Al n
spring of the sectional agitation against
/, slavery, which is, according to it's leaders,
the life and soul of the Republican party.
! Yet when the Southern people, aroused
+ Ivy the anti-sIavery demonstrations at the
t North, and by insurrectionions at home,
} begin to make preparations for their safe
ty and put themselves in posture of de-
9 iense against apprehended evils, Republi-
| can journals and Republican orators mock
at their fears, and with coarse Jokes and
| snecrs try to make the ignorant and un-
t thinking laugh at their apprehensions Of
! danger.
, And yet, in the same breath, these
e mockers and revilers of the Southern peo-
= pie turn round to them and say, with a
Y hypocritical smile on their faces, 1--WE
were but in sport. We mean you no harm.
. The Republicans do not intend to inter
lere with slavery in the States where it
v exists. II Lincoln should be President,
4 your constitutional rights will be respect
G cd, for the 'irrcpressibe conflict has no
r reference to political agitation whatever"
| This is said III the midst of incessant
e ridicue and abuse of the South, and in.
: the face of the fact in every State where
$ Republicans have the legislative power,
H and in every section of every State where
Y RcpublicaniSm controls public opinions.
$ the Southern master cannot recover his
T. escaping slave. 1t is said, TOO, by those
It who are secretly prompting and aiding
# secret anti-slavery emissaries, under the
= disguise Of gospel missionaries and busi-
ness men, to so into the South and stir
up strife and sedition there.
e When such facts as these are pressed
e home upon Republicans, they 20 lily and
y impudently attempt to evade their force
d by saying that, if there is danger to the
o Southern States from the Republican
!, party, His their own fault. Ifthe negroes
y in the South-this is the Republican
c dodge-are lei to believe that the Repub-
Sc Leans of the North design their emancipa-
Il ton, and rise in nsurrection and cut tho
g throats of their masters, the latter will
D have nobody to blame but themselves for
y misrepresening to their slaves the object
| and aim of the Republican party. This
a, is the substance of an article in the Re-
IS publican Journai of this city Yesterday
le morning---a paper which,, only i've days
to since. deIared that "the strength of the
in Republican faith is in it's firm protest
he against African slavery in the United
n, States"
n. Neither the ridicule nor the coaxing o
these hypocritical Republican leaders and
organs will invciglc true conservative and
Union men, North or South, into the
support of their sectional party or its
It. anti Union candidate. They will rally
st around the Democratic flag and bear ii
no aIoft to triumphant victory over the
ld foes of the Constitution and the Union
he Statesman.