Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1860-03-29

has made them free. Nor will the funds o.
the nation 5e withheld from the enterprise
Then will there be, what there has neve
yet been, an open door, and efiectual tc
the emancipation of the Southern slave
The great hindrance, in the estimation o.
those who ought to know best, will be
removed; the dread, namely, of a con.
stantly accnmulating population among
them unit for freedom, as they always
must be while they continue there.
| cannot regre; the discussion which is
now going on in these Northern States.
1t has been forced upon us by the recent
outbreaks against law; and it is time that
we should all understand our duties as
! Christians, as citizens, as members OF
this great CoDfederacy. / am glad that
crisis has been reached. when we must
determine whether we will any longer in
vite or tolerate an agitation so utterly
senseless and pernicious as that which for
years past has disturbed the peace Of the
Union, and now threatens its very exist
ence. five were henceforth to live in
harmony with our brethren at the South,
we must iorego our absurd distractions,
and learn to deal Justly, and follow after
the things which make for peace. And
never again should any factious man
amongst us be allowed with impunity to
reproach them, in style so popular with
the vulgar, for prepetuating an institution
Tor which, at present, there is no remedy;
or sting and irritate them with sarcasms
as mean and ungenerous as they are un-
Just And let US learn, also, to put more
faith in time and progress, to bring about
results which appear to US desirable.
In regard to slavery and its concomit-
ants, one truth, at least, must by this time
have become apparent to every dispassion-
ate mind. No desirable change can be
wrought by violence, by denunciation, by
Withholding from any citizen the rights
secured to him by law, by any resist
ance, secret or open, to the execution Of
law. What must be the effect of such
resistance or evasion? 1t is bad in eve
ry way, and to all concerned in it; and
who amongst us is not concerned in up
holding the supremacy oflaw? 1t is pc
cullarIy attiictive TO the race it processes
to benefit, because their bondage is nee
esSarlly made more stringent and opress-
I've when 1t is seen that, in the event of
their escape, there is no hope of recovery.
And then, in the aggrieved party. there is
lett ranking sense Of wrongs unredress-
ed, Of intolerable insult of a broken COW
enant-all tending to excite and foster q
wish to separate forever from, and cease
from all intercourse with people who
cannot, or will not be held to anv com
pact however sacred. And in that case
we could not blame them. 1t would be
tile sentiment OF every generous heart, in
rendering To ihan, tho ri yht hand ..f f,iand.
ship and fellowship when parting ords
were said, Would to God we might
still dwell together in unity, as we once
did. But 1t cannot be, madness and fac
ton are in the ascendant, and rule the
hour; we have nothing to accuse YOU of;
Gods law and mans law are with you;
but separate we must. We succumb to
the master-spirits amongst us, who have
had revelations of higher law. Go, and
the blessing of Heaven go with you."
And then-what then? America, late
ly the admiration, the hope of the great
and good in every cline, become the scoff
and jeer of the world; all faith in the
ability of republics to fulfil the ends of
government extinguished forever; our
Union gone; our strength, our peace, our
glory, departed like gorgeous but tran
sient vision; and henceforward our tale
will be told in the wars and fightings
which make up the burthen of vulgar his
tory.
In none ofthe political agitations through
which our country has hitherto passed,
have ever feared for the stability of the
Union; for none of them sprung from in
terests or passions purely sectional, like
that by which we are now convulsed.-
But at length the very crisis which the
anxious mind of Washington foresaw-
which he dreaded more than any other,
and which he strove to avert by solemn
and repeated warnings-is in imminent
danger of being brought upon us by a
few factions, aspiring men, who avail
themselves of the honest blunders of weak
and ill-directed conscience to compass
their own selfish ends. Yet this danger
ous point will be safely turned, if we will
but do our duty with faithful and reso-
lutte heart. The battle for the Union must
be fought, not on the cotton fields of the
South, but here on the soil of New Eng
land. The enemy in this case is the band
OF disunionists at home. Let law and
order triumph here, and the immediate
danger will have passed. Let those who
love the Constitution and laws of our
country stand by them, and plead for
them, and act for them. and uphold them,
and it may yet be well with US for many
years to come.
That our confederacy can long, very
long, stand the tug and strain to which
it is likely to be subject in the growing
impatience of law, it would, perhaps, be
too sanguine to expect. 1t may be want
ing In some of the essential elements Of
durability. But let us make it last as
long as we can, for the incalculable good
1t brings, and avert, to the latest hour
possible the great calamity. Whenever
1t comes, it will come too SOON. Let us
not hasten it by any want of faithluness
on our part to the conditions of the COM
pact, nor by weakly yielding to the clam
ors Of 'few men of perverse minds, end
destitute OF the truth" allow this fair
heritage TO be given up prey to the un-
Imaginable miseries of disunion, anarchy
/ and civil war. the end of which no I'm.