Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1860-12-13

isfied Cutfey. But it didn't. After per-
forming these enormous exploits, be took
it into his head to put the whole country
into bis pocket; and, to effect bis purposes,
he has hobbled Holt, tied Toucey, tricked
Thompson,frightened Floyd, crippled Cobb,
caught Cass, blacked Buchanan, broken The
banks, and seems determined to garrote
the Government, upset the Union, and
play smash generally. &.
Cufey's keepers have been careful and
cautious about his education. They have
with wise watchfulness, compelled him
to eschew primers and pot hooks, scrip
ture and scribbling; but they have sad
ly neglected. They have heedlessly let
come to his knowledge the injunction Of
the Bible 10 multiply and replenish the
earth. This was miserable mistake on
their part. Cufey is proverbial for bis
disobedience in regard to most command
ments; but no sooner did he get acquaiut-
ed with this one, than be began to obey
it with alarming alacrity. From 10000
woolly heads seventy years ago, he has
multiplied them to 100000 now; and
if be keeps on in the same way, there are
plenty of persons living now, who before
they die, will see them multiplied to 49,
100000. If Cuffey is troublesome now,
with 100000, woolly y-heads at his heels,
what will he be with 4O,O0O,0OOa Ifhe
can manage to have so potent hand in
the Presidential pie now, what will be do
then? Would it be strange or unlike him
if he should get it into his noddle thus to
come to the election with his 10000, 900
woolly-head and say, "With your leave,
Messrs. Caucasians, will put in a few At
rican tickets into your ballot box" And
if be should get such notion into his
nodde, would it not be pretty difficult, if
not dangerous, to pravent him from carry
ing it into effect?
Our Southern fellow citizens say they
own Cuffey, ard are going to make him
do as they please. Ifthey like to own such
pets as be am not going to quarrel with
them about it. 1 hope they will not quar-
rel with me if l should suggest to them
that be may not be the safest kind of a
pet for them to keep. l know man who
once caught young panther and took it
home for pet. 1t was very pretty, and
played with his little girl, the only child
had, like kitten. The neighbors told him
he had better kill it, or it would, some day
kill bis little girl; but he said there was no
danger, he would keep it in subjection.-
The panther, in time, grew to be large and
strong, and one day it killed the little girl.
1t was very nice thing to keep when it
was little and weak, but when it got to be
large and strong, to keep it was death.
May not Cuffey turn ont the same way up
on the hands of our Southern brethren
While be was little and weak il was per-
haps very nice to own him. But, as l
said, Cutfey is growing; and sometimes,
even now, he shows signs of viciousness
that produce alarm in the whole Southern
family. When he comes TO his growth,
when he gets to be 100000 or even
2O,OoO,0OO strong, may there not be dan
ger that he may murder the very fairest of
his owners family, and spread CONSERVATION
and sorrow throughout the whole country!
Our Southern brethren admit that if
Cuffey was left to run loose be would be
dangerous; but they say they have got
him chained, and are going to keep him so.
Will that keep him quiet-especially when
he gets to be 2O,OOO,OOO or 100000
strong? He is chained now, but that, ac-
cording to the best Democratic authority,
did not keep him from electing President
and Vice Presiden: in this year of grace
1860. If with 100000, his chains did
not prevent him from electing President
and Vice Presiden', is it likely they will be
any more effectual when he gets to have
100000.
But what kind of chain will it take to
hold Cuffey when be gets to be 100000
strong! Will there be iron enough in the
whole Southern country to make such
chain? And if there should, will there be
strength enough in the whole Southern
country to fasten it on and keep it ons
Our Southern friends say they are going
to dissolve the Union, no matter what the
General Government or the North, or both
together may say. All through the cot
ton States they are openly preparing to
fight, and talk about nothing else. 1t is
said that Cuffy's organs of imitation are
remark kably well developed-so much so,
that there is nothing which bis master does
that be does not soon learn to initiate him
in. Suppose Cuffey should under take to
initiate his master in the way of fighting;
how would it go9 Suppose that like his
master he should get it into his head that
his liberty and honor make it necessary for
him to fight; what tben9 Cufey's mas
ter is ready to shed the blood of anybody
who will deny bis right to hold Cutfey in
slavery; what if Cntfey should take it in
to his head to shed the blood of anybody
who will assert his masters right TO hold
him in slavery? Cufey is very fond of be
ing in fashion; is it not very likely that
when fighting gets to be the fashion in the
Southern country, Cuffey will adopted it
as well as his master?
In 1850, there were in Alabama, Flori-
da, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, and
South Carolina, the six cotton States. that
are going to secede, l,s2l,o whites and
l,736,S27 black inhabitants. Since 1850
it is understood that Cufey has been gain
ing on the whites in those States so that
in 1860 he is about as far ahead of them
as they were of him in 1850. As long as
those States remain in the Union, and
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