Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1860-06-07
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LOOK at NJ Sensibly.
II is said, and with much evidence to
back mp the assertion, that the American
people are more easily humbugged than
any other. This is nothing to our credit.
In voting for men for high and important
offices, humbuggery has often controlled
the election, where sound sense and good
Judgment should have held the sway. To
say nothing of minor offices we will call
the attention of the reader to the fact
that in 1910 the Whigs nominated for
President General Harrison, good, hon
est patriotic old man, but without the
ability, experience and craftsmanship to
make good President. The fact that
he had lived in log cabin was urged as
the great reason why he should be elected
The supporting hand of Proidence seems
to have been always with the American
people. 1t was this that secured the per-
son of Washington from a thousand
deaths that he might save our country; it
was this that marked the American con
tinont as the home of the free and the on
ly asylum for the n-troddcn and op-
pressed millions of the old world; il was
this that directed the founders of the
government in laying the cornerstone of
constitutional liberty, and it was this that
called General Harrison from the scenes
of duties ~ was unable to perform that
the government might be controlled by
more efficient hands In one month ar-
ter his inauguration the nation was called
to mourn his death In 1913 General
Taylor was nominated solely on the
ground Of availability. lie was elected
because he never "surrendered." He
was heroic and honorable man, but he
possessed no qualifications for the Office
He was barely installed until the Shylocks
of the party gathered about him, and to
save the country the interposing hand Of
Providence called General Taylor from
time to eternity In 1852 one of the
greatest. military men of this or any other
age, but wholly unskilled in governmental
affairs, was run and defeated. In 1856
the election of Fremont was urged on the
ground that he had once caught bum
blebee in one of the higehst cliffs of the
Rocky Mountains, and to the honor Of the
people they refused to indorse this hum
buggery. The present year the opposi-
ton have nominated Lincoln, and urges
his election on the ground that he once in
his lifetime split few rails. Rail split
ting is an honorable business but it does
not qualify Il man for the duties Of Pres
ident The opposition do not claim that
Mr.. Lincoln possesses the experience, and
the necessary knowledge of the govern
ment TO make successful and efficient
president. They simply urge his elcc-
ton on the ground Of his having split n
few rails. From the foregoing we gath
VI lIlt tHab LIc tNO CuHul-
dates elected in campaigns of humbuggery
instead of principle, were both called
away before the country was sunk through
their management; and the people, in the
other two cases, nippcd folly in the bud.
The election of a man to the important
office Of president, simply because he
split few rails, is species of humbug-
gerry that we think the people of the Uni
ted States will not at this day sanction.
We appeal to the sober Judgment ofeyory
man to decide whether it is not better to
elect n statesman, and thus avoid n spec
ial interpoSition of Providence to save
our nation from being governed by one
who possesses no qualifications whatever
for the Office of President.