Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1861-05-30
nisuniOM--ptsP Aspect.


DisuniOM--lts Present Aspect
A disunionist is one who sows the
seeds OF dsunion between different sec
tions or portions of our common country
no matter whether his geographical po-
sition be in the North or the South, in
the East or the West.
WAsnlNGToN, in his farewell address,
told the American people that it was OF
infinite moment to them that they should
Indignantly frown upon every attempt to
a!icnate any portion of our country from
the rest.
Had this solemn warning been needed
rs it should have been, disunion would not
have obtained sufficient influence to work
ont those evils which it has brought upon
the country. 1t began in Vaccinations
almost simultaneously in the North and
the South many years ago, and has been
cherished by fanatics and demagosucs in
both sections. The election of LINCOLN
to the Presidency was used as pretext o
nhame and spread the disunon sentiment
in the South, and precipitate rebellion.
People in that section were drawn into the
secession movement, because they were led
to believe that the ma ority Of the North
had determined to WELD the power of the
Federal Government for the purpose of
usurping the rights of the Southern States
and extirpating the institution of slavery.
Though disunionism has assumed in the
South bold and defiant front toward the
National Government, it is still at work
vigorously, yet stealthily, at the North.
1t does not now, as it did few months
since, advocate u dissolution of the Union;
but under an affected and sometimes a
rampant zeal for its preservation, it gives
aid and comfort" to the secessionists by
studied and persistent efforts to imbue the
public mind with the belief that the pres
ent war is waged for the extrpaton of
negro slavery, and that the country can
never have peace till that "loul stain up
on our national escutcheon" is wiped out
with blood. Thus it is that northern dis.
unionsts seek to increase and intensity the
flame of sectional hate, and render the dis
solution OF the Union certain and perma
nent.
We call upon our countrymen to heeC
the solemn warning of WAsmINGToN, an
irown Indignantly upon the seccssionist
everywhere, who seek to ALLEVIATE one por
ton of our country from the other. fw
turn deaf ear to this counsel, tn
Union is gone forever beyond redemption
Nothing but civil war, in which sectio,
shall be united against section, can pro
duce II permanent division of the States
The attempt is now vigorously made b,
the conspirators and rebels of the South
to produce n united action OF the people il
the slave States against the North. The,
quote from the speeches of Northern dem
agogues and from the writing of ianatica
Northern editors, to prove that the people
in the free States are united against tn
South and its institutions. In the mean
time. similar efforts are being made here t.
array the North, not merel y against TIN
rebels who are seeking to overthrow th'
the institution Of slavery. Hence, W,
were told in the Journal of this city, in it
issue of yesterday morning. "that th'
lines are pretty distinctly drawn, now an,
it is as Northerners and Southerners tha
the soldiers are to encounter each other
Such is the language Of pure, unadul
terated disunionism. 1t rejoices and glo
ries in sectionaliSm; it would make epc
mics of States separated by an ideal boun
Diary, and cherish lasting discord be
tween neighboring communities, because
they happen to differ in some of their do
mestc arrangements. But such is no
the language of the man who is truly 10y
al to the Union; nor is such the Sentimen
of majority of the American people,
While they are determined to punish thu
rebel and traitor, they have no sympathy
for the disunionists who, under a maSl
of love for the Union, and fidelity to tn,
cause of liberty, bounds his patriotism b,
a geographical line between the Nortl
and the South. and seeks to make tn
present effort to retain all the States in tn
Union clannish warfare upon a part o
= them, to suhiugate and assimilate then
t IN their social institutions to the rest -
A Statesman.