Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1861-02-14
LINCOLN HAS SPOKEN.
HIS POLICY UNIV E1LED d
civil war may be Looked for.

~ Ielegrapn dispatch gives the iolloWS
ing:
INDIANAPOLIS, Feb. 1.-THE firing Of
thirty four guns announced the approach
of the train bearing the President elect
and party.
Tho President was received and well
coined by Gov. o. p. Morton, and escort
ell to carriage drawn by four white
horses. The procession formed itself in
to pageant seldom if ever witnessed here
before. The procession was composed
of members OF both Houses OF Legisa-
ture, public officers, municipal authori-
ties, military and fire com panies, citizens
and strangers.
The President elect stood in his carriage
acknowledging the welcome.
The procession, upon reaching the
Bates House, halted, and Mr.. Lincoln
was escorted to the balcony, where he ad-
dressed his fellow citizens.
He said he came here to thank them
for the support given by Indiana to true
and Just canse. Coercion and invasion
are terms much used now with temper and
hot blood. Let us not misunderstood
their meaning, nor the meaning of those
who use them. Let us get their meaning
from men who deprecate the things they
would represent by their use. What is
the meaning of those words? Would
marching an army into South Carolina,
with hostile intent, be invasion? think
it would, and it would be coercion also, il
the South Carolnians were forced to sub
nit. But if the United Stat s should
merely retake and hold its own forts, and
collect the duties, or withhold the mails
where they were habitually violated ;
would any or all these things be coercion
or invasion? Do professional Union
lovers, resolved to resist coercion, under
stand that such things as these on the
part of the United States, would be coer.
cion or invasion? If they do, their idea
Of preservation is exceedingly thin and
airy.
In their view, the Union as a family
relation would seem to be no regular
marriage, but sort of free love arrange
ment, to be maintained by personal at.
A traction. In what consists the special
sacredness of State? Ispeak not of the
position assigned to State in the Union
by Constitution, for that by the bond we
all recognize. If State or county
possess equal in territory and inhabitants
in what, as matter of principle, is the
State better than the county? Would az
exchange of names he an exchange o.
rights, upon principle? BY what right
fnl principle may State, act being more
, than fifteenth part of the nation il
soil and population, break up the nation
and then coerce the larger division o
itself? What mysterious right to play
the tyrant is conferred on District oil
E county, with its people, by merely calling
it State?
Mr.. Lincoln in conclusion, said he was
not asserting anything, but asking ques
tions for them to consider and decide il
their own minds what was right and wha
was wrong.
Gov. Morton being loudly called for
appeared. and spoke in congratulatory
tones to the gathering, which was now
immense.
At seven o'clock this evening the mem
bers of the Legislature paid their respects
to the President elect, who is now hold
ing a reception at the Bates House.
The President elect and suite leave fo1
Cincinnati tomorrow morning at 1C
o clock.