Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1861-08-15
Cheering signs.

Cheering signs.
Among the many cheering signs for
peace and ultimate Union, is that of the
unanimity of the Republican papers and
people, to discard and lay aside their Sec
tional Abolition organization, which, in
conjunction with the secessonists of tho
South, have been the cause of our calam-
tiles. Near ly every Republican paper we
open, is urging tho necessity of this course,
and the Democratic papers are unaniA
mously of the opinion that the concern
should be disbanded.
That the old National Union Demoo-
racy will have opposition, we have no
doubt. How formidable it will be, de-
pends entirely upon wether they can pre-
vail on somo men who have been Demo
Gratis, and who have not been suspected
of fRepublicanism, to be put up as fig
ure-h head for the opposition.
In this they will probaly succeed. It
has Away been the case, that when
party opposed to the Democracy is bro
ken up, and new one to be organized,
men are sought as leaders, who have not
been suspected of entertaining the senti-
ments of the party disbanded. In fact,
nearly all the leaders of the new party
organizations, have been disappointed.
ambitious men, who had fallen from the
Democratic Union party. 1t will be so
again. 1t would be considered suicidal
to the new organizati, ,on to attempt to
make tickat composed Of men who sup
ported LINCOLN and the Chicago plat
form. For instance, Giddings controlk
ed the Republican party of Ohio, as with
rod OF iron, and he was endowed by
Mr.. Lincoln with an important national
appointment; but it would not do to
head the ticket with such men as Gid
dngs.
Brinkerhoff one year since was elected
triumphantly as Supreme Judge because
he decided that the Fugitive Slave law
was unconstitutional, to-day he would
be beaten fifty thousand votes.
Two years since Joseph r Swan was
defeated in Republican Convention on
demand of Giddings & Co. because he
decided the Fugitive slave law aoas con-
stitutional but now, no party would
dare risk such an act, for such reason.
These are evidences as strong as" proof
of Holy Writ" that the principles and
men which governed the Republican Or
ganization and elected Mr.. Lincoln, are
so unanimously condemned by the people
that an election dare not be risked with
them again. This being the case, men
who have been members of the Demo-
f cratic party must be sought to give char
, acter and promise of success to those
who by their own acts are condemned by
the people. We say, therefore, that the
$ population and name of the Republican
party is q cheering sign Statesman.
Ey-W When the Republican party were
out of power they were the greatest stick
crs for State rights, and opponents of
what they considered the aggressors of
the General Government Their personal
liberty bills, their hostilities to the Flu
gitive-slavc Law, and their resistance to
it's execution by legal process and by
State authority, were all founded upon
f the idea of State rights. Once in power
they have abandoned all the doctrines of
this character that they formerly preached
and they now virtually place all power
in the hands of the Central Government
at Washington. They go beyond Ham
ilton, Jay and Adams in the extent of
their Fe eralism.
A TREASURE OF A WIFE.-A young
f English traveller contracted, in Valenca,
a love affair with a pretty gypsy girl
, The mother wished that he should mar
ry her at once; but the Englishman de-
clared he was not rich enough to support
a wife. "What" said the gypsy, laugh