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

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these hellish expeditions will need no iet-
(erS Of morgue. Are we prepared to pro-
tect q thousand miles OF border from such
invaders as these? What will be the ef-
feet of these things on our population.
The result is foreshaiowed by what is
now taking place. From the fear Of fu-
ture insecurity, scores and hundreds Of
our Shareholders arc already on their way
to Texas and Mississippi to secure quiet
and peaceful homes.
BY joining the Southern Confedracy,
and bidding defiance to the General Gov
eminent, we shall at once destroy all re-
! straints of law, change two millions of
prolessed friends into sworn enemies,
and kindle hundred campf,es of leagu-
ed robbers and murderers upon our
exposed border. Under such circum-
stances as these, and with the i'm mense
prepondereance of the non -saveholding
population of the State how many Of
, our Shareholders will remain to fight
over their property? On the contrary,
how many thousands of these, oar best
citizens. will sacrifice their lands, and
hasten to seek peace anil protection in
; States further South? With the doors
of emigration closed and barred; with
, the ostracism of one class of citizens and
, the voluntary exile of another, who of
all our million and a quarter of people,
, will remain to till the soil, work the
, mines, and tend the scattered focks and
herds of Missouri.
With immediate secession, followed by
long and bloody civil war, it takes no
prophet to read our history for the next
ten years. We can catch glimpscs of the
terrible future in the gathering storms
, chat have already darkened the sky. Be-
! fore we have lifted a hand in the struggle
before we have taken any part in the con-
| test that has been inaugurated without
| aid or sanction from us, its baneful intlu-
g ence has spread like leprosy all over
the State. In the last six months Nilsson.
+ ri lost more than ahundred million Of dot-
lorS in the depreciation of land and ne
t groes alone. The injury to the mercan-
/ tile, commercial and mechanical interests
It will double the amount; and this, fellow
: citizens is not the beginning of the end
J. War is the most expensive of all OPP
/; erations. If we so to war we must have
e money as well as men. TO arm our citi
l. zen soldiery, and thus prepare for unfor
> seen exigencies. is a wise measure, anc
r even this will cost us half a million o
II money To place ten thousand men il
t, active service, with full supply of arms
n clothing, pay and rations, will cost th'
Il State more than five millions of dollars
: annually. We cannot transfer the bur
V den to future generation, for our credit
g is exhausted AS seeded State we
If could not borrow dollar in any mar.
i ket in the world. Who will foot the bill
4 of six or eight millions a year? How
h long will it take for such tax to depop,
ulate the State and transform our fertile
It fields and hou,ishing cities into picture
!, of utter desolation? If the struggle was
1t like that of the old Revolution, between
It liberty and Gespotism; if we had com
It menced the war with the hearts OF thu
II people all united ii there was no place
d where the rich could flee with their prop
a erty and leave the unnatural burden to b'
a born by the poor, then we might pa,
|. even a larger amount and feel that it was
e money well spent. But we are lar iron
h this state of things at present.
ID Without pursuing this view of the sub
4 iect further, let us inquire if there is no
to some method by which we can preserv
n both peace and honor. If the Borde
of States assume the position of armed neu
ID trails, refusing to participate in the unho
,d " war that has been commenced, 1t wil
al be the interest as well as the duty OF tn
C;rneral Government to respect our right
SC and give heed to our just demands
rs Whilst we could, as umpires, exert a
re our moral power to stop the eituoion
e. blood, secure early negotiations lookin
Id to a peaceful separation, or iirm II
p union of such States as can be united, "
Mt could hold our territory as sacred from Il
Id passage of the armed forces OF the belilt
he Grants. In surh position, our materl'
lie interests would be improved rather tina
" injured. There would be no heavy dral
n upon our resources to supply at home IL
no sipews Of war, and the farmer, the M
chanic the merchant, and proiesslon
m man, could all follow their pursuits
re- peace, increasing individual wealth an
"a social happiness, Kentucky has utter(
ch her voice on this subject, and for OF
St most heartily respond to the sentlmcn
ne ailording the last chance to lessen the d
b. ration or tighten the horrors of lmpen(
N ing civil war,
ley 1t should be remembered that an e.
cy pertinent of this kind, while it costs |
is, nothing, may result in our salvation, an
mt in bringing back peace and prosperity
he our whole nation. Ii we fail in our d
Is, sign-if the Government still makes el
m croachments upon us as neutrals, leavil
Ii ms no choice but to fight, then our peop
,cr will be united, and we can go as with Il
lc- heart of one man, and join our dostlnie
ay for veal or woe, with the Confcdera
nd States. Is it not worth while, at the ca
- of a siste, State, to make this one last G
M fort to save ourselves from calamitieS e
es horrible to be imagined, much less d
Ia- Scribed? ........
off People of Missouri-is war so swe
the and peace so hateful that you would ca
ern away one, and rush blindly to embra
ply the other? In the name Of all that y
ef- hold dear ON earth, and that you no
ter for in IIeaven-in the name OF your
A fcnselcss homcs-in the name Of yo
lily wives, mothers, sisters, children--in
yns name of God and humanity, call up
the you TO pause before it is quite too late;
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