Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1861-01-03

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and South Carolina papers showing that
the people there were actually thinking of
the establishment Of monarchy. Com.
inenting on these extracts be said:
Is it not better to
'Bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not off,
We see, by these indications, that it is
contemplated, to establish monarchy
We see it announced that this Government
has been failure from the beginning
How has it been failurel Now, in the
midst of revolution, while chaos reigns,
it is supposed by some that we con be in
duced to return TO constitutional or abso-
lutte monarchy. Who can tell that we
may not have some Louis Napoleon among
US, who may be ready to make coup de-
etat, and enthrone himself upon the rights
and upon the liberties of the people p
Who can tell what kind of a government
may grow upe
RED HOT MADNESS.
Speaking of the State of Tennessee, Mr..
JOHNSON said:
Sir, / will stand bv the Constitution of
the country as it is, and by all its guaran-
tees. an not for breaking up this great
Confederacy. lam for holding on to it as
it is, with the mode and manner pointed
out in the instrument for its own amend
ment. 1t was good enough for Washing
ton, for Adams, for Jefferson, and for Jack
son. 1t is good enough for US. l intend
to stand by ii, and to insist on compli
ance with its guarantees, North and South.
We intend to act in the Union, and un-
der the Constitution, and not about it,
We do not intend that you shall drive us
out of t.is house, that was reared by the
hands of our fathers. 1t is our house. II
is the constitutional house. We have a
right here, and because you come forward
and violate the ordinances of this house,
do not intend to 60 out; and if you persist
in the violation of the ordinances of the
house, We intend to eject you from the
building, and retain the possession our
selves. We want, if we can, to stay the
heated, and am compelled to say, accord
ing to my judgment, the rash and precipi-
tate action of some of our southern friends
that indicates red hot madness.
WHY GO OUT OF THE UNION! WHAT IS THE
MATTER WITH SOUTH CAROLINA?
Why should we 90 out of the Union
Have we anything to fear? What are we
alarmed about? We say that you of the
North have violated the Constitution, that
you have trampled under foot its guaran-
tees; but we intend to go to you in the
proper way, and ask you to redress the
wrong, and to comply with the Cons,itu-
ton. We believe the time will come when
you will do it, and We do not intend to
break up the government until the fact is
ascertained that you will not do it. Where
is the grievance, where is the complaint
that presses our sister. South Carolina,
now? Is it that she wants to carry slave
ry into the Territories; that she wants
protection of slavery there2 How long
has it been since, upon this very floor, her
own Senators voted it was not necessary to
make statute now for the protection of
slavery in the Territories No longer ago
than the last session. 4
l was going on to say that the want of
protection to slavery in the Territories can
not be considered grievance now. This
is not The reason she is going out, and 60
ing to break up this Confederacy. What
is it, then? Is there anv issue between
South Carolina and the Federal Govern
ment? Has the Federal Government fail
ed to comply with, and to carry out, the
obligations that it owes to South Cardinal
In what has the Federal Government fail
ed? In what has it neglected the inter-
est OF South Carolna2 What law has it
undertaken TO enforce upon South Carroll
ma that is unconstitutional and oppressive?
If there were grievances, Mr.. JOHNSON
said they should be specially stated.
THE POSITION OF TENNESSEE AND SOUTH
CAROLINA COMPARED.
Tennessee will be found standing as
firm and unyielding in her demands for
those guarantees in the way State should
stand, as any other Slate in this Confeder
aey. She is not quite so belligerent now.
She is not making quite so much noise.-
She is not as clustering as Sempronius was
in the council in Addison's play of Cato,
who declared that "his voice was still for
war;" There was another character there.
Lucius, who was called upon to know what
his opinions were, and when he was called
upon, he replied that he mnst confess his
thoughts were turned on peace; but when
the extremity came, Lucius, who was de-
Lucrative, who was calm, and whose ,ho'ts
were upon peace, was found true to the in,
teresls of his country. He proved him
self to be man anda soldier; aohile the
other uas traitor and a coward.
LINcoLN's ELECTION.
Mr.. johnson proceeded to show that
Lincoln's election was no adequate cause for
secession. If the South Carolina Sena-
tors would come back and stay, there would
be majority of six in the Senate against
Lincoln on the 4th of March next.
Am to be so great coward as to re-
treat from dutyl l will stand here and
meet the encroachments upon the iustitu-
tions of my country at the Threshold;
and as man, as one that loves my coun-
ny and my constituents. | will stand
here and resist all encroacbments and ad-
vances. Here is the place to stand. Shall
l desert the citadel, and let the enemy
come in and take possession? No. Can
Mr.. Lincoln send foreign minister, or
even consul, abroad, unless he receives
the sanction of the S.nnte3 Can he ap-