Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1861-06-27

no rights Of persons or of property will b
!. violated. The known purposes of thu Ad
ministration, and the high character of I'll
: troops employed, alike guarantee the trutl
j fulness of this statement. When an il
} surrection was apprehended few week
since in Maryland, the Massachusetts, Reg
, iment at once offered their services 10 SUP
J press it. The volunteers have been de
nounced by the press of the South a
"knaves and vagrants," "the dregs and of
scourings of the populace," who woul
"rather filch handkerchief than fight al
enemy in manly combat" yet we kno,
tere that their discipline and bearing ar
most admirable, and, presume, it may b
safely affirmed that larger amount of SO
cial position, culture, fortune, and eleva
tion of character have never been fount
in SO large an army in any age or country
If they 60 to the South it will be as friend
and protectors, to relieve the Union senti
ment of the seeded States from the crue
domination by which it is oppressed ano
silenced; to unfurl the stars and stripes ii
the midst of those who long to look upor
them, and TO restore the flag that bears
them to the forts and arsenals from which
disloyal hands have torn it. Their mission
will be one of peace, unless wicked and
blood-thirsty men shall unsheath the sword
across their pathway. .t'..
LINCOLN AND CICERO.
While far more fearful responsibility
has fallen upon President Lincoln than
tupon any of his predecessors, it must be
admitted that he has met it with prompt.
itude and fearlessness. Cicero, in one oI
his orations against Cataline, speaking Of
the credit due himself for having suppress
ed the conspiracy of that arch traitor said
'if the glory of him who founded Rome
was great, how much greater should 5e
that of him who saved it from overthrow
after it had become mistress OF the world q
So it may be said of that statesman or
chieftain who shall snatch this republic
from the vortex of revolution, now that it
has expanded from ocean to ocean, has be-
come the admiration Of the world, and has
rendered the fountains of the lives of thir-
ty millions of people fountains of happi-
ness. ...t.-.. r... .
The vigorous measures adopted for the
safety of Washington and the Government
itself may seem open to criticism, in some
OF their details, to those that have yet to
learn that not only has war, like peace, its
laws, but that it has also its privileges and
its duties. Whatever of severity, or even
Of irregularity, may have arisen, will find
its justification in the pressure of the ter
rible necessity under which the Admins
iration has been called to act. When a
man feels the poignard of the destroyer at
his bosom, he is not likely to consult the
lawbooks as to the mode or measure of his
rights of self-defence. What is true of in
dividuals in this respect is equally true Of
governments. The man who thinks he has
become disloyal because of what the Ad-
ministration has done, will probably dis
cover, after close self-examination, that
he was disloyal before. But for what has
been done, Washington might ere this
have been a smouldering heap of rnins.
Mr.. Holt shows that the election of Mr..
Lincoln is not the ground of the rebellion
but that the cause dates back more than a
quarter Of century in san unholy lust for
power" He quotes Gen. Jackson who,
when he put down nuliIication, said ait
would revive again under the form of the
slavery agitation" and shows this is not tie
work of "intemperate words Of few Alb
olitionists," but ''lhe echo of the words, re-
peated with exaggeratious for the thou
sandth time by Southern politicians" f.
nally, the cloud fully charged, broke up
the Democratic Convention at Charleston.
Mr.. Holt shows the course Of plunder-
ing pursued by the rebels, and that it was
''prompted and directed by men occupying
seats in the Capitol" and commends with
scathing force upon the issuing of letters
of marque, and the employment of In
dams with .scalping knife aud tomahswk as
allies.
Mr.. Holt shows how the secessionists
refused any and all compromises; shows
the cry of ''subjugation" to be false, and
the cry to be "let alone" ridiculous; shows
how Kentucky would be ruined by joining
the Southern Confederacy; proves that the
protection of the South has been complete
under the Constitution; shows that more
fugitives have been returned the last ten
years than ever before; shows that the
South, with minority Of POPULATION, has
had the great majority of official power;
shows that the Supreme Court has decided
always in favor Of the South; that by the
Republican Congress and Administration
the rights of the South have been protect
ed; anI! viv;dly portrays Kentucky's posi-
ton if she IONS tie South and makes hey
soil, like Virginia's, the battle ground
He says: fr
CIVIL WAR AND A MUzzLED PRESS.
Civil war, under all circumstances, is a
terrible calamity, and yet, from the selfish
ambition and wickedness of men, the best
governments have not been able TO escape
it. When 1 look upon this bright land,
few months since SO prosperous, SO tran
auil, and so free, and now behold it DESC
lated by war, and the firesides of its thirty
millions of people darkened, and their bo-
SONS wrung with anguish, and know, as l
do, that all this is the work of score or
two of men, who, over all this national ruin
and despair, are preparing to carve with
the sword their way to seats of permanent
power, cannot but feel that they are ac-
cumulating upon their souls an amount Of
guilt hardly equallsd in all the atrocities of