Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1861-09-05
MII1ERsBURG HOLMES COUNTY OHIO

/ so emphatically condemned there? And now
l repeat that the only practical cause of dissen
: tion was the fugitive slave question:; and tina
apperianed 10 States that could only be draw
or dragooned into the folly of Secession. Gen
Butler has had this question on his hands a
, long as the Constitution was acknowledged, al
) conservative citizens admitted that it was tn
duty OF the Free States TO restore the fugit iv
who was feeling from the service of his master
Gen. Butler has feund the rest ration of lug
itives impracticable in many cases. The mas
ter had Thrown off the Constitution. What wa
the result? He was obliged 10 receive hundred
OF contrabands, and retain them. l do no
know what he is going 10 DO with the quesilo
but suppose he is going TO do with them some
thing as lhe IrishmaI was going to do with tn
Widow Malones pig. "Did you steal the ewId
ow Malones pig, Patrick" asked the priest
THAT did" "What made you? Think. wheI
you will stand, you hereto. in the Great Day
wien shall be there, and you will be there
and the Widow Malone will be there, and The
pig will be there - "And will you rverenct
be there2" YES" "And the Widow Malone
there?p .Yes."' "And the pig there?" * es.
well, should say, Widow Malone. take youi
pig" [Laughier.1 Now, L do not know but
Gel. Butler is going TO take as long a credit as
did the Irishman. But, when We have Con
stituiion, and when they acknowledge its force
| have no doubt but every just citizen will DC
for seeing it complied with. Now, have just
as much confidence in the masses of the South
ern people as in the masses of the Northern
people. Both are alike. The masses aIe hon
est. To be sure, their institutions, their means
of communication, render them more excitable
more easily led, and more relying upon their
leaders for public information. and therefore
more liable to be misled than orthern people.
Nevertheless; have confidence in the Southern
people; and the result of the great conflict In
| Kentucky assures me that the Southern heart
is with the people sound to the core. Though
| terrified into seeming Secession, with the ex-
seption of one or two States in the South, am
| well satisfied that if the question of Union or
Disunion were submitted to the people to-day
an overwhelming vote would be given for the
Union and its Stars and Stripes. CApplause.1
Every indication has shown that whenever there
has been an election in any Southern State, and
a fair opportunity given, you have seen that the
Union sentiment has prevailed lou Will see
that it is by military power, by threats, lntlm-
idation, destruction. murder and arson that they
have succeeded in getting in advance the cause
of Secession In some States. as for Instance
Louisiana, they never submitted the question to
the people at all. 1t is base humbug OF Davis,
Cobb and Co. to place themselves in power
The election of a political opponent is never a
cause of Secession or for disturbance; and if
these Secession leaders had opposed MIR. Lin
collins election from the time of the Charleston
Convention with half the pertinacity and force
that did, he never would have been elected. =
| charge in all my public speeches that they
connived at that election and the same has been
charged home upon them by their own people
in the South. Their time had come. 1t must
go, or they would be ruined. They remind one
of little boys who want ride horse. Those
al I. Il
can ride that. Country boys get astride of a
stick, and ride that This knot of ofiice-seekers
failing 10 get horse 10 ride, or even a hebby,
have mounted this poor stick of a Southern Con-
federacy, and are riding that. 1t is jnst such
ambition rs caused the angels in heaven to rebel.
1t was not because we had not a good Govern
ment but because they could not rule 1T. Call
them Democrats, or entitled to sympathy of
Democrats, with arms in their hands against
their Government, and their hands red with the
blood of our murdered citizensl They are en-
emies of their country; they are traitors against
the Flag and the Constitution, and as such ar
raign them in the name of the Constitution and
the Union. / arraign them in the name OF civ
ilization; arraign them in the name of Christ
unity; arraign them in the name of the fathers
of the Revolution, who poured out their blood
to gain the Liberty transmitted to us. arraIgn
them in the name of the soldiers who marched
barefoot to secure our blood bought Liberty. !
arraign them in the name of the holy memories
of the women of the Revolution, whose pure and
gentle hearts were crushed and broken. In the
great Day of Accounts, the savage Brant and
more savage Butler, that deluged the beautiful
valley of the Wyoming with blood, will stand
up and whiten their crimes in comparison with
the perfdy of the men who now attempt 10 di-
vide and destroy this Union. The ferucious
instincts of the savage taught him that he might
be doing a duty TO his people; but these men
were born in a land of civilization, and baptised
in the name of the Trinity, and they should be
held to an account for the abuse of the trust
which has been confded to them. Who are
these men in arms against the Government-in
arms against the Union? They are men who
have been educated at its expense-been laden
with its honor-been pampered at its Treasury,
If we perish we may say with the poet over the
stricken eagle: l.3ai OF -a H
"Keen were his pangs, yet keener for to feel,
He nursed the pinion which impelled the steel, i
While the same puinage that had warmed his breast,
Drank the last fe-drop of his bleeding heart.'
fthe Union is stung to the heart, it must he a
melancholy reflection that we have reared the
men TO do it, and like the demented Lear, we
shall learn. VJ l'.-i i'o4' ,-.-7-.'S ttl
60 aHow sharper than serpents tooth it is, 81
To have thankess Child" =. afiErirre
that we have nourshed and brought up children,
and they have rebelled against the institutions
of their country. We have seen by the action
of the Border Southern States that it is not their
intention to permit this Government to be sub
rerted Every crime knownin the catalogue of
depravity from treason to larceny, has been
committed in attempting to drive them into Sc
ccsslon. How can these men be sustained by
any one, with hands dripping with blood-not
only with the blood Of Northern, but of South
ern citizens; and why? Because a Northern
serve, whose election they might have preven-
ted-whose election they connived at, they will
hazard whole eternity so far as temporal exist
ence is concerned, TO crafty present personal
pique and feed a mean ambition. Whoever sus-
tains them, will not. Whoever cries peace, !
will NOT Whoever cries compromise with them
l will not. (Great cheering.) am for peace,
but am for making peace with the loyal citi-
zcns OF the South-the 1oyalcitizens of Ken
lucky and of Missouri too, who have sent that
modern Nebuchadnezzar Claiborne F. jackson
to grass. (Great Laughter.) They ask in re-
petition can YOU coerce a State? l say no; you |
cannot. You might as we'll coerce the sun TO |
shine or the stars TO twinkel. Can you coerce |
n neighborhood to be honest? No; but you may |
punish its criminals. No one can justify armed |
rebellion in opposition to the Union and the |
Constitution of his country. But Mr.. Lincoln |
it is said, forsooth, has violated the Constitution
in conducting his Administration! Very well; |
there is n day of reckoning TO come with him
and his advisers. But it is one thing to violate |
the Constitution in defense OF your country. and |
quite another to violate it in endeayoring TO |
subvert It. When my Democratic or Republic
can friends, "or any other man." are disposed to