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

had closed down, that 1 should claim ex
emption and an honorable discharge from
the active discussions of the day. 1 con
graduated myself that should once more
ENJOY repose in the quiet of my home and
in the pursuit l loved. But this question
of Government or anarchy has arisen, and
and / find it my duty 10 raise my voice a,
the demands Of my fellow citizens, until
turbulence is hushed. or is crowned with
triumph. Are you ID favor Of ware No
but l am in favor Of putting down war by
force Of arms. I am opposed to war, and
in favor of obtaining peace by putting
down the authors of the war. I am in IA
vor of peace, but am in favor of the on
ly course that will insure it-driving out
armed Rebellion, negotiating with loyalty.
When this country commences to die, it
will die rapidly. When this nation is Civ
en- up TO disruption, it will go to swift de-
struction. II Rome,T to be sure, was three
hundred years dying but then its physi-
cal powers were greater than ours, its NOR
al force less, its nervous energy less acute
than ours. % When We fall we shall go
down in blood and darkness, but not in
tears, for the dying never weep. Nero,
the last aud worst of the Coesars, sung to
his harp while bis capital was in flames; !;
Tamerlane, TO- 7signalize his brutal ferocity,
reared a monument of seventy thousand
human skulls-Altila declared the grass
should never grow where the hoof of his
war-horse trod. Ayder Ali left the Car
natic black with ashes and desolation; but
he who destroys the American Union will
be greater than all or either. And "the
foe, the monster Brant," who fell upon and
slaughtered the defenceless women and
children of this valley, will be more ap-
proved in history by men, and be an hon
ester man in the sight of God, than the
despoiler of our late happy Union. Shall
the fell destroyers of this beautiful fabric
be perm itted to accomplish their Internal
erraud, and shall they be aided in this
work of evil BY the cry of peace? Let
none escape under this shallow pretension.
Solomon, the wise king of Judea, spared
not the murderous Joab though he fled for
refuge to Enclosures of the Tabernacle and
clung for protection to the horns of the
altar-he slew him there. And cry of
peace 10 be negotiated with armed traitors
should secure city of refuge to mono. l
am panied to see the vast destruction of
that must follow; l regret to see
he prosperity of the country blasted and
destroyed; | regret TO see the great loss of
human life that must ensue. But if these
events must come they had better come
With a country preserved than come with
country divided and destroyed. We must
light battles, and bloody battles. We must
,al vast numbers of men into the field
We must not go as boys to a general
training, with ladies, and idlers, and mem
bers of Congress to see the show, but we
must go in earnest-go prepared for ac-
tion-to fight it as battle, and not to
fight it as play spell. We must unite as
a whole people, going shoulder to shoulder.
Aud ~han- we do so we shall conquer
And why? We have the right, we have
The prestige of government, we have the
of the disinterested world, we
have the moral and material elements to
do it all, and to insure victory. Rebellion
has not the financial ability to stand long
war, with all their gains from privateerlng
and piracy, and issuing Confederate bonds
made a lien upon the property of peo-
pie who were never consulted as to their
ssue, and who repudiate them-worth as
much as June FROST, a cold wolf track,
which no fnancier fit to be outside of the
unatic asylum would give shilling peck
or. They may vex, they may harass,
hey may destroy, they may commit pira !
y, but the reckoning is to come for all |
his. They Will be brought to the Judg |
nent of the American people-of5 their
,wn people, They i'll be arraigned, and
Who is there will be ready to stand up as
heir defenders in the name of the Consti-
.utiop? 4vi,s-i.,.. b: 1.fsf -'s- a.sr
Il tell thee Cullodendread echoes shall ring
With blood hounds that bark for thy fugitive
king @ '@'
What glorious Constitution we shall have
when it finds such glorious Interpreters =
How strong our Institutions will be an
.hored upon such foundations! The Con-
titution will then literally
Live through all time extend through all ex-
tent
Spread undivided, operate unspenl."
know there are some who fear the war
ike power of the rebellious States. They
lad great deal of power for good; bat
hey have great deal less than they imag-
ne or is generally imagined for evil. We are
good deal slower in waking up, but when
vaked up we are good deal more in ear
lest. The tone of the Rebel press is ex-
braggart in regard to its men
md its victories. 1t reminds me, when l |
lear of their self -lauded prowess, of the
bowman who spoke of the great capacity
# the animal he was exhibiting; ladies
nd gentlemen said he, "ihis is the Ben
al tiger, measuring fourteen feet from the
ip of his nose to the tip of his iail, and
ourteen feet more from the tip of bis tail
ack to the tip of his nose, making in all
wenty-eight feet Laughter. Now L
hiuk their estimates about their forces
nc. capacity are just about as hheral.-
And they are to be looked at accordingly.
nevertheless, they have great elements of
nischief. And if Satan himself bad been
ent on earth to scourge mankind, and to
over the land with desolation, he conld
OF have performed his mission more suc-
essfuIly than by assuming the shape of