Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1861-08-22

q Oh, is it not high time we, OF the North
had awakened to full realization Of this
war, and our President, Cabinet and chief
military commandments our whole
people should realize that all who are not
for our country are its enemies; should
stop all free transit North, and South
should punish speedily, under military law,
all giving of aid and comfort. We must
step beyond the difficulties Of this war
overlook the presumed consequences and
import of certain class of rscognItions.
7 We must realize that this is war, these our
enemies, and treat them as such. We
must have no more milk and water-half
and half measures. No more taking ac-
count of the value of grass trodden down
by our men in marching over our enemy's
field, or the value of this and that taken
for tbs subsistence and comfort of our men.
~ The whole West is battle-feld-is a
line of hostile operations-along the whole
lepgth.o which encampments are formed
and military operations being carried on.
Over the whole country are placed military
men commanding as chiefs of departments.
ALI South is without the line. Our sue
cess depends, as the maxims show, on keep
ing our proposed movements, their strength
1 and direction, to ourselves. There are our
lines, and those whopass within them,
who are within them, or cross to and from
should be known to be friends of their
country. true 10 their flag; all-whoever
they map ibe-white or blaek-men or
woneu-who are not known as friends
should be held as enemies, and treated as
such. There can be no hope Of success,
there can be no safety to cur country, un-
less we can come up to a,i Immediate reali-
zatioo of this as a war. These are our
lines. This course is the only safe course; /;
and follow up with punishment due to en-
emies' and spies all who cross the lines
without a pass, without the certificate Of
this assurance. No more mails, no more
expresses, no more free transit. Ii we can
not come up to this realization, and act on
this principle, we are spending our money
for nothing, risking our lives uselessly;
and we shall-we muslin the end be
defeated utterly. We cannot gain, or de-
ceive wary, active enemy and proclaim
all we do, or purpose doing. 1t is no
wvrse-not ons whit worse-to send dai-
ly bulletin, as We do, to our own heads of
departments, than it is 10 keep on acting
as we have done. ~. r. ~ 49,. d,
That the realities of this war may be
more fully impressed on all, and that it may
make the greater impression Of the necessi-
ty Of the rigid enforcement of measures
here spoken Of iu detail, We give sue
cession of paragraphs on the course Of our
commissioning how they act to our
citizens passing South; bow they treat our
wounded; what species of warfare they
keep up and let loose on u.s., Let US see
whether we can hope, except by battles
fought and won, to induce any change of
feeling, or whether any other course is
right or proper than 10 treat all of the Sc
ceded States-all who are not true to our
fag-all even who aid, assist or sympathize
with those who thus ACT, as bitter enemies
and stop them at our lines.
-o5 Mr.. RUSSELL, in one of his letters re-
marks, that whist iu the North, men, wo-
men and children-the families of rebels
in arms--are allowed at our, watering pla-
ces, and recently after the battle, at Niaga-
ra went SO far as to express joy for the
Southern success, he says sin no city of
tile South, uhich I hare visited ,could a
party Of Northern people be permitted to
remain an heur, If the citizens acre aware
of their presence" We know that lives
are daily sacrificed because of Union senti-
hnehts, ard property cenfscated, and men,
women and children driven, at n few mo
ments' notice, out OF the country. The
whole West is full Of refugees, and the
city of Philadelphia at one time Lad l, 900.
RUSSELL, of the Times, says in New Or
leans, even British subjects, are knocked
down and carried off; not by ones and twos,
bat By tens and twenties, and in open day
hight s,sa, lii sl.s
ETHRIDGE, JOHNSON, and others have
had a reward offered for their heads
There are thousands Of such instances.
o On the train ION which Mr.. RUSSELL
came North, there was company armed
with bowie knives. The company carried
a coffin, marked 16e Ltncola, and in which
the members said they were bound to
bring his body back in some acay. ar-r7I
Senator HUNTER, of Virginia, says ]
Hit be asked .whatare those to do who,
in their consciences, cannot vote to sepa-
rate Virginia from the United States, the
anwer is simple and plain. Honor and da-
ty alike require that they slsould not vote
on the question, and II they retain such
opinions they must leave the State.
. The Nashville Wbigsimmedistely after
the Tennessee election, said, chat no one
who could mot accord 10 view with the
majority, could be tolerated, nor could they
prudenlly remain in the South. q Z, 7s,2a1
This is the feeling of the whole South
ern country-their principle Of actiou.-
Those who came TO sojourn with us feel
Just so, aud act on it. What will aid,
them they do as far as they can andzas
they cang There is not acitizen but is con-
scious Of this-but can put bis hand on some
one who thus feels and acts. Isit safe or
proper 10 allow them heres We ask, is it
safe or rproper to allow them here, free to
actss,they chooseG ii.s hiaod'
Our former fellow citizen, WALKER, in
the New Orleans Delta, giyes9the follow
ing directions:
Let the best marksmen of the Southern
soldiers address their bullets to the hearts
of the ablest and most iIlustrious Of; the
eneu1v. as tho Greek archer addressed his