Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1861-09-12

lust agree to close and balance accounts
with each other. Laughter and cheers.
But the fact is, my friends, the origin Of
this rebellion is with neither of the two
parties, as such. The source of the evil
lies much deeper down and further back
than all this. From the time that Gener-
al Jackson planted his foot upon nullifica-
tion in South Carolina, in 1888, there has
been a general progress in the schooling
for rebellion in that State. Within that
time whole generation Of young men
has there been reared up and educated to
disunion. She is disunion State. And
the fact is now unquestionable that she
can be kept in the Union only by the
strong arm of power; and would stretch
out that arm with an unhesitating firm
ness, and force her to remain. Immense
applause. Other States have been BY de-
grees, sejuced from their allegiance to
some extent, by influences similar to those
which have proved so pestilential to South
Carolina. You all remember the wild
buccaneering that was set on foot in 1s49,
when organized bands of adventurous
young men invaded the Island of Cuba,
in which invasion an unfortunate and mis-
guided rephew of the venerable John G..
Crittenden was taken prisoner and CARROT
ed. Now, these young men and their as
sociates and sympathisers trained to live
without labor, many of them poor and all
of them proud, became the "Knights of
the Golden Circle,"-a secret organization
set on foot to carry out their desperate
and yillainous plans. But this was put
down. They organized anew, and were
again put down, but not till after despe-
rate struggle. Ihave conversed with Judge
Campbell, U. S. Judge in Ala, on this
subject, and be informed me that so strong
and so violent had become this secret Or
ganlzation, that he expected on some oc-
casions to be violently torn from the bench
and cast into the waves of the Gulf
These secret conspirators then turned their
attention to the North to educate q politi-
cal school in their desperate Doctrines
They sought to distract the country on the
exciting subject of slavery. They so far
and so well managed their Vaccinations
as to break up the Democratic party at
Charleston. BY this rupture they so weak
ered the political power Of that party as
to bring about the election of MIR. Lincoln
and thereupon seized upon his election as
a pretext for dissolving the Union.
We also heard much about the Admin
istration going too far, and doing too much.
My objection is, on the other hand, that
the Government has been too long suffer
ing and patient. My voice would have
been given to stop the proceedings of the
rebels at once upon their rearing fortiica-
tions at Fort Moultrie. Yes, my friends,
1 think the Administration, if mistaken
in anything, has made the mistake Of
waiting too long, and has not at any time
been too strong in its movements. Cries
of ''that's So"
Another charge that is sometimes PIE
ferred against the Administration is that it
has trapsgressed the letter of the law, has
trenched upon private ri ights, and has ile-
gally suspended the Habeas Corpus. As
to this l am not ready to say that, were
those acts done under the ordinary circum-
stances of peace, they would be sus-
tainable But what is the state of things
now, under which these acts were done 3
They are circumstances of war and Of
most imminent danger to the common
wealth. When l walk the street, ruffian,
strong man armed, may assail me with
murderous intent. l surely have right
to kill him in order to save myself. But
another may be present in the strife, and,
without exactly joining in the assault up
on me, may nevertheless do something to
weaken me and give the advantage to my
foe-now, in such case, would you expect
me to be particularly careful TO do that
''sympathizer" no harm? Laughter, and
cries of "No, no."] Well, the Admins
tration has done only this much. Posi-
bly, it has made some mistakes, but GER
tainly not in this. And am almost ready
to conclude that the mistakes have been
greater in not doing than in doing.
1t was moved that the report of the
Committee upon Credentials be presented
and laid upon the table without reading,
and printed--which was carried.
RESOLUTIONS.
The Committee on Resolutions respectful
ly submitted the following as their
REPORT.
RESOLVED, That the present deplorable
civil war has been forced upon the country
by the disunionists of the Southern States,
now in revolt against the constitutional
Government, and in arms around the cap
ital.
That in this national emergency, we
Danish all feeling of mere passion or
resentment, will recollect only our duty to
the whole country; that this war is not
waged upon our part in any spirit of op-
preston, nor for any purpose of conquest
or subjugation, nor for the purpose of over
throwing or interfering with the rights or
established institutions of the States, but
to defend and maintain the supremacy of
the Constitution, and to preserve the Uu-
ion with all the dignity, equality and rights
of the several States unimpaired, and that
as soon as these objects are accomplished
the war ought to cease.
That in the language of the Hon. Jo-
seph Holt, we are ''for this Union without
conditions, one and indivisible. now and
forever; for its preservation at any and
every cost of blood and treasure, against