Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1861-08-08
For tho Farmer
WHO are Union Men!

Who ere Union men7 Is it those who regard the
North rs our Union or those who regard the
South as our Union2 Or those who regard both
North and South as one Country and one people7
Would you call man a Union man, who would
be Sectional in all his talk, regarding the South
rs different nation, inhabited by different race
of people, who are anything but enlightened, con.
demning them to the lowest chamber of hell, for
the institutions they inherited from their fore.
fathers who spent their lives and fortunes for the
government, that Is now about to be destroyed and
brought to eternal ruin and shame7 Would you
call man Union man who would peddlc HELPERS
Compendium of the Impending Crisis of the
Southl A work that has done more in bringing
on the present troubles of our Country, than any
thing else that the devil could have invented for
the purpose. Would you call men, Union men,
who are always willing to cry down and slandcr
their brethren of the South and disgrace them in
the eyes Of other nations forgetting that they too
are Americans? Would you'd call men. Union
men, who so blood. thirsty as to be wi ling to
distroy the life and property of every white man
in the South, to bring about the abolition of
! slavery2 Would you call Garrit Smith, in the
Tribune of July Doth, Union mani Would YOU
call such men as indorse Helper, one of the black
est stains that ever diScolored American literature
Union men2 Would you call men, who carry a
flag with sixteen stars, Union men? Would Won
call men un'on men, why give utterance to such
language rs the following:
"Tho Union is not worth supporting in conncc.
tinn with the South."-Horace Greely.
al look forward to the day when there shall be
q serve insurrection in the South; when the black
man armed with British bayonets, and led on by
British officers. shall assert his freedom and wage
a war Of determination ag inst his master; when
the torch of the incendery shall light up the towns
and cities of the South and blot out the last vcstgc
Of slavery and though may not laugh at their
calamity, nor mock when their fear co .oeth, yet
shall hail itas the dawn OF political millennium -
- Giddings.
81 am willing in certain state of circumstan.
ces, to let the Union slide."-N. p Banks Gov.
crnor Of Massachusetts.
ain the case of the alternative being presented
Of the continuance of slavery or dissolution ol
the Union, | am for dissolution, and care not
how soon it comes. Rufus p. spauldng
"Better disunion, better civil or a servile
war; better any thing that God in his providence
shall send than an extension of the bonds OF
slavery. ."-Iiorace Mann.
al sincerely hope civil war may burst upon
the country. want to see American slavery
abolished i'll my day 1t is n legacy | have no
wish to leave my children. Then mn mast Ergent
pr ger is, tIdt England France, and Spain may
speedily take this slavery -accursed nation into
their special consideration, and when the time
arrives or the streets Of the cities of this Gland
OF the free and home of thc brave" to run with
blood to the horses bridles If the writer of this
be living, there will b heart to rel ice at the
retributive justice of hcaven."-W. o. Duvall,
New York
Such men as these are now CRYING Union I!
Union! for the sole purpose of procuring aid in
carrying on this against the South. They
glory in the blood that is split, and are in high
hopes, that the time has come, "to blot out the
last vestge of slavery" No wonder they are
against compromise. No wonder they call men
traitors who advocate peace and 60 in for com.
promise
Gentlemen, let me beg your pardon, not to get
too frantic at your brethren of the South but let
those Of you who are "without sin cast the first
stone.' BE not too hasty to call men traitors,
who advocate peace in some measure TIL nix of
the doctrine you held six months ago. A man
of this place. not one year ago, asked me would
we not better dissolve the Union then to extend
slavery an other foot oltorritory.
am in for an national convention to settle
this trouble, in which our country is now involved.
Let the people decide. And if you wish to call
me traitor or hang me, am on hand, right in
town, without notice. am for the Union, not
the North only. ANONYMO s.
| BERLIN, o. August, I'd, 1861.