Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1861-09-05
For the Republican,
MR. CAsKEY:

For the Republican,
The editors of the Farmer in
their issue of last week. make a feeble effort by
and Interpretations 10 release
from their implement by their
peryersions and Misrepresentation in their is
sue of the 18th ult., of Mr.. JEFFERSON Creed Of
Political Faith; but by their futile attempt they
have only fixed themselves more firmly, and
rendered themselves more the objects of public
ridicule and contempt.
They say "his (my) grounds of complaint
are that we (they) did not correctly quote Mr..
Jeffcrson's language"
Farmer, that you grossly perverted, misrcprescnt-
ed and falsifod and ignored all the most import
ant points in that creed, which have a direct
bearing on tho great issues of the day, and you
have by no means extricated yourselves from
the charge.
You say you STATED plainly that" you "did
not pretend to quote the language of Mr.. Jeffer-
son. but merely give his opinions" You did no
such thing, Messrs. Editors You STATED" )"
..The following principles laid down by MIR.
Jefferson in his inaugural address, now more
than sixty years ago, have always been, and
are still. the doctrines held by the Democratic
party in which there is "no plain s,aiement"
that You did not pretend to quote his language but
therein you did plainly indicate that you pub
lished his principles, which is equally untrue.
for you did ignore, pervert and misreresent
nearly all the important principles laid down
ia that Creed. having any bearing on the pres
ent issues between treason and loyalty to
the Government. You evidently wish to COM
promise with and make concessions to the Tfdi-
tors in the South, for none others there are ask
ing compromise and concessions from the Gov
ernnept and none in the North but those who
sympathise with them. While you are calling
our army an army of inudsion and su6jjugation,
the Union of the South call it an army Of deliv-
erance, and call on the Government to aid them
in relieving themselves from the despotism un-
der which they are groaning.
You say you "will maintain no officeholder
in unconstitutional vigor." Who is violating
the Constitution? Abraham Lincoln, our con-
stitutionally elected chief magistrate, or your
friend jeff. Davis, the usurper, who is endea-
voring to overthrow the Government, and who
is trampling under foot the Constitution and
laws of the United States.
You say you have always been the advocates
of the freedom of Religion, of the Press and
the freedom of Speech. Have not you and your
foul-,nouthed party and press, denounced and
heaped billingsgate and abuse on all ministers
of the gospel who were conscientiously opposed
to the repeal of the Missouri Compromise and
the extention of slavery into the territories?
You say you never supported mob violence
even in Kansas. You" democratic" (despotic)
Administrations of Franklin Pierce and James
Buchanan did support the mob invasions and
mob violence in Kansas, with the power and
authority of the Government, and you support
ed them and their acts, from which charge you
cannot extricate yourselves -
If you never sustained the odious and pro-
scriptive doctrines of the Know Nothing lodges,
how came you TO nominate member of that
odious and proscriptive order for Lieutenant
Governor of Ohio, at your Peace Compromise
Convention last month? And why did your
party affiliate with that odious and proscriptive
party in New York, New Jersey and Pcnnsyl-
vana at the last Presidential election? Aud
why did you sanction the determined effort of
President Buchanan and your despotic friends
now in traitorous array against the Government,
to enforce an odious Know Nothing, and Pro-
Slavery Constitution on the people of Kansas,
knowing their determined opposition to it?
Who are the supporters and aiders and abetters
and sympathisers of and with mob violence and
treason? Let the editors of the Holmes Coun-
ty Farmer and the democratic" Compromise
and Concession Peace Party stand forth.
Your fling at American flags with fifteen
stars blotted out, is of price with your asser
tion last fall that $4,000 negroes voted the Re-
publican ticket. That 700 negroes voted that
ticket in Cleveland in the spring of 1860. That
Jewett was defeated for Congress by negro
votes. That the Republicans elected negro
Justice of the Peace in Shelby county; and 9TH
er absurd falsehoods, with which your filthy ly-
ing sheet weekly teens. All made to deceive
that class of your readers that you deem not
possessed of rs much sense as hitching post" +"
and "who read as others read" a.r
am one of ''the larks" that supported the
election of Generals Taylor and Scott. the He
roes of the Mexican war for President of the
United States. while you were supporting old
Federal Cass and Picayune Politician Frank
Pierce" for that office.
1t was not my intention to intimate that you
was not secure from mob violcnce-being op-
posed to it-but simply TO remind you of your
close relationship to such men as Linden, who
opposed the Government of l8l2-and perhaps
if you had had as much sense as hitching
post" or "read as others read it." you would
have so understood it.
Your egotistical allusion to your service, and
honorable discharge in the Mexican war, would
have come with better grace. if you were now
ound, either by word or deed, sustaining the
government in its efforts to maintain its power,
Is rights and its dignity, and the Constitution
Ind Union. A AJEFFERSONIAN.
Berlin, Sept. 9. 1861.