Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1861-06-20

Massachusetts was at the head Of tba
conspiracy. The attempt to shut up tn,
mouth of the Mississippi "was an effor
(says Mr. Monroe) to give such shape t,
the Union as would secure the dominion
over it to its Eastern section "At tha
time" he adds, Boston ruled the fou
New England States. A popular orato
in Faneuil Hall Harrison Grey Otis
ruled Boston. jays object was to max,
New York New England State"
MIR. Monroe then notices: two subsequent
attempts to circumscribe the Union--the
Hartford Convention, and the restriction
Of Missouri. On this issue the admission
of Missouri) he says they (the Eastern
Federalists) were willing to risk the Un
ion. The Boston Sentinel the Federal
organ of the day, of Nov. IL, 1903, viii
confirm Mr.. Monroe letter. To pay fifteer
millions for Louisiana, in order to secur,
a place Of deposit for Western produce
that paper exclaimed, was indeed insult
ferable, and it advocated shutting up tn,
Mississippi to the people, "lest if the,
have that, our New England lands would
become desert from the contagion o
emigration"
Mr.. Monroe, in the letter to Jefferson
says that the Federal party "contemploteo
an arrangement on the distinction solely be.
ta0een slavehoiding and non- slavehoiding
States, preSuming that on that basis only
such division might be founded as aOoutd
destroy, By perpetual ercitements, the uSuo
effects proceeding from, difference an tie
pursuits and circumstances Of tie people,
and naorshal the States, differing IN that
alone, in unceosing oppoS ton and host, ity
TO each other"
How prophetic and how truly have the
traitors in the Republican ranks carried
out the 'irrepressible conflict" then sought
to be inaugurated, an amalgamation be-
tween the Republicans and Abolitionists
to get up Northern party, of which
Massachusetts Republicans are to be the
leaders, and taking advantage of the ex-
citement growing out of the slavery agi-
tation, draw the Democrats of the free
States into their ranks, and thus marshal
those States in hostility to the the South,
in order to break down the Democracy
and establish Federalism or Republican
ism upon its ruins.
| THE WAR OF 1872.
Passing over many facts, for want OF
space, we shall content ourselves with a
reference to the following as denoting the
hostility of New England to the war OF
1912, which it deemed good cause for the
dissolution of the Union.
The Boston Sentinel. the Federal organ
as late as 1914, Dec. 10th, said "Those
who startle at the danger of separation
tell us that the soil of New England is
hard and sterile" Again, on 18th Dec,
1914, the Sentinel said: ut is said that
to make make a treaty of commerce with
the enemy is to violate the Constitution
and to sever the Union. Are they moi
both already virtually destroyed ? or in
what stage Of existence would they be,
should we declare neutrality or even
withhold taxes and men %
Here we have both secession and nulli.
fcation proposed. But the most mons.
trous of all these New England scheme is
yet to come. 1t is as follows
The object of the leading Eederalsts in
Massachusetts during the war, was to es-
tablish monarchy with one of the royal
families of England at its head. Mr.. Wal
lis says the British Colonel Nichols told
him the Naval Commander had his Or
der to place Harrison Gray Otis at the
head of the affairs until the pleasure Of
the Prince Regent was known"
What that pleasure was to be. appears
to have been already arranged. The Brit
ish United Service Journal of May, 1850,
says the object was "to separate the Nor
thern and Eastern from the Southern and
Western States, to establish limited
monarchy in the first named States, pla-
cling one of our princes of blood on the
throne"
The Black Republicans, the successors
of this party, are now endeavoring to get
up war against Southern States for
practicing what New England had preach.
ed Their predecessors sustained the res.
olution of Josiah Quincy-.in the last war
with Great Britain-'that it is not be-
coming a moral and religious people to
rejoice over the mere victories of war;
while they. with singular perversity, are
now unwilling to aid in preventing a
fratricidal war.
THE ANNEXATION OF TEXAS.
Texas was from the first rock OF Of.
Tense to New England. Mr.. Monroe. who
regarded our title to it as indisputable,
was persuaded by Mr.. Adams to give it
up to Spain by the treaty of Florida
The New England men threatened disso,
luton should Texas not be given up
Said Mr. Monroe, in one of his letters on
this subject "The difficulty is altogether
internal and of the most distressing ma
ture and dangerous tendency.