Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1861-08-22
Thc Question: is Settled.

I We are to have two tickets in the field
and just two months from to-day we n,rst
choose between the two. Much has becn
saId IN favor ol single ticket in hope.
that we might the better address ourse We,
to the great question Of the salvation o,
the Union. 10 sustain our army in the
field with every energy in our power.
making all else secondary, is clearly opr
duty. 1t is equally our duty TO choose
between the party tickets. The fidelity
OF the old Democratic party to the Union
and ITS nationality were never for aino.
ment doubted. The new, four year old
party never had an existence, even nom
inally, in many Of the States and its short
starred flags and "Iet the Union Slide"
proclivities have ever been prominent
charge and the record will warrant the
charge. The Democracy have run up a
ticket Of uneXceptionable men, known
and tried Union men, able and vigorous
war-sustaining men, yet men who would
remove promptly every rational excuse
for wars continuance
The platform will be found in full in
to.day's paper. Read it over and over
and put your finger on the first thing
wrong.
That this unnatural war is the natural
offspring Of misguided sectionalism en-
gendered by ianatical agitators North as
well as South is undeniable and that the
Democracy mot the boilers haye equally
opposed the extremists Of both section,
i, equally tue. The second resolution /.
the Crittenden doctrines endorsed bv all
the members Of Congress save two, Rid
die and Potter.
The third resolution looks to a reference
to the people for adjustment of our diff
culties. On them we call for soldiers
on them the taxes fall, and to them the
question Of opening the door for reconcil-
iation should properly be referred and
their decision should be final.
The fourth on corruption may be called
a side issue, yet it is true.
Who dare take issue ith the 5th which
more than intimates that the army Is
better soldiered than differed in the main.
The 9th is liable to be misunderstood
at first sight, and declared uncalled for
at this time. The abstract question Of
the sacred right of haJeas corpus is con
ceded by all. 1t is that a citizen impris-
oned may at any time on oath that he is
uniustly imprisoned and unnecessarily
held without proper examination or trial
have an opportunity at ance to show this
If he can, and be discharged. 1t does not
pass upon the merits Of the case but only
rs to his being legally and properly held
Ifthe President had allowed Merriman.
the supposed traitor of Baltimc re, to be .
brought before Judge TAyEY the supposed
sympathzer with traitors it does not fol- |
low that he would have been set at liberty
and the Capitol thereby endangered. The
Presidents intentions were good even il
the act was dangerous and bad. His
Scotch plaid recollections Of Baltimore
were liable to bias his action. Whether
the President has, under any circumstances
in the absence of Congress, a constitu-
tional right to suspend the operation of
The writ, is a.judicial question exclusively,
and convent nal resolution is matter
If opinion only.
We cannot see how the othar party
'an better the ticket or the PLATFORM
This is an ont and out Union ticket and
one which all unwarfed Union men can
support.-Plaindealer.