Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1861-03-07

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take care that the laws are faithfully exc
cuted, he shall do it.; that the seeding
States have violated the Constitution and
laws, and are now in open rebellion
against the government of the United
States; that it is the duty of feder
al government to put down such rebellion;
that the taking of our forts, stealing our
money, and firing on our national flag are
offences against the people of the United
States which should never be atoned for
by any compromise; that the people of the
North shall have a right to collect their de-
mands in the courts of the South; that
the persons and property of people from
the free States shall be protected from
southern mobs; that slavery is local in
stitution, which can exist only where it
has the protection of the local law, in the
several States in which it now exists under
municipal regulations; and that there shall
be no future acquisitions of territory for
the purpose of extending slavery, then, l
may, perhaps consider compromise. In
most of these concessions, it will at once
be seen, that they are simply the require
ments of the Constitution of the United
States. Can the South expect the North
| to make concessions to favor their interests
when that section is in open rebellion
against the Constitution and the Union2
Our national flag has been insulted, the
stars and stripes made to trail in the dust by
traitors; and Tn askedto compromise with
them; the laws of our country have been
set at defiance, our forts, arsenals, and pub
lie money in our custom houses seized,
and now | am asked to compromise with
these insurgents, who have committed the
outrages against our government; the :rai-
tors have interrupted the navigation of our
rivers, fired into our vessels, and now an
army of these men is surrounding several
of our forts and making vigorous prepara-
tions TO attack them, and under these cir
cumstances am called upon by Demo
cratic Convention to compromise; to-day
the very Capital of the nation is threaten
ed with an attempt to take 1t by these
traitors, who seem determined on the des-
truciion of the Union; and just as meas
ures were being taken for its defense the
resolutions of the Democratic party of
Wayne county come to hand, and say 10 US,
compromise. The flag of our country
the flag of Washington and Jackson-the
flag of our revolution-that glorious old
flag, respected hitherto at home and abroad
all around the world, is now taken down
by traitors from our forts and arsenais,
and the Rattlesnake and Pelican flag run
up; and with these facts before the coun-
try, l am instructed by the Democratic par
ty of Wayne county to compromise. Let
US not talk of compromise now; but rather
let Us establish the fact that we have
government that will protect itself and pun
ish traitors at all hazards.
There is band of patriotic men in the
South who are having fearful fight in
some of tie border States for the Consti-
ton and the Union; these men have my
warm sympathy aud full regard. Any
thing at the proper time that can be done
to aid these men to sustain themselves in
their gallant position, that does not require
a sacrifice of principle, l am willing to do;
but the first question to be settled is
whether we have any government, and
everything else must be subordinate to
this. When the stars and stripes of
our country shall wave where now the rat
tlesnake flag is waited by the wind; when
the Union shall be acknowledged as a
fixed fact, and the Constitution obeyed by
the South; when the authority of the fed
eral government shall be admitted by the
insurgents; when the forts, arsenals, money
and other property have been returned to
the proper owner, which have been taken
by traitors from the United States; when
the mob army of the South shall be dis
persed, and every man perform his duty
to our country in this her hour of peril;
and when it shall be admitted by the
Southern States that the voice of a MAORI
ty of the people expressed in legal way
shall govern the nation; then, am will
ing to hear the grievances from that sec
tion, and to consider them, if they have,
any worthy of consideration; but until then,
l shall regard it my duty, as deem it the
to stand firmly by the Constitution as 1t is,
and the Union cemented by the blood of
the patriots of l776, and the enforcement
of all laws made in pursuance of the Con-
stitmion. This is a platform broad enough
} for every patriot in our country to stand
! upon, and ample for the protection of every
interest in the United States. With pru-
dence and tfrmness, believe our good old
{ ship of state will outride this storm, and
bring up in the haven Of freedom, never
, more to be tempest-tossed on the pillows
of slavery. We must change her Pilots
and put an honest Captain on board, which
the people last November declared at the
ballot box should soon be done; after that
> the ship will right up, and make for the
deep, placid waters of the Constitution,
the Uuion, and the Enforcement of tile
Laws. Yours, respectfully,
H. G. BLAKE.
E. FOREMAN, Esq.
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