Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1861-03-07
COMMUNICATIONS.

Mr.. EDIroR;--ln consequence of a severe cold
and distressing pain in his right ear, your hum
BILE correspondent has not been able to keep you
properly posted on the proceedings of the legisla.
tnre since the date of his last communication -
Actus Del nomini fact injuriam will, it is hoped
be considered sufficient apology. If not, "let
her rip"
1t was supposed by many of the republican
members, as well as by all the democra is, that
after the continued discussion for some six or
eight days on House Bill No $50, providing for
the destruction OF underground rail roads, etc =,
and the defeat of the same, ''the eternal Niger"
would be dropped, and the FL r. be pc ermtted to
attend TO legitimate matters of legislation. But
such is not the case; for almost every thing that
comes un has to be besmeured with the sinking
filth of nbolitionsm and 'the eternal Niger"
Yesterday long and spirited debate occurred
in the Senate on n Bill introduced in that body by
Judge Key from Hamilton county. This bill
ee ms to 60 the whole length Of the proposition
made by certain strong minded women of the
Western Reserve, to place our female citizens
not only on an equality with the males, but, to
elevate the fair fifty degrees at the least above
the platform assigned to men in general They
(the women TO have exclusive control of their
own property real, personal nna mixed, md of
their chdrcn, &c g.. but they are not to be COM
pelled to perform military duty in peace or in war,
to labor streets highways or to be compelled,
even in cases of emergency, to act as police men
constable, or removers Of fancy institutions Of n
public or private character which nre, BY statute,
declared to be nuisances! If Ohio be n part of the
Eden Of the world, is not the old serpent among
MS? During the discussion Of Shaw's Bill (l B.
No. 350J Mr.. Jonas, member from Hamilton,
versed in ancient and modern lore took the ground,
and sustained himself well, that the serpent who
beguiled Mrs Adam alias Mother Eve, was not
simply snake or serpent, but stall. wort negro
with serpent from Abyssinia. Was he right or
wrongs If right, it may be presumed, from the
igns of the times that 'the eternal negro" is still
playing the very devil with the Christianity of the
Republic Have we not too much Religion and
not enough of Christianity Let a poor man now.
a'days get to feel did the guests at the marriage
feast in Canaa of Gallilee when our own ever
blessed Redeemer turned water into wine, and
the knumbscull pinch.fists of the order to which
he may have belonged, WILL suns cerimon,e, not
only suspend but mathematics him to the utter.
most of their behest. If the poor woman. who was
caught in the very act, were now arraigned before
a religious tribunal, she would he stoned to death
by---by-. Well let hypocrites reflect.
Several bills were passed by the House to-day
There was barely aquorum, and business pro,
gressed, because n majority of the members presen
are democrats Certain damagogues, for their own
advantage, as they vainly presume, may play the
part Of slanderers and processing to be democrats
may defame the democratic members OF the |, gis,
lature by saying, "his legislation amounts Il
nothing" &c, when in fact those very d. mocrat
c members, though in The minority, are labonng
hard night and day, with pen and voice, "to hold
The balance true" But enough on the score o
know nothing squirts.
To-day the Legislature adjourned to meet again
next Tue sday at 10 A. NJ. In the meantime som,
of the members will be in Washington City, other
at home, some here, and the other better halves o
tho language of a learned democrat of the H. r
from Cincinnati; "Big fleas have little fleas ant
these have less to bite EN- &c"
The rumor here is that CHASE is Treasurer of tn
United States This report has produced buz
among the Republicans as to his successor. Gov
ernor DennisOn, it is said, in Washington city
Chase will dictate as to who shall be his successo
in the Senate, Our present governor will be th'
man. Kirk will become governor, and Plants
Baldwin, Dellano and other aspirans will be top
pied down the hill, Sans ceremonie, and without tn
benefit of clergy. Aad so mote IL not be or be !!
Your representative is, it is thought, possesse
of large number of public documents, procure
from his brother members, etc, which will in du
time, Saving postage,) be distributed among tn
electors OF Holmes county. He will, if abe
stand the fatigue of the travel, pay his family an
friends short visit iu eight or ten days hence, Q
it Is now supposed.
Let dealers in camphine, and rail road con
panies beware; for Clapp, the member from Luk'
has bills pending to nhict heavy penalties on can
: phine burners, and rail road companies under Gel
tain contingencies, &c.
When the legislature will adjourn sine die, it
as yet impossible to predict
The news here this evening from the Capital
the once United States, is, indeed, heart rendinl
But let the conflict come, and the aboitionists an
ultra black republicans will be made to feel Il
prowess of the democracy of the non 'slaveholdin
States. They'll catch it in Holmes county at leas
y MORE ANON.