Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1861-01-24

TuE President, it is authoritativcly an
nounccd, has resolved not to send any
more reiniorcements to Fort Sumpter.-
They are not desired by Major Anderson
and the step can only lead to irritation
and troublc.
The majority against Lincoln ard his
party at the late election was over e'tren
hundred thousand UoteS! And yet Mr.
Lincoln and his friends, as an excuse for
not endeavoring TO settle our present diff
iiculties, speak about the verdict Of the
people in their favor.
The statue of General jackson before
the Presidents house was most curiously
ornamented on Sunday morning. The
old anti.secessionist held in his hand the
Stars and Stripes, while the blue cockadc
was tied under the tail of his horse.
Horace Greely says he would prefer
dissolution of the Union to any amend
ment of the Constitution that would give
another square inch to slavery. He is for
peaccable dissolution and does not think
the North would lose by it." We have
no doubt that Greely expresses the SEN
timcnts Of a large majority of the Repub-
licans.
AN American Grey Eagle was killed
about two miles west of Kenton, on Tues
day morning Of this week, by Mr.. John
Cessna; it being one of the largest of its
species, measuring over seven feet from
one tip Of the wing to the other.-Ren-
ton, Democrat.
Rev. II. w. BEEcHER, lectu-ed at New
Haven, Connecticut, on Friday night
He was hiSsed during his lecture, and
when he came out, a volley Of rotten eggs
was fired at his carriage. He drove off
amid the groans of a large crowd, who
afterwards followed him to his hotel, and
repeated the compliment Of hearty groans.
~ T. Express.
THE notorious Hinton Rowan Helper
again attempted to deliver bis lecture on
THE Two Systems of Labor" in New
York, at Clinton Hall on Monday evening
but the trustees closed the Hall against
him. A large crowd assembled, and
Col Titus of Kansas notoriety, was ar
rested by the police, and locked up for the
night. Mr. Helper was not to be found.
Ara Union meeting at Mt. Vernon, o.,
: a resolution was offered in the series pre-
scnted by the Committee, for the enforce
ment of the law OF Congress, for the ren
dition of fugitives from labor. The res
olution was opposed bya Republican law
: yer by the name of Vance, on the
ground thatto endorse the enforcement OF
that law would split the Republican par
ty!
THE New York Tribune threatens that
if certain proposed amendments of the
Constitution are adopted, with view tc
the settlement of the slavery question
= the agitation on that subject will be KEPT
f alive as long as the Constitution endures
Such is the spirit of radical Republican
q ism. What hope for the Union as long
!, as this spirit is suffered to be rampan
y and sow the seeds of disunion in tn,
North?
u THE New York Trjbuue is exultant.--
h 1t says that the withdrawal Of the eigh
g Senators from the four seeded States
), enabled the Republicans on Tuesday, t.
a ay what it stigmatizes as the Crittende,
!Surrende,', on the table. The absence o
'f these gentlemen, it ioyfully records, n
N one good effect of secession, and says tina
RS more will follow. Traitors are by II
means confined to the South.
y, FoRNEY's Press says that "mcn Of a.
/. parties are burning with impatience t
:. see some plan of honorable compromis
. offered by party leaders, so that the Rev
olutionists in the Southern States wi
20 not have an inch of ground to stand ur
al on" and expresses the fear that if men
na bers of Congress edo not soon do so the
" will soon be in the attitude OF many pa
ty chieftains in past days, who, prefer
ing their own records to the good of til
J., country, found themselves captains will
~ out troops, leaders without followers"
he THE New Haven (Conn.) Registe
as truthfully says that those who seem mo
:. determined on driving the North al
'it South into bloody war are men who a
Is sumo to be "ministeis of peace on ear
eS and good wiH to man."
n $50 far as the Cotton or Gulf Stat
or are concerned, the North feels very mu
as as Lady Macbeth did about her lord
on guests. and would say to them:
,'' "----at once good night,
ny Stand not upon the order of your going,
ire But go at once"
Ie' The Cincinnati hnqajrer quotes t
he above from tho Cleveland Heraid wi
pc tho remark that "the people Of the Nor
m regard those who entertain such SEN
YES ments as no better than traitors"
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