Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1861-08-29
Now Long Shall the Bloody Wur
SO On!

Abraham Lincoln, in his inapgral al
dress, on the 4th of March last declared
as follows:
"Suppose you go to war, you cannot
fight always, and when after much loss on |
both sides, and ~ gain on ciher, you
cease fighting tie old Henticai questions as
90 terms Of Intercourse are ogaiR upon
you."
just So Fight as long as we may
after sacrf,ing thousands of lives --
wasting millions of trcasuro-the old
origional questions will come up for set
Element, aud what is more they will have
to be settled as they might be settled now
by, compromise. Let the people not on
" remember that Lincoln himself has de-
clarcd that after all the fig ting, the old
question will come up for sttlcment, but
insists on settling them now
How! the ready will ask. Why just
as easily now as ever, BY precisely the
same means that must he resorted to after
the proposed national debt Of hundreds or
thousand of millions Of dollars shall
have been saddled upon ourselves and
posterity, and thousands more of our
best men have been slain or manned. -
BY national convention Of delegates
from all our thirty -four States which
might be called, to be elected and meet
this fall, some slight constitutional
amendments might be agreed upon that
would remove all source Of future mi>un-
derstanding, and meet with general recep-
tion by the people of all the States. The
Soutern States would be as glad as we
to meet us in such a spirit of concession
as should save our country from further
ravages of ruthless war, that will spread
ruin throughout both sections equally.
Has not enough blood been she'd al
ready to show that the idle boasts OF
Southern braggarts of superiority of pow
ers is as idle and unloundcd as the crazy
teachings Of Greeley about the case with
which we might whip the South into sub
lection! Does not every man of common
sense know that war inilicts its evils
equally on both sides? One gains n vic
tory one day, and the other the next
and tho best blood is split on both sides.
What would it profit us to finally succeed
in whipping the South, from Maryland
to Mexico, ii in the meantime we ruin our
selves and fill our land with the walls OF
the widow and the orphan.
We urge upon our citizens to sit down
and calmly think over what the Ameri-
can people are fighting for. And what
either the North or the South will gain
by the war in the end 1t is admitted by
every one that the expenses will be enor-
nous, over five hundred millions per year
or one tenth the value of all real estate in
the non-slavoholding States. You men
Of the country will have to pay the
bulk of this expense in the shape of taxes
and the low price of yourproduce. And
what will you gain? i.ct him answer
who can!
Let the people demand Of those ounces
and mOniacs in Congress who still rcSis
all measures to arrest tho war--let the peo
pie demand a national convention. Lo
all citizens who have influence with oul
rabd republican representatives. write
them word that the epeopc-.rcpublicnas N
well as democrats---dcsiro nationa
convention and if once convinced tina
their opposition to such measure vii
destroy thir own political prospects in tn
convention, and thercby restore che Un
100, the Constitution and our country
former peace and happiness. and save u
from rivers Of blood, and utter ruin, an
archy and dcspotism,--Banaer Of LiJey'
ty.