Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1861-02-28
The Tour and Speeches Of Lin
coin.

The weakness and personal vanity of
the President elect was first shown in his
conscnting to make public tour, with
pomp, parade and pagcantry, fitting the
triumphal march of n conqueror, through
the chief stronghold of the Abolitionists,
at period like the present, when polite
nj rcjoicing are not only in bad taste, but
exceedingly painful to all right thinking
citizens.
The gidlincss Of n man like Lincoln
suddenly elevated to such position,
might occasion him in an unguarded mo
ment, to accept such ovations at time
when the whole people should mourn the
deplorablc results of his success; and the
folly ofthis single misstcp might be for
gotten, but it is lamcntablc to reflect up
on the subsequent evidences of almost
imbcciity afforded by his whole course OF
conduct, and pucriIe declarations while
making his tour of folly.
The conservative, refccting men of the
Uuitol States had hoped still against hope
that the success of mad, sectional fanati.
ciSm, hal not elevated to honor and trust
one in no respect fitted to fill it, and that
good fortune, not careful design. had in
these troublous times given us an Exccu
tine of untriod, but certain ability and
tirmneSs, who would manage with pru
dcncc and sagarity the entanglcd affairs o
our nation in this, its hour Of greatest
peril.
The short public addresses of Lincoln
to the people at different points in thi,
Journey. havo been so hopelesSly weak,
SO foolish, and at times so simply ridicu
lous, as to make the cheek of an Ameri
can citizen tnglc with shame at the spec
taclc OF imbccility and pucrility exhibit
cd by our Chief Magistrate elect,
His indianapolis speech, which ha'
done moro to iniurc the cause of rcconcil
iatioa and compromise than all that ha
yet been said by anybody, and has beer
characterized by Prentice of tho Louis
rite JoarRoi, and former almirer o
Lincoln, as the speech of mplcton o
u malman---whiln his address to tho Leg
islature of Ohio was so vapid and mean
nglcss in ilca, only to be noticeable fo
tho absurd and Hmmodct claim of Lin
coin, that although be was about to un
derakc a task greater than that impose,
p upon Washington, yet nobody WAS suffer
, ing and no injury was felt by any citizen
SO at Pittsburgh, his weak acknowl
cdgmcnt that he was not sufficiently nc
Iquaintod with tho subject of tho Tariff t,
give any advice upon tho subject. sound
Icd strangely as coming from tho lips of
man whose signature alone will make an,
tariff bill n law passed by Congress-, -
His constituting the Suhicc: by the guil
of the Chicago platform, would have pecr
in avillago, stump'spcakmg pettiiogger
who claimed protection only for iron, tn
corn of hggpt AMI Mccormick S Reapcrs
; but how childiShly weak did it appear il
{ coming from u President OF the Unitet
States,
We confess to a despair Of the Repub
lie greoter, since this late exhibition @
, weakness by Lincoln than we have eve
had before; not in scorn, but in very sor
ry have we reviewed his coursc-anA nov
feel that the crowning misfortune of til
last six years of dangerous, sectional ex
element, has been tho foolish selection
of this weak, untried, wavering, vaccila
ting County Court lawyer, for the Presi
dency in such times as these Ohio Ia
ale.