Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1861-04-25

ply ofraw material. The imposition of al
export duty will put an end to hesitation
in the minds of those at whom it is direct
ly leveled, and everything that British cap
ital skill, combination, enterprise and in
.fuenee can effect, scin be done, in order
to raise competing industry to that O
the Southern States. For the first time
in this question, our interests seem likely
to be ranged on the same side as our feel
ings, and we shall be forced at the last in
to taking part Of which consistency and
honor have so1Uhg pleaded in vain. 1t is
but melancholy result of Constitution
which, for the first time, Incorporates. into
itself the principles of Free Trade, to be
immediately succeeded by that most de.
plorable of all economical absurdities, an
export duty on an article of produce Of
which the State has no monopoly, bul
which can be produced almost anywhere
within s5 degrees north or south of the
Equator.
THE sECEssIoN1sTs ALONE TO BLAME.
The London Telegraph says:
No unprejudned reader of the inte.li
gence from America, brought by the latest
mail, will deny that the South is taking
upon itself the entire responsibilities o.
civil war. There was no threat, no insult,
no challenge in the inaguration speech of
Mr.. Lincoln.
The Southern mind is impervious 10
anything founded upon justice. Otherwise
it would concede, as a fact, the truth that
the return of Mr.. Lincoln can scarcely be
recorded as a great triumph of the Repub-
lican party. Surely that party must en-
JOY many similar triumphs before it can
hope TO stand on par with his antagonists.
Taking list of fifteen Presidents, from
I Washington to Buchanan, five had come
from Virginia; of those five four were re-
elected, holding office for eight years each,
so that during one halfof which has elaps-
ed since the creation of the Republic, its
Chief MagistIacy has been by Virginian.
The highest office in the commonwealth,
in word has been filed twelve times by
men from the South, and only six by
men from the North, and yet the former
protest that they are denied an equal par
.ticipation in the government ofthe United
sStstes. The New York as well as the
New Orleans journals join chorus in a fiery
protest against perpetuating the reign of
tyranny. What tyranny! 1t is that of a
Southern majority in Congress over a
Northern President or that of Carolinian
over gang of Africans, toiling themselves
to death in the sun? Mr.. Lincoln has
seized no property, hoisted no revolutiona-
fy flag, convened no illegal assemblies,
armed no lawless troops, invoked the au-
thority of no turbulent aud seditious rab-
bic. The only blunder of any magnitude
which has been committed has been par
doned with singular fofbearanee. Six
months ago, had President Buchanan been
sincere in bis heart, be might have spared
his successor an immensity of trouble
But Abraham Lincoln, upon assuming Of
fee, finds himself in the perplexity of
new commander.in-chief, whose predeces-
sor has left almost every strong position
undisturbed in the hands of the enemy.
In one quarter the palmetto flag has been
floating since December, over the United
States property, and within the United
States, the only protest made, having been
on paper. In the State archives he reads
q document, purporting to come from GER
tain South Carolina commissioners, in
in which the surrender of Federal for
tress is demanded as though the parties
were sovereign belligerents treating upon
equal terms.
If as now seems palpa5le, the South is
detea&iaed upon fighting, the North ought
no longer to leaue its sword in the scab-
bard. The first overt act of Carolina,
with its confederates in George, Mississippi,
and Alabama, should lead to an immediate
concentration of troops and an endeavor,
at all events,t to reinforce the Fedora garri-
sons. Whatever advantage belongs to
those who obtain the earliest success will
be claimed probable by the slaveholding
part, which is nearest the scene of action,
and has undertaken the largest amount of
military preparation; but the question will
become, in the enc, one of resources, ,and it
will be shown to the world, if "President"
Jefferson Davis and his myrmidons of a
mock Congress persist in their homicidal
policy, whether a raw uniformed, patched,
and disjointed federacy-without a nation
al revenue or the means of collecting one,
and without manufactures-can sustain a |
struggle with one rich in the accnmplo,;or
of seventy years, with an army, a feet a |
wealthy and enthusiastic community, omen
access across the frontier, and unlimited
basis for militia training. 1t is melan-
choly to reflect that the question should
come to this; but, if arms are decided, the
North and the Northwest will bold the
Mississippi agaidst the South will abrogate
80 far as the Seeding States are con-
.cerped-the Fugitive Slave Law; will is
olate the enemies of the Union, and teach
them at lenght that, by allowing their
passions to prevail over their reas on, they
have sacrificed many interests over which
the election of Abarham Lincoln never
threw even the shadow of danger.
~ A child was recently porn in Hanp-