Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1862-01-09
TFrom the Evening Journal.]
Mr., Weeds Letters from Europe


Heretofore, when in Europe, my thoughts
and attention were absorbed by objects
which surrounded me. Home, except in
its domestic remembraIees, was forgotten.
All business cares and political response
bilities were dismissed. Not so now. The
condition of our loved country presses
constantly and heavily upon my mind
For the first time in my life, my pillow
fails to bring repose. On shipboard, and
here, the nights pass wearily. And re-
Election is aggravated by the evidence
which meets you everywhere, that the pub
lie mind of Europe has been abused and
perverted; that the causes of the War
are either wholly misunderstood or totally
ignored. l have not vet met Foreigner
who does not, in his conversation, present
the question wrong lind frsl-who does
not twist and travestie everything. They
generally regard the South as oppressed
The North as the aggressor; and, of course
their sympathies are with the weaker sec
ton. s
These tares were sown while we slept.
And the enemy has been most diligent.-
Long before we could realize the possibili-
ty of q civil war, treason was doing its
work here. More than year ago promi-
nent Southern men were in Paris repre-
senting the wrongs of the South as so
grieyous that they could not be endured ;
tqat the election of an "Abolition Presi-
dent" was to be followed by violent eman-
cipation. -F.
The secession influences most active and
potent here come from that portion of our
country ceded to US in 1901 by France
They represent to the French people, and
probably to the government. willingness
to be re-annexed to France, if in that way
only they can be exempted from Northern
oppression; and so ili-inforned are people
on this side of the Atlantic, that this mon.
strous delusion pervades and darkens the
public mind! Louisiana wroDged and op-
pressed by the Federal Government! Oh,
how wicked and perverse! That State has
in an eminent degree, enjoyed favor and
protection. Her rights and her interests
have been ever cherished. She has grown
rich by means of government protection
n protection without which the sugars OF
the West Indies and the Brazils would
harerepdered her soil comparatively value
less. Louisiana loses no slaves, nor are
her rights and interests in any way injuri-
ousIy affected by the North. On the con-
trary she is indebted to the North for pro.
lection against the South-Virginia and
South Carolina having, for many years,
been as hostile in their policy to Louisiana
as to Massachusetts.
In France, and to some extent in Eng
land, the manufacturers believe that the
South not only furnishes cotton, but it is
also their best market for silks, DC, DC
This, and other delusions, must be dispell
ed. We must find some mode of reach
ing and converting opinion.
In one most essential element of wal
We shall soon be relieved. The fact that
the South intended war long before we
supposed it possible, and not only rifled
Northern Arsenals, but procured large
supplies of arms from England, left Us to
open the campaign at great disadvantage.
This disadvantage has both delayed action,
and exposed our troops to murderous fire
before their inferior arms became effective.
But this inequality will soon cease. MIR.
George L. Schuyler, the Governme hi
Agent, has completed his mission. lie
has obtained from the Government Arse-
mails an Austria and Sarony over one hun
dred thousand Rifles equal to any in the
,Uorld. These arms are noW on their aray
to 1America. e..... .........
Mr.. Schuyler. though for long time
embarrassed and thwarted, and all the
while encountering rvalries and complica-
tions, finally overcome them all, and goes
home rewarded for his efficiency and fideli-
ly, by complete success.
The knowledge that our government
needed arms has sharpened the cupidity
and wits of all who deal in them. The
Armorers of Europe are at work now
night and day, in patching up old muskets
and in counterfeiting new ones, in the
hope of palming them off upon our Gov
ernment. Europe abounds with inferior,
discarded muskets, while new and reliable
arms, in hand, are only obtained from
Government Arsenals, and that, of course,
with great difficulty. T. W..