Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1862-02-06

ervaton Of the Government. All over
the Northern and Western non.slavehold-
ing States, vast numbers of loyal and
true men would abandon such war, or
make war upon it. Brave officers, and
thousands of their troops, now in the
Union army, would at once lay down
their arms or band together and turn
their arms against those who were prose-
cutting such war And the true and
loyal men in the border States of Mis-
souri, kentucky and Maryland, after for
saking houses and lands, and their seccs-
sion neighbors, and brothers, and fathers
and sons-after suffering so much for
the Union" could not be expected to Join
in warupon their own domestic institu
tions and upon the Constitution of their
country. What was it, in the Revou-
tionary struggle Of our fathers with Eng
land, that now constitutes the bitter and
burning memory of that period, trans
mitted from father and son, and never to
be forgotten ? What was the unpardon-
able sin of England What but that
savage cruelty which armed, with scalp
ing g-knile and tomahawk, the wild lndi
ans, and turned them loose to murder
aged men and hel lplcss women and chill
dren! And what patriot heart does not
burn with Indignation at the bare thought
Of that far more savage barbarism, that
would ally itself to the slaves in servilc
war upon their masters
Such policy would moreover, be the
4 1 ~,
themselves for it would certainly result
in the destruction and slaughter Of a
largo portion of them After all that
has been said on slavery by prolessed
philanthropists, still, in the present state
of society, it remains true that the a Abo-
litionist is The worst enemy Of the slaves,
and the humane master his truest and
best from.
The ultra Aboltionists, whether they
know it or not, have been and are
now giving the most successful aid to
the dsunionists Of the South, and max
ing the most successful war upon the
Union. The great and prevailing
argument of the leading disunionist, in
the south and in the border States, has
been and still is, that the North in viol a.
ton of the Constitution, intended, and
was about to turn the struggle into war
for emancipation, and thus "plunge the
whole population, white and black" into
a remorsc ess and bloody struggle. BY
this argument alone he has succeeded in
seducing and drawing into the rebellion
thousands of misguided men. Without
it he would have been powerless, and this
argument has been furnished and put into
his mouth by the Northern Abolitionists.
This has been the great question of debate
that the loyal men have met and battled
against thousand times all over Ken
lucky. .-........,-.t..
But after the passage oil the Crlttanden
Resolutions in July last-alter the Presi-
dent and his Cabinet had taken strong
conservative ground-after every Depart
ment of the Governmentsto stood out, openly
committed and pledged to the whole coun-
try, to prosecute the war for the single
purpose of sustaining the Union and pre-
serving the Government with the rights
unimpaired--thc it was that the Union
men in Kentucky felt themselves furnished
with an unanswerable argument and from
responsible source. Thus armed and
strengthened the Union men renewed the
conflict. What was the result? Ken
tucky is soon "unchangcably ranged on
the side of the Union'--she votes men
and money to carry on the war, and
though before then "she had refused to
furnish single regiment" now more
than %, 900 of her brave and loyal sons
rally at once under the stars and stripes
In view of all this is it not monstrous that
on the very first day of our session men
should rise here, and by their ll-timed and
radical measures revive the old argument
of"a war for emancipation, thus putting
it alrcSh into the mouths of secession
leaders, cripplng ard disarmng the I'm
ion men, and scattering trebrands through
the Union camps? Sir, when Kentuckians
for the love they bore to this Union, are
called upon to array themselves against
their misguided kindred, brothers and
fathers; when they are passing through
this fiery ordeal; when they are contending
for every inch of ground, with martyr
frnncss and patriotic devotion not sur
passed at Bunker Hill or Yorktown, would
it itnottaX past endurance, even the patience
of Job for these men in the North, who
are subjected to none of these trials, to be
continually furnishing the arguments and
the means to annoy them and destroy
their efforts?
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V'hc Fifth CONAN InGsNcnt.
An old schoomaster said one day to
minister who had come to examine his
school:
"a believe the children know the Cat
ochism word for word"