Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1862-10-30
The Import orOur Political Tri-
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| Ever since the beginning OF the pres.
ent deplorable civil war, the Abolition
papers, the Abolition stumpers, and tho
Abolition preachers have charged disoy-
atty and treason against the members of
the Democratic party, and have sought
| by the most dishonorable and wicked
means to sustain this false charge; in or
der to fasten it upon more than half the
people of the loyal States. This course
has been so persistently adhered to by the
SO o.caled friends of tho Administration,
that the foreign ministers at Washington
have hccn impelled to inquire of the Pres.
ident and Mr.. Seward whether she char.
gcs made against the Democratic party
was to be regarded as true--stating that if
/ it was true, that a majority Of the people
Of Ohio, Indiana and Pennsylvania were
"rebel sympathy sers," they (the minis
ters would be driven to the conclusion
that the cause of the Federal Government
was desperate,
If there be any truth in the Abolition
staten ent, that the rebels are rejoicing
over the great Democratic victory in Ohio,
Indiana, and Pennsylvania, then the
Greelcys and Summers and Beechers in
the North, have also succeeded in impress
ing jeff. Davis and his CO. -conspirators in
the South, with the belief that our success
at the polls would in some inexplcable
manner aid the rebellion.
The President and Mr.. Seward doubt
less told the foreign ministers, that the
Abolition charge of disloyalty and trea.
son against the Democracy was false,
and that the Government had received
from this same Democracy a support
"more powerful by far than was ever be.
fore given by a party to an Administra
ton elevated to power by political oppo-
nents."
If it be true that the Abolitionists
have deceived the rebels into the belle
that Democratic triumph would aid the
canse of the Southern Confederacy, We
, think no time should be lost till they ar,
undeceived.
The great political revolution of tn,
Fourteenth must not be misunderstool.- -
Its import and signifcancy must no
| be misapprehenled by friend or foe. The
e Democratic party stands to-day where i
, stood before the election, and where it ha
stood ever since the Organization of tht
Government. Its history ''is record o
t unceasing and UNMARRIED devotion to tn
c Union Of the States," and, in prosperit,
as well as in adversely, il clings to tn
Constitution which our Fathers made
' "as the mariner clngs to the last planl
when night and the tempest close aroun,
, him" If any man in the South ha.
been deceived by the Grceleys. the Sum
ners, and the Beechers, as to its position
e let him he speedily undeceived. Its glo
rious victory on the Second Tuesday o
this month does not mean submission
does not mean separation. Tho Democ
racy' will never assent to anything shor
OF II complete restoration of the old Tn
ion, under the Constitution. "with all tn
dignity, equality, and rights of the sever
al States unimpaired."
The Democratic party is alike hosti
' to the SeceSsionism of the South and thu
| Aboltionism of the North-both woul,
destroy the Union and subvert the Con
stitution, and both must be put down.
The people Of the South who want thi
unnatural war to stop, and who are viii
ling to return to duty and loyalty, ma,
with propriety rejoice over our politics
triumph but the men who persist in fight
: ing against the old Union, and who ar
n opposed to its restoration uudcr the Con
e stitution, have nothing to hope from on
/ success at the polls.
The men whom the Democracy hav
Just elected to office will support the Ad
d ministration in all of. its measures tina
are right, proper and constitutional, an
in all others they will oppose it. Will
. they will cordially support it in stran
Cling the Southern rebellion, they will al
SO look after the revolutionists and cor
ruptionists of the North, who are protec
ted and supported by Statesman.