Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1862-06-26
Resolutions Adopted by the Holmes
County Democratic Convention, June
81. 1852.

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Rcsolced, That we CON ider the workings of
the twin political hercses of Abolition and Sc
cesson the true cause of the unhappy condition of
our beloved country; both aiming at the same OBJ
icct the destruction of the Union of our fathers,
which, with Washington, we revere as tie pal
ladium of our liberties, and its preservation as
necessary to our existence as free people,
RCs0iccd, That we will use all honorable law
ful apd Constitutional efforts to crush rebellion,
and to drive the discussion of the slavery ques.
ton from the halls of legislation, that our below
ed country may be restored to the peace and pros
perity that characterized the administrations of
Washington, Jefferson, Madison Monroe and
Jackson.
Resoiued, That We will sustain the President in
all his efforts to sustain the Constitution as II is,
to restore the Union as it was, until peace and
order shall be established in every quarter of our
once prosperous and happy, though now distracted
and bleeding country.
ReSoLced, That in this great national emergen.
cy all true Union men, banishing all feeling of
mere passion or resentment, will recollect only
their duty to the whole country; that this war
should not be "waged upon Our part in any spirit
of oppression, nor for any spirit of conquest or
subiugation, nor for the purpose of overthrowing
orinterering with the rights or established insti
tutlons of the States, but to defend and maintain
the supremacy of the Constitution, and to pre-
serve the Union with all the dignity, equality and
nights oil the several states unimpaired; and that
as soon as these objects are accomplished the war
ought to cease"
ReSoived, That the noble and patriotic sons of
"Littlc Holiness" and their fellow soldiers in
arms, who have gone forth TO restore the Union
to what it was to defend the Constitution as it is
and to enforce the laws are entitled to our sym.
pathes and support, and to the gratitude Of those
who would enjoy the political heritage bequeathed
by our fathers; and as the Republican majority
in the Ohio Legislature has denied them the priv.
ilege of voting, it becomes the solemn duty Of
those at home to so vote at the coming election;
''as to aid them in maintaining the Constitution
and thus defeat those who would disgrace our no.
BILE army and its gallant leaders by making i
the instrument in consumatiug their abolition dis
union schemes"
Resolrcd, That We admire the patriotic cours,
of Hon. V. b. Horton aud Hon. Carey A. Trim
BILE, members of Congress from this State, elect
cd by the Republican party, who have abandone,
their political friends and associates in their mac
abolition schemes, nobly withstood the tide of ia
naticsm and voted with the Democra tic member
against the shameless attempts of the Republican
majority to divert this war from its original anC
only lawful purpose, viz; the preservation of tn,
Constitution and the Union and the enforcement
of the laws.
ResOlUed, That as worthy sons of honored sres
1t is our duty to make the same sacrifices TO pre-
serve the Constitution and Union that our revolu