Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1862-08-14
Of the Hon. &. A Wick
Iihe, OF ky nt the Indiana
Democratic State Convention.

/ D'hVNfhsic Statc convention /.
Mr.. Wickliffe being introduced bv Mr..
Hendricks, alluded briefly to the former
relation between Indiana and Kentucky.
The words of the gentleman who had pre-.
sentcd him brought to his memory the
events Of fifty years ago. 1t was then a
time OF war; Of a war waged by the peo-
ple-of the Democracy, he might say
OF the United States against Great Brit
ain for free trade and sailors rig IS. In
diana and Kentucky had no sailors i'm.
pressed, and then, as now, those who
made our troubles shut themselves up,
like te'rapin in in its shell in their New
England States, and left us to fight their
battles. God blessed US then. May God
| bless US now. May he bless our efforts
in maintaining the Constitution as it is,
and restoring the Union as it was, against
the wicked secessionists Of the South, and
the still more wicked Abolitionsts of the
North. Kentucky had authorized him to
say that for the cause Of the Constitution
and the Union she would devote her all.
Would ever Indiana and Kentucky con
sent that the Union should be divided by
the Ohio river? NO, never."l
Indiana will do as she has done before
/ pour out her precious blood defending
our free institutions against all those who
are combined against them Upon cor
rect principles Indiana would do this.
For the Union and the Constitution she
would do it, but not to carry ont the be-
hests of any sectional party, or the lead
ers thereof, whether in or out of power.
1t has been asserted that slavery must
be extinguished before we could have
peace. When was this proclaimed? Was
it in the month Of July, 1861, when in
both Houses Of Congress, all voted that
the war, brought about by secessionists,
should be waged to maintain the Cons;i-
tuition, restore the Union, preserve the
institutions Of the several States, and to
! protect the citizens therof in the enjoy
meat of their personal and domestic
rights? Was it proclaimed when, after
the unfortunate affair of Bull Run, we
again appealed to the patriotism of the
country to spill its blood for the purposes
above declared? Did any man then say
to you that this war should never cease
while slave existed in the United States?
But they say it now. The Abolition
party had swallowed neck and heels the
Republican party. Like sheep, these Re
! publicans in Congress followed their lead
er. When we Wings of the old school,
Douglas men and Dreckinridge men, who
had seen the error Of their ways, called
upon them to declare that they would
wage the war on the principles indicated,
as they had in 1861, like Billy Bo-peep's
sheep, they didn't comeup When Judge
Holman, of Indiana, a good and true
man, God bless him, renewed the Crit
tenden resolutions as an assurance to the
army, and invited them to vote upon it,
thoy rofaeOd Hot .Loy snirl they-were fer
the Constitution and for restoration OF
the Union. They say they are for it now,
and they will say they are for it until af
ter your October election Mark that !.
What was the cause Of the war? T A
voice: 'Abolitionism.'l Well, you guess
ed it pretty near, my friend. Somebody
must have told you. That | know; for
SO help me God, it's true But they say
slavery is the cause of the war. Ifhe had
the power he would visit upon the heads
of the leaders of the rebellion the punish
ment their wickedness merited. But when
it came to the test very likely he would,
like the tory Scotchman. who told the
Revolutionary rebel, that he would be
conquered, but that his Majesty was a
merciful man and would not descend in
hanging below few attrocious characters
: he would not, with regard to rebels
: nova days, descend below few attroci.
ous characters, but he would hang an Ab
olitionist on the other end of every rope
Slavery was as much the cause of the
+, war as the tea thrown into Boston Har-
Dor was the cause of the Revolution. Thi,
n was conceived by designing and ambition;
men. In proof of it, Wicklfe produced
l the resolutions passed at the New 1orl
o Abolition Convention in 1889. Wha
did this Convention resolve? Why that
becanse of the evil of slavery they invited
free correspondence with the Gisunion'
lists of the South, to the end of a disso-
luton of the United States Thank God
but more thanks to the Abolitionists oi
the North, the Seccssionists say, for they
have enabled us to accomplish what We
have been trying to do for the last thirty
years. Hence you see we have two classe;
of traitors to fight: the Aboitionists
among us, as well as the rebels of the
South AS he had told Lovejoy in Con
grcss, who in an Abolition harangue
brought ont metaphorcally ship full
rugged and freighted with Secessionist
and Abolitionists, he would throw over
! board the Abolitonists first. So, peopl,
: of Indiana, You must throw them over
D board. don't care under what name they
approach you. A leopard is just as spot
: tel although you call him a bear.
i The South wanted government sop
o arate from the East. The East wanted
c government separate from the negro
n That is what has caused the rebellion
= And if the twenty millions Of the Nortl
y could not conquer the six millions of the
= South without arming the niger, II
Gods name, let the Aboitionists il
Congress get ont of the way, and we
.he Conservative men, old Wings, Dem
d ocrats and Republicans, who reverence
d the Constitution, for there were such
d would prosecute the war, restore th
q Union, and maintain the rights of al
under the Constitution intact.
=, Slavery when the Constitution wa