Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1862-08-21

Andrews countrymen, the negroes, and
yet we are prosecuted. In South Caro-
lina where speech was never free, they
settled its limits before Judge Lynch
Let US not desccreate this Court with what
belongs to him, or we shall sink below the
level Of even South Carolina.
Much has been said about finding fault
with the Government, as if there was
some peculiar sanctity about it. Have we
arrived at such n state that no one must find
fault with any action or omission Of the
Government, or any member Of it, without
having treason imputed to him ! Can
not you, sir? Can not /? | for exam
pie, have the misfortune to think that
Mr. Seward, our present Secretary Of
State, Is not fit, as statesman, to index
the papers Of the late Silas Wright
However little my thoughts may trouble
him, l do think his want Of sense
sober sense--has made him the laughing
stock Of Europe ] think he is a small
ward and county politician, who writes
like sophomore, and acts like a stock.
iobber. Every time he speaks about
what will happen in sirtg doys-in ninety
doys--he puts me in mind Of acurb-stone
broker chattering over the approaching
maturity Of dubious note. think such
men have been advanced to important
places in this country about as often as
they will be and 1 can not help rcjoic-
ing to think that Mr. Seward will proba.
bly, be the last of the Lillipuians. May
not say so2 Has Mr. Philips taken out
patent for the application Of first rate
abuse to second rate men and must be
tried for treason if |, however unsUccess-
fully attempt to infringe it?
Again, | do not worship Mr.. Sumner,
the Chairman Of the Senate Committee
on Foreign Relations. can not admire
person who is so simple as to think it a
finer thing o pretend to be q fanatic, than
to b a dull but honest man. There is n
fine old German story called "The Adj
ventures Of Reynard the Fox" in the H.
lustrations Of which animals of diff.
ferent countries are represented in the at
ttudes with the expression of men. The
illustrations are very good Expose a
cup Of clear water to the f. ost; observe
it, and even when the cold begins TO fill
its transparent substance with beautiful
spinela of ice, if you agitatc the mass it
will not Immediately freeze. But give it
IN that condition, short period of rest,
and it becomes a rock, hardly yielding to
the energies Of gunpowder and fire. So
have we found the South. They were
once undecided Time aud stupidity OF
the Government have consolidated hes
tating into hostile people Yet Mr.
Gordon is traitor if he calls fool g
fool
No, sir, freedom Of speech is not quite
gone. 1t "still lives" in Boston. Thi:
mean prosecution is not to effect il, The
res pectable members of the Republican
r patty say plainly what they think about it
Those that | happen to know of them arc
gentlemcn. They did not agree with me
in politics when politics existed, but they
agree with me now in despising that petty
persecution of laborcrs and mechanics fol
their opinions, which was the reproach o
the old Wing party, and which was one o
the causes OF its fall, as great and as re
spectacle as that party was. They say
With perfect TRUTH that the whole etlec
of our unanimity depends upon its no
torious freedom from constraint, and that
it would not only be lost to us, but would
be used against us with tremendous pow
er, if it could be shown for one moment
to be produced 10y fear or by force. If We
can not hold our own sagainst one OF
two Secessionists in a whole State with
out force, what a,e we to do with the ar
mes OF Stonewall jackson ?
If leading Republicans, however, aban
5 don their own principle to take vengeanc
? for opinions sake, | can tell you tha
} they will not leave SO great matter il
I, the hands of any such persons as the pros
r ecutors in this case. They will not con
descend to shrink from the Court 0
Judge Lynch in order to whine over II
, in the cellars of Deacon Palmer! The
, will not attempt to watch us in entry
ways like Phineas Stone, or advertise u
in the Sunday papers as were the Cor
dons. Nor, if we happen to be so Situa
ted, will they sneak round master build
. ers or other employers and threaten then
! with loss Of business if we are not dis
missed, as is the hightoned and magnan
imous practice Of Mr.. William Wash
burne.
The petty business never sprung from
7 them. They are great party, and, be
4 lieve an honest one. They are not to b'
Y measured with the measure of Mr. Sumne
Y or OF Peter Hobait. If they utter sneer
in temper, they empty their pockets il
. generosity. They care for the widow ant
. the orphan. And VIII n they do that, sir
f they never ask what party the husban,
+ or father belonged to No, sir! The bull
| of the Republicans love their country AM
= help theit countrymen. They leave tn
mean bushes Of spy and iniormer, o
J alarmst, and uptonist, to renegad
y Democrats of the Washburne stamp wht
remain at home to abuse their former par
. ty Instead of following its members to tn
. fight for our country. They leave il t.
. them and the remnant of those meddle
, some natures, the torment and reproacI
a of Massachusetts, who infest its religion
, societies, and who are the sorrow OF it
/ most Christian characters. The man whc
attends to every other mans affairs wheth
, er his own are attended to or not, is al
most exclusively Massachusetts nui
q sance. He is commonly, though not al
ways, attached to some unhappy churcI
i, organization. This Mas ,achucetts, socie
+ ty-meddling is indeed scourge SO grea
that il may be donbted N hether it does no