Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1862-09-11

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door kitchen gossip, that veto was com
ing, they sneaked into Congress, at til
last hour a joint resolution, altering III
bill you approved, SO as to make it con
stilutional and avoid veto. Thong
the veto was made imperative by hei
resolution, yet the veto message was sen
in, aud the Republicans were so ma
they would not pint it. Now ask you
Dr.; who was right, Abe or Congress-
Speak mp
Dr. Lemcn--I suppose Congress wer
wrong, they made an oversight. laugh
tcr.) They did not know that palt Q
the Constitution.
Mr.. Cox-Now, dear, good Dr., hay
you; $3.50 -quictly and gently, let IN,
cliuch yoV ti1I, You confess beior
these thousands that you approved Of
bill which had in it an ovcrsght-sightcD
over the Constitution; in other words
broke the constitution. (Chccrs) What
else lid JEFF Davis, the traitor, do? h
thought he could make an oversight anC
slide States out by his damnablc hcresy
Of secession; 50 you Republican friends
what will you do with Davis? Hang
him? Oh! Doctor,-that you shoul.
plead ignorance for these Congrc,
But they were not ignorant The con
,titution is very plain on this poiut.
They broke their oa,hs knowingly and
corruptly-to free negroes, they are per.
jured; and we prove it to be w,lliul PERU.
ry 10y Abraham Linculn's veto message
Why not, then, sustain with Us the Con.
stitution and the Union, and not help
those who help to break BOTH For these
votes Of mine to sustain the Constitution
your Legislature gerymanderel the Cap
ital district. They knew the people o.
the old district would sustain me, but
they added all the Republican countic.
they could to Franklin to defeat me.
don't know how you voted on that iuiN
nous and fraudulent districting bill.
Dr.. Lcmcn-I voted for it. | don
think we were bound to make q distric
to suit one man.
Mr. CoX-I didn't say you were. Du
you ought not to have made it to punisl
one man, or any man for sustaining thi
government. (Cbcers)
DR.. Lcmen--I do not know that thai
was one.
Mr. CoX-Ycs You did; for if yo'
were there you heard West. Scott and
others declare the bill was got up to leg.
islate ne out of Congress.
DR.. Lcmcn-I wasn't there when tha
was said. ! was at home.
Mr. CoX-Then you ought not to sa,
that whereof you are ignorant The boa,
was made The deed was done. | al
here among strangers "No, You ar
notH'-"We will send you back"
will find Us as good friends as you hal a
homcI" Thanks! kind fiends-I vii
work to deserve your confidence. ! be
lievc the people will upset the partisan
legislation Of last winter when 10y gerry
Wandering Ohio, 200 GOO Democrat
were robbed of their >ulliages. The peo
/ pie will not allow such wholesale an,
dishonest di>franch.emcnt without re
buke, The people will not be cheated on
Of their mode by ballot to elect their c on
grcssmon. The Constitution does no
! dll'N tiit ~ lNld' bIt W tIttl tI!t'IIN q
! indirectly members of Congress. Will
! | urge, therefore, the people to sustain tn,
government by the bayonet, I ask them
to remember their ballots. One is No
use without the other Wise counsel and
courageous lighting may, under God, res
tore our Union. lie! us do all for that
great object, and peace may smile on a
restored and happy Union.
When Mr., Cox sat down, three cheers
were given with will The immcns,
crowd thronged the stand to shake hin
by the hand, The meeting was a success
beyond anything ever before of the kin,
in that section. Mr.. Corlell and thost
who assisted him at the bar becuc, may b,
be proud of their splendid success. As 70
DIR, Lcmen, he is supposed to be as nearI,
squeezed ont as any other lemon, or as mis-
representative ever was since time began