Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1862-09-04

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OF unity in the North, and OF strictly
constitutional and conservative policy
was apparant for any other policy could
not but tend to the destruction of al
Union feeling in the South to enable the
Southern disunion leaders to place the
war on their part on the very basis on
which they desired to place it, that is: the
defence of the principle Of Stae self-gov-
crnment-the principle that all govern
ments should be based on, the free consent
of the governed.
To secure this much neeled unity in
the North, the cry of "Uhion," "No
Party" has been put forth. Had this
cry been put forth, with the meaning and
sincerity and earnestness of purpose with
which it came from the heart of the pa
triot Douglas, at the beginning of the
war, a true unity and the strength which
springs from it, would have been secured
to the arms and C, uncils of the Federal
government. In an hour of stern reali-
ty like this, shams and tricks cannot
stand the open light of day. The people
/ who now realize that the safety Of their
government depends on themselves, are
too deeply concerned, that they are too
desperately in earnest, to be deceived by
names. Every intelligent man here
knows that the cry Of Union with those
who are most loudly to utter it, is more
the cry Of apolitical party, than the voice
OF that patriotism which is willing to
yield all but honor and principle for the
good of the country.
The INSCRIPTIONS leaders Of the Repub-
lican PARTY know full well that that name,
reputable as it was in the early days of
! the Republic, has, from the use that has
been made Of it, as the cognomen of a
| party whose political success has been
| bought at the cost of Gisunion and civil
war, become offensive to all conservative
men. 1t is no longer available to blind
the people. 1t is no longer symbol Of
strength and success, but of weakness and
! defeat. 1t has, therefore, been dropped,
and the name Of Union taken up as one
better calculated to enlist the support of
| the people in the almost dying appeal
of Douglas for unity Of purpose and ac-
ton amorg the people i'll support of the
government, has been daily thrust in the
faces of patriotic Democrats as a reason
why they should abandon their time hon
ored organization and aid the mixed
crowd Of political charlatans, who con.
troll the new formed "Union party" to
| hold on to their i'll gotten and grossly
abused power. Let then overy true Union
Democrat mark well this fact that the
politicians who are loudcst in appeals to
the authority of Douglas for the aban
donment Democratic organizations, are
the very men who have proved them
selves by their conduct, unable or unwl
ling to appreciate the lofty patriotism of
that honored patriot. While seeking to
gain party strength under the shadow Of
| his name and authority, they have eXcg-
ciSed the executive and legislative power
| of the government to stab to the heart
every measure Of public policy dear t.
that great statesman. With the names
of Union" and "No party" upon their
! lips, they have urged forward with all
the power Of the Federal government, all
the measures of policy in regard to the
negro and negro slavery, which Douglas
denounced as sectional, unconstitutional
and revolutionary; ard more than this,
they have attempted by arrogant, unbri-
dlel, and malignant dcnunciation of Dem.
ocrats as traitors, seccssionists and sym
pathizers with rebellion, to demand as the
test Of a Democrats patriotism and fdcl
ity to the Union, willingness on his
part to surrender his love Of Democratic
principles and organizations, as old as the
government itself, and which no Demo.
crat has ever used, except for the prcser-
walton of the Union and constitutional
, liberty.
In the category Of those malignant self
styled Union mon, Democrat who rc(u,
SOS to give allegiance to their sham Unior
organization, is set down rs factiouS anC
scdicious CppoSer of the government
one whom the benevolent Charles Sum.
ner desires "that an indignant people
should tread cut with an iron heel as mer
tread out the serpent, so that it can nei
ther hiss nor sting" Such is the unity
and co operation promised by certain
class of Union men to the million o
p, Northern Democrats, and, in fact, to al
conservative Constitution-loving men
who, in the exercise of their inalicnablC
right as free born citizens intend to think
speak and vote for themselves, as theil
judgement and consciences approve.
, Laying out of view the military ccnduc
of tho war, which | shall not presume t.
criticiSe, and of which men uuearncd il
war can best judge by results, what ha'
been the political policy of the Admins
tration towards the seeded States p
Has it been Il Union policy? Has it beer
a constitutional policy? Has it, in short
been policy which any true Democra
could sustain, without inlidelity to prin
ciples which he feels to be vital to thu
Union and to the Federal spStem of Dem
Gcratic Government.
Two words may express the cardina
ideas of the Federal administration, botl
executive and legislative as to dealing
with the South-thcse words are eman
, cipation, coniscation. Freedom anC
, love to the negro, and ruin and vengeance
, upon the rebel, have palpably been thu
! animating principles of the Republican
majority of the Federal Congress in thei
pretended efforts by THEN Legislative actor
to restore the Union. And these princi
, Piles have been carried out through all tn,
, phases of anti-savery fanaticism tina
have marked the legislation and attempted