Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1862-07-03

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dent at the time it was sent, or what its
precise object and meaning are, have
never heard satisfactorily explained
There was to ordinary minds no appar-
ent necessity for such proposition at
this time, as no State had at any time
proposed emancipation nor asked Con-
gress to cooperate with it in measure
of that kind nor is it probable that the
bona fde citizens of any Of the slave
States will, for considerable time, ask
! for anv such relief of the national Leg
islature. a few men from the free States
who 90 into some of the slaveholding
| States as adventures may go through
the forms of voting on the subject, assum-
ing, under the name of provisional gov
ernment or otherwise, to act for the State;
and having voted in favor of emancipa-
ton, Congress may then proceed to carry
out the wishes of these men who are but
its own agents and thus the free States,
through Congress, under color of the
sanction Of authority derived in this ille
gal manner, may do that which it is ad
mittcd by the resolutions so unanimously
!, adopted a year ago that neither Congress
nor the non slaycholding States have the
right to do.
The people Of the free States thus, by
the consent of their own citizens, would,
by the power of Congress, abolish slave
ry in these States. This would be about
as legal proceeding as that of a felon
sending his accompiice in advance into a
neighbor's house, that the accomplice be-
ing in the occupancy Of the house, assum
ing to act for the rightful occupant might
confer title to stolen property by such as
sumed occupancy.
If at any short day any such request ol
this kind is made to Congress, it will, in
, my opinion be through some such subter-
fuge for | am satisfied that the bona .fde
citizens Of these States do not desire the
passage of emancipation bills at this
time, and SO their Representatives here
inform us.
1t may be that this suggestion Of the
President was in part made from the fact
that those schemes which proposed eman'
cipation in the States, under the plea o.
a "miIitary necessity" and without con
stitutional authority, were so transpar
emily absurd that the Administration wa
fearful they could not he sustained, anC
that it was thought best to try to accom-
plish the great aim by another resort ant
upon new idea. And | am further in
clined to conjecture that the President
became alarmed on account of the con.
servative position he found himself as
suming on this subject, and that, being
no longer able to resist the "irreprcssiOlC
I conflict" which was wagcd against him
by the ultra portion of the Republican
party, (Which, | am sorry to believe, in
cludes most of its leaders and nearly al
the rank and file, he sought this propo
stion as a means Of letting himself dowr
f from the proud position he had attained
in the minds of the conservative masses
of the people Of the country.
Much as | admire the President for the
Independence of thought and sound judg
ment which he has on many occasions
exhibited, | fear he is in this instance
yielding to the entreates of politicians
instead of following the dictates of his
own judgment, as we'll as the feelings anC
, sentiments of the people of the country
For both he and tho gentlemen on til
j. other side of the House will learn tina
most of thcsc" measures will not be sus
If tanned by the people, except in those rad
J. ical sections of the cauntry, where, o
IS this subject, they are Joined to thei
G idols" and forget the interests Of til
e white man in prosecuting their project
o of false philanthrophy for the blac
race.
c The late local elections throughout tn
G country, and particularly in the West, i
e which the Democracy and other consery
aiive men Of the country have achieve
5, the most complete and in many instance
Ii unexpected victories, are but the muttel
Il ings o. storm of Indignation which wi
- sweep over the entire country, hurlin
e from place those who persist in using thi
h Government for their personal interc'
e and political prelement, while the pul
N lie Treasury is bleeding to the amount
&c millions per day, (and which is to be rC
u pleniShed by an eXhorbitant and opprcI
sivc system Of taxation, and while thol
l. sands of our bravs countrymen are layin
D down their lives upon the battle fiel,
Z, lcaN IlS npilcS ucSolutc Hlll lIlCnuo III
T. consolate, to restore the Government
= it was prior to the election of the pre-
N ent Chief Magistrate.
n Sir, indulge in no idle predictio
r when | say that the people neither Ea
l. or West will much longer be made tt
i'll dupes of politicians and spectators, l'
rs the pitiful consideration of little wor,
out "twaddle about the negro" and "n
IN gro slavery" and for the still less ben
a fetal consideration of having their ferti
he and beautiful country overrun by an i
norant and vicious population of wort
no less negroes, to annoy and disturb soci
o. ty, driving from employment white pc
to sons who rely on daily labor for the
OF support,
Another, and to my mind most pro
OF able motive in sending to Congress Il
IN message alluded to, was to inaugurate
ho policy looking to an ultimate separati,
p of the Gulf States from the Conlederac
ng and to enlarge the area Of a northe
Us coniederacy OF free States. | have ev
I'll ever been satisfied that, with all the pr
he tenees of the leading members of t
es. Republican party of devotion to t
"a Union, majority of them DO not IN l
ch ality desire to see the Union exist as
Ca was but desire that slavery shall aitb