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


cral law and Presidential appointment,
territorial governments over eleven South.
ern Slavcholding States, on the basis of
free soil, free labor equal rights and uni
vcrsal suffrage Of alt ioyal men-and for
all these ends, which are or ends of this
war against the South, t0r Tie people, and
collect the tax by the strong hand of the
Federal power, until the people under the
pressure of burdens that crush heart and
hope alike, cry out in insuilerable agony.
Look at the stupenduous and costly
scheme of emancipation sent to Congress
by the President himself, first in the
form of declaratory resolution, and
second in the form or a bill to aid eman-
cipation-a scheme. the practical carry
ing out of which would add to the al
ready crushing debt of the nation, anoth-
er five hundred million of dollars, while
its general effects upon the African race,
and upon the free white men of the Uni
ted States, as well as upon the general
interest Of humanity, are yet subjects of
unsatisfactory speculation.
What has been the effect upon the true
end of the war for the Union of this mis-
guided, sectional and fanatcal policy of
the Republican party? | freely say,
disastrous in the extreme. 1t has united
the Southern people in desperate reso-
luton to win their independence of the
Federal power or perish and it has dis
united the North and deprived it of the
moral power over rebellion, which could
alone spring from just and constitution
al policy, and which was and still is as
essential to success as all the material
power of war. This sectional and fam
atieal policy has developed in sixteen
months what our rulers were pleased to
term, and almost to laugh at. as an insur-
rection likely to hurt nobody and to be
put down in sixty days by 70, 600, to the
appalling proportions Of great organic
convulsion, which is shaking the noble
ediice of the Federal Union to its very
center. More than 600, 900 men have al
ready been enrolled and armed in the
Federal service. More than $500, ,000,-
600 of public debt created, and still 600,-
600 more men are called for, to be fol-
lowed by the demand Of one thousand
million of more money to be wrung by
taxation or confscation like, drops of
blood from the toll earned substance of
the people. Do we yet see the end of the
war ? Do We yet know when or where,
upon the storm tossed sea of civil war,
the richly freighted and endangered ship
of State will find safe harbor?
1t will be well for those who ask the
democratic party to disown and discard its
name, to disband its legons of free think
ing and free acting men, and to merge its
existence in the mongrel crowd of aboli-
tionists, Republicans and time-serving
demagogues, (who claim par excellence
the name of Union Democrats,) to bear
in mind that the Democratic party Of the
United States, is not the thing of day.
1t came into eXistenc full armed, like
Pallas from the brain of Jove, with the
birth of the Federal Constitution, and it
has ever stood as the defender of the Fed
eral Union and the expounder and con
servator Of the Constitution and Constitu-
tional liberty. AS party, it has no rec
ord to taint it with treason, and it has no
need to change its name either to conceal
or reveal its true character and purpose.
1t is essentially Union organization, as
the Constitution made the Union. 1t is a
party in the highest, broalest and best
sense of the word, and its name is broad
and catholic enough to cover all who truly
love and desire the pcrpetuity of the Fede-
raj Union and Constitution upon the
Democratic principles upon which alone
they can hope to stand, Northern Dem
ocrats can therefore contnnc as ever to
discharge their duty and their whole duty
to their country, by maintaining their
principles and their name, rather than by
abandoning either They can and will
support the Government, fiji its armies
and pay its enormous taxes, without de-
! parting from their ancient faith.
The power Of the democratic party, as
n great conservative power in the Rcpub-
! lie, would b, trittered away and lost by an
attempt to amalgamate it with the non.
desyipt self-stylel Union party, which
now seeks a Union with the Democracy,
so the democracy may share before the
world the odium of the enormous folics,
if not crimes, Of Republican leaders,
which will, by and by, make the Repub-
lican abolition party a stencil in the nos
trils of the people. Let all true Demo-
Gratis and truly conservative men come
from among them and be separated.
The fidelity to principle of Northern
Democracy is now undergoingtho severeSt
test The patty has had its long years of
power and prosperity, and it has, from
the pride of power and prosperity, often
erred 1t has alten had its time servers
and its traitors. it has deserved chastise-
ments and defeats, and it has received them.
1t is now being tried and purified as by fire
Its rats as in their wont, have almost all de-
serted, what they believe to be, burning
and sinking ship, Tho days of its regencr-
alton are at hand. 1t now occupies the
middle ground between the two princi pies
IN the Fede raj system, which from its
I beginning have been most likely to come
/ in conflict in civil war--the one is the
extreme doctrine of the consolidation OF
Federal power, the 9th the extreme doe
trinc of State rights, or disintegration OF
Federal p over, the one tending to mon
archy, the other to notification, secession
an anarchy.
1t has been the h gh duty of all truly
great dem ocratic Statesmen to maintain
the Just balance between these two, nee
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