Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1862-10-23
Tie Voice Of OIio.

hofe terrible than armies with banners
more potent than the roar Of the cannon
,,'e voice OF the people uttered ihrougI
the ballot-box makes abolition. Disunion
ISIS ana Secession Rebels alike turn pal,
with alright. They see that the day o
re'fleution Is fast approaching that thu
people are sitting in Judgement upon iht
TWO revolutionary factions that have al
6nt completed the ruin Of the county
ami the rendition Of the verdict and III,
execution Of the sentence can not be mucl
longer postponed.
The recent Democratic and conserya
tive victory in Ohio, 50 unparalleled il
political annals, is duo mainly to on
great aud oycrpoweiing cause. Tn
mass OF the people in our State are from
principle and from sympathy ardent,
devoted to the Constitution formed b,
the fathers, and to the Union as it exist
under that Constitution. That Union i
as dear and as sacred to them as lif
itself and all those ties of kindred AM
affection that render life blessing. Wa
to the party or to the faction in Ohio
that attempts to triile with this lofty at.
tachmcnt OF here people to the ol Uuion
Of SO,
On year ago, the party in power in his
state and nation proclaimed that the sole
purpose Of the war was "to defend and
maintain the supremacy Of the Consti.
tuition, and to preserve the Union, with
all the dignity, equality an rights Of the
several States unimpared." 1t chri,ten.
ct itscIi with the holy name Union. :"
1t obtained such majoritic, in Ohio and
other States rs led its leaders 10 believe
that they were firmly fixed in the seat Of
] power, and that they could dupe the peo
/ pie to ratily any scheme of public plum
der and individual aggrandizement, how
ever abhorrent it might be to all the les.
sons they had learned from their fathers,
and all the feelings of devotion 20 the
/ Constitution and the Union which they
had imbibed.
Never were any people SO grossly de
celved and insnlted a. have been the peo-
pie of Ohio and other Northern States by
this falsely styled Union" party. In.
stead Of defending and mantaing the su
! Premacy OF the Constitution, its leaders
have openly violated and set at naught its
most sacred provisions Tor the protection
Of lite, liberty and property. When re-
mOnstrated with for these infra.tions of
that sacred instrument, they have called
the remOnStlants "rebels" and "sympa.
thizers with rebels" and sent them to
political Bastiles.
Instead of seeking to preserve the Tn,
ion, with all the dignity, equality and
rights of the several States unimpairc,l,
the leaders of the same party, have deni-
ed that certain States had any rights un-
der the Constitution, and have taken
measures for annihilating these States
converting them into territories and thus
efectine the dissolution of orr old and
ch rished Union. Their maiolities in the
present Congress have legislaJed for the
accomplishment of these nefarious ends /:
and 10y their power and influence over the
President of the Republic they have fore
ed from him an edict for the punishment,
not of individuals merely, but of sever
eisn States stripping their people, loya
and disloyal alike, of thousands of mil.
lions of property and threatening to in.
! volvc the county in a still heavier burden
of taxation and ruinous and protracted
war for the maintenance by the army
and navy of the freedom of three or .our
million' Of negro slaves.
Seeing these direct assaults upon the
Constitution, the Union, and the rights
of the States composing it, by those
who had soemnly pledged the Admins
traton that the sole and only object Of
this expensive and bloody war was to
defend the Constitution from violation,
and maintain it supremacy over all, rul.
ers and ruled, alike, and to preserve the
Union, with the rights of all and every
State unimpaired-seeing all these sell
emn pledges broken aud treated as "tri-
hes light as air." is it strange that the in
dignant and outraged people Of Ohio raj,
lied to tn polls at the late election, and
administered such decided lebuke to
those who had thus cajoled and deceived
them
The result of the election of the 14th
inst. is not mere parti san success-it is
great popular demonstration. 1t is a
Democratic victory; but is also Conser-
va'ive, Constitutional AMI Union tri.
umph. 1t will be hailed with Joy and
thankiulncss by every truly loyal man
throught the length and breadth Of the
land, while it will send terror aud diSmay
into the ranks of the Abolition DiSun-
ionist an Secession Rebels - SidteSmaR
A FRANK ADMISSION Billy Ross is q
great temperance lecture, and at Rushville
Illinois, was preaching to the young on
his lavoritc theme. He said -
"Now, boys, when | ask You a qucs,
tion you must not be afraid to speak
right ont and answer me. When you
look around aud see all these fine houses.
farms, and cattle, do you ever think who
owns them al now? Your fathers own
them, do they not
"Yes, sir !" shouted hundred voices
"Well, where will yonr fathers be in
twenty years from now ?"
Dead ~ shouted the boys.
That's right. And who will own all
this property thcn ?"
"Us boys !' shouted the urchins
Right. Now tell me-did you ever,
in going the streets, notice the drun&ar3s
lounging around the saloon doors waiting
fore somebody to treat thcm?"
'Yes, sir lots of them J"