Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1862-12-18
Wy GREAT ECM
DOWN on BUCK0NGEHALY,

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feels a good deal tonight like Mr.. Lin
coin once did on previous occasion, Just
after he was elected President, in conse.
quence OF lard oil. You mind they had
a big jolllication meeting at Springfield
to congratulate the old person on his tri-
umph, to which he responded with his
usual ability, in the following vel timed
remarks: Says he, "Fellow citizens:
wanted to see you, and suppose you
wanted to see me, and therefore ] have
come out to see you, and to give you an
opportunity to see me 7" Wasn't that
stirring scene? The greasy wide.awakes
thought the person Of their choice had
greatly distinguished his self, whercupon
they all cheered and vocforatcd, md OBJ.
served to one another, "he's the greatest
orator that ever the world produced" ;"
which was truly flattering.
But when the telegraph reproduced it
for the press, and it was lail before tn,
country, the verdict Of enlightened and
intelligent men was read in the deep Grim
son which mantled their cheeks. TO the
gravest apprehension, it added the bitter
est humiliation. The ability of our peo.
pie to govern themselves, was suddenly
converted from an apparent fact, to
proposition as doubtful as it was momen.
tous. Certain it was that a Chief Magis-
trate had just been chosen by degl aiding
appeals to ignorance and passion. He
had been chosen upon platform Of plin-
ciples, false, foolish pernicious-princi,
pies which could not withstand the tests
Of intelligence, logic or constitutionality
These are propositions, my friends, which
you all indorse, and which need no argu-
ment on this occasion. Bat, strange to
say, the supporters Of this man Lincoln
assumed to represent the iHteiiigeHce OF
the country. Suppose we try them on
this hottering attributes: They denied be-
ing abolitionist,-the imputation was an
insult and a wrong; it was, in short, a
foul Democratic calumny. They only be-
lieved that the normal condition Of the
territories was that of freedom" PRO
digious langhter.) No worder you laugh.
my friends. The normal condition of the
democratic party, since the late elections,
is that Of laughter. (Cries of that's so,
Squirrel They ha6 more regard in those
days for the normal condition of our be.
loved Constitution, and our hitherto
peaceful and prosperous country. In this
connocii1n. ] wish to ask this Intelligent
party, if they don't also believe that the
normal condition Of the territories is that
Of Morrill, Tariff and green,b back curren-
cy? Laughter.
Mr.. Lincoln wasn't an abolitionist
either. He was only a second Washing.
ton-with improvements. lie believed
as he said in his letter to the Jefferson
Association, of Boston," that when JET.
lerson said that "all men were created
equal" he did not limit the declaration
to phite men! He also believed, accord
ing to the same document, that "the peo
pie who held slaves did not deserve to
be free themselves, and. unaer a Just Goa
coull not long remain so"
But then there was noting in all this
to convince an "intelIigent" party that
he was an abolitionist He believed in
the 'ir'epressible conflict" though. He
thought that our country could not stand
half free ard half slave; that the cotton
and rice fields Of the south must be titled
by slaves But there was nothing in
these declarations which an "intellgent"
party could construe either into aboion
ism or disloyalty to the Constitution
1t only proved that the Constitution was
failure-framed by ignorant men, labor.
! ing under a false delusion. Let us sup.
pose then that Mr.. Lincoln really believed
that all the States of This Union were des
tined to become either slave or free, wha'
would have been his duty under the cir
cumstances, as citizen of the State o
Illinois ? Would il have been to favor
slavery in the North or freed IN in the
South If he was for slavery in the
North, he was a pro-Slaverv man, wasn't
! he ? If he was for freedom in the South,
then he was an abolitioni>t but if he
was neither, he was an Internal old Jack
ass, as the sequel shall truly show The
! intel ligent' party are requested 10 put
"broken remarks" into their pipes and
smoke them, at their earliest convent
Cnce.
So far, my friends, | have only advert,
ed to theoretical black republicansm. |
now propose to notice its. practical re,
suits, It0has precluded slavery from the
common territories of the country; it
has aboli he'd slavery in the District OF
! Columbia it has proposed to buy all
the niggers in the Southern States it has
confscated them and failing to get hold
OF them by these means, It has proclaim
ed them free on the lst day Of January
1868. This looks little niggery. But
this is not all that blacl; republicanism
has done 1t has preferred civil war 10
honorable compromise it has stricken
down the freedom of speech, and the
freedom Of the press, and suspended the
great Writ OF Liberty. While innocent
men by scores have been dragged from
their homes and thrust into dungeon
without warrant of law-and while from
| the iron windows of their dismal prisons,
! they have in vain demanded their rights
! in the sacred name of the Constitution,
the President of the United States has
harkened only to the schemes of the rad
icals for the robbery of the South, or held
sweet converse with uck.nigger dclega-
! tions in the audience chamber of the
Presidential mansion.
OF their official corruption, frauds, and
| follies, will not now speak nor is it
possible for any mere mortal to portray
the stupendous, incalculable, infinite ruin