Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1862-01-02

hlhoHS OtHer reasons why Wish TO
stand before you as a member Of The DEM
ocratic party, and why | wish to see its
standard raised at this time, is this
In common with the majority of the
American people, dcploro tho election
of Mr. Lincoln as a great calamity yet
he was chosen in q Constitutional man
ner, and we wish, as a defeated organza-
ton, to show our loyalty by giving him
n just and generous support. After the
contest was over, we imploled the victors
to make some efforts, in spirit Of mag
nanimity, to avert the coming storm, and
at least to submit to our people some
plan Of compromise, that their voice
might be heard before they were made to
suffer the evils of civil war and desoa-
ton and death carried into their homes
Our prayers were unheeded, and those
who held power in their hands decided
upon a different policy, 1t was their
Constitutional right to decide, and it was
our Constitutional duty to obey. With
sorrowiul hearts we submitted to that de-
cision, and the humiliation Of defeat :;
and under all the notifications Of un-
needed cntreaties and derided counsels,
we still stand firm and loyal to the sup
port OF our Government, and as q great
patriotic organization we mean even in
deleat to serve our country, by an exhi-
bltion OF obedience to constituted author
tiles and we have but one further request
to make Of our political opponents-to
be as obedient as we shall be to the Adj
ministration they have placed in power,
against our efforts and our convictions in
regard to public interests. And we shall
ask no price for this obedience. We
shall not attempt to dictate policy to
our Government, by threatening a with
dlawal Of our support, if our peculiar
views OF policy arc not pursued. We
shall demand no invasion Of the Consti-
tuition to crafty our passions. We shall
countcnance no ambitious general, who is
willing to cmbarass the supreme auihori-
ty to gain the applause OF faction We
shall tolerate no attempts to make the
caIam,tics of our country the occasion Of
ambitious and unscrupulous men to gain
power and place. We shall not consent
that this war shall be made the beginning
Of Presidential contest and if the peo-
pie OF the North are to be divided in their
support Of this Administration by a line
Of policy which shall make dscord and
confusion in the public mind, we shall
not be the authors Of the disgrace and
the calamiticS which must inevitably fol-
low.
The President Of the United States can
rely upon our support, for we have due
sense of loyalty and obedience. We need
not weaken his policy, he will not b, en-
barrassed by us. so long as he keeps him
self within the limit of his Constitutional
rights. VIII the Republican party do as
much as this ? Would not Mr.. Lincoln
be compelled to say, if called
upon to testify, that the embarrassments,
annoyances and perplcxitics which he has
encountered, have come, not from us,
but from that discordant organization
which put him in the Presidential chair
The spirit of discord, contention and
disloyalty which has brought our country
to the verge Of ruin, now threatens the
very Administration which it placed in
power
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If the rights of any citizen of our land,
from partisan malice, or even Indifference,
have been uamplcd upon, we will de-
mand such punishmcnts upon the auth
ots, whether they occupy the Presidential
chair, or seats in the Cabinet, or are the
moro humble instruments of official pow
err as will teach men in authority that
they are to restrain themselves within the
limits Of their legal and constitutional
jurisdiction. AS we intend to be rigid
in the performance of all our duties rs
citizens, rs we mean to be Just towards
those in authority in giving to them eve
ry presumption Of innocence, as we re-
quirc no exposition Of their reasons at
times inconsistent with the public well
fare, so, too, shall we be jealous in cx
acting n full vindication of all apparent
violations of these rights, which patri-
OTIS in our own and ia other lands strug-
glcd for so many painful years to assert
and establish. 1t is the boast of the
Brton that his house is his castle. How
ever humble it may be, although the
winds OF heaven may beat upon it, and
the rains may enter it, the King can not,
Let it not be said that the liberties oi
American citizens are less perfectly pro.
tcctcd or held less sacred than those OF
the subjects Of crown.
Among the prominent causes Of the
war, agitation upon the subject of slave
ry stands foremost Ambitious men Mt
the South, who desire separate conied-
erncy, of those who believe that their ma.
tcrial interests will be advanced by the
dissolution of the Union, have success
| full Y alamed their fellow citizens as tc
/ the security not alone of their property
but for the solcty ami the lives of THEN
families. Unadcd these leaders coulc
never have stirred up the South to its
present instruction, Unfortunately
this subject of slavery afforded ambitious
men at the North, and those engaged il
the philonthropic line of business, whC
rcaped a political profit from agitation
an opportunity to cNasperate the Nortl
in respect to an institution which, in fact
was rapidly concentrating and limiting
itselfto that portion of our country en-
gagged in particular pursuits,
Every days progress Of this wa
shows how successful they were in dc
ceving the people of the North with re,
spect to tho condition, resources and thC
power of the South. Even the mal
they placed in the Presidential Chai
] lil NOT lnnv tlo material condition n