Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1862-10-02

mand our rights; and we shall at this
time sit in calm and fearless judgement
upon the conduct of our rulers. Ours
shall not be the language of discord and
violence. We deplore the passionate
and vindictive assaults of leading Repub.
lican journals upon those holding civil or
military stations. Above all we protest
in behalf of our country's honor and
dignity, against their insubordinate and
disrespectful language towards the Pres
idcnt of these United States. Such Ian
guage wrecks the authority of Govern
ment, and tends to anarchy and public
disorder.
For another reason we cannot diband
our organization. No other party can
save this country. 1t alone has clearly
defined purposes and well settled princi-
pies. 1t has been well said, in our Con-
gressional Address, that under its guild
ance-
From five millions, the population increased to
thirty millions. The Revolutionary debt was ex-
tlnguished. Two foreign wars was successfully
prosecuted with a moderate outlay and small
army and navy, and without the suspension of the
stitution; without one usurpation of pow.r; with
out supptessing single newspaper; without i'm
prsonlng single editor; without limit to the free
dom OF the press, or of speech in OF out of Con-
grcss, but in the midst of the grosscst abuse of
both; and without the arrest ofa single "traitor,"
though the Hartford Convention sat during one
OF the wars, and in the other Senators invited the
enemy to Greet our Volunteers with bloody
hands, and welcome them to Ilospitable Graves!'
During all this time wealth increased, business
tf all kinds multiplied prosperity smiled on every
side, taxes were low, wages were high, the North
and the South furnished market for each others
produts at good prices, public liberty was secure,
private rights undsturbcd every mans house was
his castle; the Courts were open to all; no pas
ports for travel no secret police, no spies, no in
formers, no bastiles the right to assemble peace
ably. the right to petition freedom of religion,
freedom of speech, free ballot, and free press;
and all this time the Constitution maintained and
the u Mon of The States preserved.
WHY THE REPUBLICAN, PARTY CANNOT SAVE
THE COUNTRY.
On the other hand, the very character
of the Republican organization makes it
incapable Of conducting the affairs of the
Government. For series of years, it
has practiced system of coalitions with
men differing in principle, until it can
have no distinctive policy. In such cha
otic masses, the violent have most con
troll. They have been educating their
followers for years, through the press, not
to obey laws which did not accord with
their views. How can they demand sub
mission from whole communities, while
they contend that individuals may oppo
laws opposed to their consciences? They
are higherlaw men. They insist that the
contest in which we are engaged is an ir-
repressable one, and that therefore the
South could not avoid it, unless they are
willing at the outset to surrender all that
abolitionists demanded. To declare that
this contest is ir,epressible, declares that
our Fathers formed Government which
could not stand. Are such men the prop
cr guardians of this Government? Have
not their speeches and acts given strength
to the rebellion, and have they not also
enabled its leaders to prove to their de-
ludel followers that the contest was an
irrepressible one
But their leaders have not only asscr-
ted that this contest was irrepressiblc, un
less the South would give up what cx-
trcme Republicans demand (their local
insttu,ions), but those in power have
done much to Justify this rebellion in the
eyes Of the world. The guilt of rebellion
is determined by the character of the Gov
crnment agast which it is amaycd. The
right of revolution. in the language Of
President Lincoln, is sacred right when
exerted against a bad Government.
We change that this rebellion is most
wicked, because it is against the best Gov
eminent that ever existed. 1t is the ex--
ccllence of this Cove nment that makes
resistance a crime. Rebellion is not nee
essarily wrong. 1t may be an act OF the
highest vrtue--it may be one of the deep.
est depravity. The rebellion of our Faith
ers is our proudest boaSt-the rebellion
of our Brothers is the humiliation of our
Nation, is our national disgrace. To re-
sist bad Government is patriotism-to
resist good one is the greatest guilt
The first is patliotism-thc last is trca
son. Legal tribunals can only regard re-
sistcnce OF laws as a crime; but in the for
um of public sentiment the character of
the Government will decide if the act is
treason or patriotism.
Our Government and its administla
ton are different things; but, in the eyes
of the civilized world, abuses. weakness
or folly in the conduct of affairs so far to
Justify resistance. | have read to You the
testimony of Messrs. Greeley. Weed,
Bryant, Raymond and Marble, charging
fraud, corruption, outrage and incompc-
tcncy upon those in power Those who
stand up to testify to the ncompetcncy Of
these representatives of discordant par
ty to conduct the affairs Of our Govern
mcnt are politically opposed to MS. Bear
in mind that the embarrassment of Pres
idcnt Lincoln grows out of the conflict
ing views of his political friends, and
their habits and principles of insubordln-
alton. His hands would be strengthen
ed by Democratic victory; and if his
prayers are answered, we will relieve him
from the pressure of philanthropists who
thirst for blood, aud who call for the eX-
termination of the men, women and chill
dren of the South. The brutal and bloody
languag OF partisan editors and polite
al preachers have lost us all sympathy of
the civilized world in contest where all
mankind should ho upon one side.
Turning to the Legislative Department
of our Government, what do we see? In
the history of decline and fall of Nations.