Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1862-08-28
The Two Extremes Alike Hostile
10 the Union.


Down ia Seccssia, man who is in
! favor Of the restoration and preservation
of the Union as it was, is prescribed rs an
! Abolitionist and denounced as a sympa
thizcr with the North. Up here in tho
North, man who stands up for the Union
| as it was and the Constitution as it is is,
By numerous class, who woull make
the world believe that they are better
| Union, men than Others denounced as a
Seccssionist and svmpathizer with tho
South.
In Sccessia the rebels make the pres.
crvation and perpetuation of negro sa
very paramount to the preservation and
pcrretuation Of the Union. For the sake
of slavery they would destroy the Union,
or, which is the same thing, if they con.
not be assured that slavery will be per-
petuated and flourish in the Union, they
are determined not to remain in it.
Here at the North we have their oppo
site or the other extreme, which joins
theirs just as the Atlantic and pacific
oceans meet at the poles and minglc their
waters together.
There is among us in the free States a
large aud restless multitude, infcsting ev-
cry city, town, village and ighl orhood,
IN greater or less number, who place the
Abolition of slavery, or freedom, as they
sometimes call it, meaning thereby the
freedom Of the negro, high above the con-
stitution and the Union For the sake OF
abolishing slavery or freeing the negro,
they would destroy the Uuion, or, which
amounts to precisely the same thing, if
they canno. be assured that slavery will
be extingushe1, or placed. as they demand
sin the course Of ultimate extinction, 1"
they are determined, as much as the secesh
rebels are, that the Union as it was with
slavery in it, and tb, Constitution as it is
with the fugitive slave clause in it, shall
never. with their consent, be maintained
or crretuated.
In fact these Northern extremists are at
the bottom inst as much rebels as the
Southern ones. A slight change Of cir
cnmstances would place them. as regards
the Government and the Union, in exactly
the same position. Had Southern man
a strong advocate of ofslavcry, been placed
instead of "Father Abraham" in the
Presidential chair, and had his party been
largely in the ma jority. the Northern rad
icals, who are now so bitter against their
brother rebels in the South, would have
openly advocated secession from the slave
States; their orators and papers, as some
of them now do; would have proclaimed
"No Union with Shareholders. and de
nounced the Constitution as "a Covenant
with Death and an agreement with He'll" ."
They would, in such case, have done
Just as the Southern Secesh did; they
would, in every State where they could
have got the power, have seeded from
the Union, and used both force and fraud
if necessary to that end. if the General
Government had sought TO cocrcc or com
pei them to obey certain laws Of the Union
they would have esisted unto blood, as
many of them would at this moment.
There can be no question in any honest
candid mans mind that a rethot anti-sla
very radical in the North is at heart, and
often in word and act, Just as much of a
rebel and a traitor as a redhot pro-slavery
sccessionist in the South.
The Southern Secessionists would, if they
had the power, change the Constitution and
the Union, so as to make both more eifec-
tually subverSe the interests OF slavery;
the Northern Radicals would do the same
thing to more rapidly and surely advance
the cause of Abolition or negro freedom.
Each Of these classes sees, or fancies it
sees, in the continance Of a long desola-
ting, cruel and bloody war, the realization
of its favorte hobby.
The Union cannot be restored and per-
manent peace reinstated, if either of these
Disunion classes gain the ascenAency
over the county. Both must, therefore
be put down, or in other words, so far ST.
fenced and shorn of their influence, that
they will cease to plot against tho Union
or disturb the peace Of the Republic
Statesman.