Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1862-09-25

llIy hnu ubDfldlcd l1ccDtc, should not be
the presiding spirit Of the war. Under
such spirit the war on the part of the
Federal Government will be failure. and
not, as it should be, a great moral sue.
cess and triumph.
| o. In poll les ! am a Democrat and
If it be proper to use the name Of any one
man in connection with the cardinal pol.
itical principles which are the common
creed Of all true national Democrats, |
may say ! am Douglas Democrat. /
voted for Stephen a. Douglas in 1860
and / regard him as having been one Of
the clcarest and ablesi expounders Of
Democratic principles, and as a rcpresen
tatiye in Congress, is SO FAT as it would
be necessary or proper in times Of great
public peril like these, to sustain and
carry out distinctive political principles,
| would aim to sustain and carry out
Democratic principles, believing them
to be the principles upon which the Gov
ernment was formed, and upon which the
Union has grown and pfospered, and up
on which alone it can safely stand. At
the same time, would not fail to rea
alze that the lirst and highest duty Of a
patriotic representative is 10 preScrre tha
Constitution Government of the Federal
Union; and his next duty to administer
Ii purely and wisely and ccomirally, with
equal justice to all parties and all sections,
SO that the burdens Of the people might
be lghtened, their liberties secure !, and
their happiness promoted
10. | have accepted a Democratic
nomination and appear before the public
as a Democratic candidate, not cnlv be-
cause Of my belief in the distinctive pol.
itical principles of the Democratic, party
but | believe that its organization, at this
time, contains more men of conservative
principles and Of true and earnest love of
the Federal Union and Constitution,
than any other political organization
seeking the support Of the people. The
national Democratic party Of the North,
as now organized has one clear, certain,
determined principle and purpose; tha; is,
the preservation of the Union and the
Constitution and it has within itself no
inharmonious elements. This high and
holy purpose for the Union is its bond of
unity AMI sinew Of strenth. The party
calling itself par ercc2cnre the Union par
ty, or no party-and as unwisely as un-
Justly denouncing the Democratic party
as hostile to the Government and friend
ly to the rsbelion--has no exclusive
claim, to the tile and position it assumes.
The seli-styled Union party is to all in
tents and purposes partisan organiza-
tion ; its chief leaders are, as is well
known, Republican party leaders; its nom
nations are made upon partizan princi-
pies; it claims and receives the power
and pay Of public office as the reward Of
party services; it manilests on all occa-
sions toward the Democratic party the
bitterness OF an intense parti1an animos-
ity. While it assumes to be especially
the war party, and the advocate of a
vigorous war policy, it fails, from the in,
teusity and vindctiveGess of its own par
tizan spirit, to give to the Government
the moral and conservative power that be-
longs to it. In fine, the Union party so
called, is a political organization, the ere
alton of Il temporary eXpediency Of in
ccngious and inhalmonious elements,
without clearly defined principles ani
purposes, and without the essentials of a
truly national and conservative party,
such as the peril of the nation demands.
so far as | can see, it has no one polite !
ical principle and bond Of unto but hos
tility to negro slavery and the determine
tion to make the war an instrument for
>ubvcrting it. Any fair and candid man,
who strives to learn from its representa-.
tive men, what the real purpose Of this
Union party are, will be compelled to
doubt, if not to disbelieve, that it really
desires or intends the restoration of the
Union under the present Federal ConSti
tuition. Its leading prcsses-its leading
members Of Congressman its leading
orators, openly express their desire for
new Union and new Constitution, from
which. through the agency of the exist
ing war, negro slavery shall be excluded
and in which the negro shall be made, in
his political rights, the equal Of the white
man The Democratic party on the con
trary, desire no more, as the end Of the
war; than Ire restoration Of tie Union as
II waS, and tie Constitution as Il is, with
the peace and happiness and good will
among all the people which distinguish
ed the best days of the Republic, and
when the right and power of each State
uuimpaired, to govern its own people,
and to form, regulate and control its in
ternal policy and domestic institutions in
its own way, subject TO the nat ional SUI
premecy for national purposes only, Of
the Federal Constitution. That right
cannot be taken from the States and Civ
en- to, or exercised by, the Federal Gov
ernment, without fundamental change in
the Federal system, and without paving
the way fog further encroachments of
Federal power, that will soon leave our
wise and benciicicnt Democratic Federal
System a tn ing Of the past-the shadow
of mighty name.
| have thus honestly, and hope clear
ly, stated my political opinions, and up
on them / am willing to abide the ju' 6
mcnt of the people.
,IosErH X. EpGERToN.
Fort Wayne, Aug. Goth, '62.
Very Cool.
A gentleman on a visit to Washington
recently, opened the door of the Senate
Chamber and was about to pass in, when