Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1862-07-24
The Hypocrisy Of AbOIiiiOmists

Satan offered the Savior all the kingdoms
of the earth to fail down and worship him.
The mpudencc and hypocrisy of the devil in
this behalf has been considered, for nearly two
thousand years, without parallel. But the
downright dishonesty of tho Republican, or
Abolition party, Of the present day, rather
leaves old "split.hoof in the back ground.
A year ago Democrats were Unfortunately
denounced as traitors and sympathizers with
rebellion, yet they were daily asked to, and
did, volunteer in the Union army for the sup.
pres sion of the rebellion. From the centre
to the circumference Of Ohio the Abolition
party declared their anxiety to know how
many votes would be cast for Judge JEwETT, !
the Democratic candidate for Governor, that
they might know how many traitors there
were in the State. 1t was declared by the
Aboltionists that all party considerations
were lain aside, that every energy Of the
mind, soul and body should, and would, be
devoted to the preservation Of the Union
without regard To any party, and that all who
would not join with them at The ballot Jor were
enemies to the country.
During the nine months after the 10th day
of April, 1861, whilo these filthy cpithets
were being applied TO tho Democracy by the
Black Republican street brawlers, hurled at
them by their stumpcrs, bclchcd forth by
every dirty dog who dsgraced his pulpit by
politics and published in every Abolition
newspaper throughout the Statc-ycs, in this
trying hour, when men who were and always
had been true TO tho Union, men who had
never adopted a sectional platform or cast
sectional vote, were covered with lalsehood,
defamation and SANDER fifty thousand Ohio
Democrats deserted their ovocations and their
homes to go into the ranks Of tho army and
fight for the Constitution as il is and the Union
as il was.
The flush Of victory and the spoils of Office
finally hushed these infamous charges against
Democrats But the o-pury yctors gathered !
at Columbus and united in tho lowest political
trickery and partisan wiro.woIkng that has
ever been done in tho State. They held
session of the Legislature, unprecedented in |
length, past the most infamous district ting bill
that ever dsgraccd the Statutes OF any State,
ulslIHHtlllttu lht Ehlluut Hltn Nho hlN HHH'ihB
the battles of tho country, and exhausted
their ingenuity in cndoavors to rc.elcct TO the
United States Senate a notorious Abolitionist
and an avowcd dis ,unionist.
Again a call is made for volunteers and
lIuGn J. JEwETT, who was denounced as the
prince Of traitors and the chef Of conspirators,
is the first called upon to stump the State to
aid In tho enlistment Of men, and from village
and city his clarion voice calls the Democratic
hosts TO bear their breasts to tho bristlmg
steel OF traitors in arms against the Consttu-
ton as it is, the Union as II was.
Again II Democratic convention was held
which adopted a platform that not one Black
Republican paper in the State has dared to
PUBLISH platform adopted by twenty tl,ous-
and Democrats without one dissenting vote,
and to which every Democratic paper in tho
State gives hearty support, and the men
who adopted it, and those who were nominated
to I'LL the various offices at tho approaching
election, are denounced as traitors and allies
ofJEfr. DAVIS by the Black Republican office
holders, press and takers From the Gin.
cinnati GaseH. down TO the dirty little Abo-
ltion organ Of Holmes County Judge RANNEY
has been published as a sympathizer with So
cession. But amid this clamor Of co rrupt of.
ncials and their hired apologists the Governor
OF Ohio, the acknowledged head o the no
part party, sent quiet note to Judge RANNgY
asking him 10 tako the stump and aid in ro.
cruiting men 10 pour out their blood for our
distracted country. And this very day. while
the Abolition editors are vieing with each
other In yituperatlon and abuse Of Judge
RAssEY, and stigmatlzing those who expect
to vote for him as traitors, his eloquent voice
is pleading for men to III up the ranks OF the
army.
The Black Republican party is controlled
by Government rats and their plant tools
who invited tho diro calamtios Of civil war,
violated tho Constitution, joopardized the
Union, plundered the treasury and arc dc.
towering the substance Of the people, aud
they seek b cover up their ipfamy By yillily,
Ing the Democratic party. II is Tor tho poo
PIE the ,oiling, honest masses Il. say at tho
pAliot-boA whether they have had enough
humbuggery aad rascality. Let the corrupt
lonists and hypoerites be hurled from power
and the prayer OF every true Democra at ascen,
10 Almighty God that he may forgive an
IaiSe such hypocritical demagogues from tn
pase' corrupt aud sinful condition into whic
they have fallen