Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1863-03-12


the people can no longer be deceived; the
scales have fallen from their eyes, and
their liberties are being correctly apprcci
ated oy the people or they never were be.
lore. For Two hundred years no minis
ter OF Great Britain dared to tamper with
tne oody OF any Englishman without he
ing punished. When, in 1853, one hun.
ureu years ago. the minister Of George
the lll-he who tried the experiment oi
conqnering thirteen rebcllious colonies
tnat monster laid his arbitrary hand upon
the person OF one OF the worst men in Eng.
land, John Wilkes; the people OF Eng
land seeing their Liberties involved in the
person oi John Wilkes. rallied to his de.
tense, and the Chief Justice Of Comm on
e, r,eas issued writ OF dobeos corpus, said
Inc hing has right TO know through
ms courts what has become Of the body
OF one John Wilkes And McMasters
ana Reeve, and Mahoney, and Col. Wall
they were denied the writ; but had they
not been surrendered, the people OF
the United States would have served a
| popular writ OF hodeos corpus to know
What, mad become OF their leader. Cheers
Let not the experiment be tried. / Iam no
ir'end OF the administration, as you all
Know cheers and laughter, though it
/ mas beiriended me mnch nnintentionally: 4:
| but L would whisper in their ear, in the
accents of friend, "Try not that expert
ment again" Loud cheers Tamp r
not with the rights of25 900, 900 freemen.
! \ Z
us again. Do not pass your monstrous
bill now pending in the House to suspend
the writ of habeos corpus everywhere. -
What? Because there is rebellion in
South Carolina, men shall not be free in
New jersey? and minions of this admin
istration may enter your house and drag
you from your beds to the Bastile? Is
that the liberty for which the Jersey Blues
fought in the revolution? Is that the en-
tertainmentto which Washington and his
fellow patriots invited his countrymen? ?
Pass not your Conscription bill, which
you seek to enforce by holding the rod
of terror over the people, your masters.
we made.and will unmake you. Cheers. |
Inaugurate not revolution in our midst.
| shall stand by the constitution and the
laws of the land-by order--and submit
to all things in reason; surrender every
minor point to enable this administration
II 1t be SO, to carry out further the expe-
riment OF restoring the Union by war;
put not one Jot nor little OF our rights to
carry on an unconstitutional war for the
negro. Loud cheers. Have they never
read history? a voice, They never
did' J 10 they not know the inevitable
result OF the course OF revolution in form
er ages! DO they not know that the men
VINO begin them always perish by them
Diu tney ever read OF DantoE, or Robes
pierre or tue French revolution? Danton
got tired OF the radicalism of Robespierre
ana proclaimed himself a conservative,
ana sM nooeSpierre had MN decapitated.-
&c" ana seward are tired OF the radi.
oa''Sm o' Gree'y and Sumner, but wheth-
er they VIII decapltate them or not, is
not qute certain; but speaking political
~, II they wait a little longer We will
take the Joo oa OFT their hands. Laughter
anu c'ieerSl. Ihe people have borne too
much. ana they are not prepared for the
experiment any longer, and warn the
men OF New York and New Jersey, if
they countenance this administration in
any iurther usurpations, the Northwest
VIII not go with them. Loud cheers.
we propose TO go before the people Of
the "hole Union to try this question by
argument and the ballot-box. and if you
beat us, we viii submit to your rule un-
der the Constitution; and If we beat you,
then, by the eternal, you shall submit
Great cheers Why sir, they owe apol-
ogy Tor these monstrous violations of the
constitution. Because we stand by the
constitution, we are denounced in fine
iancy eplthets OF "Butternuts. "and Cop
perheads.' aud TRAITORS and "seces-
slonists." Why is it that this party
when defeated in Illinois by $4,000 ma
jority have refused to submit to the de-
cission of the ballot box? They ran away
to escape the bonds o. the Constitution
absquatulated as it was once called in the
State of Ohio. or, in Northern phrase,
skedaddled. Laughter The grand old
Democratic patty is good scholar. 1t
is no Bourbon, but learns all the time. !
believe in clinging to the laws and the
ballot-box to settle luarrels in free
government, but we will have the liberty
of criticzing the acts Of the adminstra.
ton, and will not consent to becalled trai,