Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1863-09-24

stitution, he is a mere county CONT law.
yer. aud not entitled to my obedience or
respect, and will give him neither obe.
dience nor respect. 80 help me God
lCheers. And when he attempts TO
compel obedience beyond tho limits Of
the Constitution by bayonets and by
swords, say that he is a base and des
potic usurper, whom it is your duty to
risist by every possible means, and, il
necessary, by force of arms GCheers
and cries That's the ta'k."1 If / must
be subject to the will of any one man,
for Gods sake let him be a man of some
great civil or military virtues. Give me
man eminent in council or eminent in
the field, but, for Gods sake don't give
Inc the miserable mountebank who at
present exercises the office of the Pres
dent of the United States. Yes, I say
that advisedly. meaningly, within the
limits, OF his Office. there is no hnman
being, not his most devoted personal aj
mirer who will be more exact in his
obedience than than l will be, but beyond
the limits of his Constitutional authority,
| will never submit to him one hour,
never, never at any hazard whatsoever.
What is the object of the Government Z?
That few men may hold the offices and
take the salary, and that few may be
clothed in purple and fine linen, while
the great body of the people labor, and
toll. and sweat, and pay taxes to support
such Government? No my fellow cit.
zens. The most valuable portions of the
Constitution of the United States, are not
those which define the power and digni-
ty Of Congress, nor those which define
the power and dignity Of the President
or Judges, but those which detine the
rights OF the great toiing millions of the
people. who pay the taxes in peace, and
defend the Government in war. And
when gentlemen clothed with authority
not, as said, by the majority of the
votes of the people, but merely by the
forms cf the Constitution, have the au
dacity to trample on the reserved right,
of the States and The people, they violat,
the Constitution as audaciously and a,
wickedly, yes, more audaciously and
wickedly than the Secessionists of the
Southern States; and if you submit to
it my fellow citizens, you are not only
slaves, but you deserve to be. Cries o
1--WE we will never do it AS said
at the Columbus convention, and l re
peat it. don't intend to submit, at any
eril whatever, of life, imprisonment O.
, exile, or whatever else the imagination
: of man can suggest. 1t is solemn
t contract of the Government with me
, by which it calls upon me to pay taxes
or in time of war or public danger a
one OF the militia, to defend it, that i
shall ie pect the rights that are set dowl
for me, | believe with Daniel Webster
that bargain broke on one side is
bargain broke on all sides. Before Lin
coin was inaugurated, agreed that h'
was entitled to exercise the Office of Pres
, ilent and all the duties and authority o
President. But there was high mora
responsibility resting upon him and up
on them that elected him; and what wa,
that? 1t was that pursuing the princi
pies uron which the Constitution wa,
founded and the Union established. he
should have endeavored to assure tho
people of the Southern States that there
We" nv w oSStOoo upon thSii
rights. That was his duty; he may say
that he was not in office. 1t was higl
moral duty, for which he will be held
responsible before the bar of God, anc
the bar of history. and before the Judge
meEt and condemnation of his fellow
citizens now, and in all time to come
What is it? 1t was to give them an as
, surance that, although elected as can
didate Of sectional party, it was no
his purpose to do any act to thu injury
. of the people OF the slaveholding States
He was asked to give that assurance, anC
| he refused it. knowingly. willfully ant
deliberately.
9 CRITTENDEN COMPROMISE.
My honorable friend (Mr. Morris) ha
referred to the proposition known as tn,
: Crittenden Compromise; j. was offeret
by the whole party of the Democratic
! party, as well as those who voted 70
Breckinridgc as those who voted fo
Douglas; it.was offered by the support
7 ers of Bell and Everett 1t was not tn
+ proposition of John j. Crittenden alone
9 although he offered it, he did it afte
, consideration and agreement of vas
number of Senators representing slav
| and non slaveholding States. Now, Mr.
5 Brough undertook, at the beginning o
! this campaign. in his speech at Marietta
7 to say that the Crttenden Compromist
had been offered TO the seeding States
and they had refused it. Now, | hav'
e too high regard for Mr.. Brongh, per
y sonally, to suppose that he knew any
!. thing about it, because there never was
d statement more utterly false than thai
S He took it from the Republican news
'f papers, but by this time we have ascel
e tanned that anything that is published j
n Republican newspapers is not fit to
70 believed; nobody believes it, not eve
10 their own readers. But he cannot cor
il duct this campaign on such ammunitio
as that. Now | say first, that the Cri
tenden proposition required two thir
y vote of the Senate. the a two-third vo
ID of the House of Representatives. Yo
r. see that it was not in the power of a
IS the Democrats oil the South together
L. carry tbs proposition through the Hou'
j. of Congress; it necessarily required tt
sr votes Of the Republican members in Of
IS der to give it two thirds Of the Sena
Of in the first place, then two-thirds of Il