Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1863-07-30

sachusctts volunteers to pay TO maintain
it, is it not richly worth the small addi
tional price which the senator from Ken
lucky demands as the possible condition
of preserving it? Sir, it is the old para
bic Of the Roman sybil and tomorrow
she will return with fewer volumes and
it may be at higher price. shall vote
to try the Crittenden resolutions, because,
also. | believe that they are perhaps tho
least which even the more moderate Of
the Slave States would under any cir.
cumstances be willing to accept and be.
cause North, South and West, the peo
pie seem to have taken hold of them and
to demand them Of us, or them at least.
| am ready to try, also, if need be, the
propositions Of the Border States Com.
mittee, or of the Peace Congress or any
other fair honorable and reasonable terms
of adjustment which may so much as
promise, oven toh heal our present troubles,
and to restore the Union of these States.
Sir | am ready and willing and anxious
to try all things and to do all things
(Which may become man." to secure
that great object which is nearest to my
heart The question therefore, is not
merely what will keep Virginia in the
Union, but also what will bring Georgia
back. And here let me say that do not
doubt that there is large and powerful
Union sentiment still surviving in all the
States which have seeded, South Caro-
lima alone, perhaps, excepted, and that
if the people of those States can be as
surcd that they shall have the power to
protect themselves by their own action
within the Union, they will gladly return
to it, very greatly preferring protection
within to security out of it. just now,
indeed, the fear of danger, and your per.
sistent and obstinate refusal to enable
them to guard against it, have delivered
the people OF those States over into the
hands and under the control of the real
secessiouists and disunionists among
them; but give them security and the
means OF enforcing it, above all dry up
this pestilent fountain of slavery agitation
as political element in both sections,
and, my word for it, the ties of common
ancestry, a common kindred, and com
mon language, the bonds of common
interest common danger, and common
safety, tho recollcctions of the past, and
Of associations not yet dissolved, and the
bright hopes of q future to all of us, more
glorious and respendent than any other
country ever saw; ay, sir, and visions,
too, of the old flag of the Union, and oI
the music of the Union, and precious
memories of the statesmen and the heroes
Of the dark days of the revolution will
fill their souls yet again with yearnings
and desires intense for the glories, the
honors, and the material benefits. too, oi
that Union which their fathers and out
fathers made; and they will return to it,
not as the prodigal, but with songs and
reioicings as the Hebrews returned from
the captivity to the ancient city Of their
kings.
Referring to secession, Mr.. Vallandig-
ham said:
Sir, the experiment may readily be re-
peated. 1t will bo repeated And is it
not madness and folly, then, to call ba ck
by adjustment, the States which have Sc
ceded, or to hold back the States which
are threatening to secede, without provi-
ding some safeguard against the renewal
of this most simple and disastrous ex-
pertinent? Can foreign nations have any
confidence hereafter in the stability?
MIR. vALLANNIGHAM ON HIS OWN LOYALTY.
On the 10Th of February, 1862, John
Hickman, of Pennsylvania, offered res.
olution, founded on local item newspa-
per attack, instructing tho judiciary
Committee to inquire into Mr.. Valland-
igham's "loyalty." The following are
extracts from Mr.. Vallandigham's re-
marks on the occasion:
Yet that is all, the grand aggregate Of
the charges, except this miserable false
hood, which some wretched scavenger,
prowling about the streets and alleys and
gutters of Baltimore, has seen fit to put
forth in the local columns Of contemp-
tble newspaper, so that the member from
Pennsylvania may rise in his place and
prefer charges agains: the loyalty and
patriotism of man who has never fall
tered in his devotion to the flag which
hangs now upon the wall over agains
him-onc who has bowed down an(
worshiped this holy emblem of the Con
stitution and of the old Union Of thes,
States, in his hearts core, ay. in his very
heart of hearts, from the time he first
knew aught to this hour, and who now
would give life, and all that he has OF
hopes to be in the presant or future, to
see that glorious banner of the Union
known and honored once over the whole
earth and the whole sea with no stripe
erased and not one star blotted out, float,
ing over the free, uni ed, harmonious
old Union of every State once part oi
, and hundred more yet unborn. / AN
THAT MAN; and he darcs to demand that
| shall be brought up before the secret
tribunal of the Judiciary Committee
that committee of which he is chairman
and thus both judge and accuser--to an
swer to the charge of disloy atty to the
Union! Sir, / hurl back the insinuation
Bring forth the specific charge; wait till
you have found something you will
wait long-something which | have
written, or something that | have said
that would indicate anything in my
, bosom which he who loves his country
ought not to read or hear, In every sen,
timent that / have expressed, in every
vote that have Given | had but one mo