Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1863-07-30
.yvith what Measure yc Mcte, IL
sbnlt bp Melted 10 You Again"

Tho hDO1tOnlStS VI tulS county w
ginning to realize the force of this scripturai
quot alton. When the first events OF this ter
rible civil war were transpiring, they took II
upon themselves TO judge OF the motives ana
actions of other men, forgetting in the hcighth
of the excitement attendant upon those cir
cumstances, that IL was written that with
whatsoever judgment they judged, 50 should
they be judged.
Then, infatuated mobs, urged on by incen-
diary appeals from radical Abolition ncwspa-
pers, thronged the streets OF our cities and
towns, destroying the property ofthose whom
they could not compel to accede to their de-
mands to bend the knee at the shrine Of the
idol of the Aboltionists.
! Our readers will remember the accounts OF
the gathering of these regulators of the opin-
ions and duties OF other men arodnd Demo
cratic printing offices OF the country, demand
! ing at their hands the unluring Of the Amerl-
can flag from their places OF business the
sacking of newspaper offices because the pro.
prietors would not isgraco their manhood
and lay their dignity and honor at the feet of
bowling miscreantsi the arresting Of men
who, in the exercise of the prerogatives o
American frcemen, refused to debase them
selves by singing peans of praise to "Abra
| ham, the high priest Of the sablcs," dragging
| them from their houses in tho dead hour Of
night, and giving them a choice of alterna-
tives between taking prescribed oath or
honging on the nearest tree. The people re.
oM ,hna lav ms a.,
, since they occurred-mobths OF war and
. bloodshed-- and tho party in power, welding
with unromiting vlgor the sceptrc Of tyranny
4 have been blindly borne along upon tho bill
A lows OF the popular excitement toward their
10 own destruction, until now thUy sec the fear
is ful abyss yawnlng beneath their feet The
n storm upon which they have so furously rid
den, has well nigh spent lis fury. But there
q can bo heard tho distant mutterngs Of anoth
.t or. more terrible.--it is the vengeance Of al
4, outraged, aud insulted people. That reac
ID tonOry storm of popular indignation tina
l. always succeeds the too tyranuical exercise
" OF illegal powers by governmental authoritic
N has commenced here. 1t may be slow-ma!
I, be kept suppressed for whio--but when i
d docs come, tho greater will be its fury, ant
el the more terrible destruction will mark it
q course. We have warned tho Abolitonist
20 before, and We tell them now, that II vii
II surely come. We cannot stop it, as much a.
d we deprecatc all mob violence, as much al
g We have counscllcd against it, They might
. have prevented it, by listening to reason, and
a the calm councils OF calmer men, but they
1t refused, and it is now too late.
: We have always approved of obedience to
- laws, however obnoxious, until they were re-
d pealcd, or legally set aside. We have de-
e maGdcd obedience of law at YOUR hands
IF We counsel ii at the hands OF all others. But
n there Is poiut in the exercise of tyranny such
as you have welded over tho people where
IS furbearance ceases, and ayengement begius
IN When that point is reached, the ''voicc o
to is near at hand.
c. The uprising in the city of New Y ork, an
is the threatening aspect in other places, how
Fit ever We may regret them, are the consequer
III ces of your own action. They arc but tn
ta beginning OF what will be to Abolitonism
GU terrible end. Men are cbangcabe in the
'o natures. They will long submit TO wrongs
VI the like of which they will commit themselvc'
o. when the turning point in their minds has Doe
~ reached, upon those who have been aggressor
~ upon their rights.
Nc While the Abolition press is bowling owe
VI the acts Of infurated men, aimed at a destruc
20 ton Of their property, let it remember thu
its own party commenced these outrage
III and that it Is written in the Good Bool
Judge not, that ye be not judged; for Wi
u, what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judge
Gu aud with what measure yo mete, it shall
70 measured to you again"
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