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

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lie will compel his military Generals to
prevent II until the people Of Louisiana
alter their State Constitution to suit his
views. Now, there we stand TO day, and
and l ask any honest man how IL the
Union to be restored with an Adminjstra-
ton like this, and with such legislation
WHY lie nIDN'r DO IT.
1t is perfectly obvious that Mr.. Lincoln
does not desire to restore the Union.
say that aivisedly. lie does not wish TO
restore the Union; lie would not restore it
to day If he could. lie is not in favor of
maintaining the Constitution of the Uni.
ted States, nor the Constitutions of the
States he is determined TO constitute
himself tyrant, an usurper and despot
to rule us, not by the Constitution, but
by the strong arm Of military power
Talk to me about your Union party; it is
an unmitigated fraud Of the basest char
acter Any man who is SO deluled as to
imagine that Lincoln and his followers
Il mean his leaders) mean to restore the
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20 be allowed to run at large. Laughter
and cheers.
BRouGH's POSITION.
Therefore, Brough, as reported in the
Cincinnati Gazette and Cincinnati Com
merci0i said at Marietta that he would
not agree to peace until slavery was ex-
terminated. lie. says be was slandered
perhaps so {: it is all in the family. No
Democratic paper would report his speech
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themselves. But he made another speech
in Cincinnati, in which he defined his
position anew, that he will not agree to
peace until slavery, as political institu-
tion. is destroyed. What does he mean
by that? Does lie refer to that clause Of
the Constitution which provides for the
re-delivery OF fugitive slaves, which pro-
vides tor the taxation and representation
OF slave property, or does he refer to that
clause which prohibits the foreign slave
trade? That is all there is on the subject
in the Constitution. Now, if Mr.. Brough
means to cay that he is in favor of amen.
ding the Constitution in any of these par
ticulars, and amending it according to its
own provisions and requirements, shall
not waste any breath on the subject, be.
cause then it would be requisite to have
a two-third vote in the House and the
Senate. and then to be referred to the
States to be ratified by the Legislatures
of three fourths Of the everal States. II
that is all Mr.. Brough means, what is
the necessity Of war We can have it
without war Just as we'll as with war, and
lar more easy. He evidently does not
mean that, when he says he wishes to
prosecute the war until this is arrived at.
! He means that he is in favor of amend
ing the Constitution Of the United States,
not according to its constitutional form
not by vote OF three fourths Of the
States, but by the strong hand of militia
ry power. put him the question, if he
does not mean that, he means nothing.
If he does not mean that, his language is
merely q shallow foim of words. Then,
Mr.. Brough, do you mean that ycu are
in favor of prosecuting this war by the
power OF the sword against the will of
the States, that you may alter the Federal
Constitution? If you do not mesn that,
you mean nothing ; and if you do mean
that, you are guilty of a worse crime than
the Secessionists because all that they
have attempted was to alter as provided
by the Constitution. ] am not for any
such war, | will give the last dollar and
the last man, including myself, for the
war, and for the maintenance OF the Con-
stitution and the restoration of the In
ion; not that think it was wise to be-
gin, or that it was rightly begun, but
having been begun, the war already ex-
isting, | will support the Government
with all have, and with all | command.
But war for the emancipation of ne
groes, will not give one dollar, nor one
man for it. Let the negro achieve his
own liberty; whenever he is fit to be free,
that minute he will be free. No man
ever achieved the liberty of smother
When a man has heart to be free, no
man can enslave him. You may take
his life, out he dies free man, rather
than to live slave. Whenever the ne
gro is fitted to be free, whenever he is
! brought up to that moral capacity that
lie is fitted to be flee, by selfdenial, pa
tience and courage. no human being can
keep him slave one hour longer. The
owner will be more anxious to be rid of
him than he to be free. 1t is SO in the
history of all nations and all times.
THE NEGRO AS A SOLDIER.
l know we hear great deal about the
bravery of the negro. There are stories
told OF them that exceed the adventures
of Baron Munchausen, or the stories of
Sinbad the Sailor Nobody believes
them. Everybody knows, at least every
| fighting maa knows, that the negro wont
fight. Non com batants, and those tina.
stand up in pulpits, may say SO. You
may do as they did at Port Hudson, put
a regiment of white men behind them.
and drive them up and let the enemy kill
them because they cannot get away, and
you may in that way inspire them with
something of the courage of despair; but
| would not give three cents for all the
negroes the Government has raised or
will raise. would undertake to whip
them all with one good solid regiment of
/ Democrats raised in the counties of Mer-
Ger and Auglaize. Cheers. As said,
the American people are not to be fooled
with the bravery of negro regiments. You
might as we'll give jeff. Davis all the
arms that ou put into their hands. for
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