Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1863-09-17
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We print in to.day's paper. and en-
Join upon our readers to preserve it for
future reference, q remarkable letter from
Hon. WIN. WHITING, Solicitor of the
War Department and Law officer of
the Government" This letter from a
high official source. brings suddenly to
light in an authentic shape, the real
views and long cherished expectations
and purposes Of the men who have new
or yet failed to bring sufficient "pressure'
upon the Administration to insure the
adoption of whatever they demanded
As opposition to the war policy OF the
President, has heretofore been taken as
evidence of disloyalty, it is presumable
that Mr.. Whiting has not ventured to
place his letter before the public wthou.
an assurance that his views were endorsed
by the Administration AMI will be acted
upon unless tho People seize the first oc.
casion which offers to condemn them at
the ballot box. The chief points of Mr..
Whiting's manifesto, are these
|. That the military force Of the South
will socn DO demolished; and that when
that occurs, tho rebel States will wish to
resume their former position in tho
Union. r.n a-.. Id
2. That the existing war is not merely
a war Of arms, but war of ideas; and
that the South must not bo released from
the military grasp Of the North until her
people have adopted Northern Ideas as
well as laid down their arms. ...
3. That tho rebel States cannot again
exercise political rights in the Union,
until they are admitted by act of Con
gress, thus admitting the secession doc
,rine that State can take itself out of
the Union. ..t.
4. That tho war is territorial war Of
States against the Federal Government,
and that tho political rights Of loyal men
in the slave States. equally with those OF
the rebels, arc forfeited, in the Union.
5. That every rebel State, after tho
arms of its citizens have been laid down,
shall hencefoith be held and treated as
conquered province, the same as if it had
been portion of foreign country
and shall be held in military possession
until its inhabitants shall adopt North.
ern "ideas" and apply for admission in
to the Union with changed State Con.
stitntion in which slavery shall be for
biddcn.
The above is essentially the same in
spirit and purpose with the doctrine of
Mn. DRorGn that there shall be NO rEAcE
Until tie South consents TO give up siapery.
Ii is also in accordance with the views of
those notorious pioneers of Abolition
ism, WENDELL PmLIirs and VIM
LLoyD GAnRsoN, whose motto for tho
last thirty years, has been, E" No Union
wM Shareholders"
Our forcfathers, in their wisdom,
thought that evrry State should be allow
cd to decide Tor itself tho domestic con-
dition Of its own people, On no other
basis could the States have been induced
to enter into Union. Down to this
day, the people Of Ohio, and OF every
other Northern State, possess the un-
challenged power to establish negro slav
cry within their limits by amendment of
their own State Constitution. Nay, III
is even their right to make Constitution
al provision for holding white nlaves; and
is part of the history of Ohio, that by
express statute law. white persons, un-
able to pay their debts, hare been sold at
public auction 10 the highest bidder. Even
in cantiug, hypoaritical mischief making
Massachusetts,, within the last decade,
helpless women have lost their liberty
and been sent to Jail. and kept there for
months and years, whose only crime was
inability to pay their debts, Even now,
thousands and hundreds Of thousands OF
persons of our own color. are to be found
in all the Northern Abolition States,
whose condition as regards all that con.
tributes to the physical wants of life, is
far more dependent than the well-fed,
well'clothed, wcll-housed slaves of the
South. In proof Of this. we have the
testimony OF Col. GinsoN and other Re
publican officers in the army who hav,
confessed themselves amazed to find tn,
comfort Of the slave so widely dilereu
from what they had imagined. Yet il
the face OF this undeniable condition o
things, brazen'faced Abolition meddlert
look abroal for field to exercise theil
Wanting philanthropy and insist on Tho
South accepting their 'shigler ciyiliza
ton" as the only terms upon which it,
people can be released fom perpetua
military bondage to the North.
Certainly it is full time for all reason
able men in the Union" organization
to inquire whether patriotism does no
require them to cut themselves loos
from leaders whose wish is to blot ou
the Southern half Of the Union and bol,
il as a colony. Ne,oork Adpocate.