Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1863-07-30
Effect Of the Abolition POlicy---
Mr. CriIfcudcu's Views

inc Cincinnati Gazette charges Demo.
cfFs with being the authors of tho New
York riot, and other leading journals in
y ONO OF the same school Of politics, sing
the same tune. Tho Gozcae of july rs
says that "the Democratic leaders in Now
York have invoked a riot against tho
g Government" aud in another article in
the same issue the Gazette asserts that
''in the brutal riot at New York we have
I the result of the Democratic teachings
and homogeneous"
These arc Wholesale charges and are as
unfounded and false as were the accuss-
tions brought against our Saviour that no
denied the authority Of Cesar and sought
to make himself a king. Democrats
Seeks no revolution except through the
ballot-box." This they have a right to
do, and to charge tllem with being the
authors Of riots like those in New York
.. and Boston, because of the exercise of
d that constitutional right, is as absurd and
, wicked as it would be to charge those
who lnculcate the precepts contained in
, the Sermon on the Mount with being the
authors of those fierce religious wars that
have been the disgrace Of what is called
, Christendom.
We have heretofore refrained from
saying word as to the responsibility of
the Abolition leaders for these riots
We should do SO now, were it not that
the Gazette and other Abolition papers
have thrown down the gauntlet as if on
purpose to provoke a contest. When
5 charges, such as we have quoted, are
D made, which we know and the country
| knows to be utterly false and groundless,
I we are for putting "the saddle on the
right horse"
, Mobs on SO extensive a scale as that
t in New ork do not spring out of the
ground in single night. There must
exist for long time deep seated cause
|, Of uneasiness before such al outbreak
can take place. Has not such uneasiness
existed for many months, and does it not
? now exist in the public mind all over the
, country? The Gazette calls the New York
g mob "a riot against the Government.'--
What has provoked men Of the same
class as those who have yielded up their
lives by thousands, or are now in tho
field, in the service of that Government,
to rise in open rebellion against its au-
thority?
1t is not the mere enforcement Of the
draft as a measure for raising soldiers
merely to put down rebellion. A simi-
lar measure might have been enforced
J., during the first summer or fall after the
10 war broke out without single rnurmur
C Of discomfort. True, it was not needed,
then. because the same class of men who
{. oppose the draft now, volunteered by
! hundreds Of thousands. Why do they
/ not volunteer now as well as then, and
: thus render draft unnecessary? Clearly,
. either the people have changed in regard
i to their views of the war, or the Admin
istration has changed its policy. Let us
inquire into this.
There is not particle Of proof to sus-
tain the assumption that the mass of the
people in the Northern and Border Slave
States are less earnest in their determine
ton to put down the rebellion and restore
the Union with all the rights of all the
States unimpaired, than they were eigh-
teen months ago. On the contrary there
is indubitable evidence that this determi-
nation has gained, and is gaining strength
every hour.
On the breaking out of the war, Con
gress and the President both declared it
to be national war on our part with g
single national object-the restoration Of
the Union. That object united all hearts
in its support A pledge was given by
both branches of Congress. at the extra
session in July, 1861, that there should
be no interference with the rights and in
stitutions of any of the States, having
special reference, as was universally un-
derstood at the time, to the institution of
slavery. Under that pledge, men focked
from the Northern and Border Slave
q States, voluntarily, and with a unanimity
t unexampled in the history of our country,
7 to the standard of the Republic.
= But at the beginning Of the next or reg
t ular session of Congress, a change Of
V policy was inaugurated. 1t was, then,
II openly avowed that slavery. a State in
y stitution, was the cause of the rebellion,
e and must be destroyed before the war
s. could cease. Congress refused to renew
Of the pledge it had given at the extra ses-
b. sion. The new policy was carried out in
- acts prohibiting slavery in the Territories
o and abolishingit in the District OF Col
Il umbia; in Confscation and Emaneipa-
e ton acts; in Compensated Emancipation
t resolutions; in Emancipation by procla-
e nations of the President, and in the ar
e bitrary arrest and imprisonment of per-
D sons who opposed the new policy.
4 Time rolled on, and the same course
h continued to be pursued by majority of
q Congress and the Executive. What was
0 the effect upon volunteering and upon
e the public mind? We hardly need ask
4 the question. Every intelligent man
f, knows what the effect was and is. On
. the 25th of February last, on the floor Of
r Congress, in a speech on the conseription
bill the venetable John j. Crittenden, of
= Kentucky, (scc GlO5e of March 9th asked
5 these pregnant questions:
What has produced the change tha. now
n presents itsell What has united the South in
one solid iron phalax2 What has crushed out
and destroyed to great extent, il not wholly.
0 the confidence and enthusiasm that swelled
= up in the hearts of the people OF the nationi
I What has done all thisl 1t is our departing
! from our faith. II is our departing from that
object which We dec Jared 10 be the only just
! and patriotic one. What else has done it?
e Have you not departed from the policy of that
= faith! Have you not, in amanner that is con-
sdered perfdious, violated the pledges which
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