Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1863-03-19
NEW SERJES-VOL. 25-NO. 8.

license to initiate series Of atrocities at
the South which, il once begun, and il
were possible they could become general,
would convert that portion Of our coun.
try into another st. Domingo.
But, sir, there is another feature of il
scarcely less revolving to my mind than
the one just named. That feature is this
Yonr soldiers. many OF them from New
England. worthy young men, brought up
under the droppings Of the sanctuary,
and taught, l suppose, to love mercy and
hate iniqnity; these men formed into bat
tallions and regiments, and sent South to
follow their leaders wherever ordered, are
forbidden by the proclamation 10 interfere
in case Of servle instruction. In other
words, they are to stand with folded arms
while the black population seek the de.
struction Of the whites. / do not believe
the troops conld refrain from interfering
in such an emergency; bnt the barbarous
decree to them is, "hands off," Well,
now Jet me ask, what is the history of our
relations with the people Of the South :?
In the better days Of the republic they
came often to reside among us; their sons
and daughters came with them to be edu
Gated. They brought thither their geni-
us, to be kindled at our fires" Here
their young men married, and with their
Northern wives returned TO tie planta.
tions to spend the rest Of their days. And
young men ofthe North went South also,
and married there, and grew to love the
good people OF that country, who took
them by the hand, and helped put them
forward in the world And let me tell
you, sir, that to-day there is probably a
million south Of the "invidious lines"
whose ancestors are buried in your grave
yards, or whose grandparents or parent,
and brothers and sisters, are residing at
the North. And your troops, the kindred
blood still trickling in their veins, are to
be made the unwilling instrumen, in this
game of carrying into effect proclama.
tion Of the mo ost uncalled for and barbar-
Gus character. Sir, have no language
to characterize it as it deserves. Thank
God New York has rebuked it; Ohio
has rebuked it; New Jersey and Pennsyl-
vania have rebuked it; Illinois and Indi.
ana have rebuked it; Iowa and Wiscon.
sin have robu ked it; and in less than two
months Connecticut will rebuke it in such
tones of thunder as shall be heard from
Maine to New Orleans.
But there is one other topic l would
notice before quitting this subject. These
despotic acts of which have spoken, and
especially the last one, are justified on the
ground of "State necessity" The doc
trine of State necessity was admirably
exposed and torn to pieces years ago, by
she eloquent Senator from New Hamp
shire, and true potriot, the Hon. Frank
lin Pierce, since President of the United
STATES. regret that have not his speech
by me. that l might give you an extract
from it, WEIGH would be more to the pur
pose than anything | can say.
The plea of State necessity, which il
sometimes called the tyrant's plea, has
no business in the affairs of freemen.-
Certainly, it is plea which should never
be tolerated under Constitutional form
Of Government. Where there is writ.
ten Constitution we must abide by that,
or go straight to despotsm. The man
therefore, in government affairs who sets
up any such plea as the one just FAMED, as
an excuse for acts not sanctioned by law
violates his oath of Office, and though he
may have been msed by bad advisers, ht
can't escape the consequences ST such an
| act.