Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1863-03-12

8 ting hostilities? (Cheers. J If with ar
] overbearing and overwhelming force mn.
r merically, we have been unable to make
! any sensible progress into their territory
, to overcome their armies, to crush on,
, this unholy rcbellion--when they have
r two soldiers to our one, what il going to
, be the issue of this war? daughter J |
J suspect that among the other miserable
dreams--disappoiDted nightmare visions
r that hang in vapory fumes around the
Imagination Of the Secretary Of State,
has occurred to him that if he could only
invite The Southern army in force into
4 Pennsylvania, and New Jersy, and Inii.
; ana, and Illinois, he would be uQle 10 gal.
ponize the dead carcass Of this war J.
Laughter.) Well, il they invade us,
we will writet for them ppcisely the his.
J tory they have been writing for us for
} the last few months. The Miami Valley
will have two or three Bull Runs with
} which to adorn their history; the State oI
New Jersey will also have several battles
which it is not necessary to alude to
only the picture will be reversed. But
think there is wisdom enough in the men
who control the Southern Government
not to accommodate the Secretary OF
State. 1t has been proclaimed that it
never was their purpose TO invade the
Northern States.
1t was very true, that If this war is
kept up, battles fought, no relenting spir-
it, no prospect of peace, no sound Of con-
cord TO reach their ears, they ought to
be induced to make that invasion. But
it seems to me that. taking this project or
plan in its best aspect, it amounts to on
ly this-that these men Of the Republican
party who have implicated us in this war
the leaders of 1.-THE men in power,
who invoked the grim specter of war,
and brought it on, not as terrible
scourge. but as great national holiday
-have not the manhood no,o, aohen they
seeu fail, 10 stop The par, but intend that il
shall stop itself. (Laughter.) That is
the craftsmanship Of the men who con-
troll the destinies of this once greatest ma
ton on earth. If it be not stopped upon
some fair and reasonable terms, not EN- :
plying separation-that l will not con
sent to-(applause. but if it be not by
the common consent OF these two Gov
ernments, stopped there, then will be re.
allied in our case what Greeley and Sum 9.
ner will do by invoking the Interpolation
OF foreign powers. There was time
when peace might have been obtained by
foreign mediation. I he proposition o
mediation has been made by power
thai / believe to be friendly to the United
States-if the is not ialse to all her his.
tory. But orr wonderful Secretary o
State still maintains with most marvel,
Gus pertinacity, that these people of the
South a.enot beligerents. In his cores
pondcnce it appears that he is still pro.
foundly impressed with the conviction
that after all Jeff Davis is a myth and
there is no Confederate Government. -
He says there is no South and no North;
he is going to reverse all geography
have new editions printed, set aside all
history, establish new nomenclature for
the coun,ry-no Southern States, no
Northern States, no Davis, Lno Lee, no
Stonewall" jackson. (Applause. j.
Sir. this Government is made mockery
in the eyey Of foreign Governments by
this miserable twaddle by man who
calls himself Secretary of State, and who
holds the place that VIM. L. Marcy once
hcnored. (Applause.)
The war must stop or 60 on for the
negro, for the abolition of slavery, for
the destruction of State rights, and to
kindle up the flames of servle insurrec-
ton. (Crics of "Never.") That is the
alternative. am ready to trust the peo-
pie of the United States. l believe they
are for the Union as our fathers made it;
| believe they are satisfied this is mis-
erable crusade against African slavery,
with which you OF New Jersey have no
more to do than with polygamy in
Turkey. Why. sir, New Jersey was the
last of all the free States to repeal the
law that allowed the right Of transit and
temporary sojourn to the people of the
South and their servants, Several vol
ces exclaimed, 1T is not repealed yet,
nor never will be-" l am rejoiced to
hear it, and to know that one State yield
ed not to the black torrent of Abolition
ism that swept over this land. Zap
plause.) have said that npon the basis
that existed between the sections of this
country fifty years ago, the reunion of
these States is practical thing, aud in
time an inevitable result. One year ago
to day the hopes Of a revival and reor.
ganizaton of the Democratic party were
as dark and gloomy as to day are the
hopes of reunion. That party was pub
licly and formally organized on the Sth
of May. 1862. When we were striving
in Washington City for an organization
of that party, our enemies--yes, and men
who had been in our party--looking at
our efforts very much in the spirit with
which the antideluvans watched the op-
perations of the venerable patriarch, No
ah, when he was building the ark, and
whom they considered, no doubt, the
greatest fool of his age; that was suppos-
ed to be the character of the men who nn-
dertook to develope that powerful but
organized sentimen' in the Northern and
Western States, and which final y gained
a signal triumph.
Where lie your Bastiles now? Your
arbitrary arrests, your trampling under
foot the freedom of speech and of the
press, the violation of the solemn rights
secured by the constitution of the people?
God grant. what God alone can grant,
good Snnse enopoh m understand tho fem