Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1863-08-27
A Chapter in History.

The manner in which Mr. Cox recent.
Iy stirred up the bile Of the Disnrion.
Abolitionists in Cleveland by exhibiting
the proceedings of the Great Republican
Mass Meeting held in that city, on Tues.
day, May Oath. 1859, to his audience,
has induced US to refer to those proceed.
ings, and this morning we publish the
report Of the Herald and the Leader as
made at the time, and transferred from
those papers to the Ohio State journal OF
May 26tb, 1859, with earnest approval
in the editorial columns Of that paper,
which, if we had space, we would also
print.
The occasion which called this treas
enable convocation together was. the fact
that certain men in Oberlin had been ar
rested and were imprisoned for their for
chile and successful resistance to the ex.
ecution Of the fugitive slave law, by tht
U. S. Marshal and his possee. Tha
meeting gave tone to the Republican par
ty politics of Ohio in the campaign ol
1859; its managers defeated Judge Swan
because he pronounced the law, as every
other Court, Federal and State, had done,
constitutional; it nominated Dennison.
because Of his sympathy with it's Nrlif-
cation Secession Disunion sentiments
and more, it furnished Yancy d. Co., the
material they desired to enable them to
"fire the Southern heart" SO as to pre-
cipitate that section into rebellion and
disunion. By comparing these proceed
ings with many of the meetings south at
the time secession was taking place, it
will be seen that the local meetings oi
the "fire- eaters" copied from them almost
verbatim. The disunioE meeting in
Cleveland was an immense lever to aid
the Southern Disunionists, and was in
tended for that purpose, and diligently
was its matter used by the Southern
Disunionists per Sc.
With this record before them, and only
little over four years old, the infam Gus
men who participated in that meeting,
and the gang of scsmpS all over the State
who co-operated with and sustained them
have now the assurance in broad dayligh,
and in the face of the world, to pretend
that they are loyal Union men and evel
have been, and that their neighbors who
struggled against them in 1859, and were
then derisivey called "Union savers
and who still oppose them. and are still
struggling to save the Union, are now
charged with disloyalty and tresson.--
And more, these scandalous disunionist
who then in the name Of State Right
which they professed to worship, wer
willing to overthrow the Federal Gov
ernment and nulify its laws, are now tn
bold and unblushing advocates of ST
premc Federal authority over the States
even to the blotting out of the last vestig
of State Rights and the liberty of IL
citizen. Was there ever such infam
since the world began? Let any man pre-
serve this papers, not only through thi
campaign, but hereafter, for those VIII
come alter us to see for themselves tn
names of the men who thus boldly il
1859. in the State of Ohio, proclaime
Notification Secession Disunion senti
ments, and thereby gave "aid and com
fort" to the Disunionists Of the Soutf
and when one of the dirty crew gets u
. now to SANDER his neighbor and assel
his loyalty, let these proceedings be cite
as evidence of his hypocrisy and his il
fanny. This Cleveland meeting was
co-worker with the Southern Disunionis'
; and gave them vital and important aid
Statesman.