Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1863-10-01

war, and from conscription, confiscation
execution, emancipation, negro equal.
ity, and all oxertions of arbitrary, des.
potic power aimee.
Second. There will be no .'ciyil war
in Ohio il lam elected Governor, unless
MIR. Brough and his party inaugurate il.
in which event we will "crush out the re
bellion" in a very much shorter space of
time than they have employed in putting
down the shareholders rebellion" IT,
however, he means that they will "se-
code" IRON the State by voluntary exile
to Canada, or elsewhere, there will be
no coercion" in that event. But the
threat, il intended, to intimidate, is as
idle as the wind: if meant seriously, it is
time that the people should know it, that
they may ailix the mark of Cain upon
the foreheads of these new conspirators
against the ballot-box.
In any event, he whom q majority cf
the "quali6ed electors" of Ohio may
choose for their Governor, will be insu
gurated, and the vast mass of the peo-
pie, without distinction of party, will
aid, if need be, in the work of keeping
the peace of the State, and carrying ont
the fundamental maxim of popular Gov
ernments, that the "majority must gov
ern." For let Mr.. Brough, and all 9th.
ers who would defeat the will of the peo-
pie, take notice that "there is a mighty
mass of men in Ohio whose nerves are
strung up like STEEL" who mean that the
man who is the choice of the people shall
be the peoples Governor. Should that
choice fall upon me, all the duties of the
office shall be faithfully and learless!y
discharged. | would myself obey the
Constitution and laws, aud see to it that
all others obeyed them within the iuris.
diction. The courts should be open, and
restored once more to their rightfu au-
thority; justice administered without dc.
nial or delay, aud the military in strict
su6ordnation to the civil power. Habe
as co pas should be respected, no citizen
arrested except upon due process of law,
or held except for trial by the civil tribu-
nails, and none kidnapped from the State
But while the rights of the State and
the liberties of her citizens should be thus
strictly enforced, the constitutional and
lawful authority and rights of the Fed
eral Government should be obeyed and
respected with scrupulous fidelity, no
matter who administered it. Whatever
the Administration have right under
the constitution and laws to demand or
expect from the State Executive, should
be promptly and exactly rendered. In
short, | would adopt and thoroughly car
! ry out the two maxims upon this subject
laid down by Jefferson in his inaugural,
| in 1901
First. "The support Of the State
Government in all their rights, as the
most competent administrations of our
domestic coucerns, and the surest bull
warks against anti'repu5lican tenden
| cies."
Second "'The preservation Of the
General Government in its whole consti-
tutional vigor. as the sheet anchor of our
peace at home and safety abroad."
And in this way would strive, by the
quick and decisive exercise of will and
authority whenever necessary and prop.
er, and by cheerful and ready compliance
whenever due, to restore the peace, the
quiet, the economy, the good order and
harmony which, in former years, marked
the States both in their relations to their
own citizens aud to the Federal Govern
mant, and thus in better times, made the
Union secure. and the people p: osperous,
happy and contented. This, and not
"civil WARRIOR my "crime" is that
am opposed to civil wars--is what my
election would "inaugurate" in Ohio.---
And now, men of my native State, are
not these just the blessings which you
and your wives and your children, with
longing hearts, most earnestly desie?-
Defend, then, and hold fast, in every ex-
tremity, to the ballot box. and labor
night and day, | invoke You, to secure
these blessings, through that, the appoin-
ted, potential weapon of freedom
g. l.. VALLANDIGHAM.