Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1863-06-25


work Of giving practical freedom TO our
enslavod follow countrymen, male and
female, Of African descent. Whom that
time comes Memphis will bca lovely city.
Its walks and promenades will be illumi-
mated by the smiling faces and brilliant
eyes Of the graceful and accomplished
sons and daughters Of Lincoln and liber.
ty, darkness and Dahomey. True, our
State constitutions and laws, like those
Of Illinois and other loyal States. will
not permit free negroes to come within
our State, nor cnfranchised slaves to re-.
main there; but from military necessity,
or, as a high official expresses it, "from
tha ez necessitate rel Of tho thing" they
VIII, no doubt, be permitted to remain.
Tho plan recently adopted in South Car
olina of selling there the lands Of rebels
might be adopted, and thereby Memphis
might soon become "a variegated city"
Our white and colored brethren and sis
ters might thus furnish an example Of
that "frcedom and fraternity" which SO
many unhappy northern spinsters sincere
ly regard as the only means of compromi.
sing tho present unfortunate distinction
Of color. ~
You should by all means pass reso-
luton in favor of giving such rebel farms
and town lots as are not neened for our
colored brethren to our Christian friends
Of the North who desire to live among
their friends, particularly to that numer-
GUS and respectable class who think that
both races will be improved by a cross Of
the Anglo Saxon upon the puro Guinea.
"When this cruel war is over" how our
psalm singing brethren from the Church
OF the Puritans would enjoy Confeder-
ate farm upon the Big Black, Red River,
the Arkansas or Pontchartrain ! When
the rebel, are disarmed how meek and
lowly, docie and penitent, they will be
while beholding our northern brothers
occupy their mansions, and illustrating
the beauties of Gen. Banks apprentice
system! With what impunity General
Butler would ride from his plantation on
Moon Lake to his ronche on Deer Creek!
Then would be made manifest the absur-
dity of those Copperhead croakers who
foolishly insist that, while military pow
er can put down q rebellion, moral pow
er alone can eradicate its consequences
and keep it down.
1t is true they cite the example Of
Vendee; which, in area, is only about the
fortieth part OF France. Then, we ad-
nit, the peasantry believed their religion
was endangered, and history records tina,
they defeated six or seven of the best ap'
pointed armies which the French Repub.
lie in that warlike age, could hurl against
them.
1t is also true that afterwards, wheI
{ Carnot was made Minister of War, h,
! quieted the people by assuring them tina
T they should be undisturbed in their reli
gious faith. These mischievous faultfnd
ers, to give further force to their insidious
assaults upon our worthy President,
point also to Poland, in which the fires oi
rebellion are ever burning, but hey for
got that the Czar of all the Russias is in
all respects inferior to our model Presi-
dent, and is wholly ignorant of the true
means of quoting disafiected people. 1t
never occurred to the aforesaid Gear that
to squelch q rebellion effectually, the
cause must be removed. Had he studied
the history of rebellions in this country,
he would have discovered that we always
ascertained the cause, the evils, the sin
which gave petext to the insurgests.-
For example During the Administra-
ton a portion of the people OF Pennsyl-
vania got up rebellion about whiskey.
1t was crushed out by "coercion;" but
the sagacious statesman of that day de-
termined to strike at the cause. The re-
suit is that the people of that noble Com
monwealth have ever since eschewed
whisky and turned their attention to con-
tracts. Nothing is now known in that
State Of whisky; and, though Mr.. Buch-
anan us ed TO recite some traditionary sto,
sizes of cold Rye" to the junior mem.
bers of his Cabinet, it is well known thai
the eighth of a bottle of Monongahelc
was as repulsive to his nature as ice wa
ter to mad dog. Subsequently wheI
Gen. Jackson was President, the peorl
D of South Carolina revolted at taxation
r because some Democrat called it higl
I tariff, and asserted that the monster 'stol
money from their unconscious pockets
;, The rebellion, however, was 'subjugated
4 by the military power of the government
= and the cause-taxation-of course abol
ished. No tax-gatheres have been know
@ since in South Carolina. At latter da
during the Administration of John Iy
: Ter, of the firm of "Tippecanoe and Ty
Ter too" some unwashed Dem ocrats II
Rhode Island fomented a grand insurrec
tion against the sovereignty of that larg'
, and populous State. The army and ma
, Wy of the United States, by hearty CO
operation with the "loyalists' of tha
day, soon overthrow the insurgents
: Their Provisional Governor Thoma
: w. Dorr, was captured, denied the right
!. of beligerent," and sent to the penit' n
: tiary. The Democratic party-the caus
: was abolished, as all subseQuene elec
o tions have shown. throughout the Unite
{ States, since when no speck of rebellion
has been known within the vast limits o
/. that loyal State. The rebellion in Utah
/ which occurred during the reign of tn
old public functionary, is too recent t
o be forgotten. Tho cause is doubles
/. fresh in the mind of every aged maidel
. lady in the loyal States. The republican
: instincts OF our people would not tolerat
| monopoly in Heavens "last best gil
a to man." Gen, Albert Sidney Johnston
F. was sent to Utah with instructions to con
: quer the conjugal spirit of Brigham
mi, IL Il ,Ixy 10 on