Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1863-07-09
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NhNaC N hNs c''A"Ns
The politicians and partisans in Ohio |
who favor the election Of John Broueh as
Governor OF this State, are ultra Aboli- !
of tho radical Garrisonian school.
Brough himscl( is but a Garrison or
Wendell Phillips under another name
This statement is not made at random
it is one which incontrovertiblo facts
prove, and which history will record, and
is in fact now recording.
The Broughites and their patron saint
are far ahead osthe old "Liberty party"
the later Free solers, and the more re.
cent Republicans. True, these all held
many things in common with the Carl
sonians; but they repudiated their ex.
treme views, and professed to have a
reverence for the Constitution and love
for the Union.
The Garrisonians or ultra Abolition
lists, on the other hand. detosted uoth.-
They were open and avowed disunonists.
They denounced the Constitution as "a
covenant with death and league with
hell" Consequently they refused to
vote or accept an Office that required
them to swear to support the Constitu-
ton.
A few of the Garrisonans had united
with the Republicans; but it is signih-
cant fact that the great body Of them
stood aoof until after the war broke out.
Gradually they came into the ranks, as
their views became incorporated into the
war policy of the Administration. The
incorporation was accomplished by set
Ting upon two points First, that sla-
very was the cause Of the war and must
be exterminated "root and branch rs
j ohm Brough has it; and secondly, that
in its struggle for self-pleservation, the
National Government was vested with
powers not delegated by the Constitution
and in fact with powers which it was ior-
hidden by that instrument to assume.
The majority in Congress and the Ex-
ecutive, ignoring the pledges IN ade at the
beginning of hostiites, that the war on
oar part was to establish the supremacy
of the Constitution, preserve the Union,
and maintain the rights of all the States
unimpaired, proceeded to carry out in
, practice the foregoing assumptions. The
, Garrisonians or ultra AbolitioniSts, see
ing that under the new policy Of the Ad
mlnstration, slavery was to be totally
extinguished, and that the Constitution
was to yield to a supposed "higher law
of necessity and justice, because ardent
supporters of the Administration, and
Wendell Phillips, who had been, accor
ding to his own public statement, Dis
unionist for nineteen years, was all a
, once, with views unchanged, transformed
= into fierce Unionist and an ardent "loy
al man" after the improved new Aboli
! tion style.
The Garrisonans could now withou
scruplc vote and hold Office. They could
now swear to support the Constitution
when it was to be controlled and its (to
them) obnoxious provisions set at naught
by ''higher law" and especially could
they swear allegiance to Government
which they regarded as wholly commit
ted to their views. Tho Garrisonians
stand upon the same Disunion and anti
, Constitution platform they have eve
a done. They have not changed par
ticle in this respect 1t was not that the
went down to meet the Republican o
- Administration party, but the latte
:, came up to them There they all stan
y to day-Garrison, Wendell Phillips
a. Greeley, John Brough, and all who be
+ lieve in them and accept them as leaders
:. Is it not enough to make a Republican
,s Of three or four years ago, or even a
It old Liberty party" man of an Garlic
date, hang his head with very shame TO b
G asked to support a candidate for Cover
s nor of Ohio, who is found politically il
n such company How can such man
It to say nothing Of Democrats and othe
IS conservatives, avoid feeling it burning
,e disgrace that candidate was. by Stat
,t Convention respectable for numbers
,r nominated for Governor OF Ohio, aitc
y having just declared in public speec
F. that the Northern people could never ad
,e nit the institution of slavery into til
Ie country, even upon an adjustment of ii
=, present difficulties, and that there was
d large discretionary power vested in tt
If hands of our rulers without warrant i
Y the Constitution. thus fully committin
q himself to the extreme views of the ultl
= Disunion Abolitionists