Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1863-05-14

descent" to whip the Shareholders Of the
South into submission; and chastse them
for their temerity ia trying to do what
Wade had told them they might do, and
that nothing could prevent them"
While the South was to be whipped
SO summarily into propriety and the
Union again, the peskey Democrats who
were for peace and compromise, were
to be kept quiescent by the appliance of
ropes and public Bastiles.
These things, no doubt, were concocted
and planned by the conclave of Cover
nors, at their meeting alluded to, whose
sorry advice the President was induced
to follow. SO soon. however, as the
people of the North got an opportunity,
through the allot-box, to let the usur-
pers and tricksters of the Republican par
ty at the head Of the Government know
what they thought of their conduct, they
gave them to understand that they neith-
er endorsed their actions, nor believed the
sincerity of their loud -mouthei profess
sions of patriotic devotions to the Union.
Their verdict was rendered at the polls
last fall SO unmistakably that there was
no getting around it. In Difference to this
verdict. the inmates of the Government
Bastiles were reluctantly released, and
the people began, in the language of the
immortal Webster, on another occasion,
to "breathe freer and easier" and to
ventilate freely the corruption and NAL
feasance in office of the ruling dynasty.
Inspired by that instructive love of
public plunder, the vampires in order to
retain their misused and i'll gotten power
have resorted to bribery, fraud and rcvo.
luton, seeing that they cannot succeed by
fair means. An ex functionary of the
! Government, and late Minister to Russia,
Simon Cameron, has been pronouncej
guilty of attempting to bribe members oi
the Legislature of his State to elect him
United States Senator for six years.
The Republican members of the New
York Legislature have been proven guilty
of bribing Mr.. Callicut in order to OBJ
tain ma ofity in their favor. The Re
publican members of the Indiana Legis
latue, being in minority, absquatulated
rather than let the majority rule, by which
revolutionary conduct the wheels Of the
State Government have been stopped, OF
only kept going by the unwairanted, I'M
preeedented and shameless diversion o
the funds of the General Government
from their legitimate use, for this pur.
pose. Not satisfied with these high-han
ded measures in order that a majority
may rule, the General Government, thro
the Secretary of War, has next interpo
sed its authority to thwart the will Of tn
people Of sovereign State, by grantin.
furloughs to some two or three thousanC
Republican soldiers, to the exclusion 0
the Democratic soldiers from the sam
State.
While pretending that the present wa
was begun and carried on to preserve ou
Republican form of Government, tht
party in power have turned the Govern
ment into a despotism, not to preserve
the Union, but to pander to the behes
and keep in power the Republican party
The name as applied to the dominant par
ty, is msnomer, cheat and lie 1t il
no wonder that, with more power ant
patronage than were ever enjoyed by an.
previous Administration, they are com
PEELED to resort to bribery and coercion
to keep heir heads above water, Let tn
conservative Republicans who hold th
Union above party, leave such unprinci
pied leaders. and such foul party. ant
join the only and always true Union part.
-one that never carried Sixteen starred
flags, and whose leaders never. under an,
circumstances, were willing to let tn
Union slide. Join the good old Dem
ocratic party.