Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1863-10-08


Slaughter OF Our soldiers.
a gentleman who has spent the past
year ia the South, and who left Richmond
about two weeks ago, furnishes the fol.
lowing to the New York Heroid:
"The middle and poorer classes, and
the majority Of tho soldiers ia the rebel
army, do not hest ate to say, in the most
public manner, that if they felt assured
of their property being respected, they
would wish for peace tomorrow! They
say if they could come back under the
old Constitution of the United States and
that of tleir State Government, they
would cease to cry war and demand peace
The emancipation probation recruited
moic men for the rebel army than il freed
negroes. 1t exaspcrated the very class
4 Of s5othern people that we are speaking
Of and brought hem forward as vonn.
t ers without waiting to be cons criptcd.
IL was better than draft for the rebel
Government. for, in three days after its
publication in Richmond, three thousand
men, under Is and over As years Of age,
came forward and enlisted, when, before,
/ they had no idea Of taking an active part
in hostilities, and even opposed the war"
The foregoing statement of avery prev
alent desire among the mass of the peo-
/ pie in many portions Of the so-called Sc
ceded States to return to the Union, If
/ they could have their rights Of person
aud property resi- ectol as Of old nnder
our National Constitution and their own
+ State Governments, Is cortohera'ed by
many similar statements recently pub.
lished in administration journals. They
prove this-that the Southern people
have been eXasperatei and united in Ie-
( bellion by the Abolition or Emancipa-
/ ton policy That policy strengthens and
nerves the rebeliou the Democratic and
Conservative policy. which would restore
the Union with ali the rights ofthe States
uuimpaired, on the other hand, would
disarm the rebellion and produce reac-
ton against it in the South, that would
Of itself crush it out. But the Enamel.
patton policy has changed the insurrec-
ton, from what the Abolitionists alleged
it was at the beginning il such it were,
u "slavcholders' rebellion" into a rebel
lion of the masses Of the people at the
South. against the free negro war policy.
How mean. base and hypocritcal,
then, in the Journal, of this city, to as.
sert, as it does in its issue of September
26. that in from of Chattanooga, "out
brave boys have been sacrificed by thou
sands to the Internal ambition of the Val
, iaudgham faction to seize the power o
Ohio and control the State" 1t nigh
! be retorted with emphasis, and be sus
tained by the most unques;ionable evi
dence, that in front of Chattanooga, ant
on many other bloody battle fields ou
brave boys-sons, brothers, hus .ds
fathcrs-have been sacrificed by tens o
thousands to the internal (using the
Journol'S epithet) ambition and fanati-
cism of the Br2ugh facton-that faction
that bulled the President till they go,
him to issue, against his own apparent
inclination, one emancipation proclama.
tion after auotheI-that faction that
made him pledge the army and navy to
secure the freedom of the negro slaves,
and made him say in his late Springfield
letter that the promise to the negroes
must be kept-tbat faction that are vii.
ling to see the "dance of death" go on,
and the blood of our brave boys pour.
ont like water, in order to make good
that promise to Southern negIoes.