Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1863-04-02
NEW SERIES-VOL. 25-NO. 7.

letter and spirit. Whatever we have
done inconsistent with its letter and
spirit, let us undo as far as we can.
Whatever errors we have committed
that can not be undone, let us repent
1t was a compromise of conflicting inter-
ests, prejudices and passions.
BY that compromise the Union was
formed. BY compromise alone the Union
can be restored
But think l hear some indignant ABB
olitionsts cry out "NIake peace with
Shareholders | A Union with negro
slavery tolerated Never never War
rather--war to the knife" Well,
have but little objection, if they will
agree to carry it on altogether by them
selves. But differ from the Abolition
lists in this. They don't seem inclined
to consent to a Union in which slave
holders are allowed to exist. am for
Union OF any price, with slavery or with
out slavery, so that it be real Union
sincere, cordial, permanent and stable
(Applause.)
As to this strange and peculiar race Of
men which Providence seems to have
specially marked for physical labor under
a tropical sun, claim to entertain to-
ward them as sincere an interest and pity
rs the moet eager advocate for their eman-
cipation. But l have learned to distrust
the theories of philosophers and philan-
thropists
The experiment now being made with
the negro is terrible experiment. The
The civilized world will hold us respon-
sible for his fate. His condition under
his Southern masters may have been bad
let us beware lest in our ignorant and
headong philanthropy we make it worse.
We have enough to account for. Histo-
ry will hold the American nation to ac-
count for the lives of the red men, the
aboriginal inhabitants of this continent,
who have been mercilessly destroyed.
consider that a great crime. The
negro, in fixed and acknowledged in
feriority, may have suffered much. But
elevated suddenly to the lovel of Anglo
Saxon civilization, and summoned to
perform its duties, greatly fear lest his
lot turn out far worse. The sudden glare
will be too dazzling. 1t may bewilder
and blind him, and on the whole the
worst ills of his former condition, to
which habit had in large degree recon-
ciled him, may soon seem to him light
and easy as compared with the vicissi-
tudes of his new freedom. But, however
that be, is it not clear that we are pay
ing for this experiment, of at best but
doobtfui result, terrible price {?
Not alone treasure. That a nation can
labor to replace. Not lives alone, though
these are a more bitter loss. But repu-
tation, liberty, law, principles of govern
mcnt, the mystic bond by which thu. in
tegrity Of the nation was secured.
These are the blessings that we have
put in peril or lost. AS means of
weakening the Southern arms, the policy
Of negro emancipation has signally fail
ed The President never said q wiser
word than when he compared it to the
Pape's bull against the comet, vain at
tempt to subject the immutable laws of
nature to the petty projects Of mvn, and
Fl ON this the nation has wandered from
the safe road on which, for seventy years
of prosperity, power and happiness, it
| has walked.
For this it has taken the first steps on
the fatal path that leads to unknown
dangers, perhaps to anarchy and despot-
ism. Let it draw back while it is time i.
But to whatever course it may be i'm
PEELED, whatever error it may commit,
whatever disasters may be before it, the
great mass of the American people are,
/ believe, sensible, wise, moderate, and
true In the midst of the storm. that
has burst upon us their loyalty is still. /
think, pure and unshaken--loyalty not
to faction whose politics may change
with the men who lead or desert it-loy-
l atty not to an office, nor to person who
may err through ignorance or bad advise,
! but loyalty to a principlo-the principle
= of national union, of national honor, of
, national life, and to the charter in which
t the principle is embodiod--the Constitu
ton of the United States. loud and
t protracted applausc.)
, What is that principle, diversity in
Q unity? The principle by whose light the
{ States were led into union without sur
: rendering their sovereignty--like stars,
y each revolving round the sun, each hay
: ing it's orbit, its cwn diurnal revolutions,
FORMING ohe SloIlouo coHs'eu"'ioh, WIN
/ in which all are united and each is free,
t The peoples voice must be spoken and
c it must be heard for when the heart OF
: the people is stirred it speaks in thunder
# Their will must be obeyed. The desire
, to silence it on any pretext is symptom
i or incapacity or evil design on the part
y of those who express it. These three
9 States. at least--New York, New Jersey
i and Pennsylvania--bound together by
n common interests, traditions and hopes
Q by their geographical position marked
y out for peacemakers between the warning
Il elements that fret against their borders
}, these in which Washington found hi
s trials, his reverses, his suiferings and hi
: tliumph-these at least will be true t
y his teaching, will respect what he respec
II ted, love what be loved, and be guideC
J. by his spirit to the last, and even if tn
h worst should come on us-if the tide o
'e fanatcism and folly should rise still high
IS err, if the pillars of liberty should one b.
|, one be sapped and overwhelmed, eve'
+, amid the waves of anarchy or despotism
|, still breasting the food, the people will
ir lift their eyes to the memory of Wash
10 ington as the bright particular star @
lr their devotion, and holding aloit the Con