Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1863-08-13

opinions, whether In sympathy with Sc.
cession or not, solopg as not carried into
overt acts--the people of Tennessee
would have voluntarily returned to the
Union six months ago. And they re.
joiced in the change Of policy and his re-
moval. But the mischief has been con.
summated, aud no success Of arms, no
number Of victories can repair it. Not
only another policy. but other instrumcn.
talities alone can now restore The Union.
What, on the other hand, does the Dem.
ocratic party propose to the States and
people of the South? Not confiscation.
nor emancipation, nor CONSUMPTION, nor
execution, and certainly not the equally.
or rather the superiority of the negro
race, but tho Constitution with all its
guarantees, the rights of the States and
the liberties of the people. We would
restore the Union, and with it give them
quiet and security in tho enjoyment of
their rights, properties and institutions
OF every kind. as in the beginning of the
Government, and before fanatics and
demagogues made slavery q subject of
moral and political agitation. We prom.
ise also to ourselves, and of course to
them, free press, free speech, free cleo.
tions, Liberty of conscience and opinion,
habedS corpus, due process of law, judi.
cial tiial, trial by jury, no midnight ar.
rests, no martial law, no military orders
or commissions, no provost marshals, no
military governors. In short, we ask
and offer nothing but the CONSTITUTION
THE UNION AND THE LAWS.
Which policy, then, let me ask is best
calculated to restore the Union? Which
party best able to effect the restoration
All wise and candid men now admit thai
even if the military power of the Con
lederatc States could be broken down by
force, and her armies dissiDatcd, the fnal
settlement of this great controversy mus,
be the result of craftsmanship, not arms,
Cancellation. not force. And to whom
bnt Dem ocratic statesmen, untaintcd with
AbolitioniSm, and in whose wisdom and
integrity, the people of all sections
South as well as North and West-have
confidence can the work be surely com
mitted? Can they accomplish it, who
come with acts and proclamations of abo
ition, conliseation, conscripton anc
death?--men who are for no peace OF
union till slavery is abolished? Believe
me, the success of tho Dem mocratic tickle
this fall, in Ohio, will do more, not only
for constitutional liberty, but for tn,
Union, than such men could accomplish
in hundred years.
need not repeat my often declaret
conviction, which time has always vindi.
Gated, that the South cannot be conquere,
by force and arms. Bnt granting, for ar
gument's sake, ''the elfectual cheek anf
waning proportions of the rebellion" a.
proclaimed now again for the hundretl
time, by the organs of the Administra.
ton, and that by the second Monday in
January next, all the armies of the Con.
lederates will have been captured or des
troyed, and their remaining 1--WE hundred
thousand square miles of territory over.
run and occupied, then the hour for the
pacification Of the South and cancellation
of her people will have arrived. And
which party will most readily be heark.
ened to by them? Who, as Governor o
Ohio, will be the most efficient agent il
that great and arduous work? Yonr can
didate, committed wholly to the restora
ton OF the Union as it was; or the ca n
didate Of the Administration, pledged tt
a policy full, upon one hand, of conlin
ual exasperation and hate, and on tn,
other. Of insureection and revenge? Very
momentous are these questions; for until
that shall hevo been accomplished, there
can be neither Constitution nor Union,
and no security and no quiet in the land
nor can single soldier, till then, return
to mother. or wife. or child, or home.--
Reason together, then. men of Ohio, and
Judge wi'cly, ye who love your country
and would restore it to its former peace
prosperity and glory. Continual wa,
aud strife arc the forbidden fruits of on,
political Eden. and bear still the prima
curse, uttered in tones louder than the
voice of tho mighty cataract in whose
presence now write--'In the dav that
thou catest thereof thou shalt surely die. u
&, l.. EALLANDIGHAM.