Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1863-06-25
''Aid and Comfort" TO the Rebel
Cause.

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aid and C0rnrOrt" TO shc Rebel
Cause.
The managers and leaders of tho oath
bound secret Leagues keep themselves
very busy in misrepresenting and SANDER
ing the portion OF community which does
not belong to their order, nor approve of
the extraordinary, frequent and alarming
violations of the Constitution and laws
by the Executive and his subordnates,
and the universal corruption and thieving
of the horde of CORN Grants and scoundres
who have in so many instances received
the favor and patronage of the party I'M
power. These fellows, and the papers and
stumpers in their interest, have no hcsita.
tion in styling their abiding neigh
bors, "secessionists," TRAITORS" sym.
pathizers," and other like epithets and
affirming that all the Democrats and 9th.
er conservative men, who anxiously desire
the preservation of the Constitution and
the restoration Of the Union, are "butter-
nuts" and "copperheads, who favor the
success Of the rebellion and the establish
ment of the Southern Confederacy. They
charge, too, that Democrats and their con
servative colaborers are in favor of an un-
conditional peace at once and final sep
aration.
Now all they charge in this regard is
unfounded and untrue, and all the epithets
they use towards those who will not act
with them in their corrupt organization,
are not only improperly applied, but are
absolutely false and slanderous. The only
true Loyal Union men at this time in the
State not in revolt, are the Democrats and
those who act with them, while the chief
managers in the ranks of the dominant
Abolition party are out and out Disunion
lists.
In the ISLANDERS which they originate
and put aAoat about the Democratic party
they have two objects in view, the first Of
which is to keep up constant strife such
as their infamous ISLANDERS are calculated
to engender. hoping thereby to turn the
eyes of the people away from their stu.
pendous thieving and corruption, which
exceed anything of the kind in the worlds
history; and second, being hostile to re.
| construction and the Union on its old ba.
( sis and in favor of disunion and separa-
tion, these fellows stigmatize their Dem
. ocratic neishbors as already indicated
t and print the sanders on them in their
D Abolition papers. with the object and in
tent of getting all such matter into rebel
| dom, hoping thereby to encourage jeff
e Davis Government to hold out and fight
on until its independence is achieved -
Q And thus these managers Of the "Unon
, Leauges" and Loyal Union Leagues" "
their stumpers and papers, are constantly
holding out "AID AND COMFORT" to the
rebel Government and rebel army. They
are more valuable to Davis than fifty ad-
} ditional regiments of troops would be, as
, we'll as enemies of the most dangerous
} character to the Government. Their pres
ent object is to get all the plumber they
can out of the Government and the peo-
pie, aud when that is accomplished, they
will throw off the mask and go in for dis
union and separation, and for despotic
3 Government in the North and West, in
place Of our present institutions. Many
, honest and well meaning men, inside and
outside of these Leagues, are acting with
1 the Infamous characters to whom we re-
fer; hut they do SO in total ignorance O
the designs of such wicked and corrupt
r leaders Some, we are glad to know, are
, beginning to see the object, and W here they
are drifting, and such will abandon tho
corrupt organization referred to, and Join
in with tho Democracy to save the conn
try. Any ordinary observer who will
take note Of the sayings Of the leaders
and their toadics will not be long in dis
covering that they are enemies to the old
Constitution and union which our fathers
made, and which they will incautiously y
assert is "played out" "served its day
etc, that 1--WE need stronger Govern
ment," etc. etc, all going to prove tina,
their design in The end, is, if possible, tc
overthrow our glorious institutions, and
in their stead establish a despotsm.
1t is the men we have spoken OF, and
not Democrats, who gives aid and com.
fort to the enemy, and if they had their
deserts they would receive promptly the
punishment which by the laws of the land
are inflicted for treason. But instea.
thereof they are allowed to run at large
engage in plundcrng the Government
and plotting its destruction. - Statesman