Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1863-07-02

Ed. FARMER:-llaving been Intentionally mis- |
represented as to what | should have said in a
lecture upon the sgns of the times, delivered on
Wolicrcek some months ago, and in order to set
the matter right before the public, you will do
the favor to publish synopsis of what did say. |
divided my lecture in three parts-the past, the
present and the future
In the past, descanted upon the rise and down.
fall of notwithstanding how the liberties of the
people had been subvert, d, the republics Of
Greece and Rome, and through venality, corrup.
ton and the tyrants plea of necessity, despotisms
were successfully established &c. That in the
history of nations, had no recollection Of II ma
ton that which had become divided had ever be.
came re united. &c.
As to the present, no nation had ever existed
where the people had more to fear. That we had
rebe llion unequalled in magnitude, and potent
with evil far beyond comprehension, | referred
to the extreme and unconstitutional measures of
the present administration unknown to us as q
people, &c.
As to the future, called the attention of my
audience to paragraph in the letter of Secretary
Seward to the French Minister, Mons. Ihouvc.
nal, stating that on the 4th day Of March past
the day of compromise was past; hcncelorth we
were to be Of one government and one people,
That a few days thereafter, in paper published
by james Watson W ebb, the mou.hpiece of Sew
ard, there appeared Il communication over the
signature OF 'sENEX,' stating among other things,
that State lines had been the cause of all our diff
| fcuties, ought to be obliterated, and we hence.
forth become one government and one people,
which | Interpreted to mean something, or those
| ideas would not have been put on paper. | could
make nothing more nor less, than that 1t was
thrown out rs n feeer upon the public pulse, to
ascertain how the project of II consolidated gov.
ernment would 90 down with the people. | spoke
! Of the Democratic as "A constitutional. law abb
ding party that in their history never knew of
their being engaged in political mob, and never
wished to; but on the other hand the political OPP
ponents of the Democracy, had been engaged in
every political mob that had arisen from the bur-
ming of the convent at Charlestown, near Boston,
to the recent mob at Iberia, in Ohio, and Of the
demolition of the press by that party.
! endcavorcd to show the audience the dangers
TO which our constitutional rights were exposed; !;
first in the turmoil of this great rebellion, no one
knowing where it was to end, and as to tue means
that might be resorted to in the endeavor to main
tain them, which might also end in despotism
That after the resources of the nation were eX
hausted, both men and means, the powers of Eu
| rope might combine and wipe out the last vestge
of liberty that remained to free people, and
i which they would do rs soon as they saw their
way clear, and we become hewers of wood and
drawers of water That the man who was not
willing to bare his breast to the shock when it
came he that was not willing to rise up and re-
sst the spoiler and maintain the Constitution and
laws VI our county, ucicHi lHc SioitouS
ance transmitted to us by by our father, was only
fit to become slave. No odds from what source
it came; whether from among ourselves, from
, old secesh or from the despotisms of the old
world. To this end recommended every man
to become well armed, both Democrats and Re
licans, for We should have to live under the
same government, whether it under our pres
eut power or under dcspotism. That they
should arm themselves, not with a two penny
pistol, but gun of longer range, for the time
might come when we should all be compelled to
make common cause, and that if England and
France should combine against MS the importa
ton of arms would be stopped, and from the grea
destruction of arms in the field, our common rifle
would 60 far in resisting the oppressor who dared
to undertake the sabyersion of our liberties, ant
erect upon its ruins despotsm, and we be com
PEELED to labor for the support of large standing
army to keep us in subjection; but until that TIM
arrived let the Democracy maintain its orinina
character as law abiding party, and leave tn,
A party that once claimed all the decency and al
the piety, do the mobblng as they had hitherto
DONE
+ AS to the conscript law, informed them tha
. had seen statements in newspapers that it wa
unconstitutional and void; but never having rea
it, could not say whether it was constitutions
in all its details ornot, but better opinion
that it WAS constitutional, and quoted from tn
7 tn section of the Constitution to maintain my
opinion. | remarked that it was law whcl
would be accompanied with many serious hard
ships, the term Of service being so long. Tha
under the conscrpt act, if it cost as much to pu
a soldier in the ield as it did under the draft
!. Congress had better have adopted bounty equf
: thereto, which would have secured TO the arm
, all the men they wanted.
know that it has been stated that | recon
mended resistance to the conscript law. Exactl
to the country, | recommended obedience to al
II laws. am not SO silly as to believe resstanc
h successful, and could it prove successful, it woul
contradict all my former actions, and violate tina
y principle which has ever been predominant in tn
= Democratic party. law abiding ! have nev'
- been arragned for the violation of law in all m
i. life, and at my age, is 1t to be supposed that
should violate all of my former character Bl
% no sooner than had exposed the wickedness an
y hypocrisy of the abolitionists, than the sam
20 hounds with their pack renewed, which have 70
n lowed me in series of misrepresentation an
= wing, commenced their howl, cruelty him! cruci
= him! The wners had better call off their dog
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