Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1863-12-17
Warrington corrc.pondcncc.

w uOlnB 30, tney snOulu destroy the On-
iop. To-day they find that work done
for them by Abraham Lincoln, / mean
the work Of the destruction of the Union
Slavery in the South they never can abol.
ish. 1t is an institution ordained and
sanctioned by the Almighty, as the most
suitable condition for an inferior race
and what He ordans and sanctions can
not be moved by the efforts Of punny
men. HI|
No one here, who had access to the
proper sources of information, was at all
surprised at the radical tone and absurd
features Of the message; and, your
readers have been warned to ex.
pect the most ultra radical sentiments,
and full Endorsement of the attrocious
Whiting and Sumner doctrines, in that
document, they, too, were no doubt pre-.
pared for it. Nevertheless, a thrill of
horror ran through the breasts of the true
Representatives of the people, aud OF the
spectators in the crowded galleries Of the
House, as the Clerk read those porten.
tous sentences, in which the obscure Ill.
inois fiat boatman dared to assert, in the
presence of the past glories of the Re-
public, the infamous ialsehood that the
Southern States existed no longer; and to
declare that, if they were ever recognized
as States again, it must be after they
shall have pulled down their venerable
State governments, abolished their sa.
cred State constitutions, and, in word,
revolutionized their whole system of in.
ternal policy. The gallery was warm,
but | felt chilled to my very marrow,
when l thus heard Abraham Lincoln de-
clare that ten sovereign States, equal and
honored members of the Republic, should
never be allowed to return to the Union,
not only until they have torn down the
pillars of their State governments, aud
covered themselves with tho fragments of
thoir former glory, but, also, not until
they shall have acquiesced in, and ap-
proved of, all the illegal, unjust, and un-
constitutional acts OF him, Abraham
Lincoln, and his last infamous Congress:
not until after they shall have bowed
down in the dust, and have sung hosan.
mas over the Emancipation Proclamation
and the Confiscation Act
Such is, in brief, the pith and sub
stance of the Presidents Message. The
intelligent readers of The FARMER will of
course peruse it for themselves. The ma.
ton will never, never stand the mon
strous usurpation which is now boldly
proclaimed as the policy of the present
administration. The President dares TO
assume that all tie people of the South
ern States have committed treas on, and
are, therefore, objects of Executive clem-
ency. Does he not know that the peo-
pie can read And does not the Com
stitution plainly say that no person shall
be deemed guilty OF treason except after
fair trial by jury, in open court? Be.
sides, does not the Constitution plainly
say that those only are guilty of treason
who make war on tho Constitutional
government of the United States /? The
verdict of history will read that Abra-
ham Lincoln himself and his political ad
visers, are in that category, quite as much
as those who are arrayed in arms.
But what lmpudence it is in him to as
sumo that all the people in the South are
traitors, and to declare that they must
take test oath before they can be allow
TO vote or to exercise any of the rights of
citizenship! No doubt he thinks he is
very smart in saying that no man is COM
PEELED to take this OATH Yet his procla-
nation shows that he intends, SO far as
his power extends, that no citizen of the
South shall ever be. allowed even to vote
again until he has taken this oath. Can
anything be more monstrous? Look, for
moment, at the terms of the oath. The
owner of plantation, whose slaves have
been taken from him by the emancipation
proclamation, whose crops have been left
rotting in the ground, who sees poverty
and starvation staring him in the face in
consequence, and whose daughter was one
of those young ladies at the seminary at
Athens, in Alabama, who were subjected
to the brutal lusts of Turchin's soldiers,
this unfortunate gentleman is told that
he may vote, and that he shall have a full
pardon on the above oAenses what cruel
mockery y, if he will swear that he ap
proves, and is in favor Of, the emancipa-
tion proclamation and the negro soldiers
bill; and, if he refuses to swear, he is to
be regarded as traitor, and all his re-
naming property is to be confscated.
Such. your readers will find, is the plain
English of the message of Abraham Lin
coin, formerly cook, or assistant cook,
for mess Of four honest soldiers in the
Black Hawk war.
But still more impudent is that feature
of the message which assumes to sweep
away all the State Governments of all the
Southern States by single stroke of the
pen. This relater Of vulgar stories does
not even take the trouble to enter into an,
argument to prove that the Southern
States no longer exist as States. and of
course have no longer any State govern
ments. Oh, no! He says, virtually, TAat
has been so well done by the letter of Mr..
Solicitor Whiting of the War Depart
ment, and by Senator Sumner in his 1T
lantie Monthly article, that we will con-
slider those points settled. | refer my
discontented fellow citizens. and my
traitorous subjects in Poland,-I mean
in Alabama,-to those documents. The
old States and the old State governments
being then SO comfortably out of the
way, it only remains to set up John
Brown Government, a Horace Greely
State Constitution, and Wendell Phil
| lips and Charles Sumner State organiza
| t;nn ~ tba;. Il 1onna 1f tho o;t;yo,, II