Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1863-06-25


wonderful Rcsuscitniion--Io
BrOugh Come TO Ltfc--BcNnre
Ofan hmpOstOr!
We publish week or two ago, what
might be esteemed a marvellous story of
certain toads, digged out of hard pan, in
Scotland, thirty feet below the surface,
which nevertheless hopped off with un.-
impaired agility, as soon as they were
restored to air and might. Not less
wonderful is the resuscitation Of John
Drough, who, fifteen, years ago was con.
signed to political grave, from which
it was supposed he would never emerge
until the final summon of the arch-angel's
trump. But John has been diggcd out,
and now turns up, q new Tod, for Black
Republican uses, during the present cam
paign in Ohio John is President of
railroad, which does not make any money
to speak of in times of peace, but which
is coming money out of the war; and he
comes from his political oblivion, the op.
ponent of peace, on any terms, and the
advocate Of war on any terms. He is in
the interest of his railroad, and himself
Peace impoverishes, and war enriches
him. Hence he is against peace. and in
favor OF war
1t is not to be expected, under the cir
cumstances, that he viii be at all scru
pulous in the means which be imploys to
effect his ends. We find him in The char
acter Of an impostor, seeking ootes on taise
pretenSes. His imposture is of the most
hagrant sort, for in the very speech in
which he assumes n false character, he
reveals his true one With the profession
!. OF Democracy on his lips, he avows the
c Abolition creed. Claiming to be a Dem
. ocrat, he calumniates the party with all
5 the malice, bitterness, and falsehood OF
t Greely and Wade.
n For example, in his speech at Marietta
5 which was preconcerted arrangement,
# to effect his nomination over Tod, Mr.
h Brough said:
al know, to my deep chagrin, that in every in
: = stance where The Democrats have taken sue
cessfu part in the elections of this country the,
)fl have gone to Sohutern State for their man, o.
- taken man the Southern0rs had bound in bond
j" before he was nominated"
le What an impudent impostor the man
h must be who can utter this stale Blacl
es Republican lie against the Democracy
lie and yet claim to be Democrat! 1t i
1t ust what the diltest, meanest. and mos
ne calumnious ofthe Republican leaders hav,
c; been asserting ever since there was a Re
p. publican party. 1t is what Wade, ant
IN Giddings, and Becchcr and Greeley hav,
IN been operating upon, and it has been al
TX most their only party capital ever sine,
y. they had party. Van Bulen, Pierce
Ds and Buchanan -"a!l bound in bonds"-
to all "Doughfaces" ali "ruled by South
ern Slave Oligarchy." So says this i'm
postor, who claims to be Democrat.
But John Brough is not only true to
,e the Black Republicanism of the past; he
avows himself its willing tool and devotee
for the present and future. He keeps ful.
ly up with its most advanced men--its
, reckless, traitorous radicals
lie assigns two causes for the rebellion
First: 1.-The inordinate thirst for polite
al power and dominion on the part of tn,
Southern leaders," Second: "The effor
,, /, to make tie political character Of stare q
i' tie balancing power IN tie Unioa." He dis
- cusses these causes at length, and thei
llhc u DuCOUInlcul DlQck lie
'h publican as he is "You never will set
T. tie this controversy, whether by arms o.
diplomacy, until you remove the caus,
slavery that produced it,"
l. That is to say: We must haVe neiMe,
peace nor Union until slavery is aJolished
Tod was an imPostor when he claimed
d to be Democrat, while running as the
: Republican nominee; but he was not half
so base or lagrant in his imposture as
5 this man Brough. Tod did not vilify the
# Democratic statesman and Democratic
t policy Of tho past, as Brough does; nor
. did he. Ike this new impostor, lie down
on his belly in the dust to lick the slob-
Der and spittlc of old Ben Wade. Tod
voted for Buchanan and for Douglas; and
II until 1860 was n member of the Demo
:, cratic party. But Brough--soug, selfish,
# withdrew from the organi-
[ zation years ago, because better and wis.
er men were promoted to places which he
had the vain ambition to covet. Ho vo.
ted for Fremont in 1856; and did not
> vote for Lincoln because he was absent
from the State, and could not vote He
is Black Republican and a Renegade,
and all the baser and more detestable for
lying pretense of being something else and