Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1863-12-10
Message OF Governor vance of
North Carolina.

.
, The public utlerancos of this gentle
man Possesses more interest Tor us, than
the declarations Of other high officials in
the rebel States, from the fact that, until
within short period, Gov. Vance has
been esteemed friendly to the old Union,
and heartily desirous of bringing hi,
State back again. 1t has been generally
believed that the very striking articles in
w. w. Hollen's paper, printed at Ra.
leigh, which condemned in such unequiv
ocal terms the rebellion, were published
with his assent and after he had revised
them. With these facts remembered, VIC
may better appreciate the very evident
change which has come over the views oil
Gov. Vance, and may guess at the cause
Of this change. The Governor devotes
,ome space and time to the question OF
subsistence. lie alleges that he had pur.
chased aud stored away $4,000 bushels
of corn, 250,000 pounds of bacon, a
quantity of rice, &c. He describes til G
blockade running as being complete
success, and states that large quantities
OF clothing, leather and shoes, lubrcating
ollie, factory findings, sheet and tin. arms
and ammunition, medicines, dye stuns,
blankets, cotton bagging and rope, spirits
coffee, &c., have been brought into the
Confederacy. T'wo thousand and ten bales
of cotton hoce Jeen sent TO liverpool, tile
proceeds Of Wdich are deposited TO tile credit
Of tile State less Me amount Of expenses Of
the VeSSei.
This functionary states that with what
they have imported the North Carolina
troops viii bo comfortably clothed to Jan.
nary, lS6o, except as to shoes and Glan.
hets. 1t strikes MS this is rather an i'm.
portant'exception. The part of the mes
sage, however, to which we desire to call
especial attention is as follows:
"W know at last precisely what we would get
by submission, and therein has our enemy done
us good servcc--aboltion of slavery, confsca-
ton OF property and territorial vassalage.
''These are the terms to win US back. Now
when our brothers bleed and mothers ard little
ones cry for bread, We can point them back to the
brick kns Of Egypt thanks to oSeward-plaiuly
in view, aud show them the beautiful clusters OF
tschol which grow in the Land of Independence,
whittier we 90 TO possess them.
"And VIC can remind them, too, how the pillar
OF fire and the cloud, the vouchsafed euidon of
Jchova, went over before the hungerng multitude
leading 6way-with apparant cruelty, from the
fullness of scrvitude. With such n prospect be
fore them, Our people will as heretofore come
firmly up to the full measure Of their duty, il
their trusted servants do not fail them They
will not cruelty airosh their own sons, slain in
their behalf, or put their shades to open shame,
| by stopping short of full and compile national in
dependence"
Here we find announced by man who
has been deemed highly favorable to oul
cause, the doctrine Of resistance to the
last against a scheme of abolitionizing
the South. 1t certainly does seem to us
that we might learn some lesson from
this, and nor persist in alternating from
us by partisan schemes, the little remain
ing nucleus of a Union element in the
Southern States .-Piqjndealer.