Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1863-06-11
am, sir, most respectfully,
Milo S. HAsCALL, Big. Gen.

Editor Of tie .Se0tine1:-Wi,h this com
munication | send to you letter from
Gen. Milo S. Hascall to the Hon Joseph
X. Edgerton, member of Congres from
this district, dated indianapolis, May 9th,
mailed May Sth, and received here, by
Mrs. Edgerton, on the 9th Saturday. 1t
is generally known that Mr.. Edgerton
left here for Europe, with an invalid
daughter, on the 9th, and that he is to
sail from Boston on the 18th, so that Gen
Hascall's letter cannot reach him before
he sails, as no mail for the east leaves
this city until noon to-day. Mrs. Edger-
ton therefore handed the letter to ne to
do with it as thought proper. 1t too
important document to be withheld from
the public, for it discloses more fully than
any other heretofore published, the spirit
of the recent orders Of Gen. Burnside and
Gen Hascall
AS far as these military gentleman have
the power, the Democratic party must
cease to exist, as an organization. 1t has
dared to proclaim that it had no conf
dence in the ability of Mr.. Lincoln and
his advisers to conduct the war to a sue
cessiul and honorable termination. The
object of the Administration, if these
Generals are its exponents, seems to be to
prevent all discussion on the part Of the
Democrats of its war policy, or any dis
sent from whatever measures it may adopt
concerning the rebellion. Democrats must
speak approvingly of the Administration,
or not speak at all. No graver or more
fatal error has been committed by it, and
none more clearly exhibiting its unfitness
to be the Government, than its attempt
to put down the rebellion by denuncia-
tion and unjust persecution of the Demo
Gratis Of the North. If the Administration
was not blind to its own success, it would
see that Democrats in the North can have
no possible motive to be unfaithful to the
/ Union and the Constitution or to favor a
Southern COME deracy. And yet, acting
upon the assumption that Democrats are
disloyal, malignant partisanship is dri'
wing the Administration to tn eeXercisc
Of authority which can give it no strength
which is poisoning the fountains
Of peace and unity at DEMONSTRATING
up social, friendly and business relations,
and instigating the people of the North
to become spies upon and enemies to each
other. All the unjust imputations and
direct charges of disloyalty upon the dem
ocratic party, are burning deeper and
deeper into the hearts Of Democrats, and
pite the orders Of Gen. Burnside and
Gen. Hascall, they will think-and speak
and act. By the firesides-in the worl;
shops-on the farms-by the waysideS-
wherever Democrats may be, the policy
and acts Of the Administration will be
discussed, and approved or condemned,
as they shall be right or wrong. All the
people ask Of the Administration is that
it shall do what is right-and they must
be the iudges-for if the people do not
know what is right who shall now teach
them? Certainly no military court mar
tial can do it. Those who know them
best, know they are neither led nor en-
couraged to hostility to the Administra-
tion by the "leaders" of the party. They
are far in advance of the leaders, and
have sources of information Independent
, of them, and require to be restrained,
rather than led. Good men and wise mel
of the Dem ocratic party are daily coun'