Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1863-02-12


tFrom tho Columbus ioj sta,.fmanj
fudge r.. w. BarUcy's Indict-
nent Against the IscpubIicni
Administration.
The following is the Indictment against
the Republican party, with which Judge
BARLEY closed his speech at the Eighth
Of January Festival at the American, in
this city:
THE FRUITS or ISTRCsTfSG THE REPUBLICAN,
PARTY WITH THE ADMiSIsTRAuoH or
THE GOVERNMENT.
|. The dissolution Of the Union Of the
States.
2. A bloody, dessolating, ruinous civ.
il war.
3. More than three hundred thousand
men already sacrificed, and sent prcma-
turely to their final account.
4. Suffering, mourning, desoation car
ried into families in every neighJorhood
throughout the broad expanse Of the
country.
5. More than three millions Of men
taken from the industrial pursuits Of life
North and South, for the icallv conflict
6. \ national debt, including circula-
ting bills Of credit, Of over two thousand
millions Of dollars, already created, and
nothing beneficial to show for it.
I, More than five thousand millions Of
dollars worth Of property already dc.
stroyed by means oF the war, and yet the
prospect Of restoration Of the Union far
darker than when the war commenced.
8. The annual expenses Of the Gov
esnment increased already from about
830,0OJ,Q00 to about 81, 900, 900, 900,
and the burden still more rapidly increas-
ing.
0. y grinding, oppressive, burden Of
direct taxation to support the Federal
Government.
10, Millions Of dollars expended to
feel, clothe, support and educate the ne
gro slaves, and to purchase their freedom:
and a proposition pending for an expen-
diture for the purchase Of negro slaves
sufficient to bankrupt the Federal Gov
eminent for fifty or hundred years to
come.
IL. Fraud upon tho treasury and swim T.
ding in Government contracts to an ex-
tent unhesrd of in any other age or coun-
| try, and to cut loose from all moral or
legal restraints, the most prominent Of
fender, Simon Cameron, after his dismis.
sal from office, not only sheltered, but
| highly honored, and the operation Of the
law for the punishment of frauds upon
the treasury actually suspended by an
act Of Congress.
y. The Constitutional currency Of the
country virtually suppressed, and rags,
shinplasters, pastcboard and postage
stamps substituted; and an uncertain,
variable standard Of value created which
must inevitably eventuate in Widespread
disaster and ruin to the great industrial
interests OF the people
IL. HE Abolition Of negro slavery in
the District of Columbia, wholly unnec-
essary, and to say the least Of it, a palpa.
bic breach of good faith, simply to ap-
pcase the rapacities of Northern fanati.
cism, at the expense of driving off hun
dreds of thousands Of Union men in the
slave States into the Union Army.
II. The unceasing negro slavery agita-
ton, the confscation and and emancipa-
ton measures, at the last session Of Con
gress, and the proclamations of emanci.
patton by the Generals in the field, and
by the President of the United States,
confirming the predictions of the South.
en disunionistS as to the supremacy and
rapacity Of Northern AboIitionists; and
by these means crushing the Union men
of the slave States, and thereby produ-
cling unanimity in the South in the caus e
of rebellion.
10. The prosecution of the war-not
in that redeeming spirit and conciliatory
disposition required by the nature of the
Federal compact-but with menaces of
subjusalion and determination, beside,
aiding and facilitating the escape of fugi-
tive slaves and encouraging seryile insur-
rections.
16. The attempted emancipation Of be-
tween three and four million slaves
slaves of loyal Union men as well as those
OF rebels-by the simple edict Of the Pres,
ident.
II, An attempt to turn loose horde:
of negro slaves upon the free States tC
compete with the white lhborer and t
wrangle for social and political equality
with the white race.
IS. Thousands of good and loyal cit
liens arrested without legal warrant,
dragged from their homes, taken beyond
the limits of their States, and confined in
political Basties, without the opportuni-
/ ty of a trial and even without being per-
mitted to know the name of the accuser,
or what charge, if any, has been prefer
red against them.
10. Loyal and patriotic citizens who
are ready and willing to sacrifice all they
hold most dear, to maintain the Consti-
tuition as it is, and to the restoration Of
the Union as it was, denounced as trail
tors and disloyal persons, by political
party whose motto lis. "a Union without
/ slavery, or no Union at all"
20 The freedom AMI sovereignty Of
the States grossly encroached upon and
their total subversion boldly threatened.
II. The freedom of speech and the
freemen of the press, two of the essential
buIwarks of civil liberty, inestiamoble to
| freedom and formidable to tvrants only