Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1863-08-13
frrbm Tie Cincinnati Knpuir r, julio 2gtb
AnpeCIs nf Hon Enhs. ukrn.. ar 4,


speech of Hon. John BrOugh.
We listened an hour last night to the
Hon John Bfough. The meeting was
respectable in numbers, il being a market
night on Fifth street, where it was held, =,
and the attraction Of fire works and mu.
sic would naturally draw oil the bystan-
ders and idlers to the place The crowd
was, however. far from enthusiastic, and
evidently had but little feeling in sym.
pathy with the speaker and his friends.
The speech was not the address of a
statesman, and fell far short Of the repu-
tation, as an orator, which Mr.. Brough
acquired in his palmy days. His manner
is very good, but the matter Of his speech
did not rise to respectable mediocrity
and is hardly equal to the editorials ip the
Gozete or the Commercial The mighty
the country. which we feel 30 great an in
terest in, he did not discuss, and hsrdl,
alluded to, it being question in states
mansbip which he did not care abou
graphing with. Indeed, he discusse
small and petty questions, of no publ
interest whatever.
lie was very unscrupulous in state
ment-=foy instance, he referred to Mr.
Liucoln as a very conservative and pro
slavery man when he was elected Presi
dent Who does not know that Mr.
Lincoln was as violent an Abolitionig
upon the reord as Greeley or Beecher p
He was the author of the irrepressible
conflict theory in 1858, in which he con
tended that the Union could not exist as
it had existed for eighty years-and that
it must be either all free or all slave, or
else it must be divided ! He was elected
upon platform which declared that in
the Territories Of he United States, won
in part by Southern blood and Southern
treasure, Southern property was to be for
ever excluded, even il the people Of the
Territory thus desired it. Such was the
conservative Mr.. Lincoln. whose moder
alton Mr.. Brough SO highly admired
He gave no proof whatever for any o.
| his statesments.
He declared that the plan was formed
by the Hotspurns, at Cincinnati, to breal
up the Union in 1856, if they were de
feated in the Convention. They wer
defeated both on the candidate and OF th
platform, and went home much disap
pointed, If not enraged at the result
Their candidate was either Pierce ol
Douglas. Mr.. Brough had convenient,
forgot this fact. He laid stress upon til
circumstances that the division Of tn
Democratic party at Charleston was FOL
lowed by a division of the Union. Tru
it was, but in the first we have condeu
nation of the Reprblicans-Mr. Brough
warmest friends The division of tb
Democratic party was only dangerous q
it increased the chances of the Republ
cans. Had they been a national, conse
vatve and patriotic, party, no evils wo'
have followed Democratic defeat. III
Democratic party was then the main SUP
port of the Union, just as it is now-th
only hope of its restoration lies in it
success.
Mr.. Brough labored to prove that il
former years he had been connected wit
the Dem ocratic party, and seemed t
claim honor on that account This j
indeed compliment in the Republica
standard -beared Who ever elaine,
credit for belonging to the opposition?-
No one Those who want, therefore,
good record in the future, will now unit
; with the Democrats and against Nj
Brough He tried to prove that Nj
Pugh was in some way responsible TO
the rebellion, because of his course at tn
Charleston Convention. How SO ?
Mr.. Pugh's candidate for President-M
Douglas-had been elected, not sing
State would have seeded, or attempte
to seccde, and the Union would have bee
intact to-day Mr.. Brough admittC
that he did not vote for Mr.. Buchanan f
President in 1856. This shows how i
:! tensely Abolition he was at that time
" Buchanan was the Northern candidat
and was nominated as we have said /
fore, over the desperate efforts of t
/ South to prevent it. They opposed hi
because ne was to conservative and n;
thern in his views.
Mr. Brough sneered at the Democra
Presidents, as being either Southern me
Sc or n rtneIn men without Southern pr
IS, ciples This is simply Abolition slar
Mt They were men with National princip
oil neither Northern nor Southern a
were opposed by the Abolitionists of
. North because they were not section
IS, and loved the Union and its harmony
ter than they did section. They kn
n that there must be compromise and &C
ciliation in order to arrest disunion a
civil war. This spirit MIR. Brou
" sneered at and condemned.
These are specimens of Mr.. Brougl
speech, which was tissue of misrepl
N sentations from beginning to end, and I
terly unworthy of a gentleman sspiri
ic to the Office of Governor of Ohio.
How the Soldiers are Gnduc'
, TO Endorse the Negro Policy
u the Administration.
Adiutant General Thomas. has pr
fd ished an account of his expedition do
tho Mississippi, organizing negro re
D. ments. giving plantations to negro lab
ers, and in similar occupations.
make an extract from this docume
which cotemporsry rightly charactc