Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1863-05-28
tThe BioOd OF the Martyrs is the
seed OF the Church.

We surrender large portion OF to.days
paper to the publication Of the evidence CIV
en- on the trial of Hon. G. l.. VALlAsDloHAh
before Court. Martial convened by General
BrRyslpy In obedience to orders of ABRAHAM
I.Sco1s. The Newark Adrocots very truth
fully saws, every thoughtful citizen will per-
sue this evidence with lively interest; but all
may not think Of the Importance Of laying It
away for future reference. We, therefore,
enjoin on our readers to preserve this paper,
that not only themselves, but their children
after them may know the fimsy pretcxts on
which distinguished American statesman,
eminent alike for his learning and for the
purity of his private life, was stripped of his |
liberty aud sent into exile by a Republican
Administration.
We thank God that ADRAuAa LINCOLN and
his Administration are not the American Gov
ernment. II the contrary we're the case, q
persistence In such arbitrary violations of the
Constitution and Law as have occurred 10 the
outrages on Mr.. VALLASpIoHAM, could not fail
TO weaken that hold on the hearts of the peo.
! pie which constitutes the only assurance of
remember the truth so well expressed by Mr..
SEWARD to Mr.. ADAMS, that the Administra.
! ton is one thing and the Government is an.
| other
Tho day Is coming (and Of this our readers
be assuIed,) when the people, in their own
seli,intcrest, and in their own Unborn love of
right and Justice, will awake to the existing
condition of things and apply the remedy
They will not--they can not, fail to think, in
silence though it may be, of the liberty Of
Speech and OF the Press which has existed
, under past Administrations of the Govern
ment as contraoted with the tyranny which
now seeks to deprive the People of all utter
ance except as It agrees with the views Of
persons in po,ocr and Office. They will remem-
Der that in all the history of the Demo cratic
! party, in war and in peace, its acts and its
, policy, both as to Great Britain in 1872, and
Mexico in $40. were ever open to unrestrain'
criticism and dcnunciation, aud that the pub
lie enemy we're told from the Senate Chamber,
that our brave troops, marching under the
starry banner OF the Union. sh onld be swell
coined with bloody hands to hospitablc graves.
Under all this license o f speech the Demo-
cratic Administrations never trammelcl the
liberty of FREQ discussion, bat under their
able management and wise policy the Union
went forward incrt asing in strength and great
ness. Never since the foundation of the Gov
erument, has Democratic Administration
used Its power to stop tho fullest criticism of
its acts, o r to check the widest and most de
iamatory denupciations of its policy. Was
this course wrong Ought the Democratic
( National Administrations to have'dcclared the
!, course OF the kholitionists inconsistent witt
u the peace OF the country, and therefore stop
J. ped their speakers by arbitrary forcei Ough
e President PIERCE, believing. as he did, tina
u the course Of HALE, CHASE, and others il
1853, was weakening the peace OF tho coun
u try and destroying the power of his Admins
tration to keep the strength Of the Union un-
impaired ought he to have arrested these
cultivators of the bitterness which has has 70
-, suited in civil war and sent them into ban
ishment 2 when Democratic President be
licvcd that n Massachusetts, "Aid Society," in
, Kansas, was kindling civil war in that terrific.
q ry, and was not "loyaP' to the Union, sho d
, he have ordered U S troops to try members
l. of that Society by Court Martial for sucl
acts and opinions as he chose TO consider
"disloyal Z" These are questions which
sound.thinking, well'meaning men who have
a voted with the Republican party will ask
D themselves in silence. Arbitrary power wa.
7 within the grasp of former Presidents as wei
as OF Mr.. LINCOLN. They abstainod from il,
J use because it was in violation of the Consti.
: tuition and because they trusted to the actor
y of a free and intelligent people as furnishing
= the true and only legitimate remedy for al
existing evils. Did they do wrong