Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1863-01-22
NEW SERIES-VOL. 24-NO. 40.

ed unavaiing-,bc southern heart was
hred-thc fatal blow was struck at
l Charleston, and Kentucky herself was in.
8 vaded and seized upon as a military ne
. cessity" by southern Generals. When
b example, .entrcaty, and supplication had
all failed, Kentucky was compelled to
choose between Union or disunion. She
2 unhestatingly ranged herself under tho
Ola nag oi our country, and, painful as
] the alternative was, she threw all of her
+ energies into the contest, and has respon-
ded from that moment up to this hour.
to every legitimate call upon her by the
: government Tor men or means with which
! 10 prosecute the war to a successf sful issue.
She has furnished ffy.one regiments and
two batteries for the field and the battles
Of Mill Spring, Fort Donel,on, and Shi
loh, on the Sandy, at Wild Cat, at the
. Cumberland Gap, at PcrryyiIle, and last,
though not least, at Murficc,b boro, avonch
Tor the bravery Of her troops and the skill
Of her officers.
From this brief but not yainglorioug
ailusion to the action Of Kentucky, ono
would naturally suppose that so much
loyalty and 50 much sac ifcc would have
enieared her to all her sister States, and
that her rights wo1l1 have been most
scrurulgusIy regaaIed. But has it been
p 50? Has Kentucky no right to complain
oi disregard Of those rights, and fre-
quentIy Of a wonton violation Of them.
Let this important question be answered
/ By setting forth the wrongs she has suf-
fered, and which daily increase in frequen.
cy and violence.
She has right to complain that her
neutrality has been denounced in the halls
. Of Congress az either REASONABLE or cow
ardIy or both. This is a most unkind
return to those patriotic and loyal men,
who, perfectly IN erstanding the Difficult
ties in their path, adopted the only line
( Of policy that could stem the tide Of
southern sympathy, and in 20 doing keep
safely to her mooriugs great state, which,
if it had been lost 70 the Union, would
greatly have weakened the national
stenght, ifit had not indeed changed the
whole character cf the war. But this,
I perhaps, j, an ephemeral wrong which
may eventually recoil upon its perpetra-
/ tors and be visited upon them with co.em-
po.aneous and historic contempt.
She has righ, to complain, that since
the occupancy Of hercountry by the Fed
eral troops, the rights of property have
not been duly respected. Under the spe
ci0us plea Of military necessity" farms
have been laij wa te, provisions have
been seized, forage ha, been collected,
and. ins cad OF being bought in open
market, where the supply would have
been ample and the competition fair,
Commissaries have gone with teams and
soldiers, taking grain and other commod-
tiles from the farmers at whatever price
the Commi,.aries choose to atiix to them.
and utterly regardless whether the farmer
could spare them or not, and, instead of
prompt payment, leaving in it, stead cum
/ Orous certificates, which have TO pass
through many hands before they are
properly andited, and then to pas, into the
general vortex, OF governmental claims.
Ia consequence OF this oppressive and in
eXcnsaUle; because unnecessary, conduct,
many Of our farmers have been deprived
/ of the means Of suhsistng their own
stock during the present winter, and the
consequential losses 70 them have been
ruinous in the extreme. Yet even this
might have AMI has been borne as one of
the unpleasant Concomitants that follow
the marches or eucampments OF troops;
but sail 1t 5 matter Of wonder to Ken
tuckiaus why different rule prevails on
the opposite side of the river. Why it is
that all supplies are bought and paid for
in Ohio, the government coming in as
any other purchaser, while the same
things are uncermoniously seized in Ken
tncy? Has Kentucky lost any OF her
equality with other loyal States, and, if
not, who is responsible for making a lis
paragins difference with her?
| call your attention to these as among
the many annoyauces our people endure;
and perhaps they complain less of them
because there looms up before them
more gigantic evil--one the bare content
p'a,ion Of which sickens the heal t aud
fills ali with gloomy and dreadful fore
bodinSs. | ailuie to the disturbance of
the slave property Of Kentucky.
Whether it woulI have been better for
her that the Institution had never been
incorporated in her civil polly it is use
less now to inquire. 1t was brought
from our old mother Yirsinia, and by men
who had fought through the Revolution
ary war until its triumphant conclusion.
Whatever U;ophian notions there may
be about African liberty, those men had
achieved American freedom. 1t came
among Us unincumbcred with preiudices,
and the gradual growth of century of
mutual accommodation, until the relative
rights of master and slave were fully un-
lerstood and so administered as TO lead
to mutual prosperity and advancement.
The African captive, the creature of su-
ignorance and savage cruelty.
was gra alually emerging from his low es-
tate to one of comprehension of the true
principles of the Christian religion and
human civilization. He had broken his
IDOLS and worShiped with fervor and in
ietijgence the Great Gcd of the Universe.
70 such an extent had this ameloration
that, at this day, and in this
State, to compare the American of Afri-
can descent with Catire or Hottentot pro-
yenitor would be absurd. This advance
nent has been under the tuttleage Of
humane but necessary sutjection to asu-
,erior race, and ii false humanity vio-
ates it, the result will be tina. the amer
cans Of African descent" must either re-
n,.t 70 tha ori,,ino1 Ia ba rism or narish