Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1863-07-30
HON. GEORGE BLISS.

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The Abolition DisuniOn Policy
| --QuestiOus for John BrOugh
/ to Answer.
There is no mistaking the Abolition
plan Of restoring, or rather Of mol re-
storing the Union. 1t is essentially
Disunion scheme, and amounts to prac.
tical annihilation of the States with their
existing rights under the CONSTITUTIONS
I And this is claimed by its radical organs
to be the policy Of the Administration.
The Cleveland Leader of the 18th inst.
in an article relating to the correspon-
dence between the Louisiana Planters
committee d the Pre- ident, says
Should the Government grant the request
of the committee, and give authority to act,
without reservation, under the existing
State Constitution, IL pouH be in dcrogation Of
the Presidents Emancipation Proclamation Of
Jdauqry last.
The Leader in the same article, allu-
ding to the movement in North Carolina,
to restore the Union, propounds this
question "How shall seeded States
offering to return to their allegiance, be
received?" and answers il as follows /:
Nofas stare States. certainly, far the President
has proclaimed freed0m foreper 10 the slaoes of The
rebel States, and hae pledged he tohote erecutipe
, potccr Of The Government 10 secure them in the en-
jourent of freedom Once free, forever free -
The Government can ot make a slave. 1t is
not in the power of the Executive (wore he SC
unI ap1 frus hn 10 p.fN 10 on s1tv
those whom his proclamation has rendered
l. free, by any terms of arrangement Tor the re
turn to their allegiance of rebel States The
executive Government has now no choice but
; to protect them in tho enjoyment of their
freedom.
The Cincinnati Gazette insists in late
editorial that the Administration chad
better retain its natural right to control
. the district during the lapse of its loca
a institutions, than to give it up" Both
these papers are leading organs of theil
t party in Ohio. and staunch supporters o
D John Brough for Governor. Their doc
trine is that no seeded State or no par
: of the territory covered by The President
/ proclamation of January /. 1868. can bC
permitted to return to the place it consti
tutionally holds n State of the Union
with the rights guaranteed by the Nation
t al Constitution. In other words, the,
d insist that there shall be no restoration o
!. the Union under the Constitution. The,
9 prefer their free negro policy to peac
q and Union, as it exists under and by vir
!. tue of tho Constituton, for the sake o
consumating that policy.
4 John Brough resides at Cleveland
q where the Leader is published. The rad
u icals claim that it is his mou.hpiece, an
ID that its sentiments are his. They cite i
Is proof utterances he made in speeches d
Marietta and elsewhere in Ohio. Thes
a' ~ utterances do seem to establish the fac
is beyond question that Mr.. Brough doe
.y advocate. in its full lenghth and breadtl
IN the negro freeing and Union dissolvin
a. policy of the Leader and the radicals
n, n But some conservative Republicans an
ls others sympathiSing with them. thin
that Mr. Brough is not really as tho
ough free negroite as he says he is. al
that in the fresh glowing zeal of his col
gs version to Aboltionism which he had f,
ey score or two of years, in the vigor
no manhood. repudiated, he may have e'
20 pressed himself hastily and incauliously
IN as new converts are apt to do. They
n, therefore, desire him to answer fairly an
squarcly without evasion the followin
questions
DO you hold, Mr.. Brough, that Il
Proclamations Of Emancipation Of SCI
,o tember %, 1862, and January LIST. 1866
&. have put it ont of he-power of the Pre-
:. ident and the Government to reoogni
~ any State as in the Union with all
rights under tho Constitution-that
holding slaves included unimpaired ?
,es Do You agree with the Leader that t
., President has now no cbaise between
ON negro freeing proclamations and the d
,an solution OF the Union: but must at
events and come what will, abide by
former? Do you regard his pledge in
ent proclamations to the negroes as OF hlg
ov- en- obligations and more sacred and bin
on ing that his oath to protect and deie
M the Consultation. and his consequent
m legation to maintain the Union? In fl
do you, Mr., Brough, hold il as an ind
,ro pensible condition to The restoration
ho any seeded State to the Union that 1
I..J very therein must be destroyed 'root q
he branch?"- Statesman.