Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1864-07-28
polhital.
FOURTH OF JULY 0RATI0N!!
Governor SeymOur's Attorney
General Runs a Parallel He
tween King George and Abe
Lincoln.

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fore the Tammany Society and friends, on
the occasion of their celebrating the au-
niversary day of our National Indepcn-
dence
Two years ago, sought in the democratic
ark, a refuge from delugc of fanatcsm
which threatened to engulph the Union.
! Cheers. Arrayed together, in "Coum-
bian order within that ark upon this pa
tional Sabbath day, we yet look forth on
troubled waters. Very few of the land
marks that were so familiar to this day are
readily observed. Many headlands for our
ancient rcckonings have been submerged by
floods of fanatical passion which have ris-
en- higher and higher ever since phlanthro-
py usurped at the national helm the place
of statesmansbip. Only after much strain
ing OF vision are we able to recognize the
vcncrated rights of person, speech, or
press, or greet the standard laws of com
mcrce, the wonted paternal forbearances,
the neighborly charities and the constitu-
tional barriers of our forefathers' golden
prime. The oldest review in the United
States-and for which Webster and Wood
bury wrote-publishes this day long arti-
Gle headed ''The Constitution and its De-
iects. 1t is a review, wherein, not many
years ago, the favorite title would have
been The Constitution and its excellen-
cies. " Applause.
! President Lincoln at the Gettysburg Gem
etery dedication called upon the States to
resolve that the naticn should have new
birth Of freedoml" As if the first birth,
which to-day we meet to celebrate should
be superseded! As if there was no safety
beyond this turbulence of rebellion for the
pOstority of revolutionary sires, except
through regeneration under the gospel OF
negro equality
Time does not allow us to multiply instan-
ces to prove the devastation occasioned by
this fanatical deluge Alas! it is wearsome
enough to know that our ark has been at
times almost compassless, and at other.
with its magnet disarranged by covert in
fluences; and that long drifting hither and
thither by tides which we were not permit
ted to control, the ark has at length rested
upon the Arrarat of the Constitution,
around which, for that purpose, the waters
have sufficiently subsided. Cheers
Some of us, when the abolition tcmpests
began to lower, sent out the raven He
went to and fro, to and fro, and found
naught but carcasses to feed upon. Others
Of us sent after him dove Alas she
found no rest for the sole of her foot She
has returned to the ark huttering with dcs-
pair.
VIII we, as was the patriarch of old, be
ever again permitted To send forth tn,
, dove? If we are, will she return bringin!
i'll her mouth an olive branch to acquain
us that the floods Of tanatical fury have 81
far abatcd that the topmost branches of th,
tree OF peace have once more greeted con
stitutional sunlight? Loud cheers Be
fore the physical deluge, before the insen
safe folly Of mankind, trifiing with theil
heavenly boons, had marred the purity ano
Scared the beauty Of the earth, She afford
ed a race of patriarchs and giants. Before
this later deluge of fanaticsm, and before
the insensate folly of extremists, by the
southern and temperate zones had torn the
glorious fabric of our republic, there had
been given to her statesmanly giants wor'
thy OF that earlier day which we this houI
commemorate.
When the floods had so subsided around
Ararat that the ancient family who had sur
vived the desoation were permitted to oc-
cupy the old heritagcs they avoided former
errors, and practiced and respected the an
cient virtues. Likewise will the democrat
ic family, disdaining no one who seeks ref.
uge i'll its ark, whenever the ancient land
marks re-appcar land they shall if our ex-
ertions can avail, on this gospel of our ma
ton, i'll this its Sabbath day we solemnlS
swear teach avoidance of olden error,
2 whereSoevcr they belong; and asking nC
!, newly forged virtue for their respect, wor
ship that oden as it belonged to Washing
ton, Adams, and Franklin, the patriarch
Of 10
Fellow-citizens! You are in perfect fel
lowship to-day. Have you thought tina
whatever may be the points of difference
between the North and South on othe
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cord of sentiment all the descendants O.
laration has been also read in beleaguered
Charleston and besieged Richmond
Thank Heaven for Fourth of July OF
accord amid the three hundred and sixty.
five days OF our mutual slaughter That
alike in the States Of Patrick Henry and
Marion, in those OF Hancock and Schuy-
Ter, the same remembrances of the revolu-
tlOnary heroes came to mind
The passionate legislators ut Richnond
and Washington-wh alike, pickering
extremists had no power to change
our common history of ninety two years
ago. Aye and to do them justice, they
had no such disposition.
, In our young days we all read the touch
ing fairy legend OF the brothers who quar-
relied and went their respective ways Blu
I cdcl IeCclNcu III pdTtlIgI luOuSn IL was III
anger, fairy amulet, which upon Ger
! tain hour in the year would reflect stimuli
taneously every pleasant incident Of thci
former cordiality. Thus, once year, the,
) came together in spirit, until it happened
) that by coincident contemplation Of th
fairy charm through years of estrangement
upon one of the days when the amulet helC
> its sway, they met-and in the cordial wa.
never again to part, and met with thei
asperities subdued by the anxieties an,
:, trlbuiatlons which each had undergone
l Applause.
Brothers this is the fourth year o
{ bloody estrangement between the posterlt.
> of Washington. 1t is not to-day certail
!. whice branch of that posterlty controls b.
. armed superiority, his burial spot. Never
g theless, whoever guards it, also respect
> it. Cheers.
y To-day, for the fourth time since tn
II quarrel began, we meet, all over the land
u as well in camps as in council chambers, t
II inspect the fairy amulet of '76. -Four time
q, the pickering posterity of Washington wi
q have seen reflected this Fourth Of Jul
IL amulet the pleasant incidents Of forme
= cordiality.
T. Heaven grant that when the fifth occa
u sion shall arrive, the fairy incident of broth
IS ery reconciliation shall repeat itself in ou
g national history Perhaps in that wise ma
be realized the conclusion of Lincoln's in
augural. ''The mystic chord of memor