Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1864-09-22
The Republican "COnfidencc'
Game.

When a man is mistaken in his prophe-
sizes twenty times, men begin to doubt wheth- |
er he is really inspired. After Miller had
fixed the day of millennium, and his follow
ers sat in ascension robes for twenty-four
hours, they took them off, put on their or
d9as el"ihs1 bs Eaa IN the sd
them into belief Of his calculations had
announced slight error in his figures, and
asked them to credit him again, they would
have hooted him.
The Republican party is more credulous
than the Milerites, Their leaders have
been mistaken score of times, but they are
willing to trust score more.
For some years the favorite sneer Of the
ideologists was "Union-saver They pro-
nounced it with as much function of bitter
ness as they now do ''copperhead True,
one of their own especial pets, John Quincy
Adams, when he forgot party, and calmly
surveyed the whole country, had said, "At-
ter all, the real Union is in the heart, and
had pointed out that when the collision Of
passions and interests had destroyed frater-
nal feeling, the precedent furnished by the
present Constitution would have to be fol-
lowed, and convention Of the states would
have to re-settle the boundaries Of power,
and their future relations.
L he I mon anu lne CONSTITUTION were
good enough for the Democracy, and were
good enough for the South neither wanted
them changed in the crossing Of or the
dotting of an l.
But the Republican party was not salts
fed with the Union and the Constitution.
1t wanted the Constitution as it understood
it, not as courts eXpOunded it. Webster
said that if the Constitution depended upon
personal Interpretation, notification was as
legitimate conclusion as any other. He
was right Seward, logically, is as perfect
a secessonist as Davis. This seeded from
the Union, and that from the Constitution,
When the Republican party in its canvass,
and Mr.. Lincoln in his inaugural, overrode
the Supreme Court as the constitutional
tribunal for the settlement of disputed
rights between the states, war was apparent
to all but the blind
The moment the war was inaugurated,
the Republicans said, Let us drop party,
save the Union, and then let us discuss
principles.
The Democrats asa amass assented. There
were some sagacious men, who saw that the
Republican party would not keep faith, in
deed could not keep faith, for party faith
less to the Constitution must fail to con-
ceive Of the sacredness of any obligation.
| For more than year there was almost
unbroken unanimity at the North. The
truth then began to dawn upon the minds
of men that the war was prosecuted not
for the Union, but for an Union; not for
the Constitution, but against the Constitu-
ton; not for peace, but for anti-slavery
! Thencelorth men began to return to their
own lines, and if Mr. Lincoln at this day
meets party opposing his election, and ar
mics confronting his own, it is, simply be-
cause his party has perverted the war
| from war to maintain the supremacy of
the Constitution into war to maintain the
supremacy of the Republican party.
Let man count up the false prophesies
of the Republican leaders-false, not from
intention, but from ignorance-and see how
many they are and to what they have led.
Nobody hurt. Three hundred thousand
| killed and wounded and sick.
| Seventy-fve thousand men: Over two
millions.
Rebellion starved out in three months
Rampant in 1864.
Back bone broken at every success Not
yet
Opening of Mississippi to commerce: Run
ming gauntlet of gurrillas
Every new levy sure to extinguish the re-
bellion: Draft ordered for 9TH of September.
Paper as good as gold: Gold 240.
The people richer for the war: Prices
advanced three hundred per cent
Every campaign to be the last; But one.
Free soil. Four states making such elec-
ton returns as bayonets dictate.
Free speech; The suppression of news
papers.
Freemen Hundreds arrested without
warrant, imprisoned without crime, and en-
largedwithout trial.
National honor The abandonment of the
Monroe doctrine, and the kidnapping of
Argulles,