Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1864-10-06


nisrepresenting the customs and character
ofthe South could they produce harmony; |
BY enacting laws tending TO eXasperate: by
setting the example Of revolution, in their
personal liberty laws and by nterposing OBJ |
staccs to commercial intercourse were such |
acts calculated to cnchain the States III the
bonds Of oftricndship? BY defeating laws a.
gainst the invasion Of States, as in Ohio,
and by melting serlile insurrection as i'll
Virginia and Texas; did they join stronger
or separate wider that ideal antagoniSm
which the war made so terribly actual? No
cooperation with shareholders in politics
no fellowship with them in religion no aflil-
station with them III society were such
sentiments the balm by which to soothe, or
the bond by which to bind? By disgracing
and defeating compromise, the GROWING
glory of our Union, and the genius OF its
cohesion, the condition Of its being, did
/ they not pronounce its doom, and thus jus
! tilv the grievance complained of by the
South, even if these grievances did not JUS
tiiy the bad remedy clutched at by the South
in It's frenzy? No wonder Douglas remarked
+ that 'the Republican leaders desired a dis
solution of the Union and urged war as a
means of accomplishing it. And after war
began-durng the past four years have they
not seized every opportunity to widen the
i,,, ~ binnJ oni bv nrovontino decisive
re.uits failed to make The chance or when
ofinred imnrove the chance, to restore peace
and unity? Have not their organs ejoiced
at our victories as the forerunner Of South
eru determination instead Of the harbingcr
of peace? Have not their journals even
glorlfcd our defeats, because they would
s,ill further cXaspcr.tc the Moth and rem
Il.
der iU7 ilto9oGS MI '''1' ~ ~ r ,nU re-,
ness o. p,ooH hloNc NV .no "'t' ;o; W w;
Efe1S anI 'heiF tcsl9'l'' ma r !, ~ i'os3i
bic ior the people Iliu ota'e? 1l ,,it ~ 'oo','l l
10 return 10 I''clt 'lcFianeJ Ml'iio"' ''o 'o''
oI ,iictr ll'"lilioo. anu s';.'ioot' ,,a; o ;l,
cny .n"7 Vdi t"s 'I1 III Nv ', we
ol lneir 81 galiiIItloi,' nav my no'
a'ca WIN lhe ooH'T, ~ sISinS ?'lohs.n "
O mutual nate, hlo"c 'ciio"aniP "''A iioi dpt pro'
$ pe oh!y III II common noH,ll'y "ii "iiiii"-
ton with them ohly I'D scheihes Oh ueSVruc-
o. tion! -,
MeahWhlc; IiG p''i''oS III 'iio -,ol !, W nav
t met and made their Sgh' At baltimore
/ the sectional party oil iiatc nave met aill
h renewed theif de,erii,ia'ioh 'o pursue ui'
: work OF violence 10 ll't9h 10 no o'eilurt'
A peace, 10 SUN keep 10 'hG pa'h VI SuDluca
Q tioi' rorRcot"'| a'l Cne 'oHHol'' VI li''o'H
taking their inspiration from, passion reck
!, less of the unity which only kindness can IN
=, sprc, they nominate again the chef arch
= tcct ofthis ruin; the capital delinquent il
: this evil day; the majestic criminal in thi
. hour of wantonness and blood.
g But scarcely has his name been sent a
4 broad, before the pause grows deeper, an,
. in his hush come thoughts of love, desire
j to check the strife and admonitions Of rea
son. Even the insensat, ear OF the r.bnld
g, nominee is oppressed with the heaylness o
the air about him, llc finds it his policy
to he audcnt to Ne stIil small voice ol peace
At Niagara, at Richmond, he has his ennis
sarics feeling, IN his bind and ,peurlle way
toward omething that will make him les
, odious, and his election sure. That his pro
jects failed, was owing, not alone to the alb
T. surd manner, bnt TO the bad substance O
his oycrtuos. H!s attempts to make peac
i have been as. ridiculous aS his failures t
T. make successful warfare; because he ca
- do either, hccause he lacks thG wisdom {
e the Great Magistrate, ana so iali'd that IA
~ crimes, Ike lienaS; W!H pursue ana ara
q. han down to hls ihlii because he mas prove
ic The. as IN OF Il erty ana the loe OF oi
Union; because he has been the mar,pI"I
< war and the impeachment to peaee-tne pee
pie are about to conSlen MN TO an i9hoh
,rI nlou5 late.
% This =, harsh i,,nnguage; Int @ to justify II
eau ON Senator W9dGg and winter paw
o, who have "ralgneu the freTldeht lor !
ic less IA usulpat'oh than the dGs!ructoh