Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1864-04-14
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BY vote Of The House Of RoTyo enta- .
tiycs at Washington, the use Of their Hall
was granted for q lecture ~ the notorious
English aboltionist, George Thompson on
the evening Of the 7th inst Thirty years
ngo this same man came to this country,
sowing the seeds ofdisscnsion and civil war.
lie made his boast ut that time, like Gar
risop aud Phillips that he was an enemy Of.
the Union aa Il then existed and was labor.
ing for its destruction In his opening
speech ON his recent arrival at Boston, he
declared that lac was unchanged and con
graduated himself and our country upon
the fact that the doctrines for which he
was once prescribed, have now become
those Of the ruling political party Of this
nation. The war now wasting and dycing
in blood this fairest portion Of the earth
he views with grim and Gcnd-likc satisiac-
ton, and justly claims it as in part the fruit
Of his own teachings. 1t was his purpose
on his former visit to our shores, then often
openly expressed, to involve our country in
such deadly struggle as the present How
well he and his aidcrs and abcttors have
succeeded every one knows and feels.
At his lecture in Washington the other
evening, taking his cue from his beloved
friends, the high dignitarics of the present
Administration, and the leaders Of It's par
ty, Mr. Thompson undertook to palm off
upon the public the falsohood that he has
ever been, and is the stcadlast friend Of the
American Union, challenging proof that he
had ever said the dissolution of the Union
must be kept steadily in view. That proof
is contained in letter published in the
Congressional GioLe, and cited in the very
Hall which he dcfiled the other evening by
his presence. 1t was written by this noto-
rious foreign intermeddlcr in 1885, TO con
spirator named Muwell, of Tennessee, who
at the time was reasonably engaged in en-
doayoring to bring about Il slave insuirCction
at the South. That the friend and abettor
of the land pirate, Murcll, should now be
the eulogist Of the traitor, John Brown, is
not strange but that his praises of the
latter should be applauded by a President Of
the United States is evidence that the union
OF these States is Of as little value in the
eyes Of the men who now control public af-
fairs, as it was in those Of the domestic
traitor, John Brown. or is in those Of the
foreign inccndiary, George Thompson. -
The following is the letter alluded to above:
DEAR Sm--Your favor of the 18th has
come to hand, and its contents have been
carefully observed. | think yGg can count
| upon the aid you demand with tolerahle
of vony orranocmonfs and can nrtrc;vo
Iabu1dant instiiication of vour views. Conid
| Tho blacks rfrart aonoroi conccIt of action
and lat ioosa tLo arm of 5ost,nctior ni,on
! their masters, and their property, so that
the judgment of God might be visibly seen
and felt, it would reach the tiinty heart -
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