Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1864-04-28
A Coming Judgement.
from the Bath Maine Courier.

FROM lDc bHlh Mhlue tCuIltFsI
That the people Of this country will one
day awake TO a realization Of the terrible
consequences of the policy Of the party
which came into being through the Chicago
platform and the election Of Abraham Lin
coin, VIC have not the least doubt. The pre-
liminary workings. Of that coming Judge
ment are already apparent.
The question Of the termination of the
war is being agitatcd among the people, and
the tendency is fast verging one way, in IA
vor Of peace. The bold and terrible fact
that the war this day on the part Of the
Federal Administration, is to pcrpetuatc the
abolition republican party, and for nothing
else, in having an influence upon the masses,
aided, in the guilty mislnanagcmcnt appar-
ent everywhere in carrying on the war-also,
the complete Generalization Of public hon
esty good faith and integrity on the part
of those entrusted with the management Of
civil and military affairs. Once bribe was
looked upon with horror-now the advance
ment Of the object Of civil or military
character must have gilded bait. Never
did people fall from 50 elevated a summit Of
political prosperity and integrity to 50 low a
depth Of political knayery and humiliation.
Never did scoundrclly despotism stalk forth
with so shameless a face, and commit great
or inroada upon the blood bought liberties
| Of free people than the deSpottsm Of Abe
Lincoln ! Public virtue is an exception
/ the rule being to abuse the people and cheat
! the government to the extremist limit Pc
| culation and fraud are apparent everywhere
the game is gigantic one, nothing short
er than the spoils of government and peo-
pie fast going to ruin. And every day is
fast adding to the immense accumulation Of
guilt.
Such state of things cannot long con-
tinue. The American people cannot long
be made slaves. judgement must come,
the political day Of judgement to the
guilty perpetrators of these terrible wrengs.
A We trust it will come in the silent conquer
ing power Of the ballot but fear otherwise.
Rather than that the present despotism be
perpetuated, we have reason to believ" the
people ere long will say, come revolution,
anything to recover our lost liberties 8
When that day does come it will be dark
one te the abolition traitors, the authors o.
our national sufTerings. 1t may soon come
its appearance sooner or later is inevita-
be
After all the lessons we have been taugh
in true freedom, and the experience Of th'
, nation under the harmonious working 0
the system of national State Sovereignty
| instituted by our fathers, we do not behev
the people are ready to sacrifice all-0n tn
= other hand, we fully believe they will re
deem all they have lost And the effort
, they will make to save themselves will be al
, exact proportion to the efforts made to en-
l slave themselves. The obrogated right Q
3 habcas corpus must be kept free from tn
awe Of glistening arms-the paid official
Of the government must obey the constitu
tod and the laws-the administration Of tn,
government must be taken from the hand
of unprincipled demagogues and assassin
of national freedom-thc abolition traitor
o at Washington-and transmitted to sucl
men as guided Us to prosperity and glor
. in the past, And this the people will do,
May it come before revolution lifts i,
bloody and defiant head in the North-b'
/. fore onr cities and villages are made II
n scenes of fraturnel strife, and the land shG
'o o shed tears of blood for the bitter wailir
If ,f and untold agony of that judgement Da