Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1864-07-28

concluded glowing parallel between Linz
coin and Washington. shall not stop TO
say whether its perusal prompts us TO cx-
claim, $50 much the worse for Washing.
tom or so much the better for Lincoln.
Laughter But the task Of parallelism
IN that direction may invite oae in another
IL is not an individual comparison that VIC
would draw between George the Third and
the President Read Thackeray on the
one hand and Wendell Phillips on the 9th
err if you desire one. Our comparison is
rather that in necessary desultory way
between their administration over rebel
lion. Lest any one should say il has the
facts Of the partisan that were relied upon,
/ let us consult and comment upon history
/ One historian says: AT that day the King
OF England bad vast means Of cOrruptng
member, Of Parliament-that large pro-
portion of both houses appear 70 have
been cxpectants Of good things which were
not 10 be had unless with the Kings con
/ sent. a member Of the Commons, prais-
/ ing with enthusiasm a speech from one Of
! the party opposed to his own, exclaimed /:
beautiful! 1t brought tears to my eyes.
But, exclaimed a bystander, your vote
was against his views" my vote yes ;
feelings arc one thing but my vote is an
other. Laughter. Has the reference
J uilN tIIC ilO tlItDiItdLlJD NHtU HlfII-
/ bers of Congress of late speak and vote di.
/ versey upon administration bills. and when
gcneralship. and consulorship, and the fat
/ drippings Of place are at executive dispo-
sal for subservicnt Legislators?
How many times did the King cause
bill to be amended to suit him If the
| President never returned but one for such
/ purpose, was it not because his legislators
! learned to mould their measures in ad-
vance,
When Wraxhal tells the world how, to-
ward the end Of Lord North's adninstra-
ton the system OF parliamentary largesse
became more refined by the bribes assuming
the form Of contracts and Jobs, whereby
the minister was supposed to command full
one hundred aud seventy voters at his ab-
solute disposal, who were prepared to vote
with him upon every question, who does
not recall the magic with which our Secre-
tary Of War changed scores of votes in one
day on the cOmmutation clause Laugh
ter That's Old Abe.
A recent abolition historian Of marked
, ability says "GcOrge III, was bent upon
. abolishing the distinction between king and
f minister, and that he stroye to conduct a
constitutional government on despotic prin-
. cirles amid corruption and disaster l.
!. the executive of "a in different light of
criticism? Are not both king and executive
examples of 'how terrible a combination
in the universe is power, ignorance, will,
and Ito be courteous good intentions? =
Have we no parallel for Ga in the familiar
description of an administration Of the
King : day by Burke-''so chequered and
spcckled, so put together piece of joinery.
so closely indented and whimsicaliy dove
tailed; cabinet so variously inlaid great
laughter and applausel; such a piece OF di-
versitied mosaic; such a tessalated pave
: ment without cemcnt; here a bit OF BLACK
5 stone, and there Il bit OF white renewed
G laughterl; patriots and courtiers; treach
f crous friends and open enemies: that il wa
r curious show; utterly unsafe to touch AM
V insecure to stand upon? Laughter an
f applause. ..--.
/, The King says an impartial historian
r had an instructive antipathy to able men
D When We recall Tandwich, one of his lord
\ of admiralty, who will not also think o
! Gideon Welles?
Thus, in the guise Of pamphleteer
wrote DIR. Franklin 10 the King: Per
, plex commerce with infinite regulations i'm
possible to be remembered and observed
, Ordainseizures for every failure, take away
the trial of such property by jury and give
it to arbitrary judges of your own appoint
ing, whose salaries and emoluments are to
arise out Of the duties Of condemnations,
and whose appointments are during pleas
ure. E" Who with the tariff and income acts
of 6i in his hand might not as truly write
to-day. Applause.
Has the speech of Lord North, ''that
rebellion was not to be deprecated, because
the confscations it would produce would
provide for many of their friends, never
, been echoed by cabinet ministers in Wash.
, ington? Laughter ''Tha's what's the
, Have not there been repeated, in the
Jacobin chambers of the Capitol, language
as bitter as this which Boswell chronicle
from the lips of DIR. johnson. ''The Amer
leans are "A race of convicts, and ought It
i be thankful for anything we can give them
q | am willing to love all mankind except al
. American Continues the biographer
his inhammable. corruption bursting int,
: horrid fire he breathed out threatenings ant
a slaughters, calling them robbers, rascals
4 pirates, and exclaiming he'd burn and des
/, troy them.
= VIII the parallel ever be completed?-
Will the blunders, and imbeclllties, anc
corruptions of the Lincoln administration
result toward its revoted citizens as those
, of George the Third :, and concluded foI
:
humiliating to our national honor, to sub
side into anarchy, to endure soparatiun,
not that the rebels of '6l were like those
of 70 in courage and persistence-bu rath-
er because the coercive blunderers at Wash
:, ington parallclcd the coercive blunderings
at London? Applause,
You are sailing on, oh once staunch ship
of state, in the hands of marines who ex-
pertinent alike with compass and rudder,
: Ayoice, "Old Gid's crew" Laughter.
May the God of our Revolutionary Fathers
save thee from total wreck upon the quick
sands of mistaken philanthropy, whittier
/ thou art headed? Oh, that this rude but
staunch Democratic ark might become thy
tender, thou much beloved ship of state
This ark which rode safely the deluges in
.. times ofaien and sedition madness, in times
of war for sailors rights, in times of the
later war when the noble Marcy lived! Then
might both ship and ark rest on the Consti-
tutional Ararat Then, as the waves and
, floods of tanaticism and impracticable phi.
lanthropy might subside, the dove could
go forth and return no more, because every
where welcomed with her oliye-branch. -
Then what if the fanatical deluge had des-
troyed the men who, North or South, scol'
!, fed at its approach? All that was worth
, saving was in the keeping of the Democrat
ic ark Then the world would see, span
ming this Western Hemisphere from the
forests of Main to the I'll Dorado OF the
Pacific, rainbow Of promise of the prom.
, Al Ill ,t,ifn in Amarina shall