Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1864-05-05

than fifty thousand men to the Confederate
Army. The order issued by the President
to General Saxton, dividing up and parcel
ing out the State Of South Carolina among
the negroes and entcrprising Yankees of
Massachusetts,, gives courage, energy and
enthusiasm to the men now in arms in the
Confederate States The order of the Pres
ident to his military commanders in Louisi-
ana and Arkansas, and the order issued in
pursuance thereof by General Banks to the
people of Louisiana-in which by single
dash of his pen he strikes out Of existence
the Constitution and organic law of the
State, ond by virtue of the power vested
in him as Major General proceeds to call
and hold an election, and inaugurate State
officers, and set up State Government,
and the legislation consummatcd and pro
posed by Congress, and speeches made on
this floor in support Of radicalism, is
strengthening the war. Herein, sir, is
where they find strength; the true friends of
the Confederacy in the North are radical
abolitionists and the radical press, goading
on the President to issue proclamatious and
military orders which provide food, raiInent,
strength and support for the Coniederacy.
If Mr.. Lincoln had made gift of nil
lions Of greenbacks to Jefferson Davis to be
used as bounty money in recruiting the Con
fcderate army, he could not have done bet
ter service to the cause of the South than
he has done by his silly, absurd and insult
ing Amnesty Proclamation, and his equally
absurd attempt to create State Governments
by dictatoral power. He has in effect said
to the Southern people: you shall not re-
turn to the Uuion except under such local
Governments as ! and my military officers
dictate" and with the aid Of his friends in
Congress he is enabled to add 4" in the
event Of your submission and return, your
estates shall be cOnliscated; your property,
personal and real, shall be taken from you !;
your children shall be disinhcrtcd and left
homeless and pcnnicss to starvc. under the
scorn and hatred of Northern fanatics your
lands and manor houses shall be parcclcd
out among your retainers; the negro (Frecd-
mem and the adVcnturcr hall sit and rule
at your rth-stoncs, and you, - bcggars
and outcasts--shall be forbidden representa-
! ton i'll our national councils, and be shut
out forever from offices Of trust and honor.
! Such is the language in which Lincoln and
this Congress and the preceding Congress
have spoken, and are speaking to the pco
pie Of the Southland now, sir with sucl
II prospect before them as the sequel o.
submission, outlawry, acknowledgements, so
cial moral and political degrcdations, pen
ury for themselves and their children. dc
creed as their portion, they will throw down
| their arms and submit to the terms? WhC
4 shall believe that the free, proud American
| blood which courses with as quick pulsator
! through their VEN, as our own, will not bc
! spilled to the last drop in resistance? Thi
is the source, sir, from whence comes en-
couragement, strength support and sus
| tGnancc for the Confcderntcs herein lies
! the secret Of the unity Of their action, the
prolongation Of the contest and the dcspc-
ration of The conflict produced not by any
thing said, or measures proposed by gentle
men upon this side of the House. or by any
measures proposed or policy advocated by
the Democratic party; bui by the acts Of
the gentlemen who make the charges and
the President and his military commanders.
who issue the proclamations and military
orders.
Mr. Chairman, ! have deemed it proper
to advert to the charges of announcement
to the Conicdcratcs so repeatedly made upon
this floor, and again rccur to the consid.
Grafton of the Union. Can the Union be
restored by war? | answer most unhcsita-
tingly and deliberately no, never war is
final, eternal separation. My first and
highest ground Of opposition to its further
prosecution is that it is in violation of the
Constitution and the fundamental principle
on which the Federal Union was founded
My second objection is that as policy it i
not rcconstruciyc but destructive, and will
if continued, result speedily in the dcstruc
ton Of the Government and the loss of civi
liberty to both North and South, and i
ought, therefore, Immediately cease.
In order, Mr.. Chairman, that we ma,
know what views were entertained upon tn
right as well as the cxpcdiency of cocrciny
States into submission by some of the de
parted as we'll rs living statesmen of th
country previous to the commencement o
the present war, | propose to call the attcn
tion of the House and of the country to
i, few extracts which to my mind are worth,
of consideration AT this time.
!, In lS27, during the administration o
John Quincy Adams, when the l.egisktur,
of Georgia had passed an act setting aside
the laws Of Congress regulating the inter
course with the Indian tribes within he
limits, the messages of the President, ol
the 9TH and sth of February, 1927, in rela
ton thereto, were referred to select com
mittee of the Senate, of which Colonl
Benton was Chairman, and of which Mal
tin Van Buren, and General William llcnr
Harrison, both aitcrward President Of tn
United State, We're members, The commit
tee, IN their report, (Scnatc documents
umcnt No, 60, say;
at Is believed to bc among those axiom
; which, in n government like ours, no man ma
he permitted Ia dispute that the only srcurit
for the permanent union of these States Is to Il
, ] found IN the principle OF common affection, rcs
p ting on the huss ol lconmon interest. lh" sant
tiunS OF the Constitution would he imputcnt (
retain, IN concerted ana harmonious action
, twenty four soN"I"gnttCs, hostile IN their feel
ingS toward cuch other ana acting under the i'm
pulse of "A real or imagined diversity OF interest
The resort to force would bo alike vain and M
"utury. Its frequent use would subject II, wit
1.r,. nstratlNc certainty, TO ultimate milur,
! while It's i"mporhrN success would ho NaluloS
contests, however Unequal and however tran
silent, the seeds of disuurNn Woulu p' au,hl au,rhl
sown, aud those who may ho dec 'lll'u 70 Wllll'S
them viii speedily thereafter hc cal,,. I" l' nI !
the destruction of III" iair"st prospect - Wy "
liberty which Heaven In its mercy has Nou,,
saIcd To man" The committee VIII not Cnlorg
upon the rightful consequences OF ciNil ware
They are known To he cHlHmltous to single gov
ernmcnts, and natal to coniodern'ioS.'
The prediction of the committee of th
destruction of the iaircst prospect of civ
liberty which Heaven in its mercy hn
vouchsated to man, is already in great dan
ger of being realized, and every hour tn
war is continued only widcns the separation
aud increases the danger. But, sir, | pro
pose 10 introduce the opinion of another dc
parted Statesman, Of the school of polite
to which the gentlemen ON the other side q
| the chamber belong, and for whose politica
opinions they entertain the highest regard
That profound statesman after an expert
ence Of many years in the most exalted sta
tons, and with perfect knowledge of tn
1 ! subippt upnn which hp snnla said