Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1864-04-28
what xHas Been Gained by the
War.

About seven hundred thousand men have
been sacrificed and some four thousand mil
lions of dollars have been spent upon the
abolition idea of restoring the Union.
What has been ACCOMPLISHED by all this :?
Has a State. or a county been brought back
into the Union? Has there been Il single
consent to the Union cause in any Of the
one On the other hand, the war has ad-
ded tens of thousands to the Davis Govern
mcnt in all Of the Southern States.
| BY a glance at the map it will be seen that
the Federal forces have only penetrated
those portions of the encmys territory
which are traverscd by Manageable rivers and
railroads
In point of fact, the interior of the So
called Confederate States have not been
reached by the armies of the North, and
our opinion sit never will be permanently
held by our armies
If the South is to be subjugated and held
as conquered prisoners after the plan Of
Sumner 4 Co., you must have a guard at
every mans door in all the seeded States;
and have Provost Marshal office at every
cross-road. This will take more than mil
lion of men for the next ten years. The
people Of the North have yet to learn that
| the pen of the compromise man will yield a
greater influence in this struggle than the
sword Of the warrior.
We have a ruler who has tried to subju-
gate ten thinly populated States by over
whelming their borders with the male fight,
ing population Of twenty-four populou,
States. The three first years of his admin
istration have been spent in testing this de
lusive idea. In his mad effort to accom-
plish this, he has swept from the face o
the earth nearly one half Of his fighting
population and well nigh destroyed the con
! stitution and laws which he prctends the wa
is TO protect,
Had he read carefully the history of hi
Counterpart fool who lived many centu
ries ago that, like himself, thought h
could overrun the small State of Greece, b.
throwing into their territory two millions o
men, and met fate similar to that whicl
now awaits our republican statesman.
One Leonidas, with three hundred Spar
tans, met the two millions Of persons at
narrow pass called Thermopyle, and checkec
them to such degree that they became 81
disheartened and demoralized that they ac
| complshed but little afterwards
! Lincoln, unlike Xerxes, has had goo(
= men to fight his causc-gallant men, youn!
= men--we may say the flower OF the nation
: But in one respect Lincoln and Ncrxes ar
: alike. they both allowed raiders suffers
d contractors, lottery men, gamblers, specu
= lators, stock k-jObbors and all manner of col
h rupt men to follow in the wake of their al
: mics. Such system would destroy an
!, army or any nation. AerXes failed to cor
d ouer the States of Greece, and our Nerxe
$ will fail to conquer the seeded States. w
1t ought to have another Putarch to compar
l. the lives of XerXes and Lincoln.
d When the American people become ans
ious to have the Union restored, let thel
At delegate the old Democratic party to do
d by placing the power in their hands. Thi
le party which gave birth to the Union in us
of Is the only party which can save it now.-
oe UJnionism and Black Republicanism al
is two words so diamehically opposed to eaec
m other, that they should not be spoken Of th
- same day.-Hamilton (Ohio) True Tel
of 0yuDh