Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1864-12-08
The Golden Opportunity.

''An eminent criterion" said Burke, in
his great speech on reform in 1850, FOR
wise government from q
weak and improvident one, was this tcelt
to kaaop tle best time and manner ofWclding !
tchat IL Is impossible 10 keep" IL was the |
want of this wisdom that involved this coun-
try in all the horrors of civil strife. The !
craftsmanship that was in power at the
commencement of our national difficulties,
and which is still to rule us to our ruin for
four years more, threatened the deep seated
discontcnts of great section as they would
the wild fury of "a mob that destroys mills
and power-looms. Had they had the saga
city at once to have yielded by concession,
the trouble would have soon passed away.
The minds ofa large portion of the Southern
people clung with great tenacity to the
Union. They loved it for its historical as
sociations; their ancestry, as well as our own
had helped to make it, and nothing but the
insane rage of abolition flnaticism could
have driven them out oft. But even after
the first battle of Bull Run had opened a
gulf between the sections, into which has
been poured oceans of blood and myriads of
treasure, this Administration might have
learned to yield what it was impossible to
keep. 1t was the same insane folly that ac
tuated Lord North and his followers in the
policy they pursued toward the people of
the Colonies. There was time in the out
set of the Colonial troubles with the mother
country when an ounce of concession would
have prevented disruption; but after the
first blood was spilled at Lexington and
Concord, political wisdom should have
taught them how best to yield what it was
impossible to keep. Time has nobly vindi-
Gated the exalted wisdom of the Burkes,
Dutterells, Pitts and Pawnals of that era
while it has covered with shame and con
fusion the policy of the Crown and its ad.
visers. During the continuance of the Rev.
olutionary war, Powwys, .denouncing the
North Administration, used the following
language concerning it, that might be ap.
piled to the present Abolition Administra.
ton:
"This whole war has been conducted in
delusion, every promise broken, every as
scrtion falsificd, every object rclinquished
1t was now war for the support of Gov
ernment, now a war ofcoercion, then wal
for the Constitution. Now the rebels are
in a state of exhaustion from exposure
, without suitable clothes and without fooC
for their famishing bellies; and again thes,
, half clothed, halffed wretches are discom
fitting the best troops we can send agains
them, or out-maneuvering the abest of ou
, Generals by their strategy; and thus tn
people, the House and the country hav
a been dcluded, confounded, abused and cheat
2 ed. "
5 1t is a curious study to trace the parable
$ that exists between the policy of Lord Mort
: during the American rebellion, and that G
this Abolition dynasty in regard to tn
s Southern. The same glaring errors at tn
= outset, in reference to the resources, powe
S and courage Of the colonists, were repeate
Y here ut the commencement of the civil wa
V inregard to the South. The same confidence
bombast and hectoring bravado characteriz
n the statements in regard to the movement
t of the Federal army to-day, as filled tn
il English journals during the progress of tn
a American war in reference to the King
n troops. That the end is to be similar n
e wise man doubts, and when that end come,
Y tho men who are now so willfully blind wi
!, wonder at the extent of the deusion throug
!. which they were made the victims. Th
d English King did not learn until it was to
IS late ''thc best time and manner of yieldin
what it was impossible to keep" Neitht
O will this Abolition dynasty. "They wi
h totter on in blunders to the last but whe
:, the people, in the midst of wide spread rui
/. and hopeless bankruptcy, begin to gaa
= round them with savage look for the author
v of their calamities, these fanatics will hay
: to cali on the rocks and the mountains
ID cover them from the righteous indignatiC
t. of deceived and undone people.-N.
r NepS.