Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1864-08-25
in 'lcrnl tenders -ifth is what you want,
vote for the Republican party.

Republican party could be found-which of
the hydrabeads was the simon pure organi.
,ation Then there was old Ben Wade and
Henry Winter Davis, and last, though not
least, his old friend Lew u. Campbell
And cheers, l do not know that L am
right, but he seems to be getting up com
bination. | suppose the fellow out at ot'
Louis would pronounce it conspiracy. |
Whether il has five hundred thousand in 1t !
or moi. do not know L hope it has. They
have issued n call for another Republican
Convention. TO be held at Buffalo. Which
is to be the true Republican ticket, and
which the false, it will be hard to tell.
Our time has come, and we will put for
ward man that can be elected. The com
ing man will be found, and discord in the
Chicago Convention will not exist. lie who
thinks otherwise, does not know the heads
and hearts of those who will be there.
FEDERAL TAX -GATuERERs, PROVOST MAR
sHALs, &c.
see men of former Republican proclivi-
ties here, the statement would have been
more true withoutthe word former, and
/ would ask them what was the condition of
things four years ago to-day2 How was it
when you were shouting for Lincoln, when
your "Wide-Awakos" we've tossing high
their oil-cloth caps? We had a nation of
thirty-four States, all peaceful and happy |
no public debt, except what might have been
wiped out by the expenditures of two weeks
now. And by the way, a supporter of Lin
coin told me to-day that we were going to !
have plenty of money soon as wealthy
man of New York was going to give to the
government million of dollars out of his
own pocketl How long would that last?
Just five hours. Why, when get on the
harness, after the Chicago nomination, |
can speak longer than million of dollars
will last President Lincoln. Cheers and
laughter
My friends, mono but the oldest among
you ever, before the present war, saw n
Federal tax -gatherer; but they swarm now
like ants ona mole hill Previous to the
present war, but few of you ever saw a
Provost Marshal, but now they are as thick
as the frogs that come up out Of Egypt, and
you, the farmers and laborers, are required
to pay their salaries. You have 800, 900
more officers to support now than you had
four years ago. And that's the way the
money goes
| don not address you thus because would
say we were wiser than you; but ] would
appeal to you TO say whether it would not
have been better to have elected Demo
cratic candidate four years ago, and have
avoided these things? We then had no
Federal tax gath"rcr, a low tariff which q
man paid if he pleased, or not if be chose.
We had currency which was either gold
and silver or paper convertible into one OF
the other at pleasure. What is it now
A voice, Postal currency" Yes, postal
currency and greenbacks And | can take
thirty three cents in the old currency of
four years ago, and go into any Of these
stores and buy more Of anything than you
can with dollar of greenbacks. 1t will be
still worse hereafter. Two months ago
greenbacks were worth one hundred per
cent. more than now, and two months hence
they will be worth one hundred per cent.
less than now. They repeat the old story
OF the continental currency, growing from
bad to worse"
"ABoUT PEACE"
Is it not better for one and all to stop
this war, and begin where we never should
have left off? Aud try to get back the I'm
ion, if it is possible; do it by constitutional
means, with peace and quiet in the land;
with no armies, no more drafts, no more
bloody battles, no more mourning in the
land, no more bringing back your sons
MANNED or sick from the camp or the hos
ptalf tell you the Democratic party will,
as far as possible, bring back the ancient
prosperity. lt will first have to remove the
great mass of wrong which has been tumb-
ling down on your heads for three years
past. 1t took our fathers many long year.
to rear up our national temple, and how
long it will take to restore its beautiful pro
portions the wisest Of us cannot tell. Bu
the work must bo begun This war mus
come to an end. 1t has been fruitless.
appeal to any supporter of the Administra
ton, and nsk what is there to show for the
s5OO0O0,OOO and tho 100000 OF men
sent into the army? Where are they?
Only when the arch angel shall sound the
last trumpet will their bones be found when
from one section of this bloodstancd land
to the other shall come flying thick through
the air all the disjointcd and scattered frag-
ments of what was once Gods living tenn
pies, to answer in the presence Of the great
white throne Of Jehovah will these 1000,
600 of men be able to respond, And who
slew them2 BY whose hands were they
murdered? Through whose instrumental
tyr For what? 10 restore the Union2
HOW THE UNION MIGHT HAVE BEEN RE
STORED.
Great God We could have preserved
the Union with ink and paper, without ci
ther guns or swords ] saw the day whel
single sheet of paper, written upon witt
fitting words, words of wisdom and concil
alton towards tho South, would have aver
ted this war, with all its wrongs and devas
taton. But those words were not spoken
The men put in power fouryears ago wer
resolved not to speak those words. The
were resolved to try the issue of war. Ey
cry man in the Democratic party, every MAJ
Of sense in the old Wing party, every MAJ
IN tho American party, voted for compro
misc, They insisted that instead of armie
we should have Peace Conferences, instcaC
of gunpowder we should use ink. Anima
ted by common patriotic impulses, they
said-We will settle these questions peaca
bly,. You shall have your rights in the