Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1864-11-03
PROBATE Jrrp0E,s OFFICE, HOLMES 60, o,


PROBATE JUDGES OFFICE, HOLMES 60. o. |
Millcrsburg, October 18th, 1875 /
w. II. WALLACE, ESQ:
Dear .Sr.-Yours |
OF yesterday is received, enclosing a Lincoln
cIcctioneering document. ! have carefully !
read it before. 1t contains numerous com
ments on gdrItcd extract from the 2nd
Resolution of the Chicago Democratic Con !
ventlon. BY reading the whole of the sen
tence, you will see that the Peace spoken of
is peace "on the basis of the Federal Tn
ion of the States.
was member of that Convention, voted |
for the platform and the candidate nomna-
ted, and of course ! approve of both.
think the sooner we have peace based
on restored Union of all the States the
better 1t will be for every honest man--and
the worse it will be for those who are enrich
ing themselves out of the blood drawn from
the hearts Of brave men and the tears wrung
from weeping widows and tatherless chill
dren. In the patriotic language of General
Mcclellan, ''the Union is the one condition
of Peace-wc ask no more. This is the SEN
timent of the Chicago platform, and of the
Democratic party, your pettfogging docu
ment to the contrary notwithstanding. and
| ''can hold it to my heart as a prcciou.
JUNCTION. | enclose you the Democratic
platform, Gen. Mcclellan letter of acccp-
tance and Lincoln letter 'to whom it may
concern.
You suggest that the Chicago Platform
meets the approval of the bitter enemies
of our country South and North
| suppose you mean the bitter enemies
OF the Union as our Fathers made it. And
il so, you are sadly in error.
The constitution is the legal bond of I'm
ion. y common interest, common anccs-
try, and common destiny are the natural
bonds of Union Abraham Lincoln and
Jefferson Davis have We'd with each other
in disregarding the Constitution, thus des-
troying the legal bond Of Union they have
labored necessarily to keep up a war of kim
dred against kindred; they are constantly
working to excite the preiudices of one sec
ton against the other; and it is thus they
are laboring together to destroy that which
formed the Union of the States and to ren-
der reunion impossible The Democratic
party has al ways stood up for the legal and
natural bonds of Cnion and endeavored to
perpetuate our glorious fabric of govern
ment to the end of time. Hence we find
that the Chicago platform is sustained by
the Union men and opposed by Lincoln and
Davis, and their followers, who are "the
bitter enemies Of our country South and
t North. -
| have now given you the sentiment of the
Democratic party. suppose the enclosed
, letter OF Mr. Lincoln expresses your idea OF
1 lnloplsn: Or, rather your idea of peace
T. take it that we are all for peace, but differ
:. as to terms You have discovered that my
terms Of peace is restoration of the Uniol
); as it was, under the constitution as it is
Your terms, ifyou are Lincolnitc, is, a
IS per his letter, on the Integrity of the Who'll
- Union and the abandonment of slavery.
: The Democracy. in short consider the Tn
u ion the one condition of peace--they ask n
II more. The Lincoln party is for prosecuting
It the war to procure the abandonment O
# slavery" On this rock we split. Bccaus
the Democracy oppose war for abolition
ism, you call us ''copperheads, ''rebc
, SympathScrs. ''Butternuts, enemies o
e our country South and North" anC
other choice names.
You know full well that Lincoln in hi
inaugural, declared that war would do NJ
:. good to either side. and that after much los
Oh both sides the identical questions as t.
terms of intercourse would again he upol
+ US. You know, too, that the Constitution
II nor the laws give the President no right t
a. carry on a war to procure the abandonment
II Of slavery. You also know that Lincoln ha
II said he had no right to interfere with slave
! ry, nor no disposition to do So
J. You will not deny that Lincoln has viola
l. ted his oath Of Office, violated the Constitu
+ ton and dSregardcd the laws.
c You once opposed the abolition party
IS in the days of the old Wing party j hav,
- heard you declare that if the abotionist
/ obtained power they would ruin the country
y At the time of the Mexican war you wa
d for peace, and called my attention to Ger
= tain passage in an old book which reads
II blessed are the peace makers, for the
y shall be called the children of God" | an
u sorry you have discarded that good old book
In your language, ''is it possible that part
e has such an mhOy influence on your min,
n as to induce you to advocate
e a war to procure abandonment of slavery
l. a war that is rendening a restoration O
IS the Union impossible;
G A war that has accumulated rivers G
e blood, wrung from the broken hearted ocean
o of briny tears and lined our borders wit
&c new made graves
r a war that is fattening thieves and publ
Sc plunderers aud impoverishing the toilin
t. millions
t. \ war that must end in negotiation or i
IS despotism
ID 4 war which Davis and Lincoln, 'the er
~ VI oui Nbuhtiy Dputh -NbIti,
n are waging for niggcrs and unhallowed an
at bition.
te Have you forgotten that you and | one
ic occupied the same position on the SLAYER
re question-you Wing, and | Democrat
nc entertained the same adherence of the al
lg clifton party, and cherished the same devC
n tion to the Constitution and the Union c
le the States formed by it?
Then, ''can you hold to your heart as
rc precious JUNCTION" all the hcresies and inf
a mics of the abolition party, and advocat
the very men and measures you predicte
-. would ruin the country?
u !, stand now just where we both stoo
70 =, nearly twenty years ago, but how sadly 20
y. " have strayed after false gods.
v, Do, dear friend, throw aside the symbol
au au mfuence' party has on you, ponder We
r what the abolition party was, is, and ha
u ue accomplished; CONSIDER with care the rcsC
u u lutions and letters herewith enclosed, Civ
IL Il, due weight to what | have written and
~. ~ what | might have written, remember thu
w. ~, the Democracy were always true to tn
l., country, and that the abolition party orig
II mated with fanatics, discontents and disul
'' ionsts; reflect upon the ruin the Abolitio
party has wraught and then, if you can vo
for Abraham Lincoln may God Almight
-, have mercy on you.
III will add Your document claims an a
e; mistce will enable the rebels to repair the
IN shattered fortunes and recruit armies. Gel
- Grant says they have robbed the cradle an