Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1864-03-10

The New York Tribune has republished
from Richmond paper the following high
ly important political document:
In closing the labors of the First Perma-
ncnt Congress, your Representatives deem
it fit occasion to give some account OF
their stewardship; to review briefly what,
under such embarrassments and adverse
circumstances, has been accomplished ; to
invite attention to the prospect before us,
and the duties incumbent on every citizen
in this crisis; and to address such words OF
counsel and encouragement as the times de-
mand,
Compelled by a long series of oppressive
and tyrannical acts, eliminating at last IN
the election of a sectional President and
Vice President by party confessedly sec
tional and hostile to the South and her in
stitutions, these States withdrew from the
former Union, and formed a new Confeder-
ate alliance, as an independent Government,
based upon the proper relations OF labor
and capital.
The step was taken reluctantly, by con-
straint, and after the exhaustion of every
tameasure that was likely to secure us from
interference with our property, equality IN
the Union, or exemption from submission
to an alien government. The Southern
States claimed only the unrestricted enjoy
ment of the rights guaranteed by the Con-
stitution.. Finding by painful and protrac-
ted experience, that this was persistently
denied, we determined to separate from
those enemies, who had manifested the in
clination and ability to impoverish and de-
stroy as we fell back upon the right foI
which the colonies maintained the war OF
the Revolution, and which our heroic fore
fathers asserted to be clear and inalienablc
The unanimity and zeal with which the
separation was undertaken and perfected
finds no parallel in history. The peopl'
rose en- naasse to assert their liberties ant
protect their menaced rights. There neve
was such unanimity OF conviction, among
any people, on any question involving, s.
serious and so thorough a change OF polltl
cal and International relations.
This grew out of the clearness of tn
right SO to act, and the certainty OF the per
lis of farther association with the Month";
The change was so wonderful, so rapid, 8,
contrary to universal history, that many TAI
to see all that has been done in the logica
sequence of principles, which are the high
est testimony to the wisdom OF our fathers
and the best illustration of the CORRECTNESS
of those principles. This Government is
child of law instead of sedition, of righ
instead of violence, of deliberation insteea'
of insurrection. Its early life was attende
BY no anarchy, no rebellion, no suspension
Of authority, no social disorders, no lawles
disturbances Sovereignty was not Tor on
moment in abeyance The utmost conserrye.
tism marked every proceeding. and publ
It act. The object was "to do what was nee
I, essarv. and no more; and to do that wit
.s .s the utmost prudence" St. just, in n h
> report to the Convention of France, l79'
I, said, "a people has but one dangerous, en'
il nv, and that is Government. We adop
ed no such absurdity.
In nearly every instance, the first stepswel
L. taken legally, in accordance with the WI
and prescribed direction of the constitute
: authorities of the seeding States. "
were not RENTED by brute force or natur
law, or the instincts of reason. The cha
n. ters of freedom were scrupulously preser
:, we'd. As in the English Revolution Of 1853
as as and ours of IT'S, there was no material
RS teration in the laws beyond what was nece
We sary to redress the abuses which provoke
the struggle. No attempt was made
build on speculative principles. The enc