Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1864-10-06
Presidential Prospects.

The last hope of the administration and
its party for success in the election is rapi-
dly dissolving. The victories of Sherman
and Sheridan, so far from cheering the rev.
oluton in popular sentiment against Mr.
Lincoln, have but served to give it new
strength. The people do not believe that
he has either the will or capacity to convert
these successes to means for securing per-
manent and honorable peace. In his hands
they were merely additional opportunities
for the prosecution Of the wild and revcng-
full projects which have prolonged the war
and given tentold strength to the spirit of
resistance i'll the insurgent states. His
nomination at Baltimore was mistake, and
one which is now too late to rectify. He
has been condemned by both wings of his
by his adherentS is too full and complete for
sophistry to soften or present adulation to
buoy
Thurlow Weed leading the conservative
members Of the party, has denounced his
desertion of the principles to which he was
pledged in therepublican Chicago platform,
and Wendell Phillips, in behalf of ultra
abolitionists, has mathematical his duplici-
ty in dealing with the radicals whose views
he professed to adopt when he issued the
proclamation Of emancipation. Following
these, the abolition press has rebuked his
vacillaton and the corruption reigning i'll
his cabinet, until the party which rallied to
his support in the election of last year has
been turned against him to an extent which
leads thousands of them to desert his sink
ing cause in every state. The newspapers
and prominent public speakers now engaged
in his support are daily confronted with theil
own declarations portraying his unitnes.
for the position he occupies. They can
urge nothing in reply to such evidence but
the pretence that the union will be abandon
ed by Mcclellan should he be elected
The people know better, and abolition de
Chalmers and the abolition press are conse
quently driven to the necessity of conduct
ing the campaign by talsehood, detraction
and epithet Here, again, they are met by
their own testimony. The thanks of con
gress to Mcclellan, and the expressions o
tervent gratitude forwarded him by the presi
Of his skill and generalship, have armed
him in proof against present detraction
The old adage, 'give rouge rope enough
and he will hang himself, y is now impressed
upon their minds with vivid distinctness
They are condemned by facts and declara
tions furnished by themselves. II is from
the armories of Lincoln, Wade, Chase
Weed, Raymond, Hale, Fremont, Winter
Davis and hosts of the most prominent lea
ders in the administration party, the de
mocracy draw the weapons which SWEEP
down the ranks of those who furnish them
Military success will not prop the failin!
fortunes of Mr.. Lincoln. Sherman is il
the heart of Georgia, with an army Of on
hundred and twenty thousand men, ant
yet the people are united in defying-no
the government, but the administration
which he represents. Their hatred of Lin
coin and his negro policies, and degrading
terms of submission, is stronger than low
of home, or life, or any tie binding them t.
earth. The fact, patent and undisputable
forces itself upon the attention of the peo
pie, and desiring, as they sincerely do, tn
restoration of the union, they are not misle'
by the professions of unionism which Cal
accomplish nothing when we hold militar
j possession of the revolted states. - Chica9
! Times