Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1864-08-25

, Now call upon you to carry out your
convictions You have prciudices against
the Democratic party, and you have strong
or prejudices against me. This l cannot
e help. | know that my time has not come.
1t does not need that Republicans should
! tell me this. when ye see the fig tree put
fort its leaves, then ye may know the sum-
mer is nigh" ..
| am not going to quarrel with you. Time
will do its work. You are beginning to say
in your hearts, "thc doctrines are right,
whether the man who proclaims them is or
not. That is all care for | do not look
for personal aggrandizemcnt If did |
should have been Ma jor-G General long ago,
and had millions of money laid by as the
spoils of my part in the war. Having lost
the commission, l shall not turn around now
and sacrifice principle for any personal con
sidcrations. l say, therefore, indulge in
your prejudces, abuse me, / do not care
only vote for. the right doctrine. l an. not
a candidate for any Office. L shall not be
candidate. You need not be alarmed about
being obliged to vote for me- All | ask is,
that you listen to the words Of truth. Ask
the question yourselves is right
Whether it is not better to have peace in the
land than than war do not believe you
can find any republican, who has an ordin-
: airy amount of brains, who will not be will
ling to admit that there ought to be an end
of this war Whoever did settle anything
by fighting? Did two men every agree up
on terms of peace while at blows with each
other? Voices, no, never Did any
man ever make his wife love him by beat
ing herY, Laughter. and cries OF, No. J..
aud am going to beat her till she does love
> lp,n will hn In ha
, more he beats her the more she don't love
) him.
| would not have appeared here to-day
G but to express the immense satisfaction /
| feel for the most extraordinary change GO
S ing on in the entire country. Every neigh
d borhood can bear testimony to tho fact that
scores of men who voted for Lincoln four
6 years ago, will not vote for him in November
n next. Whereas little while ago the clam
" or was all for war, the cry now is, let us stop
c fighting and see what We can do to settle
a this question as reasonable men. five can
k not do it in four years, without spending
d any money, without increasing the public
d debt, without calling for further drafts on
% the able bodied men of your households,
d then 1t will be time enough to try war again,
c and you can elect some other man to renew
the conflict. But, for Gods sake give us
d four years for breathing spell Let our
d youths OF sixteen grow up to men Of TWEEN
)t ty, before they are taken from US. Let us
D. have more men in the harvest field and work
&c shop. Let our currency regain its proper
10 value. let us restore the observance of thC
a Constitution. Then if, i'll the language o.
c. Chandler, Of Michigan, the interests of tho
Id country demand little more dieting
Or go and take the responsibility.
=? | know the power Of prejudice the diff
nj an in bn ,f n 1ubn Ion
,e been a Wing or Republican turning
Of around and voting the Democratic ticket -
Sc But had you not better leave your party
III than ruin your country We propose
No through this instrumentality to put an end
20 to this war. We expect to elect the Dem
n ocrat or the Conservative President don't
e care by what name you call those who elect
. him. lfyou don't like the name Democrat
y scratch it off, and put on tho names of tho
II electors only-the names of such men as
will vote for sound peace candidate
1t is by the peaceable assembling of the
,, people together, to consult upon their com
i mon interest, that gives hope Of the com
. ing change. This meeting and others like
i it, are signal indications that summer is in
=. deed nigh, that mems prciudiccs are giving
, way, and they are seeing that war is no rem
q edy for the evils that atllict us.
- :. | think we will put forward peace candi-
: date. Why not2 Suppose we were to
nominate a War Democrat, pledged to pros
II ccuto the war, in what respect would such
~ ~ ticket be better than the Lincoln ticket?
h. You would have all the evils of war still
w 30 to press down, increased taxes, drafts, ant
30 the slaughter of your sons. What woulC
,,y you gain by his election over that Of Lincoln
:" You say that he would not interfere will
y, ~ the negroes South. WE'LL that ia no con
-, ~ sideraton to me. What do we care for th
II I negroes down South, when our own liber
-, ties and lives are at stake We want ;
80 man who will try compromise in the settle
-, ~ mcnt Of our national difficulties and such
- man hundreds of thousands of Repubi
"a cans are looking for. If they want a wa
N N man, they have os good a one as they coulc
II get in the person of Lincoln | would n
~ soon be drafted under him az under Wa
- Democrat. And would agree with Abra
: ham that it is no time TO swap horses Will,
~ swimming the river.
What we want is man who will go bacl
- to the policy Of Washington and Jefferson
w. ~, and Madison and Clay, men whom you useC
Z to swear by, and who settled national diff
u cultics by compromise. Such man tn
Democratic party will bring forward for tn
t. suilrages of the people When his nam
has been announced | will be ready to dis
ed cuss the relative merits of the several par
IL ties with the same freedom that | did te
en- years ago. That right have maintained
tn though prosecuted, arrested, having IN
il house broken open, my body seized, subjec
W ted to military control, banished throug
rs the Southern lines, thence aiteran abscenc
N. ofa year and forty days, | come to this wor
ro with tho same love Of liberty, the same dc
ey yotion to principles as in former years. An
" | come with the same resolution, that whetl
an or come life or death, imprisonment or exil
an evil or good fortune, | will proclaim {
o. the last hour of my life my convictions G
les truth and right, and remain forever "God
ad noblest work, an honest man..