Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1864-08-11
what Peace would DO.

: If, SAYS the Dayton Empire, instead O
rejecting the overtures of Peace, made by
the Confederate Commissioners, ABRAHAM
LINCOLN had considered their proposals.
and entered into negotiations for the con.
cusion Of this horrid war, we may specify
few Of the bene6cient consequences
The call for 100000 men might have been
revoked, and our people, instead Of sacrif-
cling their means to pay bounties to volun-
tecrs, and wasting their time in soliciting
money, would have been free to attend to
their own affairs, and provide for the sup
port Of their families. t.gonized mothers
and anxious fathers would be relieved of all
apprehension that their children should be
torn from their peaceful homes to spill their
blood in fruitlcss battle.
The soldiers now in the field, might be
sent home to their wives and families, and
by their industry in the benefcicnt walks of
peace, add to the power and wealth Of the
country.
The frightful expenditure Of four mil.
lions Of dollars per day, would diminish to a
mere fraction of that sum, and the noun
tain Of taxation, looming up in such fright
full proportions, would no longer augment its
already stupendous size with every passing
hour.
We should no more read long and fright
full columns of the killed and wounded in
battle. The shocking accounts of lacerated,
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row our souls with their perusal.
The avanues to the public treasury, now
thronged with thieves, growing rich by pur.
loining the money of the people, would be
closed, and the robbers turned back upor
their own resources for livelihood.
The party bitterness now SO aggravated
as to threaten the whole country with uni
versal war and bloodshed--neighbor agains
: neighbor, community against community
would give place to the old time iricndlincs
} and we would enjoy social intercourse ant
brotherly Kindness, in the stead of hatred
and strife, and deadly feuds and animosi
: ties.
The fearful tide of vice and immortality
which is now rolling over the country like
flood, and which threatens the total corrup
ton and ruin Of the rising generation
would be stayed and turned back, and ou
children be rescued from the imminent peri
of utter ruin.
Instead of Fasts and Humiliations, fo
defeats and disasters, the whole peopl
might assemble, joyfuly, and with thanks
to the great God Of Heaven, that the crue
war was ended, and white-robcd Peace once
more returned with all her blessings.
But all these benign and most desirable
results, were contcmncd by ABRAHAM LIN
COLIN. Deliberately, and with malice afore.
thought, the frightful, bloody desolating
war is decreed to go on, and fresh levies arc
made of men by the half million.
The tears of mothers and wives must yet
flow in torrents the frightful catalogues of
dead and wounded must still shock the SEN
sibilitics the wealth of the people must
be stolen and wasted at the rate of millions
per day the perils of civil war must still
be encountered: and the paths which lead
our childred down to hell, bo increased in
number, and made still more accessible and
inviting
| Great Heavens Is there no power tc
rescue this people from the terrible doom
= which is being provided for them by thei
own maddess