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

has won move lsurels in the field, and shown
a discretion aud a wisdom IN civil affairs,
which would have done honor to the old
oar n ought to be the pride of Young
America not only to SEQ that he has fair
plav and a generous support, but to secure
him an opportunity of showing what young
men can do and are destined to do in the
high places of the land as well as on the
field of battle. Loud applause. And
yet let me not seem for moment, fellow
citizens to put the great issue of the APP
preaching election on any personal grounds.
The question before us is not about candi-
dates, but about our country; not about
the relative claims or merits of Abraham
Lincoln and George Il. Mcclellan, but
about the nations welfare, and the nation
life. Three cheers for Mcclellan. In
whose hands wi IL that precious life be SAT
est? That is the question, and | do not
forget that it is question of opinion, OIL
which every man has right to form, and
every man has right to follow, his own
opinion. do not forget either, how many
honest and excellent men, in my own and
other parts of the land, with whom have
heretofore delighted to take counsel in .pri-
vate and in public affairs, have come to diff.
fcrcnt conclusions from my own. But |
have not been able to resist the conviction,
my friends, that the best interests Of the
country, aud the best hopes Of restoring the
union of the country emphatically and ur-
gently demand a change Of administration
at the approaching presidential election.
Cheers. | cannot resist the conviction
or certainly the deep and earnest apprehen-
sion-that if the policy adopted and pursued
by President Lincoln aud his supporters
during the last two years is to be persisted
in for four years to come, we shall find our
selves plunged irretrievably into the fearful
and fathoness abyss Of disunou. ! can
enter into no detailed discussion of that
policy on this occasion; nor can it wisely be
discussed, on any occasion in the hearing of
our southern enemies. ! can only say that,
in my humble judgement, it has been pol
icy fatally calculated to divide and weak en-
the councils of the north, to unite and con
centrato the energies of the south; and, be
yond all question, it has accomplished that
result, if no other. Why, my friends, the
all important end of fre-ostabshing the I'm
ion has been almost shut out of sight; so
mixed up and complicated has it been with
schemes of philanthrophy on the one side,
and with schemes of contiscation, subiuga-
ton and determination on the other In
stead of the one great constitutional idea OF
restoration. we have been treated to all
manner Of projects aud theories OF recon-
struction. There would almost seem to
have been willingness, in some quarters, 20
vie with our enemies themselves in dlscar-
ting and destroying the old constitution Of
our fathers. At one time, we have had
solemn propositions for annihilating whole
states, whole systems Of states, and blottlng
out their stars from the national banner
At another, we have heard open declara-
tons from the high places of the land, that
we never again were to be permitted to
have the constitution as 1t Is and the Union
as it was Good heavens, what else are
we fighting for? What other Union are we
striving to establish? What other consti-
tutions are we struggling to vindicate
What other constitution are our rulers and
legislators solemnly sworn to support? We
might expect sum such declarations, as these
from rebels in arms against the government,
but who can listen to them from loyal lips,
without it calling the warning words of Il
great English statesman and orator, when
he babe us "look with horror on these chill
dren of their country who are prompt rash
ly to hack that aged parent to pieces, and
put him into the kettle Of mag!cians, in
hopes that by their poisonous weeds and
wild incantations, they may regcncrate the
paternal constitution and renovatc their
father life !" Heaven save us from any
such regeneration and renovation as that.
lGrcat applause.
Fellow Citizens, we all know that it was
the success Of the republican party, with
it's alleged sectional organization and sec
tional objects, which furnished the original
occasion, four years ago, for that atrocious
and ungodly assault upon our government
which initiated this gigantic civil war
THAT so. "
We all know that the secession lead
crs Of the south, who had so long been med
itating the movement in vain, cxulted III Tho
election of Abraham Lincoln at that day
as fully believed they will exhibit again
if he is re-chosen in observation-disclosures il
supplied the very fuel which was needed toI
kindling this awful confagration. That as
sault upon tho government can never b,
characterized in terms of too severe condcm
nation; and, if railing at the rebellion or IL
authors would do any good this evening
it would be anything better than baying al
yonder moon-I would join with you in de
nouncing it until the vocabulary of condcm
nation was exhausted. But we all know thai
the whole north rose nobly up, rs one man
without distinction of party, to rcpcl thai
assault and that they have sustained the
vernment-democrats, republicans anc
conservatives alke--with all their heart,
and hands pouring out their blood aud
money like water from that day to this.
And the loyal states will continue to sustain
the powers that be in all their constitutional
action until the end Of their term what
ever may be the result of the pending cloc.
tion---not all of them, by any means AZ ap-
proving the policy Of the administration,
but all of them as recognizing its righttu
possession of the authority of the govern
ment But no consideration OF loyalty, oi
OF patriotism call upon them to so further,
I'No, and cheers. No considerations OF
loyalty call upon US to prolong the suprem-
acy of a party whose acts and part II has SO
eminently been to extinguish almost every
spark of union sentiment in the southern
breast, and to implant there in its stead a
desperate and defiant determination never
10 be reconcied, never TO submit or yield,
never again to come under rulers, whom
reasonably or unrcasonably, they have
learned to hate. No considerations of pat
riotlsm call upon us to renew the official
term Of an administration whose peculiar
policy, by inspiring this spirit of fdoSperation
and hatred, has rendered the victories of our
armies a hundred fold harder to achieve,
and has robbed them of SO many of their
legitimate results after they have been
achieved For never, my friends do victories
cost SO much, and come to so little, as when
they are wrung from foe who has been
goaded and maddcned TO despair, This sort
of goading aud maddening process may an
swcr well enough for increasing the sport at
a bull run "Good, laughter aud