Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1864-01-28

included by name and necessary Implication
in the language used in conferrinp those
powers upon him is certainly carried with
III but those unnumbcrcd auxiliary powers
which arc necessary and proper and indis-
pensable 70 organize our government. and
to put its departments in complete opera
ton, are, by express language, vested in
Congress, and the President can no more
touch one Of them, until he is authorized
70 do so by an express act Of Congress, than
he can establish monarchy and place
crown upon his head.
Mr.. President, this war Of races Is urged
on. 1t is urged On by infatuated reason or
by sinister design Be the cause the one
or the other, its effects 10 the country and
10 our system of government are the same
Whatever the motive may be for these reck-
less inovations, these outrageous usurpa-
tions Of power and infractions Of the Con
stitution, their consequences are the same.
| admit that a great many men abhor the
rebellion. | do, myself from my deepest
soul believe its authors have committed
the greatest crime Of which the records Of
the world make any mention but sir, If it
were necessary 1cOuld not permanently
0ire mp the Constitvfjon Of my Country and
the Liberties vLtch IL secures To tie people. 10
prereat the division Of The Uaion / would
not give up the freedom and the character
of freedom which was fabricated by Wash
ington and his immortal associates. What
would great and extended country be
worth to men who love freedom, if it be
ruled by consolidated military despotism2
| adhere to the Constitution; | will fight un-
der it and for it, and in avoiding the Scylia
Of secession, | never will willingly rush into
the destroying gulf, the Charybdis Of Abo-
lition military Capitalization and despotism;
and yet, while so many people are avoiding
the one source, OF destruction they are rush
ing heedlessly on to the other.
Sir, there is but the one definition Of 10y
atty, and that is. fidelity to the Constitution
and to all its agents, whether legislative, ey-
ecutive, or Judicial, in the Constitutional
and legal performance of their duties. All
the officers Of those three classes, and no
part of them, form the administration of
it. The Government is the Constitution
and laws Of the United States When that
government is assaled by open and audaci-
Gus rebels or by those who are administer
ing; consplring to, or by ignorance or NAL
administration subyerting it, whether from
Congress, or the President, or the army
there is no true loyalty but to defend it, the
Constitution and the laws, against any or
all those assailants
But, sir, the party in power has modified
| its purposes and its policy since the com
mencement Of this war. With the aboli-
tionists, proper, then and now the avowed
object was to wipe out slavery but the pol
iticians of the party in power, the Admin
istration, which Mr. Phillips declared to be
only committee located in Washington
for the management of the next Presiden-
tial canvass, have, as | conceive, three OBJ
jects at this time, ond these objects are ir
this order The first and paramount is tt
perpetuate their own party power at all haz
ards, and by all the means which the peo
pie of the United States will tolerate then
, to use, to continue themselves and theil
friends in Office. to have the distribution Of
the greatest and richest amount of spoils
of the largest patronage Of offices, civil and
military disbursement of revenue, that the
world has ever known. Their second pur-
pose is to annihilate slavery everywhere in
the United States; and their third one IS
after the constitutions and the liberties Of
the States are subverted by theirusrlrpation.
of power, to hold the States together upor
4 the fragments of shattered Constitution
; by the despotic, military, imperial power
, which they intend to found upon the revo
| luton and ruin of our entire system.
; Sir, in relation to the particular object be
fore the Senate ] would ask, how many ne
= gro soldiers are now in the service of the
: United States, and how many Of them ar
| prisoners? The Secretary of War reports
some fifty thousand, if | recollect Alright. =,
| | believe there is no such number.
2 doubt whether there arc, in actual servic,
half that number fit and armed for militar,
duty; but they say they will go on conscrip
| ting and enlisting and organizing until the,
raise negro force of three hundred thou
t sand. The Secretary of War, as | under
| stand, says that he intends to commence en-
| listments Of the negro population, free an
/ slave into the regular army for fire gears
y The General-in- Chief proclaimed month
: ago-I give the substance and meaning {
: his language-that we would carry on tn
IS war triumphantly TO the subjugation of tt
IS rebels, and when it closed we would plal
e our heels upon the necks of the sneaks 4
n use his phrase) who has dared to oppose Il
It war policy of the President. Sir, you cou
J, never enlist white force to do that work
4, despotism, OF crime, and of cruelty. III
S General-in-C Chief for such work must hay
m a force of Janizaries, such as she Ottoma
t, Porte had. or of Mamelukes, like that tort
1t of the Pacha Of Egypt, to execute, his vi
1r and diabolcal behests. But even those pa
re ace guards of half barbarian despots becan
ID so intolerable that they wero oxtorn'in"te
70 by tiefr employers.
rs But, sir, do these military dignitaries cor
IS template that this war is TO continue tv
e years from this time ? 1t would seem sc
), from the reported declarations of policy b
n Mr. Stanton. A distinguished man in tn
!, West, who was at one time member of tn
: other House of Congress- told me that
c Major-General in the service of the Unite