Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1864-03-03

A compromise between the sections was
made in that convention, in which it was
agreed that the interests of each should be
protected. The South kept faith until this
rebellion; the East had not kept faith at all.
Irepeat sir, that the first armed rebellion
in this country occurred in Massachusetts,,
and that commissioners were appointed to
negotiate peace. | will read from New
England historian to prove the fact :
"Ths was known as Shey's Rebellion. =
1t commenced 1855, and continued until the
close of 1887. The people took up arms
organized, and collected in large masses un-
der the lead of Il popular officer, who had
distinguished himself in the Revolutionary
War. They broke up Courts called to try
and punish persons implicated with them
and defed the laws and the authorities. -
The Governor called out four thousand four
hundred militia. A declaration of rebellion
was issued by the General Court or Legis-
lature, in which it was declared that hor
rid and unnatural rebellion and war had
been openly and traitorously raised and lev
led against this Commonwealth, and it still
continues, and now exists against the same.
Commissioners were subsequently appoint
ed by the Legislature, consisting of Gener-
al Lincoln-who commanded the troops Or
dered out by the Commonwealth. Honor
able Samuel Phillips, President Of the
House of Representatives These Commis-
oners were authorized to promise indemn-
ity to such who might discontinue opposi-
ton to the Government and return to their
allegiance as good citizens.
We'll. sir, we have had other rebellions
We had the whisky insurTection. That re-
belIon was so serious in its character that
George Washington sent two special mes
sages to Congress on the subject, ordered
out the militia of four of the States of the
| Union-Pennsylvania Virginia, Maryland
and New Jcrsey-to suppress 1t, and APP
pointed Commissioners to treat with the
| insurrectionists. Nay, more; he went in
person, accompanied by Alexander Hamil-
pon, then Secretary Of the Treasury, and
had conference with the rebels at Carlisle
The Father of his Country, in the true
spirit of patriotism, justice, wisdom and
policy, thought it not beneath his dignity
to treat with rebels. He did treat witt
them successfully, and the result was that
the rebels laid down their arms, and Con
gress at the next session repealed the obnoX
ious laws
But sir, this is not the only case.
come to a later and yet more pertinent anC
significant case-thc Mormon rebellion
These prohigate outcasts, who have been al
| ways hostile to your moral and political IN
: stitutions, were treated with by Commission
5 crs. -,
i Itcommenced early in 1857. The immc
diate cause was opposition to the exercise 9
Federal authority and the appointment OF
, Territorial Judge On the 18th Of Septcn
q Der Of that year Brigham Young issued
I. proclamation in the style of an indepcnden
= sovereign, announcing his purpose to resis
{ by force of arms the entry of the Unite
States troops into the territory OF Utah.
He proceeded to carry out his threat. III
organized an army, declared martial law
:. seized Government Notifications, destroye
Government property, and put the territor
in state Of complete defense against tn
j, Federal army. The Federal troops there a
t the time were overawed or rendered power
, less. The President sent Il message to Cor
grcss. which passed bills to meet the case
= large sums were appropriated, troops order
q ed there under command of General A. )
: .Johuston, in the spring Of 1893, and
e April of that year Hon. Il. W. Powell, no
l. United States Senator from Kentucky, an
: Major Mccullough were appointed Con
d missioncrs on the part Of the United State
and Colonel Kane appointed on the part {
n the Mormons. These Commissioners ca
a ried with them proclamation Of the Pres
&c dent, in which he offered full pardon
Ic all who would submit to the laws. BY Il
II conduct and fOrbCarancc of these comm
I sioucrs peacc was restored the rebellion pl
l. down. and the Federal authority once mo
ns respected The officers appointed by Il
O. President were accepted by the Monmons-
ne and order and submission have rcigncd cy
is since
r. Therefore, Mr., Speaker, is there an
id thing so extraordinary in my proposition
nd send Commissioners to treat with the Sout
. ern States =? We are told almost week
it. that the rebellion is almost crushed OF
~ that we have every advantage over these
no surgents Is it wrong therefore is it Il
cv wise, is it unpatriotic to pursue prccedei
lc- that have been set by the Father Of
Country and by his successors in Office ?
,re Mr. Speaker, We will have to treat W
- these rebels. This war commenced withC
,is cause, prosecuted without glory, will end
he discntegration and destruction il carried
,o- for another administration. Peace m
th come. The President told you so in his
yos augural address Then, sir, he was un
nic fuonced by the fanatical teachings of d
les pcrate crew who have other objects at he
ofI than the welfare, the unity, the propcrt
i'm the harmony. the freedom Of the Amer
po- people. God grant that the day OF pc
n ? NAV come soon. That it will come 500
ion or later, we all know. The powers Of
itb grcssion and resistance are alike falling
IIr, stead of supplying our armies through
,ity triotic enthusiasm, our Government is
he sorting to bribery and torcc-brlbey by
da- system of bountics, force 10y conscrptlor
nv. 1t is dcduciblo by mathematical calcula
mt that another term Of three years will tinC
ted in n condition where it is impossible, eli
for by force or bribery, to inspire your arm
- with sufficient power of aggression TO {
ON aucr the Southern people Peace must
the will ensuc, General Jackson is troquc
the referred to as having favored harsh meas
lin es toward the South, and yet we have
the authority of his friend and cotcmpora,
and Thomas III. Benton, in his THIRTY ledI
the the Senate, to the contrary.
ind The authority says that
"NIany thought that he ought to rela
and his civil measures of allaying discon
; in while South Cuolmia held the military
bel titudc of armed defiance to the I'm
ave States and among them Mr., Quincy
nee ans. But he adhered steadily to his
, at pose of going ON with what Justice requ
our for the relief of the South, '&c,-Bcai
mis- Thirty Years iie,o, page 3OS.
NV John A. Dix, now Major Genera
Ill Volunteers, when Senator in Cong
and said ON the LIST of March, lSA7, in a dc
.inst upon the Three Million Bill, that ''disu
un is better than intestine war, and agai
ldor the same speech, that