Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1864-01-14

And now, solcmnly invoking the Divine
blessing, upon our mutual labors for the good
OF the State and National Governments, |
am ready IN your presence to assume the
oath OF office. JOHN BROUGH.
Gov. TOd's Last Annual Mes
sage.
We present to our readers this week Gov.
Tod Jare,ceH address to the public. It's
previty SIS its only merit, all farewells should
be brief. especially when the retiring guest
knows that he was notified to leave by u
full convention of his friends. and that on
his first visit to the executive parlor
For slobbering eulogies, and low, unbe-
coming filings, the last exhibition of the
douty Governor is sm geaeris, entirely Tod's
own, without any likeness in the past as an
executive document, and may it have no
copyists.
The vulgar filings at Mr.. .Critchfeld, the
Attorney-General, and Mr. Cathcart, the
late School Commissioner, are beneath con-
tempt. If the correspondence which has
passed between the Governor and Mr..
Crtch6eld should ever see the light, it will
explain the executive malignity against him
and show Gov. Tod to be as low and
groveling as he is unworthy of the public
trust
Mr.. Cathcart had sense and honesty en-
ough to resign his office, thing not sin
gle Republican has had brains or patriotism
enough to do This superior sense of the
late School Commissioner should have saved
him from the mean scurriity Of one into
whose hands he committed his resignation
1t would be a thousand blessings to the
State and nation, if the Tod Republicans
had the honesty to resign the places they
I'll greatly to the public injury and discredit
They prefer to hold on and steal the public
treasure. But as stealing has become a
principle with the Republicans and plank
in their platforms, we suppose we ought not
cred partizan 'disloyalty.'
Gov Tod then passes to the very 'arduous'
labors Of his Office, and all the other Offices,
and very kindly recommends that their sata-
ricS be raised Chase's 'Greenbacks" are
at such a discount that they will not buy as
much dread and butter as the old Dem
ocratic CulTency-so the people by way of
taxation must make up the loss. Now we
would like to know if the people are not in
as bad a fix as the officials =? Do they not
pay double, triple and quadruple for what
they buy? Go to your drygoods and gro
Gerry stores and see. Go to market, where,
as the woman said in Richmond, you takea
basket to carry your money and purse to
sions of the Governor, AZ to the downward
course Of financial events, are worth some
thing as an offset to the shoddy clamor of
public prosperity. SO hurry up your
| dough"
He next recommends that the Office of
Comptroller be expunged, On this we have
not, much to say. If that officer is in the
way and stands as a Watchdog between the
drafts issued by the Auditor and drafts paid
by the Treasurer, why it is, of course, dis
loyal to thus interrupt the free access to
the public crib and the Comptroller and the
Office, too should be hustled out of the way!
Make the road easy for mercy's sake. The
Statesman culogises this Legislature as
something superb, and the Journal pats the
Statesman ON the back as a good fellow
and nothing seems wrong for plentiful har-
vest but the internal Comptroller who sits
in the Kings Gate. So out with him
Gov. Tod says so.
Governor Tod-we delight to call him
Governor. because he wanted the Office
so bad-ncxt opens up a long sermon on the
disorders in the State last summer espe-
cially I'm the counties of HOLMES and
Montgomeary.. When boy the great
question of Divinity was, Has the negro
soul p Where did the human soul COM
mence-in the Baboon, the Hottentot or
the Negro? We have often asked whether
an Abolitionist had any soul or nor ?
Whether when the negro entered into the
brain the soul did not go out Of the body P
There were many evidences on the record
to5prove such a theory, and they are daily
accumulation but the strongest evidence we
! have seen that some white men have no
souls, is this part of the Governors Mes
sage. An unusual degree of excitement
in Montgomery county That Is as I'M
pudent as rich, And who, pray got up
this excitement in Montgomery county y
The mob that broke the doors of private
dwelling at the mid hours Of the night and
spirited away one of the inmates--a thing
they were afraid to do in the day time, like
all other night wanderers. Shame on all
concerned in it, and especially shame upon
Governor Tod, who writes such message
upon such Il subject :,
The same may be said of the unusual
excitement in HOLMES County" a beast
ly Government Employee got it up by
his insults to farmers wife, and but for
the desire of peace, the affair would have
amounted to an " unusual excitement,
and no mistake about it
Governor Tod's 'arduous duties, of
which he laments in such sad strains, were
the creations of his own distempered brain
in getting up difficulties and violating the
laws of the State, He had plenty of time
! to devote five or six months to politics, first
! ! to get the nominations and then to save him
! self by appearing heartily for Brough; and
! it comes with poor grace for him to COM
. plain of the great labors of his Office W hen
he had travelled even to township meetings
= to make political speeches, What the peo-
=, pie will think, knowing these things to be
u u true, of such whining about 'arduous du-
i i ties may well be imagined, Every com
q mission, %, 297 including military 10, $50,
u and civil 2, 2,442, were countersigned by the
T. Secretary of State, MIR, Armstrong, who
y staid at home and attended to his business.
! And his Private Secretary, Mr.. Hoffman,
u shows that he had man by the name of
=, Babbit to sign his letters for him.. amount
e ing to ], ,9S4 Were these duties so ardu-
= olis, to lay upon "a sofa and look at Mr..
e Babbt signing his name, that it needed a
: special paragraph in an annual Executive
! Message? But we have not time to follow
= ! this singular Message further this week.
!, We win continue the examination next
:, u week. Crisis r..
Is From Mexico.
The Steamer Columbia, which arrived at
o New York on Monday, brought highly In