Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1864-02-18

elected, ne differed totally from the party
and the President elect; that they regarded
these principles as sacred, and would not
abandon them at the bidding of the inso-
lent Northern nullifers; and that if the is
sue were made between an abandonment Of
those principles and consent to a disrup-
ton of the American Union, rather than
accede to such an abandonment they would
let fifty Unions, such as the one that had
given us renown and prosperity as a nation,
be shattered to atoms? No! jackson would
have sounded the key note, and straight
way his followers would have said: 7" This
Government cannot be maintained alone by
the coercive power con6ded to it by the
Constitution of the United States; the peo-
pie must be concilated-they must be made
to feel secure in the assurance the Constitu-
ton gives them that their persons, their
rights and their feelings are so sacred that
the Government dare not lay hands upon
either" This is what jackson and his
followers would have done had he been put
in the position that Lincoln was put into in
1861, and surrounded by the circumstances
such as he was surrounded BY. The nation
would have been surrounded by this bloody
and disastrous war War, however, is on
our hands. Never since God spake the
such war and let no one offer such pro-
| fanation, as to say that the blood that has
( been shed, that the lives that have been of
| fcred up upon bravely contested battle fields,
that the suffering in camp and by the dear
ones left at home, is an acceptable sacrifice
to Him who ruleth on high. Fire and
sword and water, under the old dispensa-
ton, were used to purify the world, but
without avail; and, therefore, in the coun-
ellis of the God head, the Son, co-equa
with the Father, elected to take upon him
self the form of humanity that he might
in person establish and ordain the doctrine
of peace and good will to man. Heaven!
laws had been violated and treated with
!, contumely man was in open revolt agains
the majesty of Heaven; but, notwithstan
ding all this, it was esteemed no dishonor-
no lowering of the majesty of Heaven-fo
one of the God-head to descend to earth t.
seek to conciliate and. reclaim rebelliou
man. Wherefore, then, is it derogatory t,
} the high character of Government ik,
ours-the offspring Of conciliation and com
promise-to seek to conciiate and reclaim
! to the Union those who have arrayed them
selves in rebellion against the Government
} For this avowed purpose we have prosecu
ted, and are now prosecuting, war on tn
most gigantic and costly scale. Ii the Tn
| ion is worth all this--all this expenditure
all this loss of .lifc-all this manning ant
Sniscry.-is it not worth the price of concil
tion and compromise? When the war i
over--admitting that our armies have over
run the South-can we disband our armie
and bring home to our hearthstones and +
our arms, our fathers, our husbands, ou
brothers and our sons2 Will not that poo
:. pie have to be pacifed, and how can yo
+ pacify them except through conciliatio
$ and compromise? The fact is as true to
day as it was on the day that jackson inve:
e ted it with language in his Farewell At
dress, that this Government can not t
+ maintained alone by the coercive power col
t fded to the General Government by til
: Constitution of the United States. 1t WI
II designed by the fathers of the Union tn;
: it should be founded upon the affections
n the people. Let lis drive out of powe
c through the agency of the ballot-box, tl
S Abolitionists and their sympathizers-an
I, then I've can stand against the world
d arms