Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1865-12-28
From Missouri.
HARRIsoNvILLE, Cass Co., Mo-,
December l3, 1865.
Dean. EApNtpu.

DcCCmUef 10, 1893.
! DEAR FARMER:
Your pleasant face made
its appearance day or two since. scan.
ned its columns with much satisfaction. 1t
really does me good to read a sterling dem
ocratic paper once more, Thinking some
of your readers would like to know what is
doing on the BORDER" | take the liberty
OF making your your columns the vehicle
of some disjointcd ideas.
You are no doubt aware that the radical
party of this State have made the New
! Constitution" their platform. This is true.
BY the movement the Bill of Rights goes
overheard with that party, and the Dra-
CONAN monster takes its place. Such is the
weight which the party have bargaincd to
carry. This is the arrangement of caucus
OF radlcals-or rather Jacobins-held in
the capital but recently.
But ! can assure you it is not the free
will of the individual minds composing this
desperate and reckless party. And the
operation Of this instrument places not a
few OF the members in most ludicrols and
contemplate attitude. With majority
of Radicals, whether Dcstructives or Libcr-
ais, there is a consciousness, and a growing
consciousness, that they cannot carry the
weight Of their constitution-that it is too
heavy for their weak backs-yet they have
been wheedled or dragooned into the dcs-
pcrate experiment Of trying it. Many of
them have said and none oftcner or more
decidedly than an influential member of the
State Senate, one Hon. Mr.. MUENCH, that
1t is wrong, wrong, wrong, and must be got
rid of; and yet, they hare Lecn made to say
that it is right and shall be maintained.
\ ooh, consistency thou art n jewel" I
think it is mere experiment, mere spite.
ful effort to grin and bear it, and it will
not, cannot last. But why do men put
themselves into such predicament? Why,
there is Gen. Brown, Gen. Blair, and
Broadhead, and Glover, and Swizlcr, and
Doniphan, and Grsscrn Of the Dispatch,
and Paschal of the RepuJHcdn, and all the
Internal conservatives who have denounced
and ridiculed the constitution and contemn-
ed and spit upon it, and it will never do to
admit that these conservatives cerc correct.
If the dcstructives could only lead off with
any grace in opposition to the constitution,
they would rejoice to do it. They feel that
in an evil hour, and by bad advice they
were induced to foist an abomnation on the
people; that it is Justly odious; and that it
must be amended; but they cannot do it in
+ the face of ''coppcrhead" demand, howev-
er plain and just. The present party de-
termination to hold it up is in order to Sc
lect better time and better pretences than
{ now exist to throw away their own work
Why do | say this? Because at the same
caucus in which they resolved to stand to-
gether in support Of their noble l?) consti-
tuition, they also resolved not to make any
more attempts to enforce it. | wish you to
remember my present prediction, that six
months will not pass away until the radi-
Gals will themselves be found in open oppo-
u,t;nn 10 thiy nn,e,;,,,t,N, 4 4.
seek to enforce it, because they are afraid
to further harrass the people by it,
Henderson says: 'It stinks too much al
ready-don't stir il" They will persecutc
no more preachers, no more lawyers, no
more school marms Look at the Grand
Jury Of St. Louis. Why don't they indict
Bishop konrich? 1t would stink-too
much Why don't they arrest Rev Mr..
Brooks? 1t would stink-too much. What
would not stink too much if it had gone
through such pool us the Missouri leg
isature. If the noble constitution was en-
forced there, would be 20, 600 OF the best men
in the State under criminal bonds or in Jail
The truth is the radicals have made a con
stitution too cruel and oppressive to be en-
forced, and they know it, and whilst they
refuse to repeal it, they resolve not to en-
force it, because they dare not enforce it,
ah' ilcaii w say JUST lS soon as tney can,
this noble constitution Of ours has done
good enough for the State and now we will
amend il.
f That is the programme; but il will amount
to nothing. The radicals are understood
. here. The people understand them every
where, and they twist and tuin and shuttle
rs they will, but their nciarious work will
continue to stink in the noses of the people
for long years to come. | have not much
expectation that the present Legislature will
) do so decent and comcly thing as to call
| "A convention. But no one can tell how
, long the forced resolve of the destruction
, lists will last. Are the liberals of this body
discouraged? Not by any means. On the
contrary, we look on the overthrow of the
destructivcs As fixed and certain. Rodman
(may his rascality yet see the lght) reports
something less than hro Mousand votes as
the majority for the New Constitution. -.
. Why, the change in ST. Louis county alone,
f since that vote will more than destroy it.,
/ In other portions of the State the turning
over in favor Of the Liberals is not only
a, large, but increasing. In this county, the
: radicals are about as scarce as the abolition
I lists in dear old Holiness and political iccdom
| on about a par with that political Eden.
, \ on know we have governor who delights
, IN the New Constitution, and prctcnds that
It's virtues in respect to the prescription
. and persecution of parloned rebels cannot
, be too highly commended. And yet this
/ governor of ours is doing very large bu.
siness in recommending and procuring
/ pardons for these same rebels 1t is even
so! What a deceitfu thing is radicalisml
, What hypocrite is this Governor! Pre-
tending publicly to oschew rational, con
+ Serrvallve policy, and privately inviting tho