Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1865-08-03

your statement that Vermont was at that
time, guilty of notification, Of resistance
to the laws of the United States" which
you pronounced 'open rebellion" com.
mented upon your statement that the con.
duct of Vermont had been such that ''the
government was at an end. " Nor did
omit to tell the people that you then and
there (lSth and 18th of December, 1860,
had submitted an opinion in regard to youl
general complaint" did not, like
Beecher, pronounce you drunk, nor did |,
like Wilkes, say you had been poisoned.
permitted you to speak for yourself by read
ing the following from your speech
I'VE have complained that their intention
is to hem slavery in so that, like the scor.
plon when surrounded by fire, if it did not
die from the intense heat of the scorchinp
flames, it would perish from its own poison.
Gus sting"
You further promised your rebel friend,
for slavery were refused. You said, "Ten-
nessee will be found standing as firm and un-
yielding in her demands for those guaran-
tees as any other state In the
contcdcracy. | asserted also that you had
declared the election Of Lincoln and Hamhn
sectional that you avowed your purpose
to put down Mr.. Lincoln and drive bacl,
his advances upon southern institutions -
that you promised not to abandon your
northern democratic friends and leave all
to Lincoln cohorts :" that you solemnly
pledged yourself not to "permit Mr. Lincoln
to come with his cohorts as we consider
them, from the north, to carry off every
thing. All the foregoing, and much more,
| charged upon you, and proved by your
speech of 18th and 10Th Of December, 1860.
Continuing my address, | said that ifyou
were a credible witncss--I beg you to be-
ieve | so regard you-I could prove that
every political supporter and admirer of
your. excellency, and every follower of the
sanity Brownlow then and there present,
was disunionist. In doing this, | read,
from speech made by you at Columbia,
Tennessee, on the I'd of June, 1862. 1t was
revised by yourself and published in your
own organ, the Nashville Union of June
9th, 1862, then edited by your friend Mer-
Ger, who is best known as 'quinine Mercer, s"
because OF his sympathy with the rebel sick,
to whom, it is alleged, he kindly smuggled
that invaluable medicine while he soiourned
within the federal lines.
| read the following:
"Now will prove very briefly that Sc.
ccssionist is as great an abolitionist as Sum
ncr. Both the secessonist and the dis
unionist are for breaking up this union.
will state the arrangement in sylogism
thus An abolitionist is u disunionist. A
disunOnlst Is Il seceSsionist. A secessionis
is disunionist. A disunionist is an aboli
ZIONIST. Therefore, a secessionist is an abo
lltlonlst. There is not particle Of differ
ence between them"
| repeat, | read the foregoing, after whicl
/ | tI,J trr, 20,
your syllogism, that | could find the sill,
but not the gism but you are distinct ant
positive in the allegation that "an aboli
ZIONIST is disunionst. All this and mucl
more did | say, may it please your excellen
cy, for the many pious purposes hereinafter
enumerated chiefly, however, with the de
sign OF quicting the hearts and conscience.
of n few of your old rebel friends, Office
holders and trade agents. who desire to ioil
you in your late but earnest championship
of the rights Of the colored race. The,
have some pride Of consistency; having al
ways been rebels at heart, they dislike sud
denly to become aboitionists, fearing the
may be required, in following your illustri
Gus example, to deal harshly with those who
from false sense of shame, are still unwil
ling, by turning abolitonists, to incur tn
rebel reproach Of apostacy. They urge tina
they dislike to be called Judases; and We
they wish to be with you, and at rest. ~
Hence the struggle between their old part,
and rebel pride, and their love for you
their dire necessities and love of cash -
With all such adopted this mode of Treason
| ing: That the popular Judgment is ofte
wrong, and traditionary and hereditary pre-
.judices rarely right. For example, woul
take two celebrated cases. those of PLAT
and Judas, that the Christian world affected
nay, felt great horror of their names an
characters, that they were associated wit
the murder of our Saviour, and, therefor,
no one supposed it possible to find anythin
in their natures to eXtenuatc the sever
Judgment Of mankind; whereas, in fac
Plate was bitter y opposed to our Saviour
/ prosecutions and ignominous death, an
protested he found no fault in him, viii
the mob (may heaven protect your exec
lcncy from all mobs) hurried him away
execution, without even the dignity of
. military arrest that Judas, from all "
had been able to ascertain in regard to h
character, was very unobtrusive, rcticel
man, better fitted by nature for trat
agent or contractor than disciple tha
though he turned his back upon h
friends, nay, betrayed them, he was Meth,
'hN h'H' hpi Nl' idSU W uO ndu
temptation; that his reward was han
money-thi huge picces-and long befo
Chase had inflated the currency, or Calito
mia had augmented the coin that he was
! man of sensibility, that he repented, and S
+ suffered from remorse, that he burst h
bowels, | assured the sccessionists an
office seekers, however, that they need n,
wait for quarantine before Joining the arm
Il of Sumner and John Brown; that you III
done so, turned your back upon them h
trayed them, and that, although the oihcj
health bulletin represented you in preca
Gus condition, | had yet seen no mention
= any morbid distension of your bowels. n
G did fail to remind the audience of Il
: radical change in your opinions Of Jof
Browna and Mr.. Seward, since you denounc,
the one as "a murderer, II robbcr, thi
e and traitor, and the other as his polite
> tutor. | pointed to the remarkable ea
= and elegance with which you now fraterni
l. with the original Browns how you mt
l. piously regarded his gallows as only less
: cred than the cross OF Christ how bcni
= nantly you smiled at hisapothoosis, and he
divinely you could sing:
John Browns body lies mouldcrng in the du,
!, In the foregoing | can give you only
- brief outline Of that portion Of my spec
. which was devoted especially to yourself
). / rose doubtless "to the full height of {
y great argument" and many of your old
> cash friends prOnouncpl my spnprh tri