Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1865-11-02

bluNhS. ~ 10 un tlluOluNt bi iENiHNhtf pun
ably the best that has ever been made in its
favor-in this State certainly. You will
find that he and all who cooperate with
him declare in favor olthe disfranchscmcnt
Of all who have given aid and comfort, or
have been in any way engaged III the rebel
lion, which, | suppose, would include pref
ty nearly all the people in the gull States.
For those men there, whethcrwlling or un-
willing, in all except the border States, have
pretty much all been engaged in this rebel
lion in some shape or other-old and young.
Nor is that ALL
They are to be stripped of their property
the doctrine of contscation 1t to be every
where enforced by the radical party--they
are to contscate the property of all who
have been engaged in this rebelion-en
ranchise the negro and disfranchise our
own race, for what purpose?
never heard, in reading the history of
confiscation, since the world began, of a
Government realizing any thing out OF CON
fscation. Contiscation means plunder for
provost marshals and attorneys. Lagh-
ter. COnliscation means to fill the pockets
of some of those deSpicable characters who
make it business to feed on the misery of
their fellow beings. 1t means not one dol
lar paid into the treasury of the Govern
mcnt of the United States. 1t means un-
limited plunder for party hacks. Why, tcl-
Ilow-citizens, | have been in parts OF this
country, during the rebellion, and have seen
coniiscation going on. | have seen thou
sands and thousands Of bales of cotton,
marked c. S. A. captured by our brave
troops and turned over to quartermasters
and provost marshals, or something of that
sort, and that is the last | have ever seen
of it.
Not 100 bales of cotton went, as am told,
into the Treasury Department, out of thou
sands seized by Grant in his great movement
down the Mississippi to Nicksburg, where
thousands and thousands OF these bales Of
cotton were seized. Why, the very breast
works Of Nicksburg contained nearly 100,
600 bales Of cotton, yet the Government got
none Of this. The quartermasters provost
marshals or treasury agents or party hacks,
put it into their pockets. l. don't know
that they are any better than the people
from whom this property was taken.
But that is not all. Pains, penalties, pun
ishmcnts and executions are to be hurled at
the heads of the pcnitent rebels. The men
who have conceived this device for punish
ing the rebels were never the men who went
out to fight the rebels Applause. They
are not the contrivancc of the soldier who
f met the power o! the rebellion in battle ar
, ray. They are not the suggestions Of G raut,
, nor Sherman, nor Phil Sheridan, mar oI
Thomas, nor of any one man who has won
distinction on the battcfclds, and vindicat
ed the honor glory, and integrity Of his
country. They are the devices of the men
f who stayed at home. They are the devices
of the men who stuck close at home and
now prove their loyalty by the animosity
and by the acrimony with which they de
nounce Il rebellion which they have never
confronted. Applause.
: My friends and fclow-citizcns, look at
the leaders of the radical party Behold
them Did any one of them, probably with
one exception, and he not u very distin
guished one, having fallen early in the ac.
tion-did any one of them ever do more
than command a regiment of home guards
Laughter And they ceased to command
them Just as soon as they could get THEN
regiments to vote them into Congress on
the Legislature. Laughter That is the
TRUTH and you can always account for the
animosity ot'these people upon that hypoth
esiS.
Now you know among uncivilizcd people
J. like the Indians, when the war parties &,
out, put their paint on, and capture prison
,. ers from the enemy, they bring them hom,
to the squaws to torment thcm and they
9 make them run the gauntlet They intlic,
every injury possible and all the insults tha
they can heap upon these victims of tn,
,. prowcss of their husbands arms Thank
l God that civilization has made our ladie
p different from the Indian squaws--that i
= has left them touched with refinement an,
! brought them to know that those who suiie
are not to be scorned-that those who hav
; been defeated and are lying donw in the dust
! are not to be tramplcd upon.
But in lieu of the squaws of these unciy
ilizcd Indians, we have class of men VIII
:. never go to war. Laughter Who art a
,. once devoid ofthe maniness of warriors an
,, the tenderness of women, but who max
Y amends for their poltrooncry by the vigo
with which they pcrsccutc the down trod
= den.
. . am opposed to this system which ha
= been gotten up by the radicals for the de
>, ,truction of our own race at the South.
" am opposed to their wholesale system {
y robbery and plumber for the benefit Of pre-
y vost marShalS anduttorneys, and am equal
II Iy opposed to this little, petty system Of ty
- ranny and oppression with which they woul
- still pcrsocuto the men who have not onl
j, been distinguished in battle front, in thei
" efforts to establish Il cause which they u
81 least were devoted to, but who have, b
y, these acts, been robbed of property as we
70 70 as of civil rights, and therefore, are incapa
=, BILE of vindicating themselves against tn
- prosecutions of the most malicious and ms
i lignant Of their own party. | am oppose
~ y. to it on general principles. | oppose it, u
! said in the beginning of the few remark
, which have made because when the wa
~ is over desire to see peace. | am oppose
- to it because it will be the fruitful source
, other wars. | am opposed to it because
Il is in no sense measure which commend
~ itselft to n civilized and humane community
y, | am opposed to it because | am in favor
= my own race in preference to any otht
W w race. Applause,
Sc saw the other day little return frol
70 the State Of Connecticut, where they vote
so down negro suffrage in that State, and abo,
il the same time we had Il telegram from til
of new State of Colorado, where it was vote
te down five to one and so from the east, an
D. from the west, and from the centre it seem
4 that negro suffrage is not so popular aftC
n all. Now, the true motive why these ger
O. tcmcn want negro suffrage is this as | wi
It explain: New England has had yer
is good time during this war with high tariff,
2. They laid the tariff ON us while the mani
d tacturers Of New England have been coinin
i. the money. They do not want the South {
pnmn hack in thn sham, of wbita man ,vb