Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1865-09-21

the extent of the deviation. That suspen-
sion of law leads to disregard of it, and al
legged necessity however criminal, becomes,
| by habit, an acquicsced in rule Of action.
THE AGENCIES OF THE PUBLIC DEBT.
The agencies which propagate and pro
long such state Of things, are the offspring
of public disorder. War gives birth to a
whole race of criminals Of all imaginable
degrees of vlcness. Their voracity is i'm
measurable, and becomes a bottomless res
crvoir Of fraud and plundcr. This can be
no better illustrated than by the testimony
of some of the purcr leaders Of the war
Dawes, Il republican member Of congress
from Massachusetts,. said to Congress in
lSGl: "The larcenies under this administra-
tion (Lincoln' 81 have exceeded the entire
expenditures of james Buchanan's. " 1--WE
have seen system of commissions to mid
demen growing up all over the country
stepping in between the producer and fur
nsher on one side, and the COVE, nment upon
the other, that has cost the government
millions of dollars" 4 Gen. Wilcox made
Il spe ch about this time, in which he says:
Contractors have carried on this war.
The blood OF our men, the groans of our
wounded, the tears of the orphan and the
wall of the widow have been coined into
money. They have swiudlcd the govern
ment out of hundreds of millions. They
have piled fortune upon fortune. AS a
distinguished officer at Washington said:
All the operations of the war are managed
by swinders. " About the same time
Senator Hale said: II declare upon my re-
sposibiity as Senator, that the liberties
Of this country are in greater danger to day
from the corruptions and profigacy practi-
ced in the various departments of the gov
crnment, than they are from the enemy in
the open field" In 1851 a committee of
Congress attempted to investigate and dis
close these fraudulent Transactions and after
reporting 100 pages of book stuffed with
swindling, and reporting ''thc labors of the
committee far from being closed" though
hundreds of millions Of dollars were shown
! to have been stolen by the 'middlemen' and
bribed agents and authorities, further in
vestgation was throttlcd. The full disclo-
sure bid fair to involve every body. United
States Senators, Congressman, Cabinet Off
GERS, and a host of the lesser fry who swan in
the same sea of total depravity. The i'm
mcnse outfit Of the army and navy was the
subject Of plunder From calculations made
upon the robbery of the first year of the
war and estimating upon presumption OF
like continuance, one fourth of the whole
public debt $3.50, 900, 900 and more were
created by robbery. About this time, this
whole class of crime was crystalized and
was known as loyalty" and this word wa,
substituted toral the legal detenses to crime
This class Of loyalsts became vast in mum
bers, and an overshadowing element in the
destructive policy Of the day. High anc
low criminals are born of public disorder. -
Leaders, conSpirators, disunionists, destruc
-.
and suspension of law is their safety. i
nature vampire, with wings gaudy with MOI
S al reform and loyal pretences, they fan tn
, people to repose and suck their blood. Sucl
elements as these, high and low, swarm
about the places OF power and hel p moul,
the policy and control the affairs Of ou
government They are opposed to the re
storation of the Union and the supremacy
of the Constitution. They become dena
tionaized by Il return to freedom, for thei
allegiance is sworn to Force. These mel
keep up the standing army in the south
eXterminate her white population, contis
cate her estates and speculate on her desc
/ lation. Labor and industry, by these prac
t ticcs and agencies, has been burthened fo
, centuries to come, and from these agencies
t will spring all the evils which shall in tn,
, future atflict this unhappy country: No on'
Gil idll W SCC llllI VIC uSClIClcS NllCll bIO
about this civil war, have possession of tn,
administration Of the government in fact
and that they are the eternal enemies O
t economy, industry, and civil liberty.
EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION AND TIL
PUBLIC DEBT.
f The agitators of the moral aspect of sla
very have been the enemies of Union. Th
Democratic and Wing parties in 1852, th
, Democratic and Republican parties in 1850
aud all the people by their representative
1 in congress in 1861, declared that SLAYER,
= was state and not national institution
4 That it was Il political and not moral ques
J ton. That it was embraced in that larg
0 class of questions determinable by state au
n thority alone, and that without reference t
g it, the war should be carried on solely 70
J the restoration Of the southern states to tn
h Union with all their rights and dignity uu
J. impaired Mr.. Lincoln himself, with NOR
c than year S experience in the war, declal
J. ed any interference with slavery asunconst
+ tutional and useless. He decided that
l. proclamation upon the subject was as impC
I, tent as one against Il comet; but by the il
d fucnce of malgn and fanatical agitation, i
r ten days alrer this expression in Septon
'e ber 1862, he issued his proclamation again
y slavery, The army, probably, would ha,
It practically freed asmany persons without
l. as in fact the proclamation was enforced
9 the army, and as effectually, for the slavcl
n agitators regard it as indispensable that I'll
e states Of the south should confirm ncgl
G. freedom by state legislation, which deman
C. in effect, is an abandonment of the pow'
&c of the President to do it. At the time
T. the publication Of this proclamation IL
Is people of the north were unit Mo
IF volunteers were going to the war than W
rs needed, and protests were made by publ
le men at the needless and prolific growth
e the army The Crittenden resolution hi
T. proved the touchstone of patriotism, ar
n the masses of the people were acting
at good faith. The agitators Of the war, al
I'd northern conspirators were opposed to
at and finally broke it down. The people we
Id chilled by the treason of the deceit. Vo
= unteering, public meetings, enthusias
re ceased. The provost marshal system, draft
le arbitrary arrests, expressions, violations
Of law, bounties, detective burcaus's al
to agencies, Freedman's bureaus, and Nc
IN England philanthropic societies, standil
e. armies in the states, bush whacking and
cr innumerable train of disorders in the mort
s. ern and border states ensued. By an a
at proximate calculation this procamati
s swelled the public debt 1915, 900, 900. III
in debt was the legitimate consequence of "a d
d. nature from the Dretended object of {