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

But n little while ago the abolitionists
asked whether we had government. OF
course we had, and have, and always will
have a government of some kind, either
REPUBLICAN, monarchical or despotic. But
the great question now is, whether we have
u Union.
The men who for many years had been
advocating disunion-the New England IA
natics-all of a sudden were transformed
into ardent Union men. They denied the
right of secession and declared the Union
must be preserved at all hazards, and fore
most in this were the people of Massachu-
setts who have an ordinance of secession on
their statute books to-day, passed in 1916,
because of the admission of the State Of
Texas. In their professed zeal for the I'm I.
Mon they disregarded constitutions muzzlcd
the courts of justice and officers Of the laws
and turned government forts into bastilcs,
and the prejudice or caprice of the new ad
vocates Of Union were sufficient to impris-
on man, woman or child.
The war is now over, and in the calm
which has succeeded the storm it becomes
us to look to the whereabouts of these new
and blatcnt Unionists. They declared that
no State should go out Of the Union; yet,
they assert that eleven of the States are
out. They cmphatically announced that
the Union never should he dissolved; yet,
they declare that it is now assundcr and af-
firm that it shall so remain until such time
as they choose to restore it.
We all know that the States did not get
out of the Union by force Of arms, because
their armies were conquered. Democrats
claim that the ordinances of secession being
void the the States are not now, nor never
have been, for moment, out of the I'm
Mon.
1t is not denied by any one that the abo-
ltionists declare the Southern States out
Of the Union. No one will claim that they
got out forcibly, which leaves but one po
sition for the abolitionists to occupy, ant
that is, in favor of the validity of secession
This leads us to the discovery of the fac
that the Southern secessionists and North
ern "Union" abolitionists occupy identicl
ground, and have done so, with the cxccp
ton that secessionists as a class were fighting
the government while the abolitonists wcr,
robbing it. And it also leads to the ire
sstible conclusion that the men who contro
the Republican, or abolition party are, as
they long have been, disunions in practic,
and traitors at heart
President Johnson and the Democracy
agree on this question, but the leading mel
of the party which placed President JonN
son in power, are most intensely opposed tt
him. Many Others who have voted Will
that party but have not nnbibed the an
cient love of New England fanatics for tn
negro, agree with the Democracy.
In the lethargy which succeeds the oxcit
ing conflict of arms it becomes all Uniol
men to be watchful else liberty and unior
may be imperceptibly taken away from us
And we must be mindful that liberty los
is seldom regained The majority in Con
gress and most Of the officers of the gov
ernment are administrations to thei
country Under this state Of affairs we ow
it to the country, to ourselves, to posterity
to be constantly at work for the displacc
ment Of the men in power Neither tim
should be lost nor effort spared to accom-
plish the overthrow of the men who wer,
potent in bringing disaster upon the coun
try upheld the war and robbed the govern
ment under the cloak of Union, and who
in the confidence of their strength and tn,
recklessness Of their ill-gotton wealth bold
ly reiterated their old disunion dogmas.
There is vastly more danger ahead thar
most men are aware Of We have lcarncC
much from the inSideous wles Of abolition
traitors; but there is much we have no
learned. They are in power, and have mil
lions Of corruption funds and tens of thou
sands of Offices with which to sustain then,
selves, which should admonish us to almos
superhuman eXortons in the hcrculcan tas
of accomplishing their overthrow, ever rc
memberng that the Union or the aboltio
party must go to destruction