Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1865-11-02
ISSsJ I;S OF TIE DAY.
= u EI E G H
GEN. FRANK p. BLAIR.
A Charge upon The Radical lines.
WHAT A SOLDIER THINKS OF THE
POLICES of the STAY-AT-nOMES.
approaching Reunion of Conservative Me0
Under tie Democratic Fiug.

1DDIOdcIlHD heUliOn or tOHScrcdfttC Men ,
Under tie Democratic Fiag. I
From a speech by Major General Frank
Z. Blair, at Rolla, Mo-, on the 10Th ult.,
mainly devoted to local issues we extract
the following points of general application:
Those OF us who agreed with Lincoln $
policy thought when the war ceased that
we should have peace. Those of us who
agreed with Mr.. Johnson's 5 policy, which
was in pursuance and accordance with that
of Mr.. Lincoln, and in accordance with the
speeches which he made at the time of his
nomination, and in pursuance Of the princi- |
pies upon which his nomination was receiv- /
ed from the republican party-those of US
who agreed in that policy, seeing that it was
threatened by those who seemed to be rad
ical, and so dominated in this State and other
States, aud threatened to overthrow and de-
stroy that policy, have deemed it important
that we should form an organization with
the explicit declaration of support to the
policy of Andrew johnson in the recon
struction of the States. pa
Now, what was the policy announced by
the President, and what was the poicywith
which the radicals antagonzed that policy
They said that the only loyal men in the
South were the negroes, and that they
should be admitted to suffrage in preference
to the white population who were rebels,
and they declared the Congress of the Uni
ted States had the right to determine who
should be voters in those States that had
been, as they declared, out o. the Union.
These radical gentlemen veered round and
assumed the very ground once taken by the
rebels, that those States were out of the
i Union, and, being out could only get back
on conditions imposed by Congress.
All good Union men ofwhom know any
thing have claimed that those States never
were ont OF the Union, ard that we have
shed our blood to prevent their going out
OF the Union. This country has poured
out its blood, and expended its treasure to
an amount almost incalculable, to prevent
those States going out Of the Union, and in
claiming that such a thnga secession could
not be recognized by our rGovcrnmcnt--that
it was suicide-that it was simply the act OF
the Government destroying its own life for
the Government to acknowledge that those
States could or had been out of the Union
But in order to give Congress the power to
legislate in the States upon subjects of that
character, the radicals had first to claim the
rebel doctrine that the States were out of
Unon-that they were reduced to a terri
torial condition and must be subject to con
As in the case of territories when admitted
E under the laws Of Congress
Now, my friends | need not tell you how
dangerous heresy this is. Those of you
who live in the devastated districts OF Mis-
souri, should feel and know that the reviv-
ing Of this old rebel doctrine is full of dan
ger to our country And the party which
Is the first to intcrpose as the first plank in
T its platform the old rebel doctrine of seces-
sion and dsunion, is not the party to pro-
claim itself the loyal party Of Missouri, or
any other State. Applause 1t is Il hcresy
fraught with all the evils that tongue can
| tell ot-evils which you, my friends, have
c felt deeply. In the core of your hearts you
have felt them in your own homes, aud
= need not dilate upon them. No sophistry
T. can cover this doctrine. 1t is, stripped OF
this sophistry which they attempted tc
e throw around it, the naked rebel doctrine OF
e secession which we have been fighting
4 against for the last four years, and which
a we have tramped under feet together with
= the rebel armics-and which, with the hclp
5 of God, we will tramplc under our feet, il
/ it is now sustained by the radicals of Mis-
e souri,: Applause. No man can enlist un
y der that banner aud bear it in triumph il
| this country. We have upon our Scared
c persons the marks and injuries which this
doctrine has brought to us; and we see in
t the desolatlon which has covered our land
4 that all these injuries which beset us sprane
+ from this doctrinc and | tell these gentle
n men they can not succeed in this project an,
J more than the rebels could in theirs. TheS
cannot make the American people swallow
this attrocious and odious doctrine. 1t i
an acknowledged doctrine of American pol
;. tics, and which has been undisputcd sine
the foundation of our governments that th
State has the right to fix the suffrage
that the Congress of the United States cal
not fix the suffrage Of the States Tn
Constitution Of the United States in terms
says that the electors for President and Vie
c President, and members of Congress, sha
Is be the same as those qualified to vote 70
I the members of the lower house of the leg
stature of each State, thus giving to eac
: State the decision Of who shall be the clcC
tors in the State, and deprving Congress &
# the right TO interfere. Therefore it wa
that those who wished to admit the negroc
). to suffrage in the South determined tina
!. these were no longer States. But disuno
had been consummated with JEFF Davis an
Il his conledelates who had torn this countr
asundcr and disrupted the bonds of the at
!. tempt to destroy the Government and tax
those States out of the Union. Some G
ic you may think, my friends, that this doc
trine is not very dangerous now that JEFF
A. Davis is imprisoned, his troops disbande
and the leaders driven out of the country
@. but dangerous hercsy like that may at an
(. moment rise up to destroy our govcrnmen,
r. If once admitted, where will it stop? The
will fix the right Of suffrage for thes
al seeded States, and declare that they hay
been out Of the Union, and they may go 5
b. far as to aify them to other States, whic
ID Congress in its power may declare out
the Union, because ifthey declare one Stat
10 out Of the Union, why not another? SUI
pose that there is whisky riot and rebe
lion in the State of Pennsylvania Cor
gress may in its omnpotencc say it is re
bcllion of such magnitude that it is diflicuI
n to suppress it, and since Pennsylvania
~ guilty of rebellion, she is no longer State
a and must be readmtted into the Union, an
:, Congress has the right to fix the qualifca
> tions of her voters. The many fundamen
g tai principles ofour Union will be subyerted
is even as the fundamental principles of Il re
. publican Government have been subverte
y by a constitution made by these quacks fo
i Missouri. Laughter
What is there republican remaining il
this Constitution? And if these same mel
q are allowed to tinker" with the Constitu
. : ton of the United States, beginning will
this Wholesale hcrcSy, | can tell you m,