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

end when opposed by greatly superior re-
sources and numbers. The rebellion is
over. 1t leaders are captives, exilcs, or
supplicants for pardon; its armed adher.
ents have sauted their flag for the last time,
and its friends throughout the south have
yielded the contest. Their submission has
been graceful, unanimous, and in all APP
parent good faith. Not an armed confed-
crate is to be found within the limits of the
state. The federal government profcssed to
draw the sword only for the sole purpose of
ever it was opposed; it is this day supreme
within the entire limits of the United States.
No opposition is anywhere attempted nor,
indeed, can any be organized. Why, then,
| ask, are we threatened with despotism
as nexcusable as rebellion? Why are free
elections denied to the union men and quail
fed voters of the state? Why are non
residents and loungers around federal camps,
without your knowledge or consent, and in
defiance of your protests and appeals, been
permitted to usurp the high and RESPONSE
bic places of power, and to declare themselves
your oppressors and masters-and this, too,
in contempt OF that declaration of rights,
whose sacred principles are invioable, and,
by your constitution, excepted out of the
general powers of government 2 Why are
offensive rulers being set over the loyal peo-
pie Of the state by those who are Jointly re-
sponsible for the war; Why are bands Of
armed negroes permitted to roam over the
country plun1ering and insulting the timid
and delenceless? And more than these,
why are you and |, whose souls are unstain-
cd by treason, compelled to drain this cup
of shame at the hands of those who were the
original instigators Of the rebellion?
| beg leave to assure your exce-lency that,
in using the words ''original instgators of
the rebellion" | alluded to you further,
that spoke in no Pickwickian sense. And
now that may invoke your clemency not
for myself, but for those who listened to my
remarks, | frankly confess that submitted
certain proofs of the truth of my charges. -
| told the people that the first time | ever
saw you, you were haranguing the multitude
to prove me an abolitionist that it was
II somewhat 'raw and gusty day" and that
your vebemcncc in the open air caused you
to contract throat disease, from which, un-
fortunately for the country, you profess not
to have recovered. alluded to your early
speeches in congress in which you resorted
to the bittercst personal abuse of John
Quincy Adams because of his religious, anti
slavery opinions to your reverential CON
tcssion that God had killed off Gen. Harri-
son because he was an abolitionist. ! also
told the people that you had, in 1856, in the
state OF Tennessee, proposed that every
southern man should ''join in one fratcrnal
hug and plunge into rebellion, if Fremont
and Dayton were elected In addition tc
this, informed the audience that | heard
you in the senate, in December, 1859, de-
nounce Mr.. Seward and the republican party,
AS wholly responsible for the murdcrous raid
Of this old man Brown" whom you then
stigmatizod as nothing more than mur-
dcrer, a rob ber, a thief and traitor" |
said also, thatyOu not only supported Brcck-
inridge, the candidate of the avowcd dis
unionists, but that after the election of lin
coin after the meeting of congress in De.
cembcr,. 1860, and only one day before the
assembling of the convention which dcclar
ed South Carolina ont of the Union, yot
had, in the senate of the United States
made laborcd speech, embracing part OF
two days, in which you positively pledged
yourself, in contingency which has Ions
since happened, to join these same rebels
''to perish in the last BREACH" to "buri
every blade of grass, and to make youl
grave in 'thc last intrenchments' of rcbe
freedom. told the people that hearc
this speech, during the delivery of which
voked insult, the effect of which will moi
now attempt to state, and that every wore
of it was designed to convince the people o
Tennessee that they were an oppressed peo
pie and you their champion that their con
stitutional rights were in imminent danger
| and that they ought 'to demand additiona
securities - that you then and there sub
mltted the following written basis" upor
! which you declared AN unalterable purpos,
to hight the great battle for our rights :
Re$otced, That we deeply sympathizc witt
our sister southern states, and freely admi
that there is good cause for dissatisfaction
and complaint on their part on account o
the recent election Of sectional candidates t,
the presidency and vice presidency of tn
United states yet we, as a portion of
people of n slave holding community, ar
not for seeding or breaking up the union a
these states until every fair and honorabl
means has been exhausted in trying to OF
tain, On the part of the non slaveholdin
, states, compliance with the spirit and let
ter OF the constitution and all its guarantee,
and when this shall have been done, and tn
states now in open rebellion against the law
of the United States, in refusing to execut
T. the fugitive slave law, shall persist in the
present unconstitutional course, and til
!, federal government shall fail to execute tn
, laws in good faith, it (the governmontl wi
not have accomplished the great design ,
,, its creation, and will therefore, is fact, be
= practical dissolution, and all the states, 4
!, parties be released from the compact whic
formed tn union.
:, In commenting on the foregoing "basis
= | said it proved that you did then 'decp
: sympathize with our sister southern states;
thatyou particularly alluded to South Car
lima whose reasonable representatives we
then assembled, and who, one day after, il
augurated the rebellion that you did the
y and there freely admit good cau
n for dissatisfaction and complaint" becau
J. of the election ofyour illustrous prcdecesso
y and the Hon. Hannibal llamlin who the Re
|, Mr., Brownlow represented as Il free negr
i said, also, that you were then only n co
d ditional unionist; that you declared you
$ self, mot for seeding or breaking up II
r union of these states until every fair Al
n honorable means had been exhausted in tr
y ing to obtain on the part of tho non-slav
II holding states compliance with the spin
r and letter of the constitution and all
Il guarantees. And | further stated tn
o you, at the same time, had assured 70,
Y rebel friends, with whom you did so ''dee
d ly sympathize' that, when this shall ha'
i been done and the states now in open rebt
i lion" (mcaning Vermont and Massach h
setts) against the laws ofthe United Stat
9 shall persist in their present unco
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