Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1865-09-28


cicnt, Constitutional guaranteed rights il
insisted upon scrutnizing the conducted ol
public servants. Opposition to the Ad.
miui,tration has, for four years past, been
the test Of disloyalty Now letus see where
stand our adversaries To day they are
the disloyal party of the United States, ac.
cording to their own theory. To day they
are opposing the scheme of reconstruction
which will Immediately restore the South
cn States to the Union, as proposed By
President johnson. BY their own argu.
mont, in opposing the Administration, they
oppose the government, and they are dis.
loyal. Being diSloyal, and there being nc
trial by Jury, and no hrbcas coypus, they
are lit victims for military arrests, and
ought to be immediately placed under guard.
Laug hter How would they like it? IL
1t ls dlsoyal in Democrat to oppose Re
publican Administration, it certainly is
more dlsloyal in Republican to oppose a
Republican Administration. Laug ghter. !
| say that in opposing this immediate re-
construction of the Union, and in demand
ing, as their orators and newspapers do,
that the Southern States, which are now
I ready to return to tho Union, and yield
obedience to the Constitution of the United
State, and insisting that they shall be kept
out for ten, twenty or thirty years, or for
an indefinite period, they arc disloyal men;
and let the cry be now fastened upon them.
Applause, lfit was matter of reproach
and opprobrium to Democrats that they
opposed the Administration, let it be equal
| ly rcproachiul to those who now oppose the
President in his efforts to return the South.
ern States to their Constitutional rights. -
But hey are disloying upon higher princi
pies than that Of opposing the Administra.
ton. w hoover is for overthrowing tn,
constit1don,, for diatroying it, for violating
/, 1t, Is diSloyal. The only true loyalty, if tn,
word could appropriately be used under
republican form of government, is obedience
to the Constitution of the United States
the fundamental law Of the law BY thai
test they are disloyal. Applause To
Southern States. You soldiers of the 57th
and Of other regiments within my hearing
you Of the three months volunteers
what went you forth for? What wcreyoutold
was to hc the object ofyour enlistment? Ii
was to break down the military power of tn,
South and TO restore the Constitution ant
the laws which had been violated. Yol
never would have enlisted had you beer
told that the object Of the war was to over
throw the Constitution and establish per
manent military monarchy. How stand We
now! lhc military power of the South i.
broken down, the Southern Confederacy ha.
vanished INTO thin air, Jefferson Davis is {
prisoner in Fortress Monroe, and there i,
not an armed foe to the Government of the
United States from the Potomac to the Rc
Grandc.
w, rHhSlpINr JOHNSON
Where stand the Democrats? They tell
you with General Sherman, that there are
no rebels now, and that, you must trust the
people o' me south. Applause. They
teh you with President johnson, that the
people otthe South are honorable men, and
mat when they promise in the future, fidcl
ity to the Constitution and obedience to til,
laws OF the land, they are to be trusted 49,
: hat says the President? | am not her,
as his special advocate, and never, never
u whlIe that sun rolls through the heavens
; VIII be his advocate until he has restored
} the hnbc'% co,7WS and trial by jury, thu.
subordlnatlng the military to the civil au
thortles Of the land. We trust that Nc
more military commissions for the trial OF
Icltlzcns--no no more military murders of citi
zen,,, such rs was committed the other day
IN the city Of CoIumbus-no military exccu-
lp.S, ,lInI by order Of military commissions,
winch, Il. Henry Winter Davis says, are
organized to convict. | am confident that
to-day the. President regrets what has been
donc ~ TINS particular, and would cXcaim
with Macbeth, IN the play;
"out-out-damnd spot"
But it is there. But in SO far rs the mol
icy of the President is correct, in so far ms
he stand on and by the priciples of the
Constitution. above all, so far as he il for
the immediate restoration of the Southern
states to the Union, | am determined TO
stand by him, and believe that is the de-
csion Of the Democratic party of the Union.
IT he will but make good, by acts, the ut.
tcrauccs Of the llth day Of this month
only five days ago-hc will have the sup
port OF the men who were Union men before
he and ! were born, and whose children
will be Union men for generations to come.
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