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


} Southern State, when have been denounced
+ as a traitor, secessionist, and an enemy to
my county, simply because ] desired that,
peuceably and through compromise, our
/, Southern broathern should return to the
/, Union which their fathers and our fathers
made in the good old days of the Republicl
: But, listen TO this:
/ ~ love them.
What! love traitors! love rcbclsl love
: Southern Coppcrhcads! Laughter. Why,
next he will take Northern Coppcrheads to
: his bosom; and, pcradvcnture | may have
little embrace myself them IGreat laugh
ter QU,ea sd6e? But,
IL love them and will do all in my pow
cr--.'
Well, being President, he has a great
\ deal Of power Lincoln had; we know that.
At least | do. Laughter.
u Nv Ill do all III my power to restore them
to that state of happiness and rosperity
which they enjoyed before the madness of
misguided men, in whom they had reposcd
their confidence, led them astray."
That is. precisely what the Democratic
party Is after. lie could not have hit it
better.
If there is any thing that can be done.
on my part, on correct principles of the
! Constitution, to promote these ends. be as
sured it shall be done"
And be assured, Andrew johnson. that
so far as you do it, on these principles, the
Democratic party, one and undivided, will
stand BY yon;;, Applause.
J, Again: The Institution of slavery said
the President, lis gone. The former status
Of the negro had to be changed, and we,
as wise men, must recognize so patent a fact.
and adapt ourselves to circumstances as
, they surround us. "
, True wisdom, that And accordingly the
6 Southern delegation responded 1--WE are
4 willing to do so" The President replied
Q II believe you are. Jacob Dolson Cox
says No! They. have been unruly, They
t must be chastised They are bad boys. and
they must be kept behind the school. l.house
, door, and not permitted to enter for an in
definite period. Don't let them return
, again; 1t is true, we have punished them
and chastiEed them, but not enough" " The
President says: Il believe you. believe
! when your faith is pledged, it will be main
, ed in good faith. What! rebels maintain
| faith! What! traitors on whom we spent
four thousand millions of dollars and II mil.
! lion OF livcs-through the blunderipg of the
= Administration during the first years of the
war, because they made it political war.
; until Grant and Sherman took hold and
5 wouldn't carry it on for the benefit of the
5 Republican party. Applause. What!
maintain in good faith! SO says the Pres
ident, and | stand behind him and at his
, back. Applause.
Again "All ask or desire of the South,
North, East, or West''-Ql am afraid he is
getting into my section again. Applause.
- is to be sustained in carrying out the
principles Of the Constitution. "
We'll said, Andrew Johnson stick to it.
Don't listen to Seward. Don't hcarkcn to
Stanton; get rid Of them, and take back the
old supports Of the Constitution--the men
who were educated to love the Union and
to stand by the principles Of the Consti,u-
ton. Take them into your Cabinet. and
then you will be sustained in carrying out
those principles Of the Constitution, and
especially one of the most sacred Of the
principles OF that Consttution-th writ o
: hdbedS corpus, and the right of trial by
jury;
"It is not to be denied, " adds the Presi-
? dent, that we have been great sufferers on
both sides; good men have fallen, and much
misery Is beng cndurtd d as the necessary re
suit OF so glagantic a contest. Why, then
cannot we come together, and, around the
common altar of our country, heal the
wounds that have been made?"
Again, that is the purpose, the sole pur-
| pose OF the Democratic party, and for that
| they have been denounced, are being de |
nounccd, and will again be denounced as
traitors and sympathizers with secession.
! Well, We have got the President on our
side, and we are the loyal party. Laugh
ter. We have the army on our side now,
don come up to the work we have a
President who, instead of saying as Mr..
Lincoln did to Fernando Wood, 'We stand
by our Generals" we have a President |
who, when the General is not right, will !
not stand by him. We have Il President
who, as in the case Of General Slocum, |
doesn't wait for the mail, but reyokcs or
ders by telegraph, when he doesn't think
they are right and proper, and Constitution
al Applause
| johnson has done wrong, great wrong, in
tins matter of military commissions, and
military executions. But he is realizing
to-day what ! heard when boy, and has
been part of my political creed ever since,
that man to be an honest, thorough Dem
ocrat, must have been born one, and if he
is born Democrat, though he may get out
OF the road, there is II spirit of magnetism
about the body that, like the magnet that
points TO the north pole, always brings him
back again, Applause. No wonder there
has been conVocation Of the great lights
OF the Abolition party since this speech of
Mr. johnson ) was made. No wonder there
Is Il llocklng to Washington City of the lead
erS Of Abolitionism, like wild beasts going
to polute the feast OF harmony and peace
which the President proposes to give to the
country
Again says the President:
Our country has been SCARED all over.
Then, why not we approach each other ON
principles which are right in themselves.
and which will be productive of good to
all?
the day is not distant when we shall
feel like some family that has had a deer
and desperate iGud, the various members
OF which have come together, and compar-
ed the evils and suflerines, they had iniict .
ed on each other They had seen the innu-
encc Of their error, and its result, and gov
crned 10y Il generous spirit of Cancellation,
they had become mutually iorbeming and
lorglving, and return to THEN old habits of .
flaternal kindness, and become better friends
than ever. Then let us consider that the
Icud which alionated us has been settled
and adjusted to mutual satisfaction; that
we come together to be bound by frmer
bonds Of love, respect and confidence than
ever. II
The North can not get along without the
South, nor the South without the North;
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