Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1865-05-25
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From the Cincinnati Enquircrl
We accept it as cheering evidence of great
intellectual and moral expansion in our CO.
temporary, the G0.cttc, that il has actually
attained to Il realizing sense that. with the
suppression ol'thc military strength of the
South, the difficulties in the way Of Il set
tied and harmonious national condition have
not been overcome. We want to speak with
all due precision upon this point. Ourco.
temporary, as it readers, and those of the
F"9"''cr, are aware, is a little Ccrbcrcan in
ITS, aspects: presenting, to the public, a
choice between two vcly different political
phySloenomlca and doing, as Mrs. Mala.
prop would say party duty rs two gentle
men at once. We are rclcrringnow to the
crt'rior presentation. The interim, we ad-
mt, has aIwayS appeared to have its mis-
glvIngs; but the presiding genius Of the
other, who was evidently "born in the
polphyiy, nursed among the roses, and
has the brightest of carnation curtains TO
his bed chamber, has never been able, until
yesterday to conceive Of any result of the |
war but glory honor, riches plenty, rcpu-
tauon, civilization, unity, harmony, and
Christianity. We feel like rendering our
congratulations to our cotcmporary, that,
in another respect, it is at peace with itself
We hope that all parties are pleased with
the connection, and that those more inme.
diatcly concerned are as well as could be cx-
pcctcd under the circumstances.
1t now appears that 'tcc, by which, we
suppose, Is to be understood, the people of
the North or the party in power, "havc an
empire to rescue from anarchy. This en-
pirc, we are to understand, lies south of the
Potomac and Ohio for our Republican CO.
temporarics, in their political cogtations,
seldom deign to take notice of that little
piece or parcel of territory which lies be-
tween those rivers and the northern lakes,
its inhabitants, their material interests or
their political prospects. As one of the con
sequences of the war, the parties in the
United States, at least so far rs they are
represented by their organs, appear to have
performed that movement which, in terpsi-
chorcan phraseology, is called "chaSSo
ucroSS;' for, whereas, before that event,
: Democratic journals, at least so they were
accused saw nothing but the South while
the licpublican Journals were equally blind
to any thing but the North They seem
now to have exchanged their points ofyicw,
and borrowed each other spcctaclcs. in
fact, so firmly has Concdcracy become seat
ed upon the brain of the latter, that "what
to do with the South has come to he the
starting place, basis, and rule of their entire
system OF political philosophy.
We do not regret this. What to do with
the South is one Of the problems. We are
glad to observe that, to this extent, the
organs of the party in power "accopt the
condition. y 1t is their ioy-the job Of their
party; and it is not II little one. 1t is one
which, if successfully accomplished will, no
doubt, rebound greatly to their honor and
glory. The party in power has AN empire
to rescue from anarchy. The party out of
power has nothing to do but stand by and
witness the performance. Even if it de-
sired to render assistance in the work, it
would not be permitted. If it should insist
upon putting in its hand, it would simply
have the satisfaction OF standing charged
with all the miScarriagcs We copy from
the Ga2cte the following paragraph, to show
not only what is to be done to rescue an
empire from anarchy, hut what is first to be
performed, i'll order to make the anarchy as
complete AS possible: upon the principle OF
first throwing the patient into fits, as pre-,
llminary to the exhibition freStorativcS
"We have an empire to rescue from an
= archy, All its political institutions, from
the State authority down to justices of the
peace are dissolved. There is no admins
lration OF law, and we can permit none un
nj we have rcriScd itS toydltH Womust not
arm the disloyal with the authority of law
over the loyal. We can permit no election,
until we have established restrictions upor
the franchises to put the control in the hand
!, of the loyal, or keep Il IN our owa The
land is impoverished by military impress
ments, and stripped oftwo thirds of its able
8. bodied men. The track of our great armic
has left wide belts Of dcsolation. For iou
years, both parties in the war have dcstroyc
y the products and property of the South. -
And there is the United States militar
seizures and conGscation laws impcndin
oyerthe remnant oitho grcatStaplo products
to add to the uncertainty of property an
prevent productive enterprises.
In other words, to borrow the figures Q
the great negro apostles when they describe
"tho horrors of slavery after the cowhid
, then put ON the salt aud pepper, Our piou
ancestors Of New England, the "Pilgrir
Fathers" hmanely whipped naked Quake
wives at the cart tail, through the streets c
the godly city of Boston, and piously bore
holes through the tongues of their husbands
with red hot irons and in what, we ask
, are Southern despots and aristocrats bette
than the followers of George Fox, or tn
thccinr and thouiuC scctarics of WilliaI