Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1870-09-15
l. r. CRJTCHEIElD.

III an afGlcle III Jne " OOSteT ne
publican for last week. making q
comparison between the two candi-
dates for Congress from this (14th)
District, the editor truthfully speaks
of Mr.. Critchfield. the Democratic
candidate thus: 1T is incumbent on
us to oppose him boldly and nncom-
promisingly, because he is without
qualification, a dangerous political
character. No man in the State of
Ohio, during the darkest period of
the war, denounced the Government
with such envenomed disloyalty as
Lyman r. Critchfeld. In 1868,
when Attorney-Gener of the State,
he made a speech in Columbus, which
for violence, yirulence and indecencv
is unmatched by the ugliest utter
ances of Vallandigham. We quote
from a Democratic paper, the Crisis
of January 18th, 1861 ari-s af
10. The Constitution as it is, the
Union as it was, and the Negroes
where they are. ..tt.
Acknowledgement Critchfeld re-
sponded to this toast, ,denouncing the
pertidy of the Administration in
changing the object of the war from
war for the Union to nigger cru
SADIE. He said if these incessant Vi
olations of the Constitution contin-
ued-if the rights of the citizens
were wantonly trampled upon, and
all the rights and civil liberties OF
the people destroyed Jy this internal
A Administrations, he did not beliere
the people aoould care schether Lin
coin or Jet. Daris acre IN Wash-
ington.
Mr.. Critchfield said nothing at the
Eighth of January supper that nee
essarily>disturbed any ones nerves.
He spoke with feeling and with a
free expression of Indignation at the
high-handed acts of the Lincoln Adj
ministration, which unfortunately
had more truth than poetry in it
He warned the Administration that
such was the rising and accumulated
feeling in the country against its
high-handed acts, that the people,
he believed, were fast becoming in
different whether Lincoln or Jetfer-
son Davis was in Washington City.
We understand it in no other light
than as a WARNING ''to the powers
that be- to not press their iniquit-
Gus measures further upon submis-
sive, patriotic, peace loving people.
Could true patriot and lover OF
his country say less? Is man to
get up in a public assembly of his
friends, and for the sake of some
tender-toed gentleman, tell what he
knew was untrue-''cry peace, peace,
when there was no peace" Read
the messages of governors Seymour
and Robson, in the columns of this
number of the. Crisis, sean them
closely and fairly, and if they do not
go quite as for as Mr.. Critchfield
went in his speech, then we are in
capable of Judging. The only diff
ference is in the language used to
express ideas. These are state pa-
pers for the uorld. Mr.. Critchfield
was speaking at a festive meeting of
his own political friends, on a sud
den call, in the 1--WE hours of the
night"
The assertion above quoted has
never to this day been retracted.
Armed with these documents. we
ask Republicans whether they are
willing to surrender the federal
representation of the Fourteenth
District into the custody of char
acter so malignant toward the loyal
people of the nation during the
sharpest trials of the civil war?: Are
you willing to ignore the bitter les
sons of the past, and to intrust q
politician who preferred JEFF Doris
to Abrahdm Lincoln, with an i'm
portant public function? We regret
the inexorable necessity of repro
ducing assertions so. discreditable
to Mr.. Critchfield's patriotism. The
fact that he is a lawyer of liberal at
talnments only aggravates the in
trinsic wickedness of this speech.
as it contains nearly every legal
property of giving "aid and comfort
to the enemy" Nor is this all. He
is States Right Democrat of the
most eXtravagant and irreconcilablc
stamp. He would consequently he
unreliable in any critical emergency
requiring the armed exercise of ma
tional sovereignty, He believes in
apportioning revenue among the sew
eral states according to population,
which would be gricvously oppres-
sive to the West, and immcasurablv
beneficial to the East. On every
vital question of the day, he cher
ishes opinions at war with the pros
perity, the progress and the great
ness of the country, If the Repuh-
licans of the Fourteenth District do
their duty, James Monroe will reach
the Forty-Second Congress with Il
glorious majority.