The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1858-10-28
Modern Robbera.

such we're, at the last accounts, lying in
wait among the mountains, and we're
momentarily expected to attack the
town of San Diego, on the coast of Low
er California. A guard nightly patroll-
ed the circle Of the town, and the inhab-
itants we're organized for desperate re-
sistance, When knights and princes
might be supposed to resort 70 Gadshill
and waylay innocent travellers, a sort Of
responsibility attached to the trade Of
highwaymen. Whether ever again this
sort Of life is to come into fashion, we
do not know; but it is time to look and
see which way the world is drifting A
few years ago, expeditions to seize Cuba
were the resort of our fashionable fill
busters Then followed Walker ezpedi-
tious and Nicaraguan adventurous
Lately, it is the slave trade which forms
che lavorite adventure, The captain
of the most recently captured of these
| pirate vessels is declared 30 be a most
gentlemanly man, one whose high sense
Of honor was quite wounded at The
slight disguise adopted by the United
States ship that captured him in hoist
ing the English flag. Since then We
have reports Of vessels scuttled at sea,
the crews pretending to have been
wrecked, yet betraying themselves by
the quantity Of Spanish doubloons With
which each man is forfeited. We lave
gentlemen Of fortune receiving the
settlement of their claims against the
Government one day, and purchasing
fast sailing yachts tho next, which are
soon after reported to be slave ships,
lowering along with their fearful car
goes. Others are advocating the trade
as right if not lawful, and in the high
est degree philanthropic and useful
When men Of a certain sense of
chivalry and Of conscience defend wrong
deeds as right, when they violate law
openly, and yet wrongfully fancy they
are moved by more noble considerations,
whether this take the form of Lynch
law and a regulating committee on the
one hand, or open fllibustcring, slave
trading or piracy on the other it is all
part Of the same system--all betoken-
ing feariully relapse into barburism,
if not put down. 1t has run to this
in Italy, where it is at the peril Of
life to travel without a guard, along
the very roads that were more secure
two thousand years ago, or when St.
Paul passed over them on his journey
to Rome. 1t is so in Mexico, where
government officials are in daily com
municatiOn with the bandtti on the
road to the coast, and the distinction
between the regular soldiery and the
robbers that inlest the country is very
slight, and difficult to be traced.
! Nowhere has the genius of true
poet been more severely taxed than
that Of Schiller in producing such a
play as "The Robbers" To paint the
steps by which the hero could reason
and work himself into the conviction
Of doing right in joining and leading
a band Of robbers, was no ordinary
task But the agony of his remorse
and the penitenoe Of the prOdigal SON
without his restoration to happiness
is what makes that poem one that
should be read by every citizen and
pondered over by every citizen in
such an age as this. 20, fool that ]
was, to imagine that 1 could bless the
world by crimes. / called it vengeance
and justice; ] presumed to grind down
the gaps in the sword of Providence
and to repair its impartialities. But o.
folly, now see that two men like my.
self would ruin the whole fabric of the
moral world. - "Fool that I was to sup.
pose that one mortal sin could atone
for anotherl'
: Schiller we'll says that this drama has
a right to place among moral books
and we believe chat all who study it in
, connection with the fllibustering ten
denotes Of the present age will think
) so too.
The whole character Of Charles dc
3 Moor, the hero, is worth studying in
) the present times. A man of remark,
, able powers of body and of mind, and
/ of conscience, he cannot but be great
} even in crime. He is a sort of mora
{ enthusiast, and longs to benefit the
} whole human race in his way. Anl
Q this, he thinks, gives him right to bC
@ displeased with them, and revenge
! himself on them, and punish them, if
z they will not be benefited in his way
E Hence all his crimes are but a jus
Q vengeance, and his success the will OF
p heaven. The play was written fol
o. General Walkerand the whole race Of
Q our new philanthropists, slave traders
@ and lawless benevolence men, who would
turn the world upside down that il
0 might come right side up, llisremors,
! is terrible. "I am so hideous in thi'
I beautiful world i am a monster on
y this magnificent earth. The worlC
] one family and one Father above
3 Not my Father 1 alone rejected frou
D the ranks of the pure, in the midst Of Q
blessed world, a bowling Abaddon. -
4 We fear, however, that few of our rob
{ bers will ever show the spirit of tn,
poets hero. 'lThe laws which / hav,
I offended, the order which i have abused
5 demand a sacrifice that shall display
p their sacred majesty before all men
/ myself am the sacrifice. ~ Publit
Ledger,
SUDDEN TRANSITION FROM THE AIMS
7 HOUSE 10 AFFLUENCE.--James Boon
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