The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1859-10-06

mot to give me one vote; that / don't
deserve even that. Now old fashioned
| Democrats would not say HoL But !
have remarked that Of late years, since
the good, old party has adopted the hab-
lie Of putting an old Whig occasionally
! into Office, to encourage the balance Of
the party to stand frm and not crum-
bic before the surrounding lights, that
the newer the recruit, and the more
doubtful he is, the louder he talks, and
the more ultra he becomes. lie at once
lays down a rule Of faith so pure, and
a walk Of life so straight, that even the
father Of Democracy, the great JEFFER-
IsoN, would have been found wholly un-
worthy in their sight He only claimed
for q candidate honesty, capacity, and
devotion to the Constitution. I quote
his own language. But these three gem
tlemen--two Of them Of three years
standing, and the other Of hardly as
many months, in the Democratic faith,
/ say by implication, that I am neither
honest nor capable, and worst Of all,
that l am unfaithful to the Constitution
OF our confederacy and State. SO says
the "organ." b" But is it the mouth piece
Of the genuine, old fashioned Democra-
cy Of Highland2 1t is for them 90 say.
Certainly it is not the Democracy I was
taught in my infancy, and which I have
praeticed in my manhood.
The "organ" further says in regard
to myself aud my Independent position
before my fcllow-citizens, that "enough,
we think, has been said to satisfy any
right-thinking man, that Ma. RHoADEs
course is not only dishonUrable, but
that he is actuated by other motives
than independence.
Well now, this is a grave charge, even
where men who claim to be honorable
men, do not actually resort 10 the pistol
to settle disputed points Of honor. In
what have / acted dishonorably, Mr..
Gazette Is it dishouorable when a
Democrat is solicited by his political
friends, to permit his name to be con.
sidored by a Democratic Convention Of
his county to repudiate the acts of that
body, when he aud his friends are con-
yinced that that Convention but echoed
the voice Of few, who were not of il, t,land
spoke not the will Of itself, or those it
was sent to represent? If so, then in
morals, all men who raise their voices
against fraud, are dishonorable; and as
to my motives being other than those
of independence, in thus announcing
myself in the face Of the constrained
action Of that Convention, I hold that
they fully and unequivocally evidence
my INDEPENDENCE. IF I, with the
knowledge possess Of the facts, had
passively submitted, I should have ac-
ted unmanly and unworthy Of the name
of a true Democrat.
There is no moral principle which re-
quires any man, in any country, to lie
under the feet of those who tramplo
upon him. God has taught the very
worm, which crawls on the earth, to |
turn from beneath tbs foot that brushes |
it. Such, understand to be indcpend. |
enco, and such shall be my mode of as
serting mine. If the people of the
county entertain the same views of the
position, duty and independence, which |
l have thus far endeavored to maintain, !
they have an opportunity Of showing it, !
by supporting me in opposition to a
pampered and oppressive clique Of mere
politicians and office holders in Hills
bOro.
Most,truly, your fellow citizen,
q. w. RuOADES.