The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1860-09-27

J0aU, also, IOf pTObeSJ LuuJ ne mas no
right to make the Republic ridiculous
with him.
Tn conclusion, Mr.. Schurz said:
The time of the Baltimore Conven-
ton arrived, and the struggle recon.
meuced. It became at once manifest
that Douglass nomination could not be
forced upon the Democratic party with
out splitting that organization in twain;
and he saw clearly enough then that his
election would bo on impossibility.-
The South was seeding en- musse, and
leaving the rump Convention to do as it
pleased. Then Mr.. Douglas, seeing a
disgraceful defeat inevitable. wrote q
letter to his friends in the Convention,
requesting them to withdraw his name
if they found it in any way consistent
to do so. And I declare, if Douglas
was ever honest in anything he did or
said, he was honest then and there.
But now the moment had arrived
when it became manifest that there was
justice in history. Douglass position
was disgusting, but his punishment was
sublime. Then his friends for the first
time refused to obey his commands
Those whom he had used so often and
so long for his own advancement saw
now there was a last chance of using
him for theirs. They said to him, eve
have performed our part of the con-
tract; now you have to perform yours.
We have nominated you for the Presi-
dency; now you have to permit us to
be elected Congressman, SherifTs, Couu-
| ty Clerks, or Constables, on the strength
of your name There is no backing
out. Hol for the spoilsI'
"Dosth hn, because thou hast suddenly become vr
tuuus,
There shall be nomoro calos,n nd alo7
Yes by Saint Ami an ginger hot in the mouth, tool"
| prolonged laughter,7
And so the saddle of the rump nomi-
nation is put upon his back, and the
whole CHASTITY pack of office hunters
jump upon it. The spurs are put to
the fanks-the whip applied to the
back Of the painting, bleeding Jade, and
so the spectral ride goes, east and west.
night and day-and may the steed so to
perdition, if only the riders reach their
goal Loud applause and cheers.
Oh, there is justice in history. He
has at least the idol of his dreams-the
object of his fondcst wishes-for which
he has laid so many a treacherous
scheme-fOr which he has turned so
many a summersaut-for which he has
struck so many blow at the peace Of
the Republic-for which he has so often
prostituted himself and his followers
for which he has huggod so many a
lOafcr, and insulted 50 many an honest
man-ior which he made every rum
shop his headquarters, and every ruff
fan his friend--he has at last the nomi-
nation for the Presidency; but what
he has craved as a blessing has come
down upon himas a curse. To be nomi-
mated, and know that an election is i'm
possible to be voted for, and to know
that every vote for him is for Brecken
ridge or Lane, whom he hates, and ov-
cry vote against him n vote for Lincoln,
whom he does not Lowell To be voted
for, and be aware that those who vote
for him work not for him, but for them
selves! To be dead, and yet living
enough to be conscious of death! Oh,
there is justice in history! Am I ex-
aggerating? Where is that mighty
leader, whose voice once called millions
into the field? At thestreet-coruers and
crossroads you see him standing, like
a blind, downfallen Beisarius-not
in virtue, not in poverty-a bevy Of po-
litioal harlots around him, and begging
for the miserable Obolus of a voto;Gbcg-
ging the Know Nothings, whom he once
affected to dospise; begging the Wings,
whom he once iusulted with his brawl-
ing donunciations; invoking the spirit
Of Henry Clay, whom he once called a
black hearted traitorI Oh, but poor
BelisariusI The party harlot5 that
surround him with their clamorous,
begging cry, steal every vote they re-
ceive for him, and put it into their own
pockets.
Where is the bold, powerful agitator,
whose voice sounded so defantlp on ev-
cry contested feld2 Behold him on his
sentimental journey, vainly trying to
find his mothers home and his fathers
grave; apologizing with squeamish af-
feotation for his uncalled-for and inde.
cent appearance in public like one of
the condemned spirits you read of in the
myths of by-gone ages, restlessly per-
ambulating the world, condemned to a
more terrible punishment than Tautalus,
who was tortured by an unearthly thirst,
with grapes and water within his reach
more terrible than that Of Danaus,
who had to pour water into the leaky
cask-for he is condemned to deliver
that old speech over and over again
[ Applause, cheers and laughter As
often as he arrives at a hotel that has a
balcony, as often as his hasty journey
is arrested by spontaneous gathering,
then you hear a subterranean spectral
voice cry out, "my great principle Of
ventionp'-that is the dead
squatter sovereign atoniug for the evil
deeds he committed in his bodily exis-
tence. Prolonged laughter and cheers. !
Not long ago he haunted the railroad
crossings and clam bakes of New Eng
land, then the crossroads of the South,
and the ghastly apparition was last seen
in this neighborhood Prolonged
laughter and cheers Where is that
I g