The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1860-08-09

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dent without courage a Judge without
condor, or a legislator without iutcgri.
ty2 We are sold OF betrayed hourly
and if we had not more forbearance
than discretion we would terrify traitou
Millions Of acres Of fertile lands, every
now and then, are 6lched from our in.
dustrial classes, who require them for
the support and education Of their fami-
lies, 10 be turned into barren wastes by
those who have already blasted more
than one.half of our soil as with an
avalanche Of FIRE. Factories and work
shops are tottering in ruins, and fami-
lies and neighborhoods left starving aud
in rags, because fostered industry is not
required in that region where the labor
ing man has no rights which the owner
Of men is bound to respect And ships
rot at our wh0rvcs, and stOrchouses be-
come but a rendezvous for idlers and
vagrants, for the reason that uncompen-
sated chattel sinews yield fruits more
cheap than compensated skill, and re-
quire no shield against the pauper pro-
ducts of Europe If a change of tariff
laws we're required by the South instead
Of the North, they could not fail of its
accomplishment. In that case the Presi-
dent would advocate it with ardor, if
not with sincerity, and our Senators
would again illustrate the fact of their
trucking subjection to those who Sc
crotly abhor their bascuess and infdeli-
ty. Our earnest wishes arc not only
constantly disregarded, but our pros
perity is remorselossly paralyzcd by our
servants, without an audible murmur
on our part; and we are not much averse,
as we have often proven, to comforting
new leases Of Office upon such as de.
ceive us, to afford them further oppor-
tunities for mischief Does this seem
unaccountable? I suggest no, in view
of the truth have but just stated, that
the party selecting them has its heart
and brain in the South, and its obeying
members, merely, in the North The
remedy for this shameless evil is as easy
as it is simple. We need but initiate
the example set us by those who have
caused this condition of things. Con.
cord and inAezibility of purpose will
accomplish all we ask. Nothing else
ever can or ever will. We might as well
expect a divided and discordant army
marshalcd under opposing generals, to
capture the powerful and thoroughly
disciplined and guarded city. as for
Northern rights and Northern honor to
be sustained by men in the pay and
keeping of those who would weaker and
reduce us. In the ordinary business
of life we never trust the faithless and
dishonest; I can imagine no reason for
engaging such as scntinels over our en-
tire fortunes. Just so long as our Gus
tom Houses, Post Offices, Navy Yards
and Mints shall be stocked with thous,
ands, selected virtually by those who
are in banded opposition to us, and
whose principal business, we are in,
sructed to believe, is compounjnq
politics with perfdy, it will be impossi-
bic to render our condition better than
it is. These leper-yards must be cleans,
ed. Their occupants load the air With
contagious corruption. Throughout
their bodies and their souls, they bear
the marks Of the distemper with which
the aristocratic pollutionst has touched
them. l risk but little in saying, that
at this very hour, this mighty phalmx
scattered throughout the eighteen North,
ern States, having a common and pow.
erful bond Of union, are devising meas
ures to despoil our industrial classes
by confning them in densely crowded
fields of labor, or forcing them to enter
into competition and c0mpanionshiI
with ignorant and brutalized bondmen
They all, yes, all, have been brought tc
believe that the doctrines Of the Decla
ration of Independence are but stereo
typed lies; that the founders of the ma
ton had but a sorry conception Of in
alienable rights; that the constitution
which they framed was intended as al
instrument Of cruelty and crime; ant
that the fairest feature Of free republi
can association is a union Of State
poopled with tho lowest grade of slaves
Am 1 right? What is the troubl
against which we have to contend? l
it not the steady influence of what ma,
with prOpriety be called political con
spiracies to mislead the public mind an,
taint tho public heart? Is it not an Ad
ministration blackened with treachery
and crooked and tottering under tn
weight of its depravity, using all th
patronage of Office, and all the fascina
tions of position to utterly destroy us
! by making the Territories Of the ooun
try but garrisons for the enemies ot
freedom, and the labor Of white me-
degrading and fruitless, beyond the linn
its Of the present States2 If am Il
error, what is the correct interprotatio
Of the political discords Of the last 81
years?
/ anticipate fully that my suggesto
/ mode Of redress for existing abuses wi
, be denounced as sectional; to which
answer, if it be so, the antidote to
, bane may be a bane ITSELF "simil'a SIM
: E5us curantur." But its liability to tn
, charge is denied. The real sectionalisr
is arrayed against us; I do but counsC
systematic and persistent resistance. !
studies of the fundamental doctrines o
o. our common character and in the di.
pensations of the favors of Governmen
we should never know a North, a Soutl
p an East or a West. My complaint
+ that others act as if they thought differ
emily. / trust we shall be always abI