The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1861-10-03

New York, a few days since, uttered
language that should make the "White.
rag" Democracy blush. Hear him
He suid.
For my part, I ask no trishmau to|
do that which I myself am not prepared
to do. Tremendous applause My|
heart, my arm, my life, is pledged to the
national cause and to the last it will bel
my highest pride, as I conceive it TO be
my holiest duty aud obligation, to share
its fortunes [Benowod checriug.l ].
care not to what party the Chief Magis
trate Of the Republic has belonged
I Hear, hear care not upon what
plank or platform he may have been
elected. Hear, hoar1 The platform
disappears before tho Constitution, un-
der the injunction Of the oath he took
on the steps of the Capitol, the day Of
his Inauguration. [Hoar, hear, and
loud cheers The party disappears in
the presence Of the nation, hear hear, ]
and as the Chief Magistrate, duly elect
ed and duly sworn, is bound to protect
and administer tho national property
for tho benefit of the nation, so should
every citizen concur with him in loyal
and patriotic action, discarding the
mean persuasious aud maxims Of the
local politicians, hear, hear, hear, and
substituting the national interests, the
national efficiency, the national honor,
for the solfshness, the huckstering, or
the vengeance of a party. Enthusias.
tic cheering To me, at all events, the
potency of the National Government,
the honor and glory of the National
Flag, arc of infinitely higher value
than the Regency at Albany, the Tam
many Wigwam, Mozart Hall or tho Pew
ter Mugl Immense cheering and roars
of laughter Nor shall outcrics on
behalf of the liberty of tho Press, or
the liberty and immunitics Of the citi-
zen, restrain me in the active allegiance
owe the nation and its Executive,
now that the rights aud authority of
both arc ieopardized. [Hear, hear,
hear. The integrity of the national
domain, the potency Of the National
| Government, the reputation Of tho ma
tional arms, tho inviolability of that
tranquil system of election, with
out which no Government can have lo-
gitimacy, consistency and foree-thoso
considerations are far dCareT to me, and
I claim them to be of far more vital
consequence than the liberty to pro.
mulgate scdition or the liberty to con
spire. Immense applause. Such lib
critics must suceumb to the demands Of
the crisis, the public safety, the disoiP-
line and efficacy of the army, and the
attitude Of the revolt. Hear, hear,
hear Within tho range of the laws,
the police, the courts, the proprielies
and interests of the community, let them
have full swing in the days Of peace
Such days have their peculiar sanctities
more than this, they have their rec
ognized and favored abuses Of popular
institutions and prerogativos; and the
ieryest or foulest sheet that is sCribbled
in the coal-hole or the garret, as we'll as
the most iaithless citizen among us, may
be permitted, the one to scatter broad
cast, and the other to drop in crevices
and corners, the seeds of disaffeCtion
against the Government, without the
Commonwealth mourning any detri-
mont. [Hear, hear hear.] But in time
Of war-above all, in time Of civil war
the supremacy Of the Government
should be the sole, grand object, loud
cries Of hear, hear, and to this end
martial law should be the higher law
Tremendous cheeringl and the only
one in undisputed force, [ Enthusiastic
cries Of hear, hear, and cheering. ! Who
speaks about his right as a passenger
about his bag Of money, his chest Of
books and clothes, the photographs of
his wife and children, his bank stock
or bales of mcrchandize--whon tho
steamship has met with a collision,
threatens to 60 down, must be cleared
of every embarrassment and dead
weight, aud all hands are summoned Co
the rescue2 Hear, hear You know
it we'll, I assert it without fear Of con-
tradiction from any quarter, and those
who have had most latitude and impu.
nifty, were they frank and generous,
would be tho first to own it, The Ma
tiOnal Government has suffered more
from the patience, tho lenienoy, the
magnanimity it has pacticed towards
its enemies, and those who are ia sym
pathy and league with them, than it has
done from the courage, the science, the
fierce energy Of those who have taken
the field against it, and yictoriously
shaken the banner of revolt aud repu-
diation in its face. TCrics,of hear, hear,
and loud applause The masked con.
spirators Of the North are infinitely
more criminal and mischievous than
the bold and armed recusants of the
South, renewed shouts of hear, hear, |
and Democrat as I am, [enthusiastic
cheers, spurning the Republicanism
Of the Chicago Convention as a spur
ious creed, Toutbursts of applause hay
ing no sympathies whatever with the
men in power, other than those which
should subsist between the citizen and
his government, hear, hear | would
promptly and cordially approve Of the
severest measures tho President might
adopt to paralyze tho troqohory which,
in this and various othor cities, under
various liberal and bonedeout preton,
oes, has been aud is still at work. To-
undermine and overthrow the legiu-
matO magistraoy of tho nation. [Gteat
applause Do not speak ia the
name of tho Irshmen of New York.
and they are counted by tens of thous-