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

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! Council of Pennsylvania should upprc-
hend certain Quakers named, aud secure
their papers. of o political nature, be-
cause thcv had uniformly manifested
disposition highly iuimical to the cause
Of America They also recommended
the Executive powers Of the respective
States forthwith to apprehend, and Sc
cure all persons, as we'll among the poo.
pic called Quakerg as others, who have,
in their general conduct and conversa-
tiun, evidenced disposition inimical to
the cause of America; and that the por-
sons 30 seized, be confined in such places
and treated in such manner as shall be
consistent with their respective charao-
ters, and security Of their persons"
They also recommended that "tho
records and papers of the Meetings Of
Suiforings in the respective States be
forthwith secured and carefully exam
incd, and see that such parts Of them as
may be Of a political nature be forwith
transmitted 10 Congress"
The report Of the committee was
agreed to, and the several persons
named consisting of eleven of the lead
ing members of the Quaker Society in
Philadelphia we're buuished to Freder-
icksburg, Virginia. On the same day
Congress ordered the Board of War
remove to the same State the Hon. John
Penn, the Governor and Hon. Benja-
min Chew, the Chief Justice Of Penn
/, sylvonia, who had evinced disaffection
to the Wing cause.
To these proceedings our Revolution
ary fathers aimed a severe blow at that
freedom of speech and Of the press"
8 whose ubridgcment by our Government
b at the present time causes the sympa-
p thizers with the rebellion so much dis
8 gust and well fcigncd alarm. They did
more. When two eminent "pcace men,
members Of the Society of Quakers,
e were detected in giving personal laid
Y and comfort to the enemy" they we're
. hanged. The sympathizers with the foe
then, as now, made a great ado over this
e necdful exercise of authority; and Tory
D John Bolts wrote to Tory Joseph Gal
- loway: "Govcrnor Livingston went to
O Philadelphia, and urged his endeavors
to prev Ill on the banditti (the Congress)
8 in power there to save Roberts and Car
y Isle, not from any principles Of honor
e or conscience you know him too we'll
{ but from motives as he thought, Of pol
n icy"
=. The little State Of Delaware "sup-
pressed" forty.six of her citizens who
r sympathizad with the enemy, by conds-
}. eating their property, at the same time
L. honestly providing that their just debts
# should be paid out Of such property
#. This confscation could be avoided only
p. by their surrcndoring themselves to the
8 proper authorities Of the State, to be
C tried for treason.
. Maryland confscatcd and appropri-
It ated to the uses of the State the proper
ty of her citizens who adhered to the
e crown.
n SiXty-four persons were named in a
confscation act of the Legislature OF
,. North Carolina, and their lands, "ne-
IS groes and other personal property" ="
4. were forfeited to the State Several Of
these tories were Scotch Highlanders,
j.. who fed to America after the rebellion
l. Of I745, settled near Fayetteville, in
o North Carolina, and adhered to the roy
Is al cause when the war broke out. But
sc North Carolina was one Of the most
e. patriotic States in the Union.
'' THE TORIES OF SOUTH CAROLINA.
d Not so South Carolina. She swarmed
Is with tories; and after the fall Of her
l. capitul, in 1880 more than two hundred
10 persons, calling themselves "principal
h. Inhabitants Of Charleston" signed an
address to Sir Henry Clinton, declaring
ID that they had every inducement 70 re.
,c turn to their allegiance, and begging to
be be considered MS British subjects. Six
In ty-throe Of these traitors to the Whig
w cause were finally buuished and theil
~ estates were forfeited Eighty other
I'd persons in that State, who had accepted
o. commissions under the crown, wer,
bauishcd and their estates we're confs
mr. Gated; and for other political offence,
~ many others suffered. Georgia, also
Of adopted stringent measures for the pun,
iShmcnt of the traitors within her Dor
dors who sympathizod with the enemy
70 THE PEOPLE AND THE TORIES
In Long before the war broke out, an,
th during its progress, the people. withou
he due process Of law, silenced or banisho,
'y many traitors aud symputhizers AmOnl
al the refugee tories who fed to Cunad,
TO aud NOVA Scotia many had dismal tale,
'r, 10 tell of their harsh treatment by ihei
lis inc,nsed couutrymcn. / refrain from
$50 giving examples Of these summary pun
n i,hments which abound in our levo n
he tionuly annals, because mohs and he
k acrous cannot be tolerated nor jusfiGer
Of without injury to thl well-being Of 50
Of iety.
ed That the patriots Of the Revolution
rm were clearly right ia thoir treatment O.
'a the traitors iu their midst, no well,in
ng formed man will deny They were tn,
ms most dangerous foes to iborty. The,
he worked secretly as we'll as openly
'us While thousands of them we're pryatol
plotting he ruin of the patriotic cause
lth others were 10 open hostility. Owe
cir twenty thousand of them, according {
ia, Mr. Sabines estimate, took up arms 10
IS. the King during the war. Their mach
re nations greatly prolonged the oontos
9nt and caused an immense waste of bloo
ia and treasure. They were the most in
'gs sidious and unrelentng foes Of tho free