The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1861-01-31

he is Of all men the most unambltlOus, |
he is by the partial success Of those who
opposed his election, subjected to such /
restraints that he cannot, without their |
consent appoint a minister, or even a
police agent, negotiate a treaty, or pro.
cure the passage Of law, and can hard
ly draw a musket from the public arsen-
ais to defend his own person.
"A DIFFERENCE OF OPINION THE TRUE
GROUND OF THE SECESSION MOVEMENT.
What, then, is the ground Of discon-
tent? IL is, that the disunionists did
not accept as conclusive tho arguments
which we're urged in behalf Of the sue
cessful candidate In the canvass. This
is all Were their own Arguments against
him more satisfactory to his supporters2
Of course they we're not. They could
not be. Does the Constitution, in let
ter or spirit, require or imply that the
arguments ofone party shall be satisfac-
tory to another2 No; that is impossible.
What is the constitutional remedy for
this inevitable dissatisfaction Renew
ed debate and ultimate re-heariDg in
subsequent election. Have the now sue
oessful majority perverted power to pur-
poses Of oppression? No; they have new
er before held power.
OUR OWN AN UNGRATEFUL PEOPLE.
Alas, how prone we are to underval-
ue privileges and blessingsI How glad
|ly, how proudly, would the people Of
any nation in Europe accept, on such
terms as we enjoy it, the boon Of elect
ing a chief magistrate every four years,
by free, equal and universal suffrage
How thankfully would they cast aside
all their own systems Of Government.
and accept this Republic of ours, with
all its shortcomings and disappoint-
ments; maintain it with their arms and
cherish it In their hearts. Is it not the
very boon for which they supplicate
God without reasing, and even wage war
with intormissions only resulting from
exhaustion?
ITALY AN EXEMPLAR FOR AMERICA.
How strange are the times in which
we live. The coming spring season, on
one side of the Atlantic, will open on q
general conflict waged to obtain, through
whatever indirection, just such a system
as ours, and on this side Of the Allan.
tic, within the same parallels Of lati
tudo, it will open on fraternal war, wa
ged in a moment of iren2ied discomfort
to overthrow and annihilate the same in
stitutions. Do men, indeed, live only
for themselves, to revenge their owl
wrongs, or to justify their own ambi
ton? Rather, do not men live least OF
all for themselves, and chiefly for pos
terity and for their fellow-men?
DISSOLUTION A ROBBERY OF pOsTERITY
Have the American people then be
come all of a sudden unnatural as wei
as unpatriotic? Aud will they disinhor
it their children of the precious estate
held only in trust for them, and deprivr
the world of the best hopes it has en-
joyed since the human race began it
slow and painful, yet needful and wise
=, ly appointed progress?
ALLEGED SOUTHERN GRIEVANCES.
Here 1 might close my plea for thu
American Union but it is necessary, if
not to exhaust the argument, at least t
= exhibit the whole case. The disunionists
/ cousciouslyunable to stand on their mer,
D disappointment in the recent election
- have attempted to enlarge their grounds
O. For more than thirty years there ha
l existed a considerable, though not
% formidable mass Of citizens in certain
States, situated near or around the del
ia Of the Mississippi, who believe tina
the Union is less conducive to the vel
fare and greatness Of those States thar
smaller conlederacy, embracing onl,
Slave States, would be, This class ha
availed itself of the dsconteuts result
ing from the election to put into opera
I tion the machinery Of dissolution, lon,
y ago prepared and waiting only for al
: OCCASION In other States there is
soreness, because of the want Of sym
pathy in the Free States with the effort
. Of shareholders for the recapture of fu
gitives from service. In all the Slav
. States there is a restiveness, resultin,
from the resistance which has been s
G determinedly made within the last fe,
years in the Free States to the exten
= sion of Slavery ia the common Terrific
u ries of the United States.
=, THE REPUBLICANS DENIED A HEARING
y The Republican party, which cast il
n votes for the successful Presidential can
n didate on the ground of that policy, ha
been allowed practically no represents
ton, no utteranoe by speech or throug
the press, in the Slave States; while il
policy, principles and sentiments, an
r even its temper, have been so misreprC
. seuted as to excite apprehension that
/ denies important constitutional obliga
=, tions, and even aims at interference wit
- Slavery, and its overthrow by State az
thorities or Intervention of the FEEDER,
- Government. Considerable masses, eve
q in the Free States, interested in the sue
- cess Of these Misrepresentation as
y means Of partisan strategy, have leT
their sympathy to the party claiming I
be aggrieVed while the result of Oh
, election brings the Republican part
j necessarily into the foreground in rt
;, sisting disunion.
70 THE REPUBLICANS MIsREPREsENTED AN
,e UNAIDED,
d The preiudices against them, which
y have described, have deprived them 0
the cooperation Of many good aud pa
70 riotio citizens. On a complex issue b.
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