The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1861-09-12

on 1.-THE Rights and Duties Of War,
from which VIC take tho following porti-
nont passage.
There are presses, for the most part
in the border States, though some of
them are found ia cities moro remote
from the scene of action, which are daily
pleading the cause Of tho enemy, mis-.
representing and villifying the govern
of the United States. eXaggerating every
article Of unfavorable intelligence, and
exortiug themselves to the utmost to
dishoarten tho friends and defenders of
the Constitution and the Union But
such is tho all but 5uperstitious devo-
tion Of the People TO the liberty Of the
Press, that these pernicious journals
have, with the exception Of a single in
stance in st. Louis, never been interfer
ed with 1t seems to have been thought
better by those In authority, to tolerate
the misohiefofthese unpatriotic presses,
than to elevate them TO greater impOr-
tance by prosecution, or to eucroaoh in
the slightest degree upon that freedom
Of public discussion which in ordinary
times ia justly regarded as one Of the
greatest safeguards Of liberty. But 10
IS prcp0Stcroas to sacrifice the end to the
means We should ~ this respect learn
toisdOm from the enemies of the Union.
While VIC regard as unbecoming our
Christian civilization that resort to
Lynch law, by which every expression
Of opinion adverse to the popular senti-
ment is suppressed in the seeding
States, zoe ought to remember that IN T. Z.
Grating q traitorOUs press an,Ong ourselUCS,
zoe practice a iberahty which dt0abens
no gratitude at honle and Is neUer r5cip-
rocated by the opposite pariy. It is in
fact an absurdity in terms, under the
venerable name of the liberty of the
press, to permit the systematic and IL
cehtlous abuse of a Government which
is tasked 90 the utmost in defending the
country from general disintogration and
political chaos The Governor of Malta
was censured in Parliament for some al
legged severity toward the editor of a
journal in that island; and the liberty Of
the press was declared to be in danger
The Duke Of Wellington said be was as
friendly as anybody to the liberty of the
press In London, but free press in the
Island of Malta was as much out of
place as it would be Oh the quarter deck
of man-of-wur. We suppose the most
enthusiastic champion Of the liberty of
the press would hardly think it right to
publish a journal within the walls of
Fort MoHohry, In which the officers of
the garrison should be daily advised to
desert and the men be constantly ex-
horted to mutiny! and whose colums
should be filed with persistent abuse of
the Government and all engaged in its
defense. Why should journals Of that
description be aAotgcd to di6use their
poison beneath its 1oalls amidst the sTciia-
bic population Of q large city?
The country will thank Mr.. Everett
for these words. There is no source
from which they would be more well
come or woighty. The question as to
whether every tory is to be at perfect
liberty to do his best to ruin the nation
in this time of trial, is one Of the most
pressing aud embarrassing Of the day.
At this moment, when the army of the
Southern Conspirators is almost within
cannon shot Of Washington city-when
our troops have suffered a reverse in
Virginia, and VIC have lost one of our
best Generals in Missouri-When the
armies Of the Union are weakened by
the withdrawal of three months troops,
and thero is an urgent call for more
men-when it is evident that all the en-
ergies of the loyal people must be put
/ forth, and the resources Of the country
! lavishod in the great good cause of the
Government, or that the Republic is
gone forever, and that the public liber-
ties will perish with it-thore are news
papers openly and Indignantly espous.
| ing the cause of the enemies of the Gov
ernment, in several of the principal
cities of the North. They are doing all
within their power 20 prevent the enlist
ment of troops, and to make those in
camp mutinous. They magnify oil the
difficulties of the Government, and gloat
over all its disasters 1t is undoubted-
! ly the secret wish of all of them that
the Great Conspiracy may succeed and
they are doing its work. Already in
4 dignant citizens, provoked by the intol-
cradle insoIence and hostility to the ma
tional cause of these pestient sheets,
have, in several cases, destroyed the
Offices in which they originate, by mob
force. And many more of these labo.
tories of treason will be destroyed, and
that before long. This course of pro
ceeding may or may not be justifable,
according to the laws of peace; but it is
inevitable We are at war. We have
enemies in our midst. They are max
ing war against us--w0r as deadly as il
they were in the Confederate army
They are inviting hostilitics at home,
and they must be subiugated. The
question must be tried throughout the
North wherever tho tories are lifting up
their heads and wagging their tongues
or printing their poisonous lies, whether
there are loyal men enough left at home
to take care Of the peruicious villains
who have beea made bold by that popu,
lar forboarance which has ceased to bC
yirtuous.- 49, Gin. Com.
-aou----
Fun is worth more than physic, ant
whoever invents or discovers a new sup
ply deserves the name Of a public ben
efuctOr.