The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1862-10-09
Communications.


[For the News.
The Cry Of neutrality-suspicious.
ions of Washington and jefferson
on Slavery---The Ohio Democra-
cy of 1862 and the Same Party
in 1945--Strong Abolition Reso-
lutions Passed by the Democrat
ic State Convention of the Lat
ter Year---That Party the Real
"Agitators" of the Slavery Ques-
ton.
The efforts of the partisana of the
Vallandigham Democracy to turn aside
the just indignation of the people, due
to traitors and their apologists and sym.
pathizers, and fix the popular hatred
upon those who gave timely warning of
the tendency of slave institutions, and
who dared to make resistance to the
steady and persistent aggressions of the
Slave Power, aiming at national suprem-
acy, show to what desperate shifts un-
principIcd mon will resort to accomplish
their selfish and ambitious purposes.
White e. Co. are just now most indus.
triously plying this sort of tactics to
secure his re- election in the Sixth Con.
gressionnl District. If the people are
to believe him and his special partisans,
Secessionism, Treason and Rebellion
are trivial and venial acts, compared TO
the enormous turpitude of abolition
ism |"
Mr.. Whites late speech in this place
was filled with denunciations of "Abo.
litionists," whilst Treason and Rebel.
lion were referred to in such terms as
to leave his audience to infer that the
people of the North we're the sole
wrong -doers;-.that the rights of the
Southern people had been so outraged
that they were driven into Secession,
rebellion and revolution by ga long train
of abuses and usurpations, pursuing in e
variably the same object;"- "-and that
consequently "it is their right, it is
their duty, to throw off such govern
ment'!
Col. Metcalfe Of Ky. said in a recent
speech: "The cry of AJolitionisn is the
whip that is continually held up to
scare the ignorant into the Demo cratic,
and now the. Secession ranks. IF you
look at things with common sense, you
are an Abolitionistl If you are for your
Country, and for the majority ruling,
you are an Aboltionistl"
Mr.. White said in his late speech at
this place, that the Republican party
were forever dragging in the negro into
their politics and policy. Now, the re,
verse of this is true. The Democratic
party has for years been making use of
the negro. in one way or another, to
keep up their party and to retain power. .
They have at every recent election
brought forward the negro and avaiIed
themselves of the antipathy of races to
scare the ignorant into the Democratic
ranks" They are ever ringing the
changes upon negro equality, "negro
suffrage, &C., and branding with con-
temptuous epithets liberal minded men.
1t is the demagogues of the Demo
cratic party and unprincipled partisau
editors who are ever dragging the negro
into the political arena, and making the
preJudices thus aroused stepping.
stone to Office.
Mr.. White says in his Letter recently
published in these columns, "Slavery is
not the cause of the war;-the agitation
of the slavery question is one of the
measures used to produce the war;
Now we arc at loss to know how Mr..
White would put stop to this "agita.
tion." He processes TO be In favor of
freedom of speech and of the press
these were personal American rights,
which none but towards and slaves
would renounoe, If no demands them
for himself, will he not also concede the
same right to those who differ with him
and the party he assumes to represent?
Henry Clay said, "You cannot stop the
agitation of this question, aud repress
all tendencies towards liberty and ulti
mate emancipation" until you elbow
out the moral lights around us" and
then penetrate the human soul, and
the light of reason and the
love of liberty"
Democrats are fond of tracing the pa.
ternity of their party to Jefferson, and |
in all their platforms were wont to en.
iorse him as their apostle. Let us ex.
anime for a moment Jelferson's opinion
On the subject of that institution which
modern Democracy cherishes with SO
much tenderness and affection, and ac.
'epts as the cornerstone" of the high.
ost form of Civilization
If We wero to believe White & Co..
We would suppose that Giddings, Gree
ey, Wendell Phillips, &C., were the
)riginatOrs of Abolitionism-tha tbov