The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1862-07-24

'"thb Wuot w uuIou uuu JuNtiue Hu9b
do her work. We may os we'll under
stand the fact first as last, and 90 to work
nationally. Without force and power
to coerce we have no Government.
How have matters gone on heretofore
Why, when the Union army came
here the first to run to its protection
and privileges were secessionists, who
got promises of protection If they would
remain neutral. On tho other hand,
The poor Union men were terrified with
threats of vengeance If the robel army
should return. The seoessionist was
protected by the Union army, and was
equally confident Of protection should |
the rebel army return; so he felt per-
feotly easy. The Union man dreaded !
utter ruin, should a reverse occur, and
was perpetually filled with alarm. SO,
under this strange policy, the rebel had
too guarantees, and the Union man
but one. 1t is time this was stopped.
The time has arrived when treason must
be made odious and traitors impover-
ished These men have used their
property to destroy the Government,
and fll the land with bankruptcy and
distress; they have given their wealth
freely to all rebellion and treason, and
drench the land in fraternal blood, and
crush out the last vestige of liberty,
and their property should be taken
from them to defray the expenses of
the war. They are the guilty ones.--
They are the real criminals. The poor
have been deluded and dragged into
this war, while the authors and insti-
gators who have kept up the war by
their money and contributions, have
skulked at home and demanded the
proteotion of the Federal Government.
: And what was the motive Of many of
these men in Nashville for bringing
on and aiding the robelion2
Why many Of these elegant gentle
men rebeled to get rid of paying their
Northern debts ! If miserable, Grip.
pied negro, worth five hundred dollars,
was stolen, the Government must be
everthrown if the negro could not be
recovered, but your polite, fastidious
and chivalrous merchant can 20 among
what he calls "bue belied Yankees" "
} buy their goods on credit, and then,
when pay day comes, tell his creditors
in the North "Oh, have seeded ~
tits an outrageous crime to steal ne
gro. but it is gentlemauly Ruuuciering
to defraud Northern creditor of S50,-
600 or 100000. Hundreds of in
stances could be related showing how
far the rebellion was impelled and ad-
vOnced by this swindling spirit. Yet
these very men who had disgraced
themselves by those frauds, would
talk gravely about the great sin Of
slave stealing Now take the value of
, all the negroes that have been stolen
from the South, and then take the sum
of the Northern debts that have been
repudiated by Southern men, and the
? latter will surpass the former at least
ten to one. Who own many of our
n public buildings, railroad stocks, bank
stocks, and other property? Northern
men. Yet you clamor about Southern
rights and coolly defraud your Northeru
friends of millions of dollars. The reb
E els Of Tennessee must be coerced.--
They coerce Tennessee or try to coerct
her, out of e.UniOn, and they mus
be coerced into the performance of theil
q duty. You talk of Withholding you
E 60 tton and starving out tho North
Just make the calculation which viii
starve out the soonest-The NortE
with her breadstutfs and no cotton, o.
tho South with cotton aud no bread
stuffs.
0 Governor johnson paid nm eloquen
E tribute to the loyalty aud fidelity o
e the East Tennesseans, who, under tn
e crushing weight of oppression still re
e NAMED faithful to the Union. Th
d conduct Of many of the rebel women, h
9 remarked, was astonishing. How dar
q you breathe treason and insult the fla,
of your country ? Hold up your hand
/. in the light Of Heaven gaze steadfast
/ ly on them, aud see if they are not re-
with blood Yes, the blood Of you
~ husbands, brothers and sons, whor
!. your wretched infatuation drove t
n treason aud rebels grave. Men VIII
Q would have gladly staid at home, wh
q felt no sympathy for the wicked cause
n and who, but for your wicked counsel
n might to night have been with us in th
il enjoyment oflife and health, have bee
Ol sent by your psrnicious influences to a
h untimely and ignoniuious grave An
10 yet, these women on the streets, aaur
Of their dresses as if they were terrif
70 comets and the world was to be dashs
D. out ofoxisten6e by a sweep Of the