The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1862-07-17


and materially difFcrs--from every 9th.
err.
II was not the case Of n people ndven.
titiously and wrongfully, by conquest
or by fraud, forced into a loathcd con
nection with another people, differing
from them in religion, language, or lin
cage, rising up to break off the unnat-
ural connection, and to assert their
right to a separate nationality. This
it was not; for the people of the colo
nies had always been part OF the Brit.
ish Nation--professing the samo reli.
.gion, speaking the same language, and
boasting the same ancestry. Nor was
it the case of few factious, disappoint.
ed, disgraccd, and exasporated political
leaders, at the head of their blind and
bigoted partisnns, consulting only their
own selfish interests, and regardless of
the rights of the people, seeking the
establishment, on the ruins of THAR
country, Of a new and separate govern
mcnt, in order that they might them.
selves enjoy its honors and emolumeuts.
This it was not for the American Rev.
olution had its origin among the people
at large, who iDaugurated it for their
own common good, claiming, each for
himself, only the same measure of
rights, personal and political, which he
demanded for every other, and whose
leaders, when they arose, were but the
instruments in their hands for the
effectuation Of their purposes. Neither
was it the case Of a political party, long
dominant in State, but which, for its
corruptions and expressions, being at
last driven from power, cast down, aud
disCraced, raises tho arm of particle
against the Government it can no logger
p, control. Such it most ossmcdB was not
1t had no connection whatever with any
of the political parties of the day. and
in its august presence, the spirito party
dared not to raise its head
The. American Revolution had it's
origin in none Of these causes, nor in
any similar causes; its actors were i'm.
PEELED by none Of these motives, nor by
any similar motives. The people Of the
colonies demanded for themselves, in
the first place, nothing but what their
brth.right entitled them to--tho com
mon rights Of free born British sub,
jects. They did not mistake license for
liberty. They were not restive under
salutary restraint. They did not seek
to sever the connection which bound
them TO the parent country, in order
that they might establish a government
less free, less liberal, less tolerant, less
just, and less regardful of the rights
of the masses Of the people, than the
government which they proposed to
throw off. Quite otherwise it was
The people of tho colonies, from the pc
culiarities and necessities of their po
sition, had been led to acquire, and had
acquired, a more correct and practical
knowledge of tho rights and nature OF
self-government, than was possessed by
even the English statesmen of that day e..
They appreciated, too, more clearly than
did the English people, tho natural and
political rights of the indivtaaQI man.
They had progressed farther, and taken
higher degree in the study of free
government, than had their English
brethren. They had come fully and
feelingly to realize the great truths
which they nfterword promulgod in
their Declaration of Independence
that call men aro created equal;" that
men we're not made for governments, but
governments for mon; that THE PEOPLE
are tho source ofall political power; that
government can confer no right upon
the citizen, but that all governments
derive "their just powers from the con.
sent of the governed" wv hen, there,
fore, they found themselves denied the
rights of British subjects, and because
they were denied them, determined up,
on the establishment of a separate and
independent government Of their own
they also determined that the govern,
[ ment, so to be established, should be
based, among others, upon tho great
truths which | have enumerated; thai
it should be the froest, the purest, the
most tolerant, the most benign, and
therefore, the best government upon
tho Earth. Coming out from the bo
som Of the then freest and most onlight
eued nation of tho world, they aspircd
to a still larger measure of liberty anC
a still greater enlightenment, Castiuf
from them the then freest and most tol
Grant governmoutiu in tho world, they aim
ed at, and they attained, the establish
ment off government still more free anC
more tolerant, 1t 10 this that the NOR
al greatness and grandeur of the Ameri
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