The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1862-03-20

| "pOu HO'hinB lesS Inan Lne OVerJnfOW
of the constitutional rights Of the
South. The Northern Locofoco press
has iterated and reiterated the deliber.
ate falsehood that the Republican party
was an Abolition party. It has persist
ed, as Pike is now doing, in instilling
into the Southern mind this montrous
misrepresentation, with an audacity and
pertinncity truly astounding. @ oil.
The craven apologists and extenua.
tors of treason, are continually declaring
that the preservation of the Union, an d
the greatness and prosperity of its peo.
pie, we're solely dependent upon the in
tegrity and the supremacy of the Dem,
ocratic party. Yet in the Charleston
Convention, large portion of that
party refused to compromise with the
Southern dictators, or even to concili.
ate them, though they knew perfectly
well that the penalty of their perverse
ness, would be the division and conse
quent defeat Of the Democratic party.
But now, SIN rting under dCfoat an un.
able to endure the pains Of exclusion
from power and Office, like whipped
spaniels, from being the bold but hyp.
ocritiCal defenders of popular sover.
eighty" they have become servile sup
F plants in behalf of demands which
they refused at Charleston. ....
, What is the position Of the RUM
remnant of the once great Democratic
: party, who pretend still to carry tht
. true "ark of the covenant" and to cher
ish aud keep alive the sacred faule2-
/ They are playing tho role of disloya
d apologists for secession, detestabIe ex
a tenuators of treason, and mendaeiou
! viliders of the long-abused, but loyaI
: North. ....- -iT .rvrt 4' ...t.' r
: Our Federal Union troops as the,
r make advances into the isolated region
of the South, are every where met will
this apology for rcbelliOn: "We have
been totally deceived in regard to tn
I, principles and purposes of the nationa
= administration" Well, who have de
ceived them? Not the Republicans
e Very few Of their publications or au
!, thoritative expositions of their princi
= pies have reached these benighted re
n gions. The Democratic press, tn
: speeches Of Northern denagogues, an,
c their own leaders, have furnished tn
B., kind of food which has poisoned til
i minds of the people aud made them rip
}, for "treason, stratagem and spOils."
But the hands of these "Democrat
of the strictest sect" are lifted up i
= holy horror, at what is likely to be tn
: result of III, war, thus brought about
3 upon the interests Of slavery. obi
not We tell you and the world that 20
were AJolitioniSts, whose design was t
interfere with the Constitutional right
- of the South?" These men profess t
y be alarmed for the interests of slavery
Disregarding every other interest, thci
sympathy is wholly wrapped up in tn
fortunes Of slavery They have no teal
= to shed for the thousands of the be-
: blood of the land, who are pcrishiug o
. the battle field and in the camp. The
, regard not the prostratiOn Of ever
. other pecuniiry interest, and the mi
T" lions of taxation which tho crime
Secession is inhicting upon the countr.
" These disastrous consequences, whic
~ affect more or less the whole fraternii
~ of nations, are but of small aceoun
x when they come in conflict with Il
l. preservation of the system Of Africa
T. slavery on this continent, under Il
le auspices of the Democratic parry. The
'c are ever crying out against decisiv
% prosecution of the war, to unconditio
" al submission and the just penalty
% rebellion, lest sIruery should be enda
v gered. They would abate aud modi
tho war, and thus prOlong it lest
should become "prOstitWted to emaRcip
o. tionr
y What rights have rebels and traitor
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