The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1862-09-11
Letter from Hon. @. A. White.
WASHINGTON. May 26. 1862

OoHN ". DOREN, hsq DEAN DIR
see by the Enquirer that a move
ment is set on foot in Hamilton county
for the organization Of Democratic clubs
through the county. Would it not be
good policy to set on foot such q
movement in each township in our coun-
TYP
am we'll satisfied that We must carry
the election or lose our liberties. This
war under abolition rule, will degener-
ate into n magnificent John Brown
Raid, unless we put a check upon the
extreme measures of the party now in
power. To morrow bills will pass Civ.
ing freedom to the slaves Of all rebels,
and forieiting all their property real
aud personal. 1t will, ifexecuted, dc.
prive, as admitted by themselves, 700
600 men of every dollar of property
Of which they are possessed, and re.
duce to outlawry and starvation, $500,
900 men, women and children, and
turn loose upon US at least 100000
Of slaves, without property or the means
of subsistence.
This BILL if passed and executed,
will be as vile an infraction of the Con.
stitution and as attrocous a crime, as
the rebellion itself Think Of it, the
property Of so great,a number Of per-
sons taken from them without trial by
jury, without process by law, without
day in court, without presentment or
indictment and without confronting t he
party accused with witnesses, and al.
lowing him process aud benefit Of coun-
sci, thus disrcgarding every safeguard
Of liberty and of property secured by
the Constitution, and by the passage of
a sweeping bill Of attainder, by its own
mere force, take away the prop.
erty and the estates of 100000 per-
sons.
The worst enemies of the country,
jeff. Davis himself, could not have de.
vised more eifrctual means of under.
mining our Constitution, and overthrow
ing our liberties than this bill proposes,
for while it breaks down every barrier
erected by the Constitution for the pro
lection Of property, it will unite the
whole South against us, and sweep
away the last vcstise Of Union senti.
mcnt in the seeded, and might say in
all the slavcholding States, and with it
the last hopes of restoring the Union
or pres Ring the Constitution. These
bills mean suhjugalion, annihlation Of
the whole white race in the seeded
States, and the liberation Of all slaves
| The Abnlitioni,ts are bold to say that
slavery is the cause of the war, an that
there can. and should be no peace until
the cause Of our troubles is removed;
Tint between slavery and the Constitu-
tion and the Union, there i, an ineradi
cnhle hostility, an irrepressible conflict.
that one or the other must go down
This is the language not of few IA
natics, spoken upon the floor Of the
two houses of this Cong ess, but of a
majority of both houses, solemnly pro-
claimed in the passage of Legislative
endctmeatS Slavery is not the cause
of the war, the agitation of the slavery
question is one of the measures used to
produce the war, by the extremes of ,he
two sections, the secessionists of the
South, and the abolitionists of the
North.
The true cause Of this as of most wars
is an overweening lust of power, an
ambition for political preferment and
distinction, for the wealth and spols
attendant upon it. Nothing is more
opposed to war than religion; it is the
very opposite of war, its spirit is peace
on earth, and good will towards all
men, yet one half the wars we have had
since the world began have been what
are called religious wars. Shall we say
with these Abolitionists that therefore
as religion has been the cause of war,
we must Danish it from the earth, that
between it and constitutional liberty
and good government there is an ire.
presssible conflict and that one or the
other must go down? No, priestcraCt,
kingcraft, lust of power, and renown, d,
have been the causes of those wars
termed religious, and so it is with this
war and most others with which man
kind nave been afflicted. Are We pre.
pared to wage war of nnnihilation
against 5000, 600 of our own race. our
own blood, and kindred, for the vain
and foolish purpose of changing the
status of the negro race in the Seeded
States :? Was it for that our gallant
volunteers broke that charmed circle
that clustered around the domestic
hearth stone, aud rushed to the blood v
fields OF buttle with their lives in their
hands. ready to do or die at the com. /.
mand of their country Was il for this