The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1862-12-04
Communications.
tFor the News

fFor the News
The Vallandigham Org es at Cam
bridge, Ind.-Mr. Whites Speech
at Hamilton, Ohio.
We perceive from the daily journals
that tho Vallandigham demonstrations
in celebration Of Democratic victories
arc attended everywhere with tho same
scenes OF drunkenness, riotous disorder
and ebullitions Of disloyslty. A cor
respondent Of the Cincinnati Gazette
describes the "pow WOW" at Cambridge,
Ind, as zone Wild drunken, beastly
revel, which tainted the air "with treG-
son, blasphemy and obseenity." 1t was
at this meeting that Vallapdigham, in
the words of the Gazette, "made gen.
eral assault on the churches, Sunday
schools, the press, banks, rail roads, tel.
egraph lines, express companies, the
currency, the Aboitionists, the scrip
lures and the negro, as all being array
cd against the Democratic party" at
is time" said he, ito abandon the A AbO-
lition churches. Refuse them support
1t is time to speak out. The Sunday
schools were used rs lever to upset
Democracy amp support set of Aboli-
ton lecturers" The Gazette suggests
that there was still one thing more
''most hostile to the Democratic party,
which he omitted-the common schools.
What pleasing world this will be,
when churches, Sunday schools, press,
education and civilization are destroyed,
and in their places we have Vallandig-
ham Democracy"
Our purpose in this article is more
particularly to notice the speech of Z
a. White, made at one Of these celcbrn.
y tons at Hamilton, Ohio. Mr.. white
said: 1--WE do not rejoice because We
have simply succeeded in electing few
Democrats to office. x We re
joice because it ID a victory based upon
principles-upon principles that are
Fundamental and radical in their ma
ture. All the great fundamental priu
ciples of human rights and human lib
: erty have b,cn thrown down, until th(
, whole people have been degraded from
the condition Of sovereigns and free
= men into the condition of serls ard
slaves. These are the results of the Re
publican administration Of the govern.
i, ment, as short as it has BEEN"
Il Now, are these avcrments Of the Hon
d {. A. White false or true? is the qucs.
tion. Have all the great principles Of
human rights and human liberty been
thrown down by this Republican ad.
min,stration? Is not this broad state
ment untrue in letter and spirit? Thi.
?. was one of 'he false issues presented tc
d the people in the late canvass, which
g such shallow minded demagogues a!
A. White availed themselves of to deceive
the people aud lead their minds away
n from the true issues The Democratic
a party has ever lived and succeeded il
G this way-by seizing upon false issues
r. and bringing them to bear against tn,
a true and lasting interests Of the coun
d try. What are the facts? Have tn
r "wholc people been degraded from tn
d condition Of sovereigns and freemcl
It into tho condition of serfs and slaves"
- Docs any loyal, upright, law. abiding
I upholding citizen feel himself dc
d graded in his liberty and his humar
I rights by the fact that traitors, spies
sewers of dissension and organizers OF
sedition and opposition to the govern
mcnt in its great struggle to put dow
rebellion, are deprived of all power T.
do evil by the summary processes Of III
.. law? IF any man is curtailod in hi
70 liberty, is it not because of his compile
20 ity in crime, and his adherence to tina
" cause which destroys aud overthrow
- all that We hold dear in government
" honor aud country? fan enemy to hi
. government and country is restrainc
\" in his liberty to do harm, is it not fo
r the preservation of "human rights an
, human liberty" so long as their pre-
lection is involved in the preserVatio
y Of that government? If Abraham Lin
coin, in the extraordinary eircumstan
ces by which he has been surrounded
has suspended the hubeas corpus, an
st caused to be arrested persons engage
1t in disloyal and reasonable practices
If has this not been done for the preserva
tion of the government against til
mAchipations of the Ovil-disposcd?-wg
&c it not done for the protection of th
"a "a rights and liberty Of the loyal and wei
disposed eitizens2 Who suffers? M
&c the loyal and the good, but the disloyt
and the ill.disposod. Why all this syn
ne pathy for those who give aid and con
in fort TO rebellion and civil war? Occi
siOnal mistakes may have been made
the innocent may have sometimes su
I" fered wrongfully-but the governmel
- has at all times shown itself ready