The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1862-10-09

Washington declared in a letter to a
friend, "For the abolition of slavery by
law, my vote sh all not be wanting"
Before the Revolution Jefferson said:
"The abolition of domestic slavery is
the greatest object of desire lin these
Colonies, where it was unhappily intro.
duced in the infant state"
Now, a modern Democrat, tracing his
lineage to Jefferson, associates with the
word abolition" everything worthy Of
his loathing and contempt
Jefferson calls the slave system "an
evil, an "onormity," "wrong," "hid
eous blot" Course" Now, all these
has it not proved itself in the history of
our country? Yet modern Democracy
proposes to conserve it as the chief cor.
ner-stone of republican GJertyl
Jefferson speaks of slavery in as fiery
terms as any modern Abolitionist: "The
whole commerce between master and
slave is perpetual exercise of the most
bolsterous passions-the most unremi..
hng despotism on the one part and de-
grading submission on the other. x 4
Inc man must be a prodigy, who can
retain his manners and morals unde
praVed by such circumstances. lie
says further, in speaking of the infu
ence of the slave system: "Aud with
what execration should statesman be
loaded, who, permitting one half of the
c"tzens' (note the word) ."to trample on
the rights of the other, transforms those
into despots aud these into enemies
destroys the morals of the one and the
amor patriR Of the other!'
How true picture of the effects of
slave Institutions, as evinccd in the ori
gin and progress of the Great Rebel
lion, does this statement present!
The Fathers of the Republic, accord
ing to modern Democratic definition.
were "Abolitionists" Washington.
Jefferson, Madison, Mason, Patrick
Henry, &C., and therefore their memo.
ries are to be execrated, as having sown
the seeds whose fruits have ripened in
the present rebellion!
/ But what has the modern Democratic
party had to do with raising this fell
spirit, whose mali n influence has shed
the mildcw of blight and dissolution
upon our institutions?
The State Convention of this party
which met in Columbus in January.
l845, adopted the following resolution ::
"Resolved, That the People of Ohio
now, as they have always done, look up.
on Slavery as an coil, unfavorable to the
full developement of the spirit and
practical benefits of free institutions.
and that, entertaining these sentiments,
they will feel it to be their duty to use
all power, consistent with the terms of
the national compact, to prevent lis in
crease, to mitigate, AND FINALLY
ERADICATE TIE EVIL"
The Democratic ia thus the only party
IN this country which ever proposed to
finally eradicate the evil" They thus
at that time placed themselves distinctly
and squaroly upon the Abolition plat
form.
This same party also repealed what
we're called the "Black Laws" of Ohio,
imposing disabilities on account of col.
or and preventing Oolored immigration
They were swept from the Statutes by
Its action. Now, the leaders of this
same party come forward, and while la
menting over the calamities of the
country, charge the cause of it all to
the "agitation" of the slavery question
by the Republican party
Both the Wing and Democratic plat
forms of 1852 endorsed the Compromise
Of 1850 as "hnality." Who was it
that disturbed that measure of adjust
ment? Who was it repealed the Mis-
souri, Compromise, and re opened the
"agitatiOn" of tho slavery question,
which has eliminated in the prosen
Impartial history answers tho Dem
ocratic party. ANNOTATOR.