The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1862-05-29
Communications.


organization of the Democratic
Party.
We notice in the columns of the Gin.
cinnati Enquirer, an editorial comment
upon the "Address of the Democratic
Members of Congress-" which is nt,rib.
uted by the knowing ones to the pen of
Henry Reed. formerly Whig editor
then Republican recently nm
advocate of plan of "Peaceable Sepa.
ration" of the whence, by an
easy transition, he has pas sed nto the
editorial corps of this patriotic sheet.
This article advocates the reorgani.
cation of the Democratic party upon
the grounds that "the Republican party
is trampling upon the remains of vio-
lated Constitution, usurping authority
which that instrument never contempla.
ted, and in tho name of restoring tho
Union; innugurating a state of things
calculated to render such restoration
impossible"
As a sufficient evidence of the candor.
he truthGulnees, and the aninlus of the
writer, we have but to quote this re-.
mark. lie says:--"The Republican
party having performed its mission. bv
en'broiiing the country in p4r, went
out, &c. He says further: Tho hybrid
Union organization having disgusted
the country by its combined ia.
natioism and corruptions, is giving way
daily. There is, therefore, nothing ro.
naming but the last refuge Of scoun.
drels'-the pretension of patriotism--to
fall back upon, by establishing a reign
OF terror among the people, and to
prevent them from expressing their will
in the mode pointed out in the Consti.
tuition" So dlsoourses this writer Ia
the columns Of the Enqnircr.
He says he doubts not the Republi
cans "fear the people"-thcy do not
subscribe to the doctrine chat Govern
ments derive their just powers from the
popular consent" "They virtually hold
that the Government should become
Government of force at home, and
dread nothing so much as a free ex.
preston of the popular will" We sub,
init whether all this is not mere twad-
die and special pleading, unworthy any
Intelligent citizen capable of apprecia-
ting properly the extraordinary diAicul.
ties with which this Administration
has been surrounded, many of which
such disloyal sheets as the Cincinnati
Enquirer have assisted to put in their
way.
This Administration has been one of
force because nothing but Govern.
ment of force could adequately meet
thc crisis presented by traitors and reb.
els who banded together to overthrow
that Constitution which represents tho
popular consent" The Government
has been called upon to use "all its Just
powers for the suppression of rebel.
| lion;-its powers havo been used against
traitors and the enemies of the people
AID their interests;--the end is, tho
preservation Of that Constitution which
our Fathers established iu the name Of,
and for the people.
To conduct this unparalleled crisis to
successful issue, in tho preservation
and perpctuatiou of that Constitution,
should they not receive the counsel aud
aid Of all good citizens, instead of
mere Jactious opposition For the time
being, they are the organs and expo
nents of tho popular will--charged
with the protection Of the highest inter-
ests of the people. They hold their
places by popular election and under
the forms of that Constitution which is
the result of popular consent" AS
to the future Of the Republican party,
the progress Of events will take care of
that.
This article has much to say of the
power of the people, and the sacred
right Of popular majority, and Of the
necessity of bringing this power to bear
in restraint and check upon the Admin
stration. This Administration is en-.
: gagged in tho work of putting down tho
enemies Of the Constitution and the vi.
olators of the laws. Should il not re.
, ceve the aid and comfort of all who 70.
ally desire tho restoration of the Con.
stitution3 In opposing and crippling
and obstructing that Administration
do they not range themselves on the
side Of the enemies Of the Constitution,
and do their work? The Constitution
. re -csta ablished, does it not become again
0 the guardian Of the rights of alp
Abraham Lincoln and his supporters
' seek to uphold and not to destroy this
4 shield of popular rights. This is
contest in which one side or the other
" must prevail. One side is represented
1 by our Gag and oil its starry folds. ri,
. ther the South must carry forward her
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