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


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5ympathizers with Slavery
and secession--TheIr Object and De-
sign. W ....a' 'i.
The disloyal press nre industriously
gathering up the sayings Of anti-slavery
men, expressive of their adherence of
the principles and practice of human
sLaUery. -m '..I r.u...s.e
Slavery has been spoken Of by almost
every class Of patriots and statesmen,
Christian, and inadel, from the fouuda-
ton of our Government, and before, as q
social, moral, and political evil. It's NOR
al wrong and its tendency to work out
diversity Of views and interests, TO
mould aud develop national character
istics so divergent as to destroy all NOR.
al unity and generate antagonis us,
which would produce an impossibility
of political union, have been most
clearly pointed by wise and good men
from the beginning.
Tne object of the disloyal press in
the presentation Of these isolated and
garbled extracts, severed from their ex
planatory connection, is to afford some
kind of apology or excuse for Secession,
and thus put in plea in abatement of
the judgment of all right-minded men,
upon its monstrOus criminality. The
press which rests its bad cause upon
such fiimsy prcteuces is not only dis
loyal to the principles of the Constitu
ton, but to truth itself
The trick OF clnssing William Lloyd
Garrison and the anti-slavery men whom
he represents, with Republicans, is in
perfect keeping with the candor and
truthfulness of that party in its trea :
ment of this whole subject. That Gar.
r'son was over a Republican, or ever
acted with the Republican party in any
sense, is wholly false. mag ggggE.
Now, while nuti-slavery men have
spoken in just dctestation of slavery
and have in the discussion Of the sub
ject pointed out its tendency to array
one section of the Union against the
other, to give rise TO sectional parties
&c., and hence have opposed its aggres
sivo movements, by which it has beer
seeking to exalt itself above every 9th
er interest, they have but followed tht
leading of Washington and Jefferson
who,. though involved in the meshes o
slavery by the acts Of their predecessors
never ceased to warn their couRtrymer
of its mischicvous aud anti Republican
tendencies. Washington declared tha
its couseq quences would be mischievQus
Jefferson characterized it as developing
on the part of the master, tho most ty
/ rannical dispositionsond the most unhal
lowed passions, and on the part Of th'
slave, degradation and the most alice
sorvility, whilst the principles o
right aud justice were so much on
ragged, that the blessing Of Divine Prov
idence could never rest upon the insti
tuition. How have the foresight an
sagncity of these "fathers" been veriie'
in the history of the past few months
There Ia this difference, however, be
tween the Southern Secessionists an
those whom the apologists for Secessio
characterize as Northern disuniOnists.
Northern anti slavery men made thei
appeal to the moral sentiment of tn
country; they proposed 70 bring tha
sentiment to bear upon the ballot.b bo
the legitimate and constitutional III
buual for the decision of questions pei
tanning to the national welfare. Til
appeal of the SecessiOnist is from tn
decision of the ballot box. lie resist
that decision with force and arms, an
thus becomes traitor TO the principle
of that Constitution which places pow
er in the hands of the people. o..
For much of that alienation and il
compatibility of temper, which has pr'
duced the present outbreak, the pre-
slavery Democratic press is responsible
: For years they have been fanhihg Il
frcs of sectionalism, by catching up e.
cry extr 'vagant utterance, or intenSifc
r expression Of sentiment and attributir
them to large classes of men at Il
North In this way they have play'
& aud practiced upon the sensibilities
Z. the Southern mind until they ha'
wrought their iraseible natures up
their present pitch Of madness.
Northern demngoGues, while the a
ministration Of the Govern ment cont
ued in the hands of the Southern pr
slavery Democracy, found that the mo
influential agency by which to obtp
power and place. They could in tn
way most readily mako the prejudic
:, =, and passions of the dispensers of po'
er subserys their selfish and ambitio
Il designs. The blrthen Of political hu