The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1863-03-19

reasons that led to the arrests Of DR..
Edison B. Olds. Our readers know full
we'll what they are, aud that they were
sufficient in the eyes oflihe authorities.
The audience certainly thought so last
night. ra71 vriaiD. .,L sa"a @.i7 \
d The Governor then alluded to opin.
ions Of Washington andlJackson given
below, and asked his audience to pom
der them well. sog Goo $50 lrg
Gen. Washington said: er
81 "Itis of infinite moment that you
should properly estimate tho immense
value of your political Union to your
collective and individual happiness,
that you should cherish q cordial, ha-
bitual, immovable attaohmentto it, nc
customing yourselves to think and
speak Of it as of the palladium ofyour
political safety and prosperity; watch
ing for its preservation with jealous
anxiety; discountenancing whatever
may suggest even suspicion that it con,
IN any eUent, be abandonc led. ."fs.r rI. p
General Jackson said: s1 at. ..'.
"I fear there are plans inimical to the
Union. l love my Government. l
would die in the last ditch before |
would see the Union disunited."
"Tho Federal Union 1t must and
shall be preserved" gufa... l.
He could not prophesy when the end
of the contest would be. 1t took our
fathers seven years. Are We better
than they? Is not the obligation as
binding upon US to perpctuatc free
Government? As long as we have man
and dollar we will fight Let each
man do his duty, and we will bring the
leaders of this unholy rebellion to jus
tice. | am not vindictive man, said
he; the hanging Of one or two hundred
of the leaders will be about all the pun
ishment [ shall ask. [Oheors. The
majority of the people of the South
are loyol-79H that is wanted is
to get the leaders out Of tho way
4 Then will we attend to Valladigham &
:, Co. Make record Of their ,reason ev.
cry week, and teach your children tc
mark them as traitors frown upon them
in the streets; have no fellowship with
: them; spurn them as you would viper
| wish the gallant soldiers on Stone
river could hear mo declare to-nigh
that nine-tenths of the people of Ohio
ure loyal to them. We will send them
, that greeting next fall. [Cheers,
/ say, keep down party spirit. Don
compel me to choose between extreme
I on either side-for you know l onl,
e enlisted for two years, and when my tw,
years nre up l shall return to my farm
, Give me a ticket pledged only to tn
I maintenance of this Government of ours
, [Applause, Then when the war is over
d and the stars and stripes again float il
, safety in every State, we will so to wor)
y --Groesbeck, myself and others ran
y clean out these bogus Democrats
: GCheers. Then it will be time to sc
q which party is the purcst, The Reput
II licans will not take those bogus fellow
VIC won't have them, but they will b
n branded as INFAMoUsl as the mon VIII
4 threw obstacles in the way of this III
,r ion of ours. [Applause. Then, m
"a friends, cheer up-hold up your head
I and with Gods blessing, this, the po'
\ pies GovcrnmcntEwill live as long
" time shall last, Loud nPplause,]
ID aispEECII OF IIoNawgs. GRoEsBEcK,
IF Hon. Mr., GRoEsBEOK, on being cal
le ed to tho chair, spoke ms follows! .
n 90 FeIlotc Citizens: L have been regucs
le ed, in commencing the exeruises,
h state the object of this cal, and desir
pc in my own behalf, to thank1 you for th
~ expression of your good will and
sn say that L am atly'honOrOd in bell
er chosen to preside over this meeting
lg (Here the martial music Of a drum al
to fife in the entry drowned the voice
We the speaker, who gave way for amomo
tic until comparative quiet was restored
oh Fellow citizens, this eveningis a
"a anniversary sacred to the memory
Ito our great Washington, Echeersl and q
now crowd these galleries forgive ain G
he preston ofloyalty to the Union, viii
n. is founded upon so much love. II
OF day and Occasion of this meeting 4
TO most fitting. A rebellion, formidal
Ia in its charac tor, enowathroatens us as
Tot are here to ihvokeahis spirit, and to ,
ies clare anew our atsdeterminatiou to- cru
tie ithisrebellion aud maintain and p
rc- serve our Government [opplauseJ
nd hazards, anda any cost. We are u
,us here also, allow me TO say, in the |,