The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1863-03-05

We shall not notice what he says /
regard to the desecration Of the pull
pits of the land, with scarcely an 1ex-
ceptioD, ain furtAeTiDg the schemes Of
these fanatical, wicked mep."1 This
writer has the cffrontery, in discussing
this subject from the Southern side, to
condemn leading politicians for re-
pudiating their Constitutional Osths,"
and ministers for teaching doctrines
which lead to perjury, but has 40 word
Of rsprobation for the awful perjury
which rests upon the Southern people,
their leading politicians and ministers,
for the "repudiation of their Constitu-
sionol oaths." His weak sophistry and
Justification in regard to the ministers,
Greedy, Bryant and the Republican par
ty, We pass over, to notice one state
meut. He says "eight States passed
laws preventing taking fugitive slaves"
Now, this is not true. Personal liberty
bills were not 10 prevent the taking Of
fugitive slaves; but to prevent the TAX
ing Of freemen to slavery. They werc
aimed against kidnapping-they threw
around citizens Of Free States safe.
guards of protection against the slave
catcher. They we're intended to supply
the place of the habeas corpus and jury
trials, which the fugitive slave law af.
forded the first example of striking
down. "Notato-" knows that if there
were such laws on the statute books. the
Supreme Court was open and ready az
once to pronounce them unconstitutiOu-
al and void. sau
We have thus given a cursory com
ment upon several points Of this most
elaborate apology for Secession. There
are several other points which we can
not at this time notice. We have, how.
ever, to say in conclusion, that there is
one grand omission in this showing Of
the causes which have led to secession
aud disunion.- We have before us
/ "yellow covered" pamphlet, entitled
The Rights of States, or the Union a
Venerable Compact" Whence this
founding came, We know not--whith,
or it tends we we'll understand. The
author processes to be "a citizen of
Ohio" who claims his right "freely to
speak, write and publish" his opinions
upon any subject, but prudently de-
cIines to run any risk, by withhold.
ing his name. This waif, thus cast
upon the political waters, thus states
the subject: "WheneVer the subject
shall undergo dispassionate investiga-
tion, think it will be discovered that
our present condition is the legiti-
mate result Of radical error in re.
gard to the nature Of our political sys-
tenn This error is "that the Govern
mont of tho United States is possessed
of separate and distinct sovereignty
above that Of the several States; that
the powers delegated by the latter,
which constitute this national sover.
eighty, are irrevocable in their charac
ter, aud that any State attempting to re,
sumo the powers by it granted to the
Federal Government assumes thereby
an attitude Of rebellion, and may be
lawfully coerced into submission" Tho
yellow-covered tract characterizes this
as usurpation and the cause of, our
present condition. ,
"Notator" has thus far excluded
from view the influence of the doc
trincs of State Rights or State Sover.
eighty, as they have been taught in the
South, as one of the most potent cause,
in disintegrating and topping down
the fabric of our uion. He has given US
the play of the Prince Of Denmark
with Hamlet left out. 'ea"l.'
We have thus given the idle specula
tions Of this writer more ahsention than
their intrinsic force and truth eptitls
themto Illogical weakness and super
cilious seli-complac cncy and driveling
irrelevancy characterize every ipoge.-
We shall give the Southern side Of tho
case in another aspect nextlweeka
.IE .r5 esa .sf a.. ANN0TATOR.
D
} HENRY WINTER Davis UPON ARMI.
r sricE.'-ou Friday night, il Baltimore
! Hon. Henry NJ. Davis made speech,
. in which he said An armistice. say
the doubtful, hesitating .URioh men
$ A voice, Traitors J An armistieei thai
; would relax your arms-woald som pei
, your. submission---recogniti Of the
: Confederate Statos--the disruption ol
the American name, Its eternal
6 desradatiOn- --peaoo for month. for
E year, for five years--wars for genera,
q tiOns, aud anarchy to the end or time
!, { Applause. ] Once make division
"A line between the North and South, said