The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1863-02-12

messed the bloody climax ofa consapir-
cy which began in the preceding gencr'
alton, to enthrone Slavery as political
power in this land, aud to extend its
sway over adjacent countries, in the
wild hope that in the grasp and under
the lead Of the indomitable Anglo-Sax-
on race, il might become - what it had
failed to become in any Other hands,
po0er in The Garth. 1t is TOO late in tho
day for the arch traitor, Jefferson Da-
Wis, to deude the world with such lying
words as those quoted in one Of the res
olutions reported by your committee;
affirming that be and his armies care
not engaged in conflict for conquest,
or for aggrandizoment." Does he com-
prcheud the import Of language2 Does
he know what conquest means? Does
he suppose that the world has turned
idiot, not to see that the South is aim.
ing to strip BY conquest from the Uni
ted'States a large part of its territory
three thousand miles of its sea coast,
and the mouth of that great Mississippi,
whose waters roll in ceaseless and state
! ly flow past this city Of our habitation?
Is there no vision Of aggrandizoment in
this empire Of the "GoIlea Circle
which sweeping from the capes of Vir.
ginia down to Cape Sable, and career
ing around the shores of the Gulf of
Mexico and tho Caribbean Sea, was to
plant its furthest standard in some yet
uuthought-of point in South American
wilds2 Aud does be believe humanity
in its dotage, that it cannot see that
that standard is to be borne onward I'M its
blood stained march Of piracy and sub
Ijugation, by Slavery and for Slavery
No, my friends, he believes no such
miserable folly. He knew, long years
ago, and he knows now, better than any
bat his co-conspirators could know, that
a vast Empire Of Slavery was the prom
isc of his and their treachery to the no
bic Republic Of Freedom, wbich gave
them birth, and matursd them into men
= of mark, only, as time has proved, that
,b,, n;.h, ho moro no,va.PnI. and Ian
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cursed treason. Applause 1t suits
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