The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1863-09-03

have exha u5ted every Constitutional
means Of obtaining guaranteos-if any
were needed--by representation, by re
mOnstrance, by petition; and falling in
all these, they should have done as our
revolutionary siros did, i. O., fghs in
the Union for their rights until they
we're driven out of it. Such course
would have procured for US, as i'll
did for our fathers, the respect, the
sympathy, and the assistance of other
nations. Instead of that we have not
friend in Europe. But such was not
the eoursc which these-in their own
estimation oD-Wise statesmen chose to
pursue. When such a course was sug
gested OF recommended to them, they
egalsd it by loug list Of magnificent
promises which looked 10 splSUdid as
almost to daS9le the mind With their
brilIiaucJ.
First aud foremost, they prOuissd
that Secession should b. peAOsAbls.
t Secondly, they promised that il per-
} chance war should snsue, it would be q
] very short war; that it would not last
D sic mouths-that the Yankees would
4 not fght--that one Southerner could
r whip from tea to one h2a9red Of them
= that England and France would
e speedily recognise US and render US
= every assistance We might desire
il that whatever might be their abstract
e opinions Of tho subject Of slavery, thaii
lie iuterest8 would impel them to promott
d its perpstuity in the Southern States
ID that if after all they should not be dis
r. posed to assist us, Cotton acaS King, snC
ID would soon bring all the crowned head
l. Of Europe on their knees in supplica
l. tion to us; would compel them to raise
10 the blockade--should one be establish
le ed-in thirty days, in sixty days, il
x ninety days, in one hundred aud TWEEN
y ty days, in six m onths, in nine months
s. in one gear at fsrthess.
/. Thirdly, they promised us that al
n the slave States except Delaware woalt
IT join the Southern Confoderacy--ths
E. Slavery should not only be perpetuStet
be in the States, but that it should be eK
at tended into all the territories in WhicI
o. the negro could live; that all the grieV
of snees occasioned by the non-executio,
n, of tho fugitive slave law should b
IN speedily redressed, thst slave propert
sr should be established upon q basis a
C. safe as that Of landed property.
&c Fourthly, thOy promised US that tn
Id nea Government should ba a mer
Of Confedcraoy oFStates Of absolute so,er
y. eighty and equal rights that the State
c. should be tyranniIed over By no sue
n, "cenh al dcpsti'm" as the old Govern
It. ment at Washington; that tho glorisu
<. doctrine of States rights and nullhCa
at tion as taught by Mr, Jefferson and NJ
er Calhoun, should prevail in the ne
Of Confederacy--that the sovereignty {
es the States and their judicial decision
i should be sacrodly respected.
at Filthy. they promised uS the earl
'e' and permanent establishment of Il
~, wealthiost and best Government on ii
Gu earth, whose credit should be bettt
'er than that of any other nation, vhoi
IN prosperity and happiness should DO Il
" envy Of the civilized world.
elr And lastly, they promised US that
lat a war should ensue, they would go
cir the battlefield and spill, if necossar
ne the last drop of their blood in the eau
ia of their beloved South.
at While such have been their promise
;u what have been their performances
cd Instead of secession being poaceable,
to they promised that it would, it h
ed given rise to such way as has new
in before desolated any country, since Il
nd barbariaas of the North oyorran t
'ty Roman Empire.
So far from the wars ending in s
as, months as they said it would, shou
OF it ensuo, it has already lasted more tn
ct two years, and if their policy is to
ac pursued, it will last more than two yeG
tu' longer; and Notwithstanding their pl
md dictious, the Yankees have fought
her. many occasions with spirit and det
ac' mination worthy of tho descendants
der tho Revolution--worthy of the desce
hey dants of those austere old purita
ICE, whose heroic spirit and religious q
uld made Oliver Cromwell's army the teri
lu' of the civilized world; or of th
as French Huguenots, "who thrice in
'ro' 10Th century, contended with her
de spirit aud vulorous fortunes against
ion, the genius Of the house of Lorraine, q
Iius all the power of the house Of Valoi
up England aud France have not rec,
sely nized us--have not raised the blocks
ere, --have not shown us any sympat