The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1863-07-02

your whole energies be given in sup
port of the Administration in this war.
Don't cover yourself with infamy by
taking upon yourself the reputation of
trying to strike down the Government
when engaged in a contest with REBEL.
ion. [Applause.
CONQUER THE REBELS OR SUBMIT.
Fellow citizens, you must conquer
this rebellion or you must submit to a
recognition Of the Southern Confedera-
Icy. You can do but one of these things,
it is folly to attempt anything else, for
there cannot exist slave confederacy
and free confederacy side by side up
on this continent. Applause.1 Nay,
more than that, 1 believe the great God
himself never intended that more than
one nation should ever occupy this
country. He gave US the lakes for our
Northern boundary, and the rivers
stretching to the seas upon whose wa.
ters floats our commerce to the nations
Of the world; while man has done all that
can be done by science to bind us to-
gether by means of railroads, which ex-
tended like mighty links over all the
land.
You must conquer the whole country
or abandon the whole country;
you must preserve this as one Govern
ment or see it rent into twenty or fifty
different factions.
THE RIGHT OF SECESSION CONSIDERED.
I have not proposed to day to argue
; with you the question of Secession, but
say to you that that dogma so destruo-
q tive to the principle upon which this
- Government was established must be
= crushed out, or there will be no unity
g or national life hereafter. I think ole
T Jackson settled the question of Seces-
: sion when he knocked Calhoun and hi:
i argument down with his proclamation
q l think every man in this laHd viii
deny the right of Secession. I had
q talk with an old friend, whom l saw il
v this audience few minutes ago. l sale
IS to him, "Do you admit the right of
70 State to secede?" mo, sir, do not.
d "Do you admit the right of Washing
o ton county to secede from the rest 0
n the State?" ono" Suppose she doc
d it?" 81 will try to coax her back -
II Suppose she won't be coaxcd back?
d II will use gentle force to bring he
IS back" "But suppose she has stolen al
l. your guns and asks you to come on an,
re fght?" 81 will just tell her, 'waywar,
I, sister, go in peace" Those were tn
D. words of John Van Buren,, but he ha
il repented of them. Now take that prin
4. ciple and apply it to the States, no,
e. long--but it would be folly to ask ho,
a. long would the United States hang tc
ct gether-how long would there be tw
of States pulling together? How long be
m fore you would be cut into clans, wit
ar more chieftains than the old Roma
ID Empire in the days Of its dissolution
d How long would you command the r,
1T speot of other nations or of yourselve
The doctrine is too monstrous to |
thought of for an hour. When yo
=; talk to me and say, "DOn't coerce an,
body" l answer that we cocrce man fl
~ almost every crime he commits, an
~ why cannot you cocrce the man VIII
b endeavors to break up this Cover
., uent? To say nothing about const
-. tutional argument, common sense fo
49, bids the idea. You may talk till yC
", are hoarse, you have got to continr
!, as one Government and a united peopl
-. or be divided into factions, each su
=, ject to danger from every other in Il
land. t.
THE DUTY OF EVERY MAN.
v. Then, is there any doubt in the mil
nd of any man as to his duty in this col
er test? That it is his as every mans du
lr. to give his best efforts to the end tn
~ we may settle the rebellion and hui
ia up this Government strong again,
ITS God Almighty designed it to bo, al
no what we are trying to make it.
@. PERoRATIoN.
ar This country, my friends, is the Ia
IN, hope Of freemen throughout the wor'
he 1t is the field upon which civilizati
~, has fourished aud science begun to
m, eomplish lis great purposes. The 1
OIL tions and people Of tho old world {
ou marking its progress from day to dr
Of as it enfranehses man from every sel
i'll itude. And are you going to give
'P- up? Young men, e4n you afford to 81
;od toyour posterity a heritage worse tn
en- that your fathers gave to you2 Ify
'ill can, you are faithless not only to yO
ryl own manhood, but 10 your God, Y