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

party. The Abolitionists proper did
not'vote with the Republican party in
1859, or at any other time. This is
mere reckless assertion, without proof
The Republican party, controlled By
Abolitionists, did not mako an effort iu
1859 TO inaugurate "civil war" by get
ting up "slave insufrection at Har.
per's Ferry" This is a gross and will
ful misrepresentation. The intelligent
reader we'll remembers, that transaction
was thoroughly investigated bya com
mittec of the Senate, Of which Mason
OF Virginia, was chairman, with ample
powers and every disposition to fasten
guilt upon "the leading men Of the Alb.
olition party" The result was most
signal failure to implicate any Of the
leading men in the knowledge or priva-
ey of Browns designs. The conelu.
sions of 'Notator's" mind, in the alb
senco Of evidence, are Of no value
whatever. The imputation against "the
leading men of the Abolition party"
by which he means the Republican par
ty, "that, had John Brown been more
successful in his enterprise, they would
have been prominent actors in the TRACE.
dy instead of pall-bearcrs and sympathi-
GERS in his funeral ceremonies" is en-
tirely gratuitous, without the color Of
evidence, and infamously unjust-ths
conclusion of mind perverted by q
diseased pro-slavery fanaticism.
His statement that 1.-TWO thirds of the
pulpits in New England aud Northern
Ohio, with their congregations, were
public sympathiEers with John Brown,
is equally reckless and untrue. The
report of the investigating committe,
showed conclusively that the knowledge
and completely of the plot was Limited
almost entirely to the twenty seven in
dividuals whose mad attempt so fright
ened Governor Wise and his chivalrout
Virginians. The writer draws upor
the hallucinations of a perverted in
tellcct, when he says, THE Harper,
Ferry Raid was an Abolition (Republi
CAM failure" Surely, such perversion'
Of the facts of recent history, in ordel
to subserve the purposes of faction anC
disloyalty, deserve the scorn and con
demnation of every honest man anc
true patriot.--This writer proceeds t.
give what he calls This reasons for BIZ
faith, by quotations severed from thei
connections, which qualify and explain
these statements Of general principles
He gives extracts from Lincoln 5 speech
es about the abstract right of revolu
ton, &c, and his speech in 1858, il
which be says that "this Government
could not exist half slave and hal
free,: &c. Now, these are the mer,
enunciations of general principles; tha
they are true-as seen now more vivid
ly than when they were uttered, in tha
very rebellion which has grown out o
this antagonism--that they arc true i
= not Mr.. Lincoln's fault. But Mr.. Chas
made his silver cup speech in 1871;
I.
in which he talked about going straigh
on till every vestige of oppression Shal
be erased from the statute book, ant
until the sun shall not behold in all ou
broad land "the footprint of singh
slave" Well, the Democracy of Ohio
led by George E. Pugh, endorsed tha
sentiment by electing Mr.. Chase to
seat in the United States Senate. Ac
cording to "Notator's" system of logi
they are therefore Abolitionists. II
goes on to quote from Birney. Judg
Stevens, Giddings, &c. Mr.. Chase i
quoted as saying, "we do not doub
that you will concur with us 10 believing
the honor, the welfare, the safety @
our country imperiously require tho alb
solute and unqualified diuorce of til
Government from Slavery. This is tn
great object of our efforts. We believ
that our National Constitution afford
no sanction to the doctrine that maj
can hold property in man." The onl
disunion heie intended is that of Slave
ry from the General Governments
Shareholders and their supple minion
cannot conceive of Government o
Constitution without Slavery in it. Il
, their view, Slavery is the Constitution
: Government cannot exist without Slave
: ry. John Quincy Adams, Gliding
and others, who presented their mani
) festo against the annexation of Texas
) uttered solemn warning and prophe
cy, which has been fulfilled to the let
: ter, only the, dissolution did not com
, from the quarter they expected II
. quotes Mr. Stewards 'irrepressible con
flict" statement AS we said befOr.
, Mr.. s., in stating truth does not be