The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1863-04-16

tnem TO ueSert-eVen ouerlDR tnem mon
ey to pay their way homel would of
fer them little advice. Gentlemen,
keep your money to pay those taxes
which yOu will have to pay. We are
satisfied with the way the !'mGsheen" is
running, and we don't propose to give
up the contest. We have fought aud
marched this long, and if the Govern.
ment don't want to fight it out, zoe will
take the contract off their hands, and
do it up alone. ...
The question is often asked of U.S.
"What are you fighting for2" Easily
answered. We are lighting to put
down rebellion, and for the freedom of
man--that old, old cause of justice and
order, for which the grand old heroes
of all ages have fought and gone down
like glorious stars, leaving on the noun.
tain-top Of death light which makes
them lovely. We emulate their vir-
tues--their example is before US, and
their blood shall not have been shed in
vain. We know the cost, and will pay
the price. Let treasure be expended,
and if needs be let blood flow like wa
ter, till the rebel host shall on their
bended knees sue for peace, or be swept
in confusion from their goodly hertz
age, no more to tread with their traitor
GUS feet this promised land of freedom.
IF it will console the double-dyed
traitors at home to know how we feel
here, tell them VIC are determined, if
necessary, to annihiIate the rebels, and
then turn our arms on them, for we can
fight them better than we can the rebels.
We believe the "rebs" to be honest
men, compared with them. Would to
God l had my way of dealing out JUS
tice to the Copperheads of Brushcreek
township! I would hang every one Of
them by detail.
4 The Conscript Law is what we want.
Let it be properly enforced. That will
make them fight, and when we get them
here if they won't fight we will make
breastworks of them for those who will.
We want peace--but no such peace as
the traitors would force upon US, if
they could. When the South begins TO
g talk of peace, there is time to think of
= it, and rather than submit to dishon-
5 orable peace we will Gil Southern
graves This is the way the "boys" in
). the field feel.
, Fathers, brothers at home give us
o your blessing and aid, backed with an
| honest patriotism that will knock the
d breath out of every craven that NUT
t ters "peace." Mothers, daughters, sis
n ters, wives Give us your prayers and
y your sympathies- practical sympathies,
f that will point with the finger of scorn
e and contempt at every rebel-sympathi
: ger, conciliator or compromiser, aud il
: there is no true manhood--no honest
o virtue left in the men, let the Douaen Of
c the North--that noble Spartan race
Q who love the heroes of our battles-cre,
: ate public opinion in which no traitor
t can breathe. Do this, and not long
a will you wait to clasp once more tC
d your hearts your soldier-husband--
s brother--lover--friend.
1t is but little satisfaction to the sol
der, sacrificing the best years of hit
g life in fighting traitors abroad, to wit
ness the actions of traitors at home
k men who under the name of "Demo
q Gratis" are living upon the fat of the
y land--protected by the Government they
! are covertly seeking to destroy-men
y who by their acts have cut themselves
u loose from the true man of the Demo.
j cratic party-such mon as Butler
It Rosecrahs, Dickinson, Johnson, Stan.
s ton, and thousands of others that might
: be mentioned--And are deep.dyed strai
tors-rsbsls against Government whose
army now prOtscts their homes and FIRE,
q sides from degradation and ruin, and
8 keeps the war from their own doors
Q The darkest deepest depths of he'll it.
: self are unworthy Of such miserable
, contcmptible, cowardly traitors, who
|
5 for kind deeds, under the cover of dark.
E ness, would burn the property or plunge
: the dagger into the back of their neigh.
4 bors.
y When you remember that am a sol
r dier in the Union army, and know well
' the feelings of my companions, in-arms
t you will pardon my enthusiasm, and
d readily conceive the contempt bear
r for these eowardly traitors at home.
a If they ,oW uphold rebellion, le
them come down and fight for tive
= will meet thom. We are for the Union
q and are ready any day to fight for it
!. and give up our lives if need bo in sus