The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1863-06-25

always been willing to leave them en-
tirely free in their enjoyment of the in
stitution of Slavery-it is their curse,
and let them hug it to their bosoms.-
And as to this relation Of servant and
master, I have been compelled to be-
licve that, between tho two, the servant
had decidedly tho lest Of the game
[ Laughter. l have held that the
Southern people should have all the
laws necessary 20 the government and
control of the institution ofSlavery, and
to aid in recovering servants escaped
from their masters. 1 am so willing
now. l do not wish to disturb the re.
lation between them, ifhey keep that
relation to themselves, and a,ooy from,
The people Of the North. 1t has cast a
blight, mildew over their whole coun-
try, but has cast none here; nor do we
desire that it should. '
ITS POLITICAL CHARACTER.
There is another character of the insti
tuition of Slavery, the political character
and chat is the element with which tbt
Northern people are contendiug to day
| SO long as the stakeholder was conten
to hold the slave in his own hand, anC
keep Slavery at home, it did not becom
an element of alarm to either section
or to the country in the aggregate
But the question came up as early a
the nulifcation times of Calhoun, th0
| Slavery was to be made a balance in tn
= political power of this country
; that therefore no free State was to b
= admitted into the Union without slav
e State accompanying it. In other word
e instead of being satisfied with the Coz
j stitution, and political condition of Ii
e country under it, they pitched in the
n slaves for balance. Remember tn
| spoke of Slavery as a political, an
not domestic institution. And no
. we come to the inquiry. What is th
, great cause and controlling spirit {
this rebellion with which the country
. now concerned? For if we look to tn
? end, we must first find the beginnin,
e CAUSES OF REBELLION.
n Two causes have produced this sta
: Of things, and if any gentleman ina;
/ ines these causes have been suddenl
Q sprung upon this country, he has nj
been a political student of the times
which he lived.
The first of these causes was the inc
dinate thirst for political power an
Il domination on the part Of the Soutl
t ern leaders.
0 The second of these causes was Il
h effort to make the politi character
C slavery, acalonciug power in the Unio
e These two things have precipitat,
d this rebellion. They have been Il
= causes working for long period
s. time. fla man of ordinary cupaci
J. bad stood on the pavements of Cinci
1t cinnati during the sittings of the Co
&c vention that nominated Mr.. Buchant
l. for the Presidency, and failed to S
y these elements working to their Fl
= fruitiOn, he would have been as Bill
= as a mole.
Ie At that time and years before it W
D. determined upon; it was no sudd
Of movement of the Southeruers. The
ot first leading motive was an ascendan
ns in the control Of the Government of t
; country. With their subordinates tn
e made the institution of Slavery {
m means by which to secure it, We &
t. told that sectional elections have pI
is ducod these results, My friends,
- have not had an election in this cou
to try that has not been sectional in
t character, with one exception, perha'
l that Of 1910, For | know to my de
~ chagrin, that in every instance wit
- tho Democrats have taken a success
or part in the elections Of this count
ed they have gone to Southern State
he their man, or taken a man the Sou
in erners had bound in bonds before
to was put in nomination. Now, WI
is you come down to the election of 81
to | will show you that the success of
In Lincoln had nothing more to do "
p the inception of this movement II
would have had an act of the Chin
Ic Emperor. Laughter That it
used as a pretext for preeipitating i
h. will admit, but that it was the NOV
ny cause deny. The Southern men
ell what others had seen must be an inC
Ter table result, that the power of the G
on ernment was passing out of their har
At. They found out long ago what
10; world could have told them ages nl
1t. that civilization would not go haud
of hand with the domestic institution
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