The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1863-08-27

40 uhltCu as we nave Oeea. we nave
had majority of the Presidents chosen
from the South, as we'll as the control
and management Of the most of those
chosen from the North. We have had
sixty years Of Southern Presidents to
their twenty-four, thus controlling the
Executive department. SO of the Judges
of the Supreme Court. we have had
eighteen from the South and but eleven
from the North; although nearly four.
dfths of the judicial business has arisen
in the free States, yet a majority of the
Courts has always been from the South.
This we have required so as to guard
against any Interpretation of the Con.
stitution unfavorable to us. In like
manner we have been equally watchful
to guard our interests in the Lcgisla.
tive branch of the Government. In
choosing the President (pro tenn. } of the
Senate,we have had twenty. four to their
eleven. Speakers of the House, we have
had twenty-three and they twelve
While the majority Of Representatives,
from their great population, have al
ways been from the North, yet we have
so generally secured the Speaker, be-
cause he to great extent, shapes aud
controls the Legislation of the country.
Nor have we had less control in everv
other department Of the general Gov.
ernmont. Attorney we have
had fourteen, while the North has had
but five. Foreign ministers we have
had eighty six, and they but fifty-four.
While fourths Of the business
which demands diplomatic agents abroad
is cIearly from the Free States, from
their great commercial interests, yet we
have had the principal em bassies 80 as
to secure the world markets for our
cotton, tobacco and sugar on the best
possible terms, We have had a vast
majority Of the higher officers of both
army and navy, while large portion of
the soldiers and sailors were drawn
from the North. Equally so of Clerks,
Auditors aud Comptrollors filing the
executive department, the records show
for the last fifty years that Of three
thousand thus employed, We have had
more than two-thirds of the same, while
we have had but one.thifd of the white
population of the Republic.
Again, look at another item, an ID
one be assured, in which we have a great
and vital interest; is is that of revenue
or means supporting the Government.
From official documents we learn that a
fraction over three -fourths of the reye-
nue. collected for the support of the Gov.
ernmont has uniformly been raised
from the North.
"Pause now while you can, gentlemen,
and contemplate carefully and candidlv
these important items, Look at anoth.
er necessary branch of Government.
and learn from stern statistical facts
how matters stand in that department.
| mean the mail and Post Office privi-
leges that we now enjoy under the Gen.
eral Govern mcnt as it has been for years
past. The expenses for the transport
tation of the mails in the Free States,
was, by the report of the Postmaster
General for the year 1860, a little over
Sl3,O00,000, while the income was SO.
100000. But in the Slave States the
transportation of the mail was $l4,7l6,-
600, while the revenue from the same
was So, ,0O1 O26, deficit of Sc, lis, ,735,
to be supplied by the North for our ac.
and without it we must
have been entirely cut off from the most
essential branch Of Government.
Leaving out of view, for the present,
the countless millions of dollars YOU
must expend in war with the North;
with tens of thousands of your sons and
brothers slain in battle, and offered up
as sacrifices upon the altar of your am
bitiOn-and for what, we ask again? Is
it for the overthrow Of the American
Government, established by our com
mon ancestry, comented and built up by
their sweat and blood, and founded on
the broad principles of Right, Justice
and HumaniyS And as such, l must
declare here, as ] have ,often done be.
fore, and which has been repeated by
the greatest and wisest of states me and
patriots in this and other lands, that
il rs the best and freest Government-the
most equal IN lis rights-the most just in
as deciSiOns-the most Ig,ient IN us meas.
ures, and the most inspiring IN It's pria.
cipIes to sleUate the race of men, that the
sun Of HedUen ever shoae upon.
snow for you to attempt to oyerthrow