The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1863-04-02

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valleys and broad rivers and streams
love her institutions, her laws, and
the Constitution--and the Declaration
of her Independence, love that glori-
GUS old flag, unfurled to the admiriug
gaze of the world by the brave men Of
&c" whose names shall live in history,
and whose memory shall never perish,
bat kindle in the heart Of every loyal
man the fros ofthat love for the Uniony
that shall never burn low, grow dim or
die out. as in traitors hearts il is dead+
aud instead thereof turks treason aud
murder. Yes, because 1 loved my
Uountry-my home-my family-mY
God; ;-and because still lovo them.
| know there are those who say they
love their families too we'll to lOave them
and join 10 the struggle for the Union:
but what is my home and family to h1n
when in the merciess grasp ofraitOr',
and when my Country is lost2 Do 1
love them less because have given to
them the parting hand, and offered my
body "markn sos the rBbel cannon,
and my life willing sacrifice on the aI-,
tar of my beloved Country? NayI but
all the more. And when the struggle
is ended, as l firmly believe in God 10
will soon be, who shall feel the greatest
joy2--those who from a sense Of duty
and honor, offered their lives, in defence
Of their homes, their families aud their
COuntry--or those who not only re-
NAMED at home, but tried in every pos
sible way to defeat tho cause Of the Un-
ionP The question will NOT attempt
to answer, History will answer. It, in
words of burning shame. The exscra.
ton and contempt.of all loyal men and
nations, in all coming time, will answer
it. Their own dark and guilty con-
sciences will answer it, as thousand
eyes are fixed upon them, and thous-
and voices arc sounding in their ears
from every battlefield net only in "76,"
but in '6f-'2, yet fresh with human gore
'fhe decp anguish Of widowed wives and
fatherless children, as it rises in bitter
wailings from thousand broken house
hold bands, will answer it;--and then
the sting Of their torment, (if they are
not past feeling) as they remember their
avowed unwilingness to help in saving
the UniOn, and With It the. btrning sor-
row Of many hearts, will be to them the
beginning Of that future retribution,
sease Of which win make them cry out,
and call for the "Rocks and mountains
to fall on them"
Consider" Is not the ime for con.
sidoration with them past? Was i.
not while they enjoyed their homes and
families, and while they were protected
in that enjoyment There never was
time when they were more secure Id
their rights and privileges, from the
days Of Washington, to the present,
than when they fred on Fort SumptOr.
And yet their friends in the North ask
US to stop and let them consider. 20.
consistency, thou art jewell" Yesl VIC
will let them alone, when the ''last arm-
ed foe expires, and not ttI thea--uatsss
they come back on the terms proposed,
and the only terms they ,oM suer haze,
except by traitors--namoly, "Uneondi.
tioRal, surrender, F"
Then lot mo say to my friends in
"Old Highland" am for tho Union;
and in the language of. noble and
mem orable statesman and true patriot,
"Live or die, survive or perish, am
for the Union, now and forever, ONE and
inseparablo," Every day Of my life
am more and more convinced of the
FELL designs ofaH traitors, and as a low
er or.my Country, I am irmer in its de-
fence aud IL che defeat Of rebels and tho
salvation ofthe Union, require my life
as sacrifice, | am ready to make the
offering. ~ -a
But I must close my remarks. alreOdy
too much extended; and may dod per-
nit these eyes to behold the day Ofour
redemption, and tho sun Of peace rising
on nation saved! is ths prayer of
i,-es tis.ataa A SOLDIER
I. q" ..'s@ oftbs 9lst Reg o. VI.
Father Lewis, venerable minister In
the Methodist Church, ,reoOntBy esle-
bratcd at Newark. Ohio, the sTxtTeIh
anniversary ot his marrinss with his