The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1863-03-26

what they please about Lincoln, vile and
slauderous though it be, as too many
complained of Madison in the war Of
1912.
Let the reader bear these facts in
mind. A large county meeting is held
in our midst, at time when tho most
gigantic rebellion the world ever saw,
is raging in our land, at which two
lengthy speech es are made and a series
of twelve resolutions is adopted, and
yet there is no utterance of censure,
blame, or apprehension Of that rebellion!
What is the inevitable conclusion forced
upon the miGd from that fact2 Is it
not this--moro sympathy for the REBEL
ion an d the rebels, than for our own
Government and soldiers, on tho part of
the managers of the mcetins2 How la
mentable and how shameful.
But my principal object is to venti-
late the 1lth resolution Of the series
adopted by the meeting, and presented
and read by the Hon. S. Il. Ilibben.-
IIorc it is:
''I Resolre, That have abiding confidence in tn"
Democratic principles u tho ltllsboro Gazette n.
conducted hy Col Samuel Pike, its able, fearless aud
patriotic Editor, and recommend it as standard jour
| nal to all loyal and conservative citizens
The language of that resolution is
clear and explicit. There can be no
reasonable mistake as to its meaning.
Mr.. llibbcn is it's rcputed author; he
presented and read it to the meeting.
Judge Barry's" name is also incorpo.
rated in the proceedings of the meeting.
| suppose the Judge voted for it. That
resolution has the hearty and cordial
approval aud appreciation of Mcssrs.
Samuel L. Ilibbon and Thomas Barry,
two Elders in the Presbyterian church
of Hillsboro, as any other resolutions in
the series. A least, such is the public
record. That resolution has the influence
and ,cciyM Of character Of these ttoo
Presbyterian Elders ia itsJdror--paJGcy
recorded in its Jo0or. And now
let us sec what they have SO fully and
publicly endorsed and approved.
1t is we'll known to this community
and of course it ought to be well known
to Mcssrs. Hibben and Barry, for they
are reading gentlemeu-thata writer in
the Ilillsboro Gazette, over the sigma,
turc of "No Tator," has, for months
past, been writing various articles to
prove that American Slavery is morally
right and Scriptural. have now three
mum bers Of the Ilillsboro Gazette, each
containing an article to that import,
before me-Dec. 18th, 1862, and Jan.
1st and Sth, 1863 l quote from the
communication Of said "No Tator" in
tho Gazette of Dec. l7th, 1862, The
article is arp, ovingiy introduced by the
Editor, who says it is from "the, pen of
one of our most worthy, respectable and
intelligent fellow. w.citizens. 1t will be
read with deep interest by thousands.
Now let US see what are some Vi the
"true Democratic principles which the
"fearless" editor so pOintcdly endorses.
"No Tator" says:
"Iu deciding this question, whether
slavery be a moral wrong, I take the
Bible as the only infallible standard OF
moral truth and human duty, and
deny that by the light Of nature, by any
power of intellect, or by any feeling
a,cav dozen in the heart Of man, that
he can prove that to be wrong which
the Bible sanctions. Does it sanction
slavery"
lie then makes several attempts to
+ prove from the Bible that slavery is
sanctioned by the Bible, and again says:
ain the face Of all these facts, who
will dare impiously dare, to give Joho'
vah the lie, and affirm that man cannot
rightrully hold property in man. or that
slavery is morally wrong?'
And further along, in the same arti'
Gle "No Tator" says:
snow, when these Ephesian Aboli
ton Divines waited on the President
to instruct him as to the Divine will in
the freedom ofslavos, had Lincoln been
an honest man, and a Christian, he
would have read Timothy's lecture tC
them; he would have told them tina
slavery was sanctioned by the Bible, an(
recognized by tho Constitution Of thu
: United States" &C., Sc.
: If the reader is not fully satisfe,
from the foregoing, with the true ohar
: acter of this dark catalogue Of crime
and impiety, | recommend him to th'
Hillsboro Gazette of Dec. 17th, 1862
0 to the pcrusal of tho entire article
. wherein, among other things, the Pres
idont is dclicately donomit atod "com
8 mon thief for his efforts to crush th,