The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1864-10-20

least, for | assure you that we do not
crave the friendship of such men. Far
from it. We have some respect for the
men who will come out openly and
boldly and fight Us, but we have no
respect for those Northern Traitors
They are more than enemios-they
are Cor should be) beneath the notice
of every loyal man. Some Of these
very men used to hold petty Offices in
the Democratic parN and lost them by
dishonesty. These men are now look.
Ing about them to see where their bread
and butter is coming from. They at
6rst found fault with the war, and then
with the AdmiaistratiOn. Some Of them
come out openly for disunion. They
say the South had right to secede, and
we had no right to coerce them. They
have introduced features into their plat
form and speeches indicating that if
they cannot succeed or secure their end
at the Ballot Boz, they will initiate the
Southern wing of their party aud rebel.
They demand that the rebels Demo
crats) in the Border States shall be per-
mitted to vote, and that "any attempt
to prevent them at the coming election
shall be held as revolutionary, and re.
sisted with all the means and power un.
der their CONTROL" If these men be al
lowed to vote and then return to the
Southern Army, why not allow the mer
Of South Carolina, Alabama and Geor
gia to vote, and thus elect Nc CleUar
beyond doubt They say that "ir
the future as in the past" (not other
wise) "they will adhere to the Union.
How have they adhered sin the past2'
By rebelling in every State which the,
have controlled. Then this is wha
they are pledged to do in the future. -
Loyal men of the North, are yoV
satisfied with such a pledge, cOmiut
from those whose antecedents are (t
say the least) so suspicious? We ar
not, 1 assure you, and rOHI fight sue
pledges to the last.
Some Of them say that the ticket an
the platform "are what the exigencie
of the country req uire, and such as eve
ry loyal citizen, not blinded by section
al passion, can heartily endorse" ]
may look so to some, but after servin
the Government for three years, an
enduring all the privations and hard
ships of a soldier, we "can't see it" i
that light. What does their Platform
contain2 1t co rtains nothing in favo
Of the Monroe Doctrine, nothing il
favor Of suspending the operation oi
the draft for 100000 men, not wor
against the Emancipation Proclama
ton, nothing against the employu IN
Of Negroes as Soldiers or Sailors t
fight the Rebels. Not a word abou
wiping out Slavery by military blow
or by n change of the Constitution, ne
word against Gen. Buffers famou
Contraband Doctrine, nothing agains
the Amnesty Proclamation, or Repub
lican Congressional plan of Reconsiruc
ton, or the COnfiscation ofproperty o.
Rebels, real or personal, nothing of re
turning cohfScated property to Rebels
not word against the Repeal Of th
Fugitive Slave law, nothing against tn
Abolition Of Slavery in the Distric
of Columbia, nothing against the Con
gressional Prohibition Of Slavery in tn
Territories, nothing against the Tax La,
passed by Republican Congress, not
word in favor Of Repudiating the M
tionAl Debt, not a toord against Jeff. ID
us or the Rebellion, nothing in favor o
State Sovereignty and the Right of S,
cession, not word against COerOing So,
ereign States or against holding Il
Union together by Federal BayOnet
not word in favor of Paying the Reb'
Debt, nothing in favor of Encouragin
White labor Emigration from Europ,
aud finally no. one word ia favor of e
ing on with the war, ia case the propose
ArnsiStiee fails to bring the Rebels bac
into the Union. ''''
What do you think OF such a pla
formP l will tell you what we think G
it. We think that Platform so col
temptiJle and cO,oardB was never PR
sented to a party, in this or any 9th
country, at any age. will say agail
we are satisfied with the Administration
We will stand by it, as it has by u
Its enemies are our enemies We b.
lieve there should be but one Party
the North viz: the Union Party,
The Peacemen harp loudly on tho su
preston of the Press and freedom Z
speech. If Traitors ara allowed to rC
at large in the North, why not allo
} them the same privilege in the South
Surely ithev have the same riChk. Son