The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1864-10-06

wei as the c0ntr0l ana management oil
most Of those chosen from the NORTH
We have had sixty years of Southern
Presidents to their twenty four, thus
controlling the Executive departm ent t,
So ofthe Judges of the Supreme Court,
we have had eighteen from the South,
and but eleven from the North. Al.
though nearly four-ffths of the judicial
business has arisen in the free States
yet a majority fthe court has always
been from the South. This we have re
quired, so as to guard against any in
depreciation of the Constitution unfa-
vorable to us. In like manner, we have
been equally watchful to guard our in
terests in the legislative branch of gov
ernment. In choosing the presiding
Presidents (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 greater population, have always
been from the North, yet we have Sc
generally secured the Speaker, because
he, to great extent, shapes and con.
trolls the legislation Of the country.
Nor have we had less control in every
other department of the General Gov
erDment. OF Attorney Generals WI
have had fourteen, while the North ha,
had but five. OF foreign Ministers we
have had eighty-six, and they bu
ffty-four. While three-f -fourths of tn,
business which demands diplomatic
agents abroad is clearly from the free
States, from their greater commercia
interest, yet we have had the princip al
em bassles, so as to secure the world s
markets for our cotton, tobacco, and su.
gar, on the best possible terms. We
have had vast majority Of the higher
officers of both army and navy, while {
larger proportion of the soldiers anC
sailors were drawn from the North
Equally so Of clerks, auditors, an
comptrolers filling the Executive de
partments. The record shows for tn,
last fifty years, that of the three thous
and thus employed, we have had more
than two-thirds Of the same, while We
have but one.third Of the white popula
ton of the Republic. Again, look al
another item, in which we have a great
and vital interest, that of revenue, or
means of supporting Government -
From official documents we learn that a
fraction over -fourths of the reve-
nue. collected for the support of Govern
ment, has uniformly been raised from
the North.
Pause now, while you can, and con-
template carefully and candidly these
important items, 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 al
tar of your ambtion--and for what?--
Is it for the overthrow Of the American n
Government, established by our com
mon ancestry, cemented and built up by
their sweat and blood, and founded on
the broad principles of right, justice,
and humanity? And as such, I must
declare here, as l have often done before
and which has been repeated by the
greatest aud wisest of statesmen and
patriots in this and other lands; that il
is the best and freest Government, the
most equal in its rights, the most just
in its decisions, the most leuient in its
measures, and the most inspiring in its
principles to elevate the race of men
that the sun of heaven ever shone upon
NO'o for you to attempt to overthrOo such
a Government as this, unassaiIed, is III,
height Of madness, folly, and tOickedness