The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1864-09-15
tFrom the New York Tribune.
MoClellan's Eric nds.

turning two or three hundred helpless
and inoffensive children into the street
who. in gangs Of one to three hun
dred, hunted simple negro boys and
women through the streets, manning,
robbing and killing as many as they
could Of them-are ali for Mcclellan
They paused in their devilish work, and
went around to his house to cheer for
him. That portion of the gang who
mobbed, sacked and set on fire the Tri-
bune Office were constantly shouting for
Mcclellan. Their ringleader, while
among his confidential cronies, proclaim.
ed himself for jeff. Davis, and boasted
that we should soon see Gen. Lee
marching up Broadway at the head of
a triumphant, invincible army of Confed-
crates, yet in public cheered and ex
horted others to cheer for Mcclellan
"S500 reward to whoever will show us
q Black Republican," was chalked on
the opposite fence almost sim multaneous.
y with the burning out of the young
orphans. All who participated iu those
cowardly, rufianly, murderous riots are
now shouting themselves hoarse over
the nomination of Mcclellan.
There are in this city thousands of
Southern refugees, as we'll as citizens of
long standing who do not affect to dis
guise their intense and unqualified SYM
pathy with the Shareholders rebellion
Many of them affect to regard the tri.
umph of the Republicans as the real
revolt, and esteem the Southern ress.
tance thereto Legitimate aud proper
One of the Roman Catholic journals, for
example, habitually speaks of the Presi-
dent of the United States as "Old Abe, 1"
while it carefully styles the chief of the
re bells "President Davis" Every one
who thus regards the Government an d
the rebellion through inverted glasses
is Jealous supporter of Mcclellan -
For instance: the name of Henry Grin
nell has repea tedly appeared in the
Richmond journals as that of a thor.
ough sympathizer with "the South" in
her struggle against "Abolition despo-
tism." Mr.. Grinnel's name naturally y
appears 10 the list of Vice Presidents of
the Mcclellan ratification meeting
Mr. Richard Lathers wrote letter, late
in 1860, intimating that he was read y
to fight for his native South Carolina
whenever she should call him to the
field. Mr.. Lathers has since had Gen
Mcclellan as guest at his country
residence, and his name also appears on
the list of Vice Presidents of the Nc
Clellan ratifying meeting in the Park;
The "DemOcrncy" of the IXth Con,
gressional District of Indiana recently
held a convention and nominated David
Turpie to run against Schuyler Colfax
for Congress. (Turpie was their candi-
date in 1862, and beaten by 229 MAORI.
Iy) They resolved, among other
things,
THAT we oppose the abolition policy
Of freeing and arming the slave against
his master, as only tending to widen the
breach between the States, and denou ce
every policy that will, directly or in its
tendency, place the black upon politi.
cal, military, or civil equality with the
white" .u
The "master" here referred to is reb.
el, fighting under an alien flag to over.
throw the Government and disrupt the
Union; while "the slave" is loyal pat
riot, willing to shed his blood for hii
and our country. These Democrats
"denounce every policy" that tends t.
put this fighting Unionist on a "pOliti
cal, military or civil equality" with thi
traitor. Who can fail to see that they
who thus resolve are hostile to the Gov
ernment, and at heart the allies of thos,
who are fighting desperately to over
throw it?-[New York Tribune.
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CoPPERHEADs IN MONROE County. -
A short time since, a Union speake
went to Graysville, Monroe county, t,
make Union speech, and during hi
remarks, the Copperhends illustrated
their ideas of "free speech" by assailin,
the speaker with few "Democratic" ar
gumeuts in the shape of rotten eggs
besides behaving OutrageOusly other
wise.
Afterwards Col. w. P. Richar dson, o
the 25th o. V. l., a resident of Monro
county, candidate for Attorney Genera
on the Union State ticket, went ther
to speak, and warned the crowd that
violence was offered to him, as to th
previous speaker, he would shoot hi
Sssailant on the SpOt. He was not dis
turbed.