The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1864-09-01
Communications.
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The "Peace" Meeting--Its Treason
able Ojects- The Secret Order of
the "Sons of Liberty"--The Seces-
sion Candidate for Supreme Judge,
&C., &c.
The "Peace meeting" at this place bro't
together a considerable conoourse Of
women, interspersed with persons 10
Jresches, but still more feminine than
the women. The devotees of party were
here-the men whose conceptions have
never risen to the height of contempla-
ting the interests, tho honor and the
safety off great country. The ideas of
this class never rise higher than to
devise ways aud means to recover
power and place for themselves
matter at what sacrifice of principle, or
what disgrace and indig nifty, or calami.
ty to the Government, which happens
to be represented by the party in pow
err.
This party is willing to submit to any
terms for the sake of "peace," and they
are making every effort to compel such
Submission" because they believe that
the dishouor and eternal infamy OF
such submission will attach to the pres
ent Administration of the Govern
ment. Here they are immensely mis-
taken. The men who get up these
peace and submission meetings arc not
the lineal descendants Of the men of
the Revolution-of the men who threw
overheard the tea at Boston harbor-
who fought at Lexington, Bunker Hill
E and Yorktown. They can trace back their
r lineage to no such noble ancestry, but
; their prototypes may be seen in the Ar
nOlds, tho Tories andthe Cow Boys" of
r that period.
? These "peaceable" men are opposed
to "the exercise of coercive power on
the part of the Government" and they
4 insist that "the honor of the States,
- "the maintenance of our liberties,
f "and the interests of humanity, de-
"mand that the most strenuous effJrts
"shall be made to bring the war now
"waging between the Federal and Con .
C " federate Cover to a speedy con-
i, "clusion by negotiating permanent and
. honorable peace" Do these driveling,
D blubbering satellites of slavery, who de.
= liberately endorse the doctrines Of the
S States Rights rebels of the South, tell
o us what terms of permanent and hon
b orablc peace" we should proposc?-
o Would the acknowledgment of the
= right of Secession, as claimed by the
! South-the right Of any and every
State to sec ede on its own motion, when.
, ever it saw ft-be one of the terms of
S pcacep Could we have a more perfect
Union--a "permaneut aud honorable
$ peace" upon such terms?
d What compromise shall we Offer
e which would satisfy our Southern task
!. masters, under the lash of whose whip
these craven aliens would forever place
the free people of the North? Shall we
e compromise our right to vote for tn,
# President Of our choice? Shall wFsur
0 render the right of Free Speech an,
= Free Press--the right to read the Dec
d laration of Independence and to cele-
If brate the Fourth of July2 Shall Ere
'f Schools, and free pulpits, all be shut uE
lest the light should shine upon the bar
. barOus practices of Slavery and begst G
, keep up a feverish desire for change an
intellectual and moral advance mentP
\. Tellus, ye States Rights gentlemen
er ye "iSons Of Liberty" what are the term
you are willing to submit to? Let u
- have no more disguise. Tell US plainI
what are the terms of your "honorabl
and permanent peace"
We know the terms of the rebels -
They fight for independence and recog
milton. They demand the line betwee
the Slave States and the Free States, a
the line of the Confederacy. Arc yor
the citizens of States North Of this lin
no willing to grant such line? IF 20
are in favor of "Peace" upon such term
say so. IF not, then hold your peace.
The Union armies fight not for
party or for Republican Administr'
tiou but for established lawful Gov
ernment-for nationality. Success {
failure, disunion and anarchy are IL
great stakes at issue,
This point is well stated by an E
glish Newspaper:
"Besidcs, there are no materials for
compromise. The question at ISSUE.
not whereabouts frontier line shalt b
sTS sTS drawn-but whether there shall be OF
Republic or two Republics within Il
Territory of the United States. On II
ys- issue cOmprO mise is impossible. I'll e
Ad' is no middle grouud-thore can be !