The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1864-03-24
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Copporhead Inhuen CO in School
District No. 7.
DISTRICT No. 7, LIBERTY TP ONO, !
Eebrnarv % 1861


DISTRICT No. 7. LIBERTY TIP ONO. !
February %, 1864.
j. i, BoARDMAN:-Dear Sir: Think
ing some of your readers of the "News"
would like to know how 'Uncle Sans"
MORAL heritage prospcreth in this COM
munity, if you will permit me I will
say a few words to that effect.
Now, my dear friends of the Copper
head persuasion, I am surely sorry for
you, yet know Of no way by which l
can console you, so long as you rem ain
on the "aide of the fence" you now are.
1t is needless for me to attempt to make
palmer that which is already plain, that
there exists party calling themselves
Democrats who by their, actions would
destroy every Institution connected with
liberty and freedom, and establish in
lieu thereof they know or care not what,
so that their party is in the ascendancy.
From movements already, they (the
party,) are about establishing q ne,0
Church, in which they can have Christ
mortified and their wing of Democracy
glorifed. They are going so far also
with this g7oryiedinssitution as to govern
The school regulations of this county
This is manifnsting itself in various
parts Of the county, but in none more
formidably than in this district where
the "doughnuta" are about equal to the
naturaliEed citizens of the district, and
no doubt but they would carry their
point, but for two good, liberty-loving
men for Directors. God help them to
discharge their duty, as they owe it to
the Government which protects them,
as it also protects their ungratcful
neighbors.
I do not wish to be personal, or
would name some Of the most migrate
who have taken their children from
school for the sole reason that their
teacher was for the Union. They com
planned that they could not learn, on
account Of such poor order; further
that the teacher who taught for them
last winter kept such good order l am
glad to hear that Mr.. - kept such
good order, yet dare not refer you to
where he is now teaching in Houp's
district No I. But we could not expect
it otherwise, rs he is peace man, and
belongs to that party which was so bit.
ter against carrying the "nigger" into
the war, but when the draft was coming
used their best cndeavors to persuade
the "niggor" to go in their place. Such
orctheir feelings and principles.
Now l would presume to say, upon
the authority of the teacher in said dis
trict, (No. = that some of the children
belonging to these unnaturalzed citi-
zens are children of good dispositions
and apt 10 learn, but we fear for their
latter ends if they are kept from school
because their teacher will not preach
TaldndighGm immortaHzed. Poor dear
mani The men that would do such a
thing are mighV mean men, What is to
be done in such ease? Are We to be
deprived of school, or are We to suffer
the men who would destroy all that is
republican in government, to place 10
our schools such and only such men Cor
women as can read their credentials
clear to this evar contemplate "peace"
Democratic party? l mean Butternuts
the best and meanest kind, fer there are
some mighty mean men within my
knowing.
What would you think Of man Oc-
cupying the position Of Judge, who
would appoint for School Examiners a
man who had to make the third applica-
ton before he was granted a three
months' certificate to teach2 Is such
man ft to advance tha standard of Ed
ucation in this or any other county,
fur ther than to believe = lis," that
they may SEE
Please excuse me further. r. L.