The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1865-06-29
ISPEECH OF SENATOR SHERMAN.

vi HHUu VI DGNHlUIl DllEllIlHN,
The Hon. John Sherman made a.
speech few days since at Circleville.
We give extracts upon important ques
tions to the limit Of our space.
Senator Sherman said:
IdNoMINY OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY
1t had been the boast of the Demo-
cratic party that it governed this country
for sixty years, and that during that
time our country advanced With won
derful rapidity in population and wealth.
This may be true; but it is certainly
true that the rule of the Democratic party
eliminated in a Shareholders rebellion
that nearly every man of that party in
the South became an open traitor, and
that the great body Of the party in the
North did all they could to aid armed
) rebels to destroy our country. When
the young men of our country are
choosing their political fellowship they
ought to remember this fact. At the
= last Presidential election, when our
. country was in the EXTREMIST agony of
civil war, this party solemnly abandon
y ed the contest. They declared the war
a failure, and demanded a cessation of
o hostiities, and upon this basis a great
;, party, boasting Of its integrity, appealed
r to patriotic public to commit suicide,
a to acknowledge defeat, to submit to dis.
$ solution and anarchy. Among the
d fearful dangers through which we have
d passed, the greatest danger was un-
c doubtedly from the Democratic party
d Its success last fall would have been
!. death; its defeat was our national life
y A friend of mine, whose daughter is
n now at Rome, received letter from her
# written while General Sherman was Wis
a iting South Carolina. She wrote: "Ot
e father, how fortunate you are; you know
= where Sherman has gone, but we are in
G deep distress, for our next door neigh
y Dor, General Mcclellan, is croaking, and
saying that Sherman and his army can
never march through that country, and
n will be destroyed as the Roman logiout
l. were destroyed under Varus." This wa!
h the chosen leader of our Democratic
d friends, and he was infinitely better
1t than those leaders, and the platform
n upon which they placed him. (Cheers. :,
D Surely this old party should gracefully
c acknowledge its political death, and allow
= their organization to perish with the
= rebellion, upon the success of which
u alone it could hope to retain the conf
q donce of the people. It's individup
e mem bers are cordially invited to exam
d inc, FREQ from old party bias, the diff
c cult questions growing out of our sue,
S cess; but in doing so, they ought to re-
y member that they acknowledged them.
d selves whipped year ago, and ought tc
d be very modest now; and especially
they ought not to seek to appropriate
the well earned laurols of the victors.
s. The Democratic party may try
3 through our divisions, to regain power
II They may attach themselves to trag
u ments of the great Union party; but i
a can only be by openly abandonin : thGi
old positions, by throwing adrift ever,
II prominent leader of their party, and, a
l believe, by abandoning their name
= which has become dishonored by the re
bellion. On these conditions they nigh
form a healthy opposition to hold tn
: party in power to strict responsibility
And in this respect their party, or som
party based on it, may be useful. Blu
o- it can never relieve itself from the stall
Of turning against their country in th
midst of the war.
RESPONSIBILITY OF TIE UNION PARTY
The real responsibility for politica
events now rests upon the Union party
or, as l now prefer to call it, the Repub
lican party. Names are not very mate
rial, but still we have our choice. Tha
party which, during the war, resOlutel.
" maintained the right and duty of tn
National Government to suppress the re
k belion by force of arms, is the party
mean. This party was founded mainl.
upon the Republican party, whose op
position to slavery was always avowed
and whose members have maintainc,
that the end of the war is the end o
ia slavery. 1t matters little what motiv
unites US when we are agreed. 1t i
las certain that we do agree upon certai
fundamental dOgmas, and these are:
/. That the Union must be preserved
This is Jscksonian doctrine. .....
2, That slavery must be destroyed
This is Republican sentiment.
3. And this is Andy Johnson's dec
," laration: That traitors must be punish
ed. [Groat cheers.
sE. 9g. These we regard as no longer debatG