The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1865-03-23

"oTlul anu UeBan MS ulVlne mlsslOu,
sadly out of time, in the opinion Of the
Jews-if he had waited, until, in their
judgment, the proper time had come,
we should, to day, be urrounding jew
ish affairs, stained with the blood of
bulls and goats. If the deliverance of
the children of Israel, from the slavery
of Egypt, had been deferred until Phar.
aoh had been fully persuaded the pro-
per time had arrived, the names of M o.
ses aud Aaron woul d perhaps never have
appeared even in the history Of their
times. If Martin Luther bad waited
the pleasure of the Pope, he bad never
begun his great work of reforming the
Church, and he would have gone down
to the grave an obscure Catholic monk,
and his own name, and other great
names, that Protestantism has given to
the world, as lights and benefactors,
would never have appeared above the
horizon. Nay, sir, if we wait until
slave. .moDgers aud slavery -defen dcrs,
the men stepped in this great moral, so.
cial and political evil, call upon us to
reform, we shall wait until the devil
himself confesses his sins, and abdicates
in favor Of some rebel leader, as more
worthy to wear bis internal honors.
!, TOO MUCH DISCUSSION.
, "Heated controversy for thirty years,
in and out Of fCongress, has strengthen
=, ed the bonds of the slave" says Mr.
White. IF admitted, it argues moth
ing for his cause, it only shows the need
Of changing the method of attack, from
toords to deeds. But it is not true
Slavery has been writhing under every
, lick it has received, for thirty years
past, and being exposed, and defence
> less, in day of Christian light and in
huences, it has gone down, under tn
:. ban of universal Christendom, and to
day, it expires almost uupitied, by it
IN ost interested and intimate friends -
- a few Northern sympathizors, NOR,
grieved in its fall, perhaps, than thos
whose whole lives have been spent in it
- interests. While the slave-holders c
- Louisiana, Tennessee, and Arkansa:
!. are abandoning their chattels, and raj
=, lying to the Union standards, cagerl
;, calling upon their Northern brethren
=. to help them escape from the curse Q
slavery, and to reconstruct their Stat
- Governments under the banner of Un
- ion and Freedom, Northern politicians
80 who never;owned slave, are howlin
- piteously; and blindly, almost criminal
- ly, insist upon preserving the institr
=, ton, and fastening it upon them, i
, the very face of their most earnest pre-
testations. Indeed the strongest SUI
-, port of slavery, at this moment, is in tl
80 north-in the south it has fallen
d. abandoned-the war it has inspired, IL
=, destruction that has marked the pr,
gress of that war, has it as swept ov,
their slavery -curst land, has made Il
South sick of an evil, whose bitter frui
they have been compelled to feed upC
for four years past. To their oV
~, slaves, these masters, who have so lor
~ preached up the humanity of SLAYER
are now rendering freedom, if they W
= take guns in their hands, and becou
= soldiers, to fight for the rebellion
:. What logic! to preserve slavery fro
-, the enCroaching spirit of the North, tn
~ few to arms, and now, to keep up thC
~ armies, they emancipate their slaves,
:, that iu the end, they will have Meth
=. armies, slaves nor country-a just ret
- button for the crimes they have col
mitted, and for the terrible sacrifice tn
= have occasioned.
GOD NOT IN THIS WAR.
g This war is not an instrument, in I
hands Of God, to do away with slavery
says Mr.. White. 1t may be said
sh reply, as was once wisely said, on
snt memorable occasion-"If 1t be Of mC
to it will come to naught; but ifit he
n" God, ye cannot overthrow it," Til
re- will determine, whether the divine vi
ia bears upon the issues involved in Il
fh' great struggle. 1--we may judge FRI
the the evidences afforded, from the ince
cry tion of the rebellion to this hour,
ju' are very clear in the opinion, that th'
'ns is divine purpose of great moment,
its be wrought out, and as God is not 70
ed in his plans, he will not be disi
rk pointed. And that the occasion is O
ing of great destruction of life and proper
icy does not prove, that therefore, it
ait abandoned to the mere conflict Of wra
Mr.. full men. God will see, that nothi
of iutervepes, to render tho terrible sac
the foe uuayailing. 1t would be we'll,
i've Mr.. White wegld be cautious how
OOd hastily passes judgement on the Oc