The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1866-08-23

being on the retreat, he happened to OBJ
serve that the regimental flag had fallen to
the ground, and was left behind to be-
come prize and trophy for the exultant
and rapidly advancing enemy. This, 1t
seemed to his sensitive mind, would be
disgrace to the regiment, the thought of
which he could not for a moment bear
He instantly stopped in his retreat, and
alone returned to snatch and save the
precious emblem. Reaching the flag and
raising ipfrom the ground, he, of course,
Mt once attracted to himself the fire Of the
approaching enemy. A ball struck him to
the ground, and be fell with the flag that
was so dear TO him still grnsped In his
dying hand and there alone, far in the
rear Of his retreating regiment, with no
fellow soldier at his side TO receive his last
message and farewell to his friends at
home, aud close his dying eyes, he breath
ed forth the gentle, pure, and brave spirit
which had made his young life 80 lovely, |
and so much endeared him to all. Blessed,
too, and cherished forever, may his mem
ory bel
The remains Of both have been brought |
home, and now rest yonder in your beau
Itiful cemetery. Highland county holds
within her bosom no treasures more sa-
cred. Shall not n marble column rise
from the ground where they repose, far
above the tops Of your most majestic forest
trees, bearing the honOred names, not only
of these two young martyrs, but also of
, every other soldier from Highland county
| who laid down his life for the defence of
| your government, and the preservation of
r the Union? This Association will come
: short of the performance of its whole duty,
and Highland county will be most migrate
e fully unmindful of hers, If such mon
: ument be not erected. But 1 wander
from my subject. Let me return.
/, OF such as the two young men I have
If mentioned, and whose tragical deaths /
y have described, was the Union army, in a
great measure, composed. W'e know their
worth, for they were raised amongst us !;
but from every neighborhood in the North,
, let it be remembered, there went forth 9TH
|, er young men whom we did not know, OF
h whom, perhaps, as proud history might
= be truthfully written as can be recorded OF
q them Speaking, then, not for the tirtng,
n in the name of the three hundred thousand
gallant young men who gave their lives
:, for the preservation of the Government, and
" who sleep in unmarked graves, scattered
:, over the whole South, we protest against
20 the wholesale slander of the patriot army
II I'll, -,
= as body of men, less intelligent, less in
tellectually able, or of less moral worth,
than their fellow-citizens who remained at
.s home.
8. Will it be said that it is unbecoming the
v character of soldiers, for you thus publicly
re to meet and announce your claims, and
,e insist upon their acknowledgements II
l. so, we have more than one answer.
ii In the first place, we say, that, "To
ir everything there is a season, and time to
Is every purpose under the heaven; a time
r to be born, and time to die; a time to
i plant, and time to pluck up that which
I'd is planted; time to keep silence
st and time to speak !" and we would add
mt a time to be modest, and time not to b.
s modest. And we think the present time
'e in this country is one in which mOdesty
" and especially political modesty, is neither
I'd n fashionable nor paying virtue. This
10 too, we think, is the time for us, not to keel
IN silence, but to speak and more especially
n as we find but few disposed to speak fo
of us.
lg In the next place, we say,-that it is
ly necessity OF every mans condition in soci
ed ETY. to conform, in some measure, to tn
ID customs of that society; otherwise he di
OF vests himselfof all influence and become
e. blank. There is much practical goot
e. sense in the old saw, that "When you ar
ur in Rome, you must do as Rome does."-
1t And mentioning Rome, suggests a ver.
,s good illustration. Coriolanus was, n
doubt pretty good soldier, and, witha
pv something of general, but he was 1red
he fool, politically speaking. He wanted to
consul, and yet he would not accommc
,ot date himself TO the custom, and take tn
ul means, then fashionable and necessary i
nd Rome, to secure the office. These wer
itc merely to put on an old, dirty, greasy gal
nj nent, made out of linsey, suppose, {
te. copperas colored jeans, called the "Robe
re- Humility" and mounting horse-bloc
on in the open market space, stand there a
TO lay, shaking hands with the sovereign ci
ch izens of Rome, showing them his "tw
DR. dozen odd" of wounds, asking kindly aft
,sc their wives and children, and saying
ho .'PlCdSe give me your Uoices." This W;
ful called "Standing for the consulship." An
lid this was easy enough to do. An America
t, politician of the present day, would thin
nd nothing of it. Why, know men in tn
sed county, who have stood for Office much
he the same way, only little more degra
ne lngly, for more than thirty years! But {
Ike you think that great block-head Coriolan,
SO, would do itf Not hel His friends al
in his nanny made out to get the "robe
as humility" on him, and to make hi
md mount the horse-block; but as soon
de they were gone, and the sovereign peor
NJ yathered around him, and wanted to shal
Ind hands with him, and asked him to strip Q
md aboxv than, HIS wounds ha nnocka q