The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1866-07-12

Conservatives and radicals.

OOuserEatlVeB anu BAOlCaISs
The country is now divided into two
political parties = Conservatives and
Radicals under the banners of
these parties all men who take part in
the politics of the day are fast array
ing themselves, and all Journals-not
neutral-are taking one side or the
other. All parties pretend to ctnseFy-
atism in one way or snotherlzeo
servatistll as they .iaterISrst 1t, aud as
they deSsSt shall The ddfstood,,s and
we find I'd them an, /. and astride of
them all, a class who'profess to be dis
tinctly conservative. We propose in
this article to set forth what we under
stand to be conservatism and radical
ism, and to show precisely where we
stand, and where this Journal intends
to stand. F-
Conservatives, in their own way, are
general dissenters, protesting against
the powers that be, and all they do,
fault-finders, critics, who want re-
form-they are the outs whose high
calling is to fight the ms. Many of
them are bankrupt politicians; some
of them have, during the last four
years, been on both sides of the great
, struggle; some of them have sore
| heads some of them don't believe in
party politics at all, but are for organ
izing party which is not a party, and
go for the adoption of a creed that is
: not political. They are in favor OF
, things as they are, opposed to tinker
2 ing with the Constitution; and are for
9 trusting the people of the SOUTH
g They would like to see all radicals
r swing up by their necks. They have
: no patience with those who lack faith
3 in the patriotism Of those who brought
on the war, and fought against the
r Union for four long years. An out
D and-out, genuine Conservative admits
S the negro is free, and lets his slaves gC
e as the result of the war; but he as
serts that they were made free by frauC
e and usurpation, and that the Govern
l. ment owes him fair price for his ne
o groes, and is not honest if it refuse Il
pay. His peculiar affection for the
Constitution of his country is inspired
mainly by the clause which protects
those who have spit upOn it, and
/ trampled that sacred instrument under
: their traitorous feet. They are the adj
4 vocates Of leniency, of humanity, and
2 of the benign precepts of christianity
l and he is wanting in patriotism whC
!, sees any wrong in the robberies, mur
g ders, imprisonments, rapes and cruel
;. ties inflicted by rebel soldiers and Off
= GERS, who were acting under order
e from de fact0 government. They be
= lieve that men out of the rebel army
V whose hands are dripping with the
e blood of loyal men, should be at once
admitted to the halls of our LegisIa
lures, and of Congress, attired in re-
a bel uniforms. They are opposed tc
any and all franchise laws, limiting the
, right Of suffrage, except where they
: are intended to keep the negro from
the polls. Such is CONSERVATISM
: and the editors of this paper are MOI
of that class.
: A Radical is one who, without any
conditions, is for the Union, and fol
putting down all rebellions got up t.
destroy the Union, at any cost of money
and blood. If slavery get in the way
: of restoring the Union, he is for wip
l ing that out. He is for keeping every
man out Of Congress who can't take
, the Constitutional test oath, and be
!, lieves that no man has right to s
e seat in Congress who can't take tha
oath-who can't swear that he nevel
: bore arms against the Government O
] the United States who never helC
G any civil or military Office under the
I so-called Confederate States Govern
4 ment; and who never voluntarily
g aided and abetted the cause of the late
t rebellion. The Radical believes tha
S no other class of men ought to aspire
G to seats in Congress. They believe
: that the Congress of the United State.
: ought to exact from the rebel States
Y before one of them is re-admitted, full
Y and satisfactory guarantees against an
e other revolt, as well as of future gooC
: behavior and future loyalty. The
s Radicals believe that troops should be
t continued in the South until the Souti
S acquiesces in the results Of the war, anC
: the people learn to behave themselves
; They believe, with President johnson
!, that "treason should be made odious
e and conscious, intelligent traitors pun
h ished with death" And with thu
!, President further, "that if there b.
but 5000 loyal men in Tennessee
= they ought to govern the State,
while call rebels should occupy bach
n seats" Such is Radicalism, and the
editors Of this paper are Radicals =
Brownlow's Whig. .....