The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1866-08-30

forces to divide and conquer, no mat
ter by what means, that great party |!
which saved the Country in the hour j
of its trial. t
1t was the Democratic party which 1
made the Mexican war, under the {
pretence of extending the "area of :
freedom" but really to acquire more {
slave territory.
1t was the Democratic party which : :
repealed the Missouri Compromise,
and attempted Ito force slavery into
Kansas, in opposition I'd the protests J
and votes of the sovereign people. :
1t was the Democratic party which :
procured and sustained the Dred Scott +
decision, which made slavery national,
universal, aggressive and perpetual in
! its character, instead of being excep-
tional, local and limited in its dura-
ton, as the fathers of the Constitution
intended.
1t was Democrats who broke up the
Charleston Convention in 1860, in or
der to force an issue upon the question
of slavery in the territories, which If
decided at the ballot-box adversely,
would furnish the occasion for their
Secession from the Union.
1t was Democrats who denied "the
"right of coercion, on the part of the
"Government. The enforcement of
"the laws against the seeding States
"is coercion, and coercion is war;"
said Pendleton in 1861.
When State after State had passed
D ordinances of Secession, the Northern
= leaders and organs of the party pro-
nounced the disruption of the Union
= an accomplished fact. They eagerly
y announced the war for the restoration
: of the Union ga failure" in their
q Chicago platform, and advised the
IS withdrawal of our armies, to permit
is disaffected States "to depart in peace"
~ The Democratic party accepted the
" doctrines of the resolutions of '98,
III which embody in plain terms the
lg right of Secession for causes of the
W rightfulness and sufficiency "of which
,t the States themselves are the judges" d"
,f During the incipiency of the rebellion,
- and throughout the progress of the
u war, they have maintained the right
y and validity of the ordinances of Sc
v cession. States, they held, could not
as be coerced. But the leaders of that
80 party, whose "principles are always
- the same," now propose to come to-
~ gether on the platform of "My Policy
IS, which is founded upon the doctrine
an that Secession or withdrawal from tht
Union is impossible. If the Demo
cratic leaders have really renowned
81 the right of Secession as a political
p doctrine, we congratulate them or
e. their conversion, but should like tC
of hear the open acknowledgment of the
b great change. .....
" The leaders of this once great party
ur defeated at the ballot-boX, and in the
minority in all the loyal States, be
cause of their sympathy and said anC
t. comfort" to the ,rebellion, are nov
IN willing to sink the name of Democrat
III and become anything, or call thing
II to all men," provided they can thereb!
recover power and place. For thi
he purpose, they are willing to join hand
es- with rebels, no matter how deepl!
n stepped in treason and crime. The!
nd are willing to combine with the mer
"
ers, and the disappointed of ever,
st, stripe-to resort to any abandonment
rd of principle, to accomplish the grea
al object of their ambition and hopes.
of What kind of men the Democrat
Ily party, reconstructed" under anothe
'ty name, ga rose by any other nam
of will smell as sweet'') would restore t
of power, we see in the case of the rebC
he and secessionist, Duvall, of Ky. Per
ds, dleton, the representative of the Oh
lbs cago platform, took the stumpin ordt
rn- to carry his election. The who
co Democratic party has adopted h
to cause, as the cause of the Democrat
de- party. A man who raised no hand
made no effort-breathed no breath IL
ses the support of the Government an
Dy- the preservation of the Union-th
Ids man was supported by the who
hat rebel observation-disclosures soldier
ln- guerrillas, Morgan raiders, border mu
at derers-every man whose hands WI
by red with Union blood, rallied und
lag his banner;--while on the other han
ted the gallant HObson, who led the UniC
to forces, and bravely upheld the stan
mis-, ard of the Government on 50 mar
ep- battle-fields, who did much in proteC
to ing the lives and property of KY, al
les, driving the ruthless invader from h
} of soil, is ANONYMOUSLY defeated. Su,
bly, is Kentucky loyalty and gratitude.
lin Need men have better evidence
the continued sympathy, and ''aid al
hat comfort" of the leaders of the Dem
re- cratic party, with the rebel cause, al
the their determination, that though &
rep feated and humiliated in. battle,
ora shall triumph on other fields?
S of Pendleton, whom his friends r
LED forward as the model Democrat, &c
for tleman 'sto the manner born"--in o
If a of his recent speeches characterized t
en- Congress of the United States as at
hief Northern horde now in possession
Wis, the Government" who should be DIR
,bb, en- out. Do not Pendleton and
ats. compeers show Enthusiastically, wi
and kind of "Horde'' they would int
,ory duce into Congress? The men
deepest dyed in the crimes of treas
mpt and rebellion--the men the m
~ s..fookoA xxyifh fha ,,ao