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The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1866-10-04
''SuppOrting'' the Democratic
Party.

The New York Times, in its issue
of Tuesday, thus speaks Of the Demo
cratic party. The editor of the Times,
let it be remembered, wrote the ad-
dress adopted by the Philadelphia
johnson Convention, and is the lead
ing organ of the President:
The Democratic party has clearly
overreached itself in its contest for re-
newed ascendency. Throughout the
war it gave the Government no sup
port. AS an organization it resisted
its efforts to suppress the rebel ion. 1t
denounced its policy, condemned as
usurpations the measures by which 1t
thwarted Northern sympathy with Sc
cession, and did everythingin its pow
er to overthrow the Administration by
which the contest was carried on.-
That it did not succeed was owing to
the fact that the people cared more for
the country than theydid for the Dem
ocratic party. And IL aoiU o,oe its fail
IRE TO the same cause RoW. While we
believe the great body of the people
desire the speedy restoration of peace
and harmony to the Union, they are
not inclined to purchase this at the
cost of restoring the Democratic party
to power. They tCiU trust the tDork of
restoration to the Union 1oarty, and to
none other. They find it much easier
: to check the excesses and rebuke the
= fanatical passions of its extreme and
: reckless men, than to inflse into the
: Democratic organization the spirit Of
t progress, of reform, and of political
4 liberty which the emergencies of the
e time demand. They find that pdrt,
i still filled aoith all the nayro,c and ilyi6
e erdt l1rejudiceS aChich marked its dctio,
before the tOdr. The same hatred @
the cOlored race-the same unwilling
e ness to extend and broaden the basi
of our free institutions-the same nj
= tachment to caste and arbitrary dis
!, tinctions in the distribution of politica
power-the same clamor for the larges
l. license to vice and immortality. an1
e the same lack of sympathy with al
J. efforts to elevate the degraded and t,
n improve the condition of the ignoran
9 and the down-trodden members O
: our republican society, mark its actor
, now as before the great tempest which
Ii in sweeping away human slavery, ha
% destroyed the great bulwark of all tn
10 injustice and all the inequality b
which our free institutions were d,
= formed and marred. The people wi
le not trust that party with the reorgan
y ization of our political society. The,
l. dread especially the alliance it viii
. form with whatever remains ofthe in
! fuences of slavery in the Southerl
II States. And they mean to avert thi
danger by excluding the Democrat
party from power.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1866-10-04
I... ,l lFrom the scioto Gazette.
Speech of Hon. A. ID. COOmbs.

CPCCOM Va AAVHs As Ne NOVANWSs
We had the pleasure of listening TO a
speech from our candidate for Senator at
the Union Club Rooms last Wednesday
evening.
Mr.. G. is an interesting and easy speaker,
and is thoroughly posted in the history of
our country and the great questions of the
day. He showed that Daniel Webster and
Gen. Jackson and the parties they repre-
sented in 1882, stood shoulder to shoulder
in putting down the States Rights Nullif-
cation of the laws of Congress, Secession
heresies of that day. and that the party
now representing the views of those men
who squelched the rebellion in soue, Car
olina is the Union Republican Party; and
that no leader of the Copperhead Johnson
party now calls himself Jacksonian DEM
ocrat, well knowing he is advocating prin-
ciples directly the opposite of old Hicko-
ry's.
He showed up the gross inequality and
injustice of allowing the South double the
number of representatives that the same
number of white men in the South have
making one white man, and rebel at that
equal to ttco white men here, and whicl
villainy the Copperheads are trying to per
petuate by opposing the Constitutions
Amendment.
But we have not space to give even
brief outline of his able and excellen
speech. We have seldom Listened to a mai
who is more thoroughly posted than on
honest, gentlemanly, farmer candidate
Mr.. c. as a Senator at Columbus, will re
fleet much honor upon our District.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1866-10-04
The Constitutional Amendment,

The following Is a correct copy Of the proposed Amend
the Constitution of the United States which
will become part Of the Constitution when ratified
by the Legislatures of three fourths Of the States
Reolced by The Senate and House Of Representatives Of
the United States Of Anericd in Congress assembled, two
thirds Of both Houses concurringl That the follow
ing article be proposed to the Legislatures of the
al States Amendment to the Constitution Of the
United States, which, when ratified by the three
ourths Of said Legislatures, shall be valid part Of
the Constitution, namely:
United States and snbiect to the jurisdiction thereof
citizens of the United States and Of the States
wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce
any law which shall abridge the privileges or mmuni-
ties OF citizens OF the United States nor shall any
State deprive any person of life, liberty property
without due process OF law nor deny to anv peracn
within its jurisdiction the equal protection OF the laws
Sec. O. Representatives shall be apportioned among
the several States according their respective num-
bers excluding Indians not taxed. But whenever the
right vote al any election for the choice of electors
for President aud Vice President, In
Congress. executive and judicial Ocers members Of
the Legislature thereof Is denied any Of the male
age and citizens Of the United States or in any way
abridged, except for participation In the rebellion
other orime tie basis Of representation therein shall
be reduced In the pr portion which the number OF uuoh
male citizeps shall bear to the whole number Of male
citizens twenty onc years q age IN snoh STATE. "a
sentative IN Congress- eector Of President and Vice
President, or hold any ONCE, civil military, under
the United States OF under any State, who, having
previously taken oath member OF Cong ress, or
as an ofcer Of the United States member Of any
State Legislature, as judicial ooer Of any stats
to support the Constitution OF the United States shall
have engaged In nuarreoton rebellion against the
same, given aid comfort 70 the epeTaes fheroof
But Congress may, by = vote Of two-thirds Of each
House, remove such disability. .fffl ,.,l.a
"sEo. L. The validity ofthe public debt of the Uplttd
States spthsrized BY law ipepding debts insnree es
payment Of pensions aud bonhtes for services IN sup
pressing ingurrection rebellion shall not beQu
tloned 9ut neither the United statea or any State
shall assume or pay any debt az obligation incurred IA
aid Of insurreotion rebellion against the United
States any claim for the loss emancipation Of any
slave but All such debts obligations and elaine shall
be bald Illegal and void y IHNA u
| "sEo. g. Congress shall have the power 10 enforce
BY appropriate sgieiAtian the provisions Of this 40
'tlpa"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1866-10-04

Keep it before the people of Ohio,
that the aim and object of the Copper
heads is to secure majority in the
next Congress to carry out the nefari-
Gus scheme ofunconditionally restoring
the rebel States to their former rights
and privileges. In his late speech at
the Copperhead State Convention, C.
l.. Vallandigham predicted, that Ohio
will send to the fortieth Congress,
from eight to ten, and probably twelve
Copperhead Representatives. On this
subject he said
81 promise this, for / truly believe
it can be done Just now the one es.
sential work-the only thing needful
to be done, is majority in the fortiett
Congress, to the end that the States
which are now excluded from repre-
sentation and the Union shall bt
brought back again."
Union men of Ohio! Take warn.
ing from these declarations of tha
arch traitor and put forth your bes
efforts to defeat these Copperheat
schemes of gaining power in the mex
Congress.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1866-10-04

pg5~ San Francisco city and county,
at the recent election, gave an average
of ZOO Union majority. Thus goes
the battle from the Green Mountains
of Vermont to the golden shores of the
Pacific, and every place a. gain.
Union men of old Highland, let us
put our shoulders to the wheel and
work for the salvation Of our country
and join the grand old Union column
as it moves along in its victorious
march.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1866-10-04

R&~ Gen. Grant has written letter,
declining an invitation to attend the
Pittsburgh Convention on the 25th, in
which he asserts that he is no polite
ian, and administers a fitting rebuke
to those officers of the Regular Army
who have been making themselves
prominent in politics. Gen. Grant
only obeyed his superior officer in 60
ing round with the Presidential party,
and was evidently disgusted with the
whole affair, as all sensible men were.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1866-10-04
sG- Theodore Tilton is not a desl,

SS- Theodore Tilton is not deslr-
able opponent in an argument. At
the Philadelphia Convention a rebel
delegate asked him, "Would you
marry black woman ?" "No," re-
sponded Mr.. Tilton, "I would not
choose to; but" looking the question
er significantly in the eye, "if 1 were
the father of black woman's children,
1 should feel myself great coward if
l did not marry her."
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1866-10-04
The Democratic Theory OfNTobs

There have recently been two Democrat
ic mobs-one in Memphis, the other in
New Orleans. The rebel organ in this city
has commented upon both of them, hold
ing the following propositions as embody-
ing its theory of mobs:
l. That the Union men who were mob
bed were guilty of all the blame.
2. That the Democrats who did the
mobbing were wholly innocent
3. That the Union men who were mob
bed desired to be mobbed, killed, wounded
and beaten.
4. That the Democrats who mobbed
them merely accommodated them in their
desire to be shot, stabbed, pounded and
murdered, with commendable neighborly
kindness.
8. That it is terribly wrong for Union
men to provoke rebel Democrats disposed
to riot, but entirely right for rebel Demo
Gratis to indulge in riot when provoked.
9. That being "nigger" is sufficient
provocation to justify riot by rebel Dem
ocrats in Memphis.
Z. That holding white Union conven-
lion, and a negro procession knocking
down white man, is sufficient provoca-
ton to justify riot by rebel Democrats In
New Orleans 'TQV o'gf Dt'gfTIF
8. That holding a Union convention
and allowing a negro procession, is ain
citing murder in the South" which is {
''terrible stigma" on the convention anC
on the negroes who were murdered bu
the Democrats who did the murder, being
thus melted, are wholly innocent and en-
tirely justified.
This is the Democratic theory of mobs
as expounded by tie Democratic organ.-
OF n0urap all who hnliaua In thia thaOr,
are pure Democrats, and violent johnson
men. 1t is the same theory by which tn
Democratic organ used TO justify the. re
pellion, The Democrats of the South, /
claimed, were "incited" to rebel by North
ern republicans electing Abraham Lin
coin President of the United States and
peing thus "incited, ""why blame men 70
peing Traitors ?" it said. ave cannot so
why. 80 1t says now, in effect, VIII,
planhe southern Democrats for being riot
ers IL cannot see why.-[Detroit Post.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1866-10-04
The Union Platform.

Rsso!red That the Union party of Ohio, having Sus-
talhed the General Government during four years Of
successful war against the united efforts of rebels u
the south and their partsans in the North now de-
mand that peace shall be established upon such sta
Foundations that rebellion and secession will never
again endanger our national existence
hesotred, That this Convention fully indorses tho
Amendment to the Constitution proposed by Con-
wise and patriotic adjustment, and the Union party
of ohio pledges for their united and hearty support
"hesotred, That the nation the heroes Of our
army and navy debt OF lasting gratitude for their
patriotic services in defence Of the Constitution and
Union, ana we urge upon Congress the duty of equalz
tender affection the memories of the fallen brave Wa
pledge to their widows aud orphans the nations care
and protection.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1866-10-04

Gen. IL. A. Barnum, of New York,
sends to the Soldiers and Sailors Un.
ion at Washington a list Of names
over fifty feet in length, of soldiers in
that State who favor the Pittsbure
Convention and oppose the Presidents
policy. Gen. Barnum states that til,
signatures were all obtained in two
days, and that, judging from observa
ton and the numerous letters received
with it,fully nineteen-twentieths of thu
loyal veterans of the war are OpposeC
to the reconstruction policy of tn,
President, and in favor Of Congress,
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1866-10-04
SDOt Him.

Andrew Johnson made speech at
Nashville, three years ago and said:
"Whenever you find a man any
where prating about the Constitution
of the United States, spot him; he's
traitor"
There has lately been a man in this
part of the country prating in that
style, and calling other people traitors.
We call upon Andrew johnson to
"spot him. - Detroit Post.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1866-10-04

D9- South Carolina has population
of 100000 whites, and 400, 900 blacks.
The 100000 whites of that pestiferous
fire-eating little State count just the
same as 100000 whites Of Ohio on the
floor of Congress, or in a Presidential
election. Put none but Union men on
guard at the October election and we
will pass the Constitutional Amend
ment, and emancipate ourselves from
this disgraceful, outrageous inequality
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1866-10-04
Elections to be Held. .

LIST Monday in october-Florida and
Mississippi. .,ai1lq
lst Wednesday in october7Georgia.
ID Tuesday in october--Iowa, Indiana
Ohio and Pennsylvania. d. ,eif a
4th Tuesday in October West Virginia
LIST Monday in Noyember-Louisiana
'r ~ LIST Tuesday in November Kansas, Mis-
souri,, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, Wis
copsin, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts
Delaware, New York and New Jersey.
I'd Tuesday in ACCOMPLISHMENTS.
4th Monday in November-south Caro-
lima. at4I
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1866-10-04

AS the door of the White House
closed on Saturday night, the last
sound heard was something like this
"Circle, round, alderman, 'titution,
people, thirty-six, tumble individual
eleven States, tuition, tuition, tuition,
hands of people, every office, gift O.
people, why don't you hang Thad
Stevens? glorious Constitution, hic."-
philadelphia Bulletin. Eu
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1866-10-04
ng- The Postmaster at Union Cit

re- The Postmaster at Union City
a one-armed soldier-has been remov-
ed by Andy Johnson, and his place
given to fellow named Shaw, who
formerly kept a low drinking house in
Richmond, Indiana, from which he
was washed out by the citizens of that
place, as nuisance. The only offence
of the one-armed soldier was that he
refused to endorse Andy's rebel policy.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1866-10-04

President candy" received box
as present, at Pittsburgh. 1t was
suggested that it might contain an
"infernal machine" so Gen. Custer, of
the army, was employed to open it,
which he did standing behind breast
work of "bomb-proofs." The box
was bursted open, and contained a.
dead duck.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1866-10-04

In the so-called Soldiers Conven-
ton at Cleveland there were four hun
dred and thirty-four delegates, all told.
In the Pittsburg Convention there
were. four thousand soldiers from Ohio
alone and there was delegation of
si:r hundred from the neighborhood OF
the city, every one of whom had been
wounded in the service, There is no
doubt of the opposition of the soldiers
to "my policy" a,a ao9
Our soldiers In the field were some.
times fired on by rebels dressed in oul
uniform So the Democracy are now
trying to decoy them to their destruc
tion by calling themselves the ana
tiohal Union Party" That game Il
long since "played out. ."-[scioto Gaz
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1866-10-04

When the rebels began the slave
holders rebellion, the Ohio Democrats
in convention assembled resolved that
two hundred thousand Democrats
would march from this State to the
aid of the South. The same party now
asks to be reinstated in power in order
that they may place the Government
in the hands of the rebels,
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1866-10-04
Poetry.
SHALL TREY voPBp

fr e SHAL1 THEY NOTBP
Shall they vote who swore that slavery
Should reign king in freedoms halls,
And who pledged their faith to slaughter
All who watched on Freedoms walls
Shall they vote who sent the assassin,
Fired his heart and nerved his hand
with the promise of great honor
When they made their own this land3
Shall they vote who, being pardoned,
Rob the bireling Of his due;
Drive from home man and brother,
Though all humbly he may sue 2
They who will not grant to freemen
Loyal, what they periured, claim
God of Justcei Is thine image
Lost, entirely lost to shame?
Shall they cast the sovereign ballot
In this land so late brought low
BY their treason7 Rise, ye freenen,
Lift your voices: Answer No
Never Never Swear it, freemen,
Shall we give to traitor hands
Power to forge enslaving fetters,
Fast to bind US, feet and hands
Rise, 70 mothers, robbed, heart brokenI
Rise, ye widows, in your woe
Rise, yegwidows, and ye orphans
Swell the mighty anwer, MOI
II 1.-THE Right Way.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1866-10-04

The Erie Dispatch gets off the following
catechism, revised and corrected:
Question-Who was the first man?
Answer-Andrew Johnson.
Question-How many are there of him? +?
Answer-Three.
Question-Can you name them?
Answer-I, me, and my policy.
Question-What agents are employed in
making known his will to man?
Answer-Treasury Agents.
Question-Do you believe in the exis-
tence of my policy.
-Answer-I do.
Question-Upon what grounds do you
base your belief?
Answer--New Orleans burial grounds.
Right--The class may take their seats
with the elect.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1866-10-04
Tho Presidents Richmond Orr
gan.

For the sake of the Southern people
we indulge in the hope that the Rich
mond Examiner is not fair represen-
tative of even the most ultra school of
secessionists. Its editor would seem
to be actuated by the spirit of flend,
or of deformed and tabled Thersites,
rather than of human being. Take
the following as an everyday specimen
of its ferocious blackguardism, which
spares neither the living nor the heroic
and sanity dead:
"The gorrillas, orang-outangs, and
apes appointed by the mulatto conven-
tion as committee of pilgrims to the
tomb Of the King Ape, have begun their
initiative tour. Already they have
been welcomed with simulated and
whiskey supported enthusiasm in the
city of New York. The Tribune is
somewhat ashamed of the members Of
this perambulating body, and, after
naming Brownlow, Fletcher, Hamil
ton, Pease and Bolts, refers to Others
as 'those we need not pause to cata
logue.' Certainly not. 1t was enough
to mention Brownlow. Everybody
knows what a set of fellows follow il
his train.
n
"IIow pitiful is the effort to max
heroes of such dastards. The lion
skins in which they attempt to dis
guise themselves do not fit, and thei
braying voices will betray them where
soever they open their mouths. Hov
groveling and degraded is the part,
which can eXalt wretches like Brown
low and Bolts, and do them Justice"
Yet this hyena who would burrow int
the grave in order to feed upon til
. reputation of the great and good Lii
coin, is the ardent admirer and SUI
l porter of President johnson and h
$ "policy," for which it is rewarde
with government advertising.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1866-10-04
Fenians. read This!

The Sandusky Register states that in n
speech in that city few days ago, Hon.
Joseph M. Root, late U. S. District Attor-
ney for Northern Ohio, said he considored
he was not breaking official faith when he
related one fact in regard to the Admins
tration and the Fenians, which occurred
during the Canadian excitement. He, as
District Attorney, and Marshal Bill, re-
ceived instructions from Washington to
watch closely all organizations, learn
about the storage of arms, &C., bit IN case
CfN'y attempted expedition from Cleveland
not n interfere to preuent the naoven,ent until
IL aOaS Under aOay. But said the Instructions,
WHEN THE BOATS, BARKs, &C., HAVE GONE
MILE OR TWO FROM THE CITY, BLOW
THEM UP. And it is known that for
three or four days the Fessenden lay in the
Cuyahoga River, with steam up, ready to
execute. this order. VTf. a}
This is an astonishing statement, but
Joseph NJ. Root is not man to make it
without knowing what he is talking about.
OF course his instructions came from the
State Department, which is governed at the
White House. (hf N
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1866-10-04

HG- The Copperhead papers call Ben
Butler a beast. All the erebel sheets in
the South have been doing the same
for five years. This shown the antnts
Of their lore for Union soldiers.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1866-10-04

D SeE New Jersey 1has ratified the
CONSTITUTIONS Amendment, and elect
ed Radical or Union United States
Senator. Thus one of the Mcclellan
States falls into the Union line. Del,
aware viii follow suit, leaving Ken.
lucky alone to vote the rebel ticket.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1866-10-04

MARYIAND.-The indications are
said to be that the Union men will
elect three members Of Congress from
Maryland--a gain of one. The con-
test is very exciting and very bitter.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1866-10-04

Answers to Engmas In last weeks News-1. The
Phiade phia- -Copper-J obRson Convention. 2. "Witl
malice toward none, with charity for al.". Q. d. X
Wisel.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1866-10-04
Conundrums.

Why did Josephs brethren cast him into the "pit'
because they didn't want him in the "fimy circle"
What is the difference between Andy johnson and a
parcel of Misses at a pc-nic2 One swings round the
circle, and the others citcle round the swing,
Can who has been hued by the magistrate
again and again be considered a efned manl
Can you toll mo how It is that the trees put on
their summer clothing without opening their trunks p
Because they iedue IL out