The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1866-09-13

Ahc uldldSeTS VI VIC JOuuSOu move
ment addressed circular letter to all
the Office holders in the land, asking
their endorsement of "My Policy"
and soliciting reply. The following
reply to the Randall Circular, by a
Connecticut Postmaster, is among the
sharpest we have seen.
PosT OFFICE, NEW CANAAN,
FAIRFIELD Co., CoNN,
August 8, 1865.
SIR: Your circular for the call OF
the Wilkes Booth Convention to meet
in Philadelphia on the I4th inst, has
been duly received under the frank of
an eminent Pennsylvania Senator.
suppose / am indebted to the honora-
BILE Connecticut renegade for this early
''smoking out" attention. For this
mark of extreme kindness he and you
have my thanks. Most of the appar-
ent purposes Of the call met my entire
approval, but chaff is at discount Just
now. No man unwilling to be de-
ceived can mistake the latent object of
the intended gathering, rising as it
does from the ashes of the assassin
Had Wilkes Booth LiUed the COnre,a-
ton UoULd nerer hare been called
Now, every sympathizing friend of his
foul deed, from Maine to California
indorses it. Every indulgent, concili-
atory advocate of the interesting cere-
mony Of bullying, bludgeoning and
numbering public men, (t0ho advocated
the Rights Of Man. approves it! Eve
ry patriotic resolver "that the war for
the Union is a fai ure" is in ecstacies
over it! Every bitter secessionist,
every fighting rebel in the terrible war
that has cost this nation hundreds of
thousands of lives, and billions OF
money, every conniving traitor that
has been struggling to tear down the
Government that Washington planted
and Lincoln saved, is singing peans oil
glory to it. And eUe,y Press in the
entire United States NOR adUocdtin0 it,.
is obliged to excuse, palliate and de-
fend the burnings, murders, and massa-
cres continually cropping out through
out volcanic Rebeldom. From all
such sympathies, tendencies and oper-
ations,s Mr.. Randall, would most re-
spectfully respond, "Good Lord deliv-
er me-" My conscience, my man.
mood, are my own; to me they are OF
more value than any Office on earth.
You have my answer. Briefly yours,
NOAH w. HOYT, p. M.
Among the most laconic indorse-
ments of this Randall circular, was
that of Mr.. Hollowell, Postmaster at
Kansas City, who simply wrote back,
''Do you think 1 am id fool ?'-
w. E. Shepherd, Postmaster at Oska-
loosa, Iowa, also returned his copy of
the circular, with this brief endorse
ment: 81 am not for sale"
Mr.. A. L. Whiteman, late Postmas-
ter at Wapakoneta, Ohio, and formerly
a Union soldier, on being interrogated
in regard to his views of the Bread
and-Butter Convention, thus replied to
the Postmaster Generals inquisitorial
letter:
1 frankly and honestly confess that
my sentiments will not allow me to in
dorse "my policy" 1 am not ready
to take vile traitors to my bosom, or
lend my influence toward restoring
unto them the right to rule this nation,
after their efforts to destroy it-and
all the patronage of this Government,
or all the palaver of bread-and-butter
officials, cannot induce me to change
my mind in regard to traitors North
or South. 1 say they have one right
under the Constitution, which should
be accorded to them, and that is
hang them.