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

have been If he had staid at home. While
we do not propose that any body shall be
proscibed because he did not go into the
service, we insist that nobody shall be pro-
scribed because he did. a ....t !
Considered with reference to this object,
our Association may be styled, If you
please, business Association.
Among the objects Of the Association,
there is vet another upon which 1 have
some remarks to submit. have reserved
it to the last, for the reason that, whether
it in fact be so or not, 1t will, by the gem
eral public, be thought to be the most tmpor-
tdnt of all. 1t is that, at least, which win
arouse the most malevoience, and bring
upon you tho greatest amount Of denuncia-
ton.
This Association, then, is to be, not
merely, as already explained, social, be-
,tevoLent and business Association; we in
tend it. moreover, to be POLITICAL ALI
ancc, as we'll but, in i0hat sense it is to
be such, lei me here, and at once, proceed
to explain.
We do not propose to form new party
in politics. We have no new political doc
trine to advance. We are not here to con-
struct political platform. We do not
propose to quarrel with the creed of any
party. We do not propose to do any of
these things and much less, still, do we
propose to attach this Association to, or in
corporate it with, any political party now
lin existence, or about to be brought into
eristence This Association will, as such,
stand aloof from all political parties, leav-
such party, and for such party doctrines or
creeds, as to him may seem best.
But. while, as an Association, we es-
pouse no party, we intend, nevertheless, to
have something to do with all parties. We
will endeavor to constrdin every party tC
do justice to the soldiers, by allowing them
in making its nominations, a fair and LID
, erdl representation upon its tickets. Th
party that does not do so, is damned. The
party that ignores the soldier, we ignore
The party that is iui6eraI to the soldier
will, trust, receive from our Association
neither support nor sympathy.
This, have said, is the object of the AS
sociation which will arouse the most ma
levolence, and bring upon you the greatest
amount of denunciation and it will dc
this because the professed and trading
l politician will readily perceive that if thi
+ object be firmly and faithfully carried ou
1 by you, it will break up many pretty lit
}, tie arrangement which has been made 70
+, the disposition of offices in the future.
Gentlemen, Othello said 81 have dont
l the State some service, and they know it.
! Your case is similar, but not precisely tn,
1 same as his. You "have done the Stat
I some service;" but I am not exactly certain
3 that you can have the consolatory reflec
+ ton which the dying Moor had, that "theg
y know it," Certain recent political transac
e tions would seem to indicate that the littl
r managers of the political parties in thi
: county do not know that there are SOM
: three thousand men in this county who, il
s the late terrible war of the Rebellion, di
# do the State some SerVice. Ifthey had know
: it, it is hardly possible that such almos
s unparalleled unanimity would have char
e acterized the proceedings of certain recen
= Conventions, that you wot of, as did dis
tinJuish their proceedings. A mere locker
$ OH might have been at n loss-leaving on
of view entirely the claims of the soldiers
d to account for such mdreeIous unGniD,ity.-
J. But if some of the little subs and serfs wh
IS had been behind the scenes, had come an
o told that same simple-minded looker-or
y that that unanimity was the considerable
l. paid for certain other nominations for tn
h same offices, hereafter to be made, of cel
s, tain other highly respectfully connecte
1t gentleman who never did do the State al,
!, service, the mystery would have been e1
planned.
s. You will recollect, gentlemen, when yo
1t enlisted, and marched Otto the scat of wa
how your neighbors whom you left behint
y did
~ "Shout you forth
\, In aecamStions hyperbolcA,"
\ and what liberal promises were made
y honors and rewards for such as should liN
to return. need not repeat the promises
,e but let us look, for moment, at the pc
ID formances. -
n The returned soldiers constitute mo
is than Mree:tltths of the voting population
u the county. Have they three-hfths of Il
o. offices of the county2 Let us see.
ID There are, including the Representati'
OF in the Legislature, sirteen county offices
I'd Highland county. The soldiers have n
Mt of them. Instead of HreeJfjths, they ha
In not quite one-third;
o, Highland county belongs to three seve
Is al Dlstricts-a Senatorial District, Co
gressional District, and a Judicial Distri,
ks Each of these Districts elects, of course, 4
he respective officer indicated, making thr
N, more offices in the election of the incuI
nd bents of which Highland County is, co
p- cerned. How many of these have the 81
of diers5 Not one.
n There are, including Postofllces, in Hig
,r- land county, thirty-ei5h Federal offices,
80, The appointments to these offices, Hie
ur land county has an interestin directing a
ire controlling, and always can direct and &C
Is. troll. How many has she given to
M soldier2 Fire, and five only, and. two