The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1867-08-08


FORMER EDITOR OF THE CLEYE-
LAND PLATNDEAI.ER, AT YoUNGs-
l TOWN, JULY 10TH.
Afr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen,
! SoUereigIas Of the Republic. a..r
! 1t has been well said that eEternal
Vigilance is the price of Liberty, p
vigilance at the primary meeting as
well as at the polls. To despise poll
tics is to despise government. To des-
pise lazy, professional offlce-seekers, is
quite another thing. To neglect the
primary meetings is to surrender the
field to professional offlee-seekers. It
is as if the farmer would give seed
time to the enemy to sow tares, chess,
i cookies and thistles, and look for fine
wheat in harvest. The primary
movements are now over with US 50
far as the chief standard-b bearers of
this State are concerned, and we have
only left us to choose between Hayes
and Thurman. They are both repre-
sentative men, each of his own party,
and are no doubt each acceptable to
his own party. There are two, and
only two, great political parties in
this nation, each having a civil and
.military wing, and may with marked
Ifpropriety be denominated the Union
and Confederate parties. They are
sometimes called UniOn-Republican
and Democratic, and sometimes Radi-
cal and COpperhead, but the first is in
better accord with the rules of chemi-
calnOmenclature The military wings
J were lately led respectively by Grant
) and Lee. The civil wings in this
State are led by Hayes and Thurman.
Of the civil wings one, in the late
! struggle, stood steadily, and resOIute-
ly by Grant, encouraging enlistments
and enforcing the draft. The other
discouraged enlistments, resisted the
draft, and threw every impeachment
and embarrassment in the way of Grant
and his party. Their shots were all
for the North, their batteries ever had
their breech towards Richmond, car
rying their action in this direction as
far as was safe with personal liberty,
and little further, in some instances,
for Hall, Olds, Vallandigham and
others went beyond loyal endurance
and were given private apartments
and time for reflection. Olds took
} quarters at Fort Warren and complains
) that the sd ID scOundrels deprived
| him of a Bible" Vallandigham was
: arrested, and but for Gov. Tod, his wife
would have been a widow. The Sun
day after his arrest was walking with
Gov. Tod in the streets of Columbus,
when Gen, Burnside's Adiutant from
CineinH approached and said lpri-
vately) tlf the Governor makes no
! objection, Burnside feels it is his du-
tty in this emergency to hang Valland-
:. igham at once. The Governor thought
it would enrage his Southern friends,
and ''fire the southern heart" and
tho deserved, policy pointed to the
!. Dry TOrtugas. The Ienient, lamented
Lincoln modified this and Vallandig-
ham was banished to his friends,-was
received with shouts of joy, given safe
conduct wherever he wanted to go, ran
the blockade, sought an asylum under
the flag of the "Alabama" builders,
lowered on the border, became the
chosen leader of the party of whose
principles he was the embodiment,
and was beaten over one hundred
thousand votes. The civil wing of
that party now gives the standard in
to the hands of Thurman, the endOrs-
er of VaIlandigham, the advocate of
his election, and the Vallandigham vo-
tiers.
Gentlemen, that is enough for me.
I never will forgive Vallandigham for
his desperate struggles against his coun-
try in her dark, dark hOur-never,
never. Nor will I ever forgive any
man who voted for him-sO help me
God.
I,think I hear some one askI'Dea-
con, is that good Christian spirit {?
Do you pray to be forgiven as you
forgive p" Exactly so. When I have
occasion to be forgiven for voting for
Vallandigham or any one of his sup
pOrters, it will be time enough for ME
to forgive the sin in others.
/ vi AlAC 1ECOllu L4lOuSAlAs L Will Dtlg
that, on the " hole l will forgive them,
but I'll put it off till my last sickness,
and till have been in the hic coughs
about three days. -....
But Thurman has record Of his
own, and in that record out -Herods
Herod. Like the long nOsed mans
longer nosed son, Of whom a wag said
he looked just like his father, and
more too so Thurman is just like
Vallandigham, and more too. Du-
ring the war Thurman's house was
lnOtOriously head quarters for paroled
rebels. tell you what know, not
what hear. 1 have seen numbers of
rebel officers in full uniform, wearing
the tinsel insignia of rank in proud
display, pacing to and fro in his gaily
lit up house, feasting and reveling in
the rich receptions and light levees-
"But never knew boy in blue
To venture near bis dOOr." s
I have heard of a squad 6 horal
soldiers, fired with the contrast be-
! tween comrades at AndersOnvillea ana
traitors at Thurman's, on their way to
avenge the insult, and but for the per-
suasions of loyal Barney McCabe, oh
ye gods! what singing school there
would have been that night at rebel
headquarters, as each reb, piping ire
BILE, got the pitch out of some jingling
window!
Thurman's carriage was ever rum
bling over the road to Camp Chase,
conveying smiling faces, words Of
comfort, luxuries and goodies to cheer
and buoy up the sinking spirits of re-
bells, but never a crumb of comfort,
that I could learn, for our boys in or
out Of hospitals.
Clothing, sweetmeats, unneeded
luxuries of all kinds, expressed from
rebels in the South to rebels at Camp