The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1867-08-01

[From the Toledo Blade.
Posr OFFIs- CoNFEDRIT Y ROADS, !
witch is in the Stait NV Kentucky,)
July u, 1867.
In castin nv eve carelessIy over the po-
litikle field, wich Seward and me do every
sixty days, think 1 kin spy into the hOri-
zon a bud wich is swelling to most hope
full flower. It is spredin itself into a hur-
ricane, wich threatens to sweep away the
fabric Nv Ablishinism and purify the pO-
litilzle atmosphere. The Radikle party
hev bin at last forced to adopt the legiti-
NIT endin Nv their sOocidle principles, mig
ger suffrage, and from that the Dimokrisy,
! ef they are wise, will snatch a triumph
! litraIly from the jaws nv death. We hev
en- now. In Ohio that question is to be
voted onto this fall; in Moo York and
Michigan its raisin breeze in their Con-
venshuns and in Pennsylvania, IllinOy,
and Indiana it can't be long put off. It's
our lest holt. The proud Caucasian wich
votes the Dimecratic ticket hez no ohjeck
shun to be ossled by the Niger in the
rush to pay taxes, but his hawty soul re-
coils at the idee Nv bein elbowed by him at
the polls Besides the DimecrCtic voters
dOn'twant the ballot given to any other
lower class. 1t wood make undOO COM
petishen. Ez I remarked, we've got EN-.
Wat the Demokrisy want now is to so
handle this delikit subjick ez to make the
most Nv it.
The great trouble with the party is that
there is no uniform style Nv meetin this
question. On the main question we are
all agreed. We all oppose nigger suffrage.
Its part and parcel Nv a Dimokrats
nacher to oppose nigger suffrage. The
leaders NV the party opposed it at the be-
ginnin, for seein how the ballot wuZ abus-
ed by their followers they trembled for
the Republic ef it wuz entrusted to the
hands Nv any more Nv ekal capassity,
and the masses Nv the organization OppOs-
ed givin it to the nigger, becoz that one
privilege, and color, wuz all that disting-
uished EN-. Its a pecOOlyarity NV unre-
generated human nacher that it must allus
bear down on somebody. The poet sez:
''EvsD the lice hev smaller ones to bite EN-,
And they still smaller ones, ad infuitum."
Fortunately, the Dimokracy hev the mig
ger for their smaller lice. The sturdy
yeomanry felt it to be a soothin thing to
find, wunst each yeer, that in wUn thing,
at least, he was sOoperior to sumbOddy,
and so it will be so long ez there is
Dimokracy. The troO DimOkrat promotes
hisself, not by liftin hisself above the level
onto wiCh he finds hisself, but by shown
some wun down to a lower level, and eZ
there wuzn't anybody else on this conti-
nent wich they Good git hold Nv, the mig
ger wuz, long ago, selected fur that pur-
pose.
The great trouble is, we. oppose niger
suffrage now from too many standpints.-
Some oppose it on the skore Nv the infe-
riority Nv the Afrikin, but that never wuz
a popular idea with our people. They
may hev assented to it Outwardly, but in
their own minds they objected. OFF"
says a reliable Dimokrat to hisself, "ef
that's the rule, WAT IN THUNDER Is TO Be
COME wv ME?"
Likewise the idea Nv onftness, wich
others Nv our apOssels advance. "They
can't read nor write ~ shreeks a inioO-
dishus cuss, speekin to audience two
thirds Nv wich go to him reglerly to reed
their ballots to EN-, and who, when they
sign promissOry notes, put an X atWeen
their first and last names.
Anuther speeker quotes Noah to EN-, and
boldly asserts that the nigger is the de-
scend8nt nv Ham, and that he is the iden-
ticle indjviiile wich wuz Gust by Noah
but he runs agin the fact that the rest NV
EN-, wieh is in Afrika yet, hev managed to
dodge the cuss, ez they amt servin their
white brethren, and them Wich wuz brot
here to be chrischinized hev busted ther
bonds, and are jest about ez free, so far as
servitOOd goes, ez anybody.
There is, ez hev showed, all these con-
hictin ideas that work agin US. There
fore, want a Nashneu COnvenshun.
want a convOcashen Nv the lights Nv the
party to set forth why we oppose negro
suHrage-to give a reason for it, that all
our people may act together, ez do other
Wen regulated machines. Let US come to-
gether and lshoo our manifesto, that we
may know percisely the pertikIer line Nv
argument to pursoo.
shel be at that Couvenshen, and I hev
made up my mind wOt platform to lay
down, shel so back on Ham, Hager and