The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1867-10-10
Blackburn Prepared to R 80.

Blackburn Prepared to R 'gister,
The latest dispatches bring US the
intelligence that the notorious DR..
Blackburn, Of Yellow Fever plot
memory, has left Canada to return to
New Orleans, under the protecting
wings Of JOhnsOn's Amnesty PrOcla-
nation. He is prepared to register
under the Executive pardon, and is
qualified to register, so far as one
scOundreT can qualify another, and re-
turns to the enjoyment of all the priv
ileges, rights and immUnities Of cit
izen of the United States.
We have reviewed the lives Of not
ed criminals, and have searched the
annals Of crime of different ages, but
have have not been able, in the re-
cords of three centuries of brutality
and atrOcity, to find a more atrOciOus
villain, a more diabolical fend, than
this same Blackburn. -...
Let us call to mind a few indisputa-
BILE facts from recent history. In the
spring of 1868, Blackburn, then being
abroad as an emissary Of the Davis
Government, with a rowing commits
sion to kill and destroy, found him
self in the presence Of the Yellow
Fever, on the Island of Bermuda.
He then and there conceived the he'll
lish plot of introducing into New York
and other Northern cities, this pesti-
lential disease, and accordingly went
to work with deliberate and premedi-
tated malice, to purchase and collect
together the infected clothing OF the
dying and the dead. This done, with
the assistance of paid agents, he care
fully packed into bOXes-each one Of
which contained pestilential poison for
ten thousand livcs-thcse rags and
garments of destruction, and marked
and consigned to New York, with his
own hands, this cag.go Of doathi Hlv-
ing invOiced and signed bills of lading
for this consignment of destruction.
he, with fiendish cOmplacenry, await
ed to catch the first sound of the
grOans of his victims, as they came
waited over the SEA. Was there ever
in all history an instance where an
assassin marked out whole cities for
destruction, and where the instrument
chosen was such that it must of neces-
sity reach every inhabitant of vast
communities and entire States? Old
men tOttering with crushed spirits to
the grave, yet praying for life that
their last lingering look might behold
their country saved from destruction
young men rushing to battle and with
rapture thanking God for life that it
might be laid upon the altar Of their
country; defenceless wives and moth
ers, bereft by traitors of husbands and
children newborn babes, innocent of
even a knowledge Of the PandemOn-
ium which treason had made OF the
fairest spot on earth; all these, and
more, were the intended victims Of
this hellish assassin.
The damnable plot was only discov-
cred and frustrated after these COnfed-
crate ''gOOds" had reached Halifax,
more than half way from BERMUDA to
New York.
Now under the johnson scheme of
reconstruction, or under any Demo
cratic plan yet suggested, this infamous
Blackburn becomes not only a John
son voter, or what is the same, a Dem
Ocratic voter, but in strict accordance
with the course heretofore pursued by
defiant rebels, will in all human prob
ability become a United States Sena-
tor from Louisiana Is there in hu-
man nature a degree Of impudence or
audacity, daring enough to demand
this? And is there in our nature Il
depth of moral depravity and nation
al degradation, vile enough to tolerate
this columbus Journal.