The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1868-10-29

~ A1A1ADANW EOUAhE 4 A8ll
DELEGATES TO THE DEM,
OCRATIC NATIONAL CON.
4 VENTIONs
/ c. c. ILangdon, Of Alabama, is 8
/ bitter rebel, Who mcalled on God tC
pity any Southern man who should
take the test oath.
L. E. Parsons is a Democratic car.
pet-bagger from Massachusetts,. He
was rebel State Senator, and introduc.
ed bills during the war confscating the
property Of Union men.
j. II. Clanton not long ago declared
he was ready to "head another rebel
lion"
4 w. M. Lowe was a rebel conscrip-
ton officer who hunted Union men
with blood-hounds.
R. O. Picket was also employed in
Davis's COnscriptiOn Bureau, and has
declared that he twill not live under
the United States Government"
James A. Bayard, Of Delaware, was
notorious during the war for his SYM
pathy with JEFF. Davis; and on the
Both Of March, 1861, offered in the
United States Senate the following
resolution: f
"ResolUed, By the Senate of the
United States, That the President, by
and with the advice and consent of the
Senate, has full power and authority
to accept the declatation of the seced-
ing States that they constitute hereaf-
ter an alien people, and to negotiate
and conclude a treaty with the Con-
federate States Of America, acknowl-
edging their independence as a sepa-
rate nation"
J. P. SandersOn, Of Florida, was the
author of the Florida ordinance Of Sc
cession.
G. 81. Dyke, also a Democratic del
egate from Florida, commanded for
some time the Andersonville prison
pen. "He was also the proprietor of.
a Florida paper, and wrote to it, after
the evacuation Of Rome, Georgia, by
our troops, on seeing some captured
Union soldiers hung. that 'it did pa
triot's heart good to see their stink
ing earcases hanging to the limbs of.
the trees :"
E. @. Lowe was a circuit judge du-.
ing the rebellion, and notorious for
his persecution Of Florida Union men.
B~H, Hill, of Georgia, was men,
Der of the rebel House Of Representa-
tives, and is notorious for his bitter
and proscriptive spirit, and his denun-
Citations of Southern Republicans as
'scalawags and carpet-baggers.
B. B. Machen, delegate from Ken
lucky, tried to drag Kentucky into the
rebellion, and afterwards pretended
to represent that State in the rebel
Congress.
E. NJ. Yerger was member of the
Secession Convention. He lately said:
eAs for your Union Of blood and plum
der, of oppression and tyranny,
Union headed by the usurping cabal
called Congress, why, 1 hate ii! /
spit upon it -
Z.B. Vance, delegate from North
Carolina, left his seat in Congress to
join the rebellion, and was rebel Gov
erlor of his State and a virulent perse-
cutor of Union men. After the re-
cent Democratic nominations at Tam
many Hall he boasted in, Richmond
that eWhst the Confederacy fought
for would be won by the election of
Seymour and Blair"
w. H. N. Smith, another delegate
from North Carolina, left Congress to
support treason in his State.
D. NJ. Carter was one of JEFF. Dl-
vis's military judges, used to persecute
and kill Union men.
Clingman left his seat in the Senate
to join the rebellion, having first on
the 10th of March, 1861, offered a res
olution declaring it to be exPedient
for the. President to Withdraw all
troops from the seeding States, and to
refrain from all attempts to collect rev.
enue in them. ...
Wade Hampton has declared that
he was the. author of the recOnstruc-
ton plank in the platform; and in his
speeches he has threatened to starve
out all wOrkmen who will not vote as
he dictates.
Robert Ould represented Virginia
in the Convention. He was Davis's |
Commissioner of Exchange, and wrote
to Winder, his subordinate, who was
then starving our soldiers in Ander-
sonville: "The arrangement 1 have
made works largely in our favor. We
get rid of a set of miserable wretches
and receive some of the best material
[ ever saw"
T. Bococke, Thomas Goode, F.
McMuIIen and James H. Barbour, al /
so Democratic delegates from Virginia,
were members of JEFF Davis Congress.
r. Y. Conrad and J. B. Baldwin were
members of the rebel legislature.
Bear in mind, these were not SOL
diprs, thousands of whom were drag
ged into the war and fought like brave
men. These Democratic delegates
were the old secessiOnists, the corrupt
and selfish politicians, whose unscru-
pulous ambition dragged the country
into tha war; the men who were en-
gagged for years, under the leadership
of Yaneey, in stirring up hatred toward
the Union, and who now turn up
again, in the old style, and hope to
rule, where, through the bravery and
Of our soldiers, they were
not permitted to ruin.
The Democrats, who are now en-
ragged at Gen. Dix Onr Minister to
France, for expressing his preference
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