The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1868-09-03
tFrom the Atohison Champion
''The Rebel YeII.''

and Vlcksburg, with "Old Rosy" in
the tangled cedar thickets around
Murfreesboro and the forests along the
banks Of the Chicamauga, with Meade
at Gettysburg, or with Thomas at
Nashville.
1t was a fiendish, scrawny, sickly
scream a shrill, creaking, pitiful, fall
settO yelp; mean, unhealthy, ear
piercing, discordant, swapping, treble
yell
1t was a kind of cacOphonous cross
between the yelp of NANCY cur and
the cry of an angry buzzard or
mingling together, in one ear-splitting
clash, of the hyena's howl, the prairie
VOLTS shrek, the rasping ofa hundred
saws, the whine of two or three dozen
whipped puppies, the hoot of Con-
gress of crows, and the affrighted cries
Of legion Of spanked babies.
Nobody who ever heard this "rebel
YELL" as it was always called in the
army, will ever forget its acute, jar
ring, shrieking, disgusting sound and
no one, having once heard it, could
ever mistake any other noise for it.
The cheer Of the Union hosts was
full, clear, resonant, sOnOrOus. 1t
was like the mingling of many
winds with the thunder of many can
non. It was as deep and resOunding
as the break of the oceans wave against
a rOckbOund coast. It was the peal of
church bells, the music Of battle-bu-
giles, and the roar of artillery, mingled
together in one hearty, ringing shout,
rising spontaneously from earnest Yam
kee hearts, and pouring out in full, deep
volume of sound through healthy Yam
kee thrOats.
This ''rebel yelr' was heard at New
York, recently. Heard so distinctly
and clearly that every one who had
ever listened to it before at once rec
ognized its sound. It burst out in
Tammany Hall. The Brooklyn Eagle
thus narrates the incident:
"Among many significant incidents
of the late Convention, there was one
occurrence which forcibly innpresses US.
We have not seen it noticed elsewhere.
When the reputation plank in the
platform was read, it met with a
strange, wild burst Of vociferOus ap-
Plause. A quiet looking man writing
at a reporters table near us-a cores
pOndent of a Western paper, who had
served in the Union army, as we after
wards ascertained-half rose from his
work, struck the table with invOlun-
tary emphasis, and uttered the start
ling exclamation, ''By G., the rebel
yell ="
It was natural that this Convention
should be able to give the 'rebel yell. "
Forrest was there, and Hampton, and
Preston, and MOsby, and Yerger, and
the men who were with them during
the whole war. They had given this
"yelI' thousands of times before, why
should they not give it in company
with their Northern friends?
SOLDIERS WHO FOLLOWED THE OLD
FLAG! you have heard that 'rebel
YELL" You know its sound. You
You know what it expressed. You
know what it meant. Will you vote
for the nominees of a Convention
that could give this ''rebel yell?"
Sleeping all over the South are
comrades who touched arms with you
when you stood up to meet the charge
that followed this "rebel yell" Their
voices mingled with yours in drown
ing this fiendish sound in the thunder
of the full, hearty, sonorOus Union
cheer. Their rifles cracked with yours
when you hurled back the mad and
desperate hosts of treason, broken and
demoralized, their ''yell" changing
to the silence of defeat and dismay.
You have been awakened by this
srebeI yell" from the slumbers Of mid
night you have instinctively grasped
your arms when you heard it in the
heat of MONDAY; you know that it
meant destruction to the UniOn, death
to the Republic and its defenders.
Will you 50 far forget the comrades
who died by your side, this "rebel
veil" the last earthly sound ringing
| in their ears, as to vote for nominees
ola Convention that could give the
"yell ?"
Will you stultify all the years OF
your service by acting with men who
can give the "rebeI yell ?"
Will you, any of you, dishOnor the
proud recorI of your past devotion to
Liberty and the Union, by voting
with those who are the most deadly
enemies Of both
Or do you mean to act and vote with
those who now, as during the war, carry
the old flag, and, when they haTrahi
give the hearty, earnest, splendid
Union cheer, that you remember used
to rise up, full, sonorous and grand
| from the brave, unyielding lines Ol
men who wore the blue? ?
The fight is not ended until the
men YOU whipped in battle shall be
whipped at the polls as thoroughly
1t is not ended so long as a National
Convention that gives the "rebel yell''
can be assembled in our Metropolitan
city.
It is not ended, and will not be until
Seymour and Blair, the successors oi
JEFF. Davis and Alex. H. Stevens, are
defeated, and the administration ofOu
Governmental affairs is committed to
the wise, prudent and patriotic hands
of Grant and Colfax.
It is not ended until the ''rebel yell''
shall be heard no more in the land, and
this will be only when treason shall
be beaten ut the ballot box as effect
uaIIy as it was on the battlefield.
Until then, Comrades and Friends
our work does not case, our duty is moi
done, and we are not "relieved.
THE DEATH RATE.-Prof. FOomis
lin opening a course of medical lect
ures in New York, said that the i'm
movements in medicine have increased
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