The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1871-10-05
GEORGE h. PENDLETON.

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GEORGE HI. PENDLETON.
The Democratic Candidate for
q. 8. SenatOr-His Plan for
Restoring sPeace'' to the
Country, by Putting the DEM
Ocratic Party i'm Power.
GEORGE H. PENDLEToN, in his
Loveland speech, says: "Put the
Democratic party in power. It has
no new promises to make, no new
pledges to give"
With the restoration to power of
the Davises and Stephens of the
South, and the Tweeds, Connolly &
Co. g of the North, backed by their
half a million of oath hound Ku.
Klux assassins in the South, secret.
ly lpagued together to assassinate
and burn, can we expect the peace
and prosperity which Mr. P was 50
sad at finding did not reign over all
the land ? Will Tweed & Co. give
US economy and light taxation2 Il.
disorders prevail under Republican
rule, will "puttiHg the Democratic
party in power" give US 'peaee,"
by letting the Ku Klux have full
sway, and permitting them to come
forth in broad daylight, to perpe-
trate their deeds of blood and mur.
der?
Now these secret murderers are all
Democrats. Their object, as proved
by the Congressional Committee of
Investigation, is to slaughter and
drive out the Union white men and
Freedmen, and thus prevent them
from voting the Republican ticket
in the South. This is the way Mr..
PendletOn's peace" is to be brought
about. Restore the "DemoCratic
party to power" and all those i'm
portant issues which have grown out
of the war will be settled by giving
the sole disturbers of "peace" full
controLI
Now all this advice is of piece
with the craftsmanship of this uan.
At the beginning of the war he said,
"let the seceeded States go in peace
we have no constitutional power
to Coerce." He was one of the 200.
900 Democrats of Ohio who sent
greeting to the rebellion" In the
middle of the war he was a candi-
date upon a platform which pro-
nOunced the war for the Union "a
failure" and advised surrender OF
Ihe Union. cause. Where would
have been our now preserved Union
if he had been elected upon that
platform, and the Democratic party
put in power? Where would have
been the glorious Union of our faith
prs? Among the things that were.
When George returned from his
European tour, as he told us in his
speech he had just done, would h.
have had a whole country to receive
him? Would he have seen through
all our wide extended borders the
evidences of "peace"--in the adj
justment of all questions of public
policy upon the eternal basis of righr
and equality before the law2 On
the contrary he would have found
country divided into hostile govern.
ments, one confederated upon the
"cOrner stone" of perpetual human
slavery, the other free, and estab
lished upon the platform of Wash
ington and Jefferson. With two
such different and opposite civiliza
tions, with many collisions of inter.
est and policy, where could he have
found "peace" and national prosper
ityF
George charges the Republican
party with "failure," because it ha,
not yet healed all the wounds and |
cured all the troubles brought upon |
the country by his party. Democrats
made the war. Democrats prolong-
ed the war. Democrats tried to full
81 their own prophecies by making
the war a "failure."
Now, Notwithstanding all this
vpritable Observation-Disclosures |
his many failures" as a statesman
and prophet-he comes forward and |
demands that his party be restored
to power, with ''no new promises to
make, no new pledges to give" and /
that he, in defiance of all his past
history, be placed in the Senate of
the U s., to hand over the Govern
ment, with all its vast interests, to
the complete control of those whose
hands are still red with the blood of
patriots, and who have not yet ceas-
ed to trample in the dust the flag of
our Union. This is the marvellous
effrontery, the past of this lifetime !
sympathizer and servile tool of the
Southern Obligarchy.
OCCASIONAL.
Somehow, albeit the business is a Sc
rious one, there is something ludicrous
in lame and impOtent conclusion of
an attempt to commit suicide. It is |