The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-04-04

: cause OF antl-SlaVery anu tne prOlec
] ton of the black man have found il
t General GIANT a man who has stood
| bravely, steadily, and consistently
on the side of freedom and the equal
] rights of all men.
General Grant has now been Pres
ident three years. He has commit
ted some errors, made some mis-
takes in his appointments. BuI
: his foreign and domestic policy, the
; leading measures of his Administra.
} ton, have been and are in the in.
, terests of the country. The masses
J of the people, who have no personal
, grievances, who only want good
: government, see it, feel it, realize it.
, With all its faults, they believe we
have the most reformatory, pro-
} gressive, and best Administration
} the country has seen for forty years;
} and they are right in their convic-
} tions. But he is followed by oblo-
guy and reproach. Again he is
passing through the evidences"
: it is darkened, not with the smoke
of battle, but the storms of insinua-
tions and accusation, detraction and
denunciation. But he will not call
a retreat. The spirit that uttered, !,
when the fame of battle opposed
his march to the rebel capital, the
inspiring words, 81 will fight it
out on this line if it takes all sum-
mer," is yet unbroken, and exultant
foes may yet find that another APP
pomattox lies before him. APP
plause.
In all the struggles of the last
sixteen years New Hampshire has
been on the side of the country and
of liberty. Forgetting that "victo-
ry clings to unity" you Republicans
of New Hampshire allowed your
banners last year to trail in the dust.
You have tasted the wholesome dis
cipline of defeat. Now you have
the power to rise again. Forgetting
personal interests and petty differ
ences, and standing shoulder to
shoulder, you can redeem your
State, and thrill the hearts of your
friends throughout the land. To
you, Republicans of my native
State, I appeal, for unity and victo-
ry. 1 ask you, who maintained the
right of petition when it was cloven
down under the lead of Charles G..
Atherton; you who stood by John
P. Hale when smitten by Democra.
cy for fidelity to liberty; you who
sternly opposed the wicked COM
promises of 1850; you who resisted
the repeal of the Missouri compro-
mise when sustained by Franklin
Pierce; you who were true to Kan
sas when its skies were illumined
by the midnight fires of burning
cabins, and its virgin soil Redeemed
with blood; you who helped make
Abraham Lincoln President; you
who followed the old flag of the
Republic over many battle-fields;
you who sustained by voice and
vote that grand series of measures
by which slavery was annihilated
and the slave power broken forever;
you who helped extirpate caste, en-
franchise the black man, and give
equality TO all conditions of men; I
implore you, one and all, to sustain
now that sacred cause for which you
have toiled and prayed, voted and
and fought. Stand by the Repub-
lican party; stand by, I pray you,
that great political organization un.
til it accomplishes the task assigned
it by the needs of the country and
the providence of God. Make safe
the benefieent deeds of the past, and
secure in their full fruition the
fruits of the seeds planted in faith
and nurtured by devotion and
valor.
Listen not TO the seductive voices
which proclaim that the work of the
Republican party of the United
States has been achieved. The re-
forms of magnitude are pressing for
accomplishment. At any rase, it
has great, if not its greatest, work
yet to do. That work is to human.
ize, convict, and convert the Demo
cratic party of the United States.
[Applause.J Men cannot be wrong
all the time for forty years and be
convicted of their folly in an hour.
Until that political organization has
been convicted of its wickedness, re.
pents of its sins, and brings forth
the fruits of repentance, the Govern.
ment of the United States cannot be
safe in its control. Its history and
the elements of which it is composed
: alike forbid that it should be again
intrusted with power. The Demo.
, cratic party has at least one million
voters in its ranks, men who fought
. against their country with ballot
! and bullet; men who are only sorry
that they fought against their native
E land because they failed. You mes
5 breathe into their souls the spirit O
liberty, justice, humanity, ant
e Christian civilization.
t There are a million and a half o
: voters we call "copperheads."
J. will call them what they love 81
much to be called, conservatives.
r Laughter These men always sneer
;. ed at the cause of liberty, Away
: took the side of the old slave mas