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The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-10-31
Attention, Republicans.

But few days yet remain until the
Presidential election occurs, and
while we have no fear of the general
result, or entertain the least doubt
that Gen. Grant will be triumphantly
reelected, yet it is nevertheless not
well to sit idly by and rest secure in
the consciousness that victory is al
ready secured. The only danger, if
danger there be, rests in the fact that
Republicansmay become too apathetic
and allow the advantages that have
already accrued to them to pass away.
We may rest assured that our oppo-
nents are not sitting idle. They
feel that their cause is a desperate
one, and while they certainly can
have no hope of electing Greeley, yet
they viii move heaven and earth to
defeat, or, at least, reduce the maiori-
ties for Grant. Let us meet them
with their own weapons.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-10-31

'FWith thirteen ex-rebel Generals on
the floor of Congress" remarks the
Hartford Conn Courant, "and with
suffrage universal at the South, the
Democratic candidate for the Presi-
dency is travelling over the country
believing like a bull of Bashan fol
amnesty and accusing the Republican
party and the Union soldiers of ''re-
kindling the bitterness of war"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-10-31

The New York World gives it ur
so, in a long editorial on Thursday
last: ''To be sure, there is left but a
slender chance of Mr.. Greeley's elec
ton. But there may be a new lea
in the chapter of accidents, and il
would be pusillanimous not to keer
ourselves in a position to profit by
it." The 'tnew leaf in the chapter o.
accidents" may include Mr.. Greeley's
death from stroke of lightning, but
it is not likely to have anything to dc
with his election.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-10-31

Where are those hundreds of tbous-
ands of Liberal Republicans whose
votes were pledged in the Cincinnati
Convention? What has become OF
them since the first day of May, when
they assembled in such strong repre-
sentative force at Cincinnati 4? Penn
sylvania sent a full delegation, and
yet Pennsylvania gave a much great
Ell majority on the 6th inst. for the
Republican ticket than she had given
since the war; Indiana sent a full
delegation, and yet Indiana does
about as well as she has done since
1868. Ohio sent a full delegation.
and yet. outside of Hamilton county
and the city of Cincinnati, there
seems to have been no such thing a;
a Liberal Republican at the polls.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-10-31

EGYPTIAN BRICKs.-The German sa-
van has been at work again, and the
result this time is very extraordinary.
He subjected brick taken from the
pyramid of Dashour, to the micro
scope, and, it is said, has discovered
many interesting particulars connect
ed with the life of the ancient Egyp
tians. The brick itself is made of the
Nile mud, chopped straw and sand, thus
confirming what the Bible and Herod
otus have handed down to us as the
Egyptian method of brick-making.-
Besides these materials the micro
scope has brought other things tc
light, among them the debris of river
shells, fish and insects, seeds of wilc
and cultivated flowers, corn and bar
ley, the field pea, the common faz
and radish, together with many others
known to science.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-10-31
Humorous.

Agricultural fare-Pork and beans
A new version of an old verse
Loathe the poor Indian.
A man that ought to be remember
ed-A one-legged soldier.
Supplemental treaty-'1 shall
smoke, dear, now I'm married.
The largest room in the world
The room for improvement.
A Put-up job-Canning tomatoes
and peaches.
A Meteorological hybrid-the au
tumnal equine-oz
Of all things in the world that arC
''better late than never" going to bee
certainly ranks first.
'Have you heard my last speech 2
asked a political haranguer of q wit
II sincerely hope SO, was the reply.
A Maine Alderman, invited to at
tend a centennial jubilee, replied: C
can't attend this one, but I'll go mex
time"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-10-31
Forgotten CaIumniators.

Trumbull, SchurZ, Sumner & Co
are but imitators after all, it seems
in the work of defaIning the Presi
dent. Other calumniators, whose
names are now forgotten, made use
of substantially the same matter and
manner In assailing the first Presi
dent Of the United States. We vii
prove this by whatall will admit to be
good authority. The curious reader
who will turn to the 370th page Of
the second volume of Chief Justice
Marshalls Life of Washington viii
be surprised to find there the follow
ing language, which with only a
change Of name) sounds wonderfully
like Judicial summing up of calum-
MES uttered against the President o1
to-day:
Washington's military and political
character was attacked with equal
violence, and it was avered that he
was totally destitute of merit, either
as soldier or statesman. The cal
Umnies with which he was assailed
were not confined to his political con-
duct; even his qualities as q man
were thesubjects ofdetraction. That
he had violated the Constitution in
negotiating a treaty without the pre-
vious advice of the Senate, and In
embracing in that treaty subjects be-
longing exclusively to the Legislature,
was openly maintained, for which an
impeachment was publicly suggested;
and that he had drawn from the
Treasury for his private use more
than the salary annexed to his office
was asserted without a blush. The
last allegation was said to be support,
ed by extracts from the Treasury ac-
counts, which had been laid before
the Legislature, and which was main
tanned with the most unblushing eff
frontery. Though the Secretary ol
the Treasury denied that the appro-
priation made by the Legislature had
been exceeded, the atrocious charge
was still confidently repeated, and
the few who could triumph IN any
spot which might tarnish the lustre
of Washington's fame feicitated them
selves in the prospect of obtaining q
victory over the regulation of q pa
triot, to whose single influence they
ascribed the failure of their poltica
plans.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-10-31

On the first of October John G..
Thompson, Chairman of the Demo
cratic State Central Committee, issu-
ed q circular to the township commit
tees, in the course of which occurs
the following truthful remark:
''We presume that you need no ar
gument to prove that the resultin Octo-
ber will be decisive of the struggle in
November. If we carry the Demo
cratic and Liberal State Ticket in Oc-
tober, the State is sure for Greeley"
Every Democrat knows that his go
ing to the Presidential election is ut
terly useless. Ohio viii give Grant
forty thousand majority.
Hon. J. S. Morrell was on Tues
day last, elected to the United States
Senate by the Legislature of Yer
mont Waldo Bingham was the OPP
posing Democratic candidate.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-10-31

Mr.. Greeley's Tribune is becoming
viciously Democratic. A day or two
ago it said: "No doubt, if it were
this day a question whether blacks
should OF should not be enfranchised,
good many would vote no; and
they would not be all Democrats
either" The surprise of the Tri-
bune's readers at seeing in its col
umns statement of this kind, must
be largely mixed with disgust at the
manner in which, to curry favor with
unreconstructed rebels, its chief turns
his back upon the honorable record ot
his lifetime's labor.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-10-31

A full blooded scion of one of the
first families of Virginia, by the name
of Snodgrass, has until quite recently
been a stout supporter of Greeley
Being of a boolish and inquiring turn
of mind, he has Just been exploring
his candidates celebrated work, '"The
American Conflict" in the first volume
of which, on the 2sth page, he came
across the following fattering descrip-
ton of his ancestors:
'gThe early colonists of Virginia
were mainly adventurers of an unusu-
ally bad type-banluupts, prodigals,
genteel spendthrifts and incorTigible
proAigates, many of whom had left
their native country for that country s
good, in obedience to the urgent per
suasion of Sheriffs, Judges and Juries.
Probably no other colony that ever
succeeded or endured was so largely
made up of unfit or unpromising ma
terials."
Mr.. Snodgrass hurrahs for Horace
no longer. On the contrary, quite
the reverse. He is industriously en-
gagged in acquainting the first families
of Virginia with the ABOVE elegant
extract.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-10-31

South Carolina held an election on
Wednesday, the 18th, for State Off
GERS and five Congressmen.-The on
ly decided oposition offered by the
Democrats was in the South District,
when Hon. B. Perry, ex-provisional
Governor under Johnson's admins
tration, was nominated for Congress,
It is thought he is elected. 1t is gen
orally conceded that the regular Re
publican State ticket, with Moses fol
Governor, is elected, defeating what is
known as the Boilers ticket.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-10-31

Cleveland shakes hands with the
Republicans of her sister lake cities,
Toledo and Sandusky, over the re-
suits Of Tuesday. Sherwood from
the Sixth District, Foster from the
Tenth, Parsons from the Twentieth
and Garfield from the Nineteenth =
This makes an unbroken Republican
line along the south shore of Lake
Erie. The gallant fight made by the
Sandusky Register against Sloane and
by the Toledo Blade against Hurd,
deserves the fullest recognition by the
Republicans of those districts
Cleveland Leader.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-10-31

Somebody having applied to an
editor for method by which he
might cure his daughter of her par
tiality for young gentlemen, is kindly
informed that there are several meth
ods of reform. The best are to put
her in well and drop few loads ot
gravel on her head, or to bind her
ankles to an anvil and upset her out
of boat.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-10-31

Why is a selfish friend like the letter Pr Because
though the first in pity, he is the last in help.
If Uncle Sambo were to buy a colored cotton dress
for his wife, Aunt Sally, why would it be like
street door? Because it would be intended for an
egress, "a negress.)
When does man have to keep his word? When
no one viii take it.
What does man see in the wild waves? Sea
foam.
If all the letters in the alphabet were to run race
which letter would be sure to be first in startng2-
The letter s.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-10-31

It now seems probable that the
Liberal Republican voters for Greeley
in November viii be strictly confined
to those who intend to transfer them
selves bodily and permanently to the
Democratic camp. Thosewho intend
to remain Republicans Will vote fol
Grant and Wilson, the Republican
nominees.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-10-31

Read this from the New York
World: General Grants history
should teach us to discriminate better
than we Americans are apt to do, be-
tween the glitter and solid work
Our proneness to run after dema-
gogres and spouters may fnda whole
some corrective in the study of such
a character as his. = His career
is lesson in practical Democracy; it
is a quiet satire on the dandyism, the
puppyism, and the shallow affecta ion
of our fashionable exquisites, as " ell
as upon the swagger of our plausible,
gIb-tongued demagogues."
This was published seven years
ago-in April, 1S65-but is none the
less trueno
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-10-31

The Democratic papers are certain
of carrying Ohio, because the Repub-
lican majority is only $4,000, and a
change from Grant to Greeley of
three in each school district viii wipe
it out. True, most astute fgurers,
but suppose the three don't change!
Or suppose there should be change
of three from Greeley to Grant.
Where would you be then?
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-10-31

\ In view of the recent State cleo
tions, and indeed of the whole course
of events, the Greeley bubble may be
considered as effectually collapsed
The garrulous philosopherwho started
out with such prodigious hurrah will
not obtain the electoral votes Of hall
a dozen States, and viii return to his
agricultural retreat at Chappaqua the
worst beat candidate that ever ran fol
President of the United States.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-10-31

We know now the exact number OF
ex-Rebels who form the basis for the
immense howls put forth by the late
Mr.. Greeley for reconciliation. 1t is
two hundred and eighty-fve, and all
that is the matter with them is that
they cannot hold any more of the
high offices whose trust they once
shamefully betrayed. That's all
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-10-31

The Democratic editors who conf
IDENTIFY asserted that the party that
carried two of the three States-Penn-
sylvania, Ohio and Indiana-in Octo-
Der, would carry the country in No
vember, are now trying to persuade
themselves that they were lying when
they said so.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-10-31

Do you know the difference between
a mason and an anti-mason?
Yes, sir, I belieb 1 does.
Well, what is it?
If my brains tell me de truf, and it
never fails, de mason is de man what
lays de mortar, an de anti-mason de
man who carries de hodl
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-10-31

Once Mr.. Greeley said, '1f there
we're not newspaper nor common
school in the country, the Democrat
ic party would be far stronger thar
it is" The country is strong in news
papers and common schools, howev
er, and curiously enough, at this hour
this strength is Greeley's weakness.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-10-31

According to the Greeley organs,
the election troubles in Georgia were
caused by the criminal perversity Of
the ''niggers." When playfully shot at
or dubbed by the mad wags of the
Ku-Klux, they fled from the polls and
couldn't be persuaded to see the joke
or return to vote.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-10-31

An old carpenter who had been
employed at job work by an old lady,
was asked why people of his trade
always charged more in proportion
for cofins than they did for chairs
and tables. ''Well, you see, ma'am,
it's just because people won't bring
cofins back to us to be repaired"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-10-31
IFrom the Rochester Express.
WANT TO BE A LIBERAL.

want to be Liberal,
And with the Liberals stand,
With plaster on my sore head,
A Tribune in my hand;
There right before my comrades,
Who helped me in the fight,
I'll vote for Horace Greeley,
And then sneak out of sight.
Iwant to hold an Office,
And draw my monthly pay;
III sacrifice my principles,
And vote for those who pay;
/ hate the pampered millions
Enlisted in the fight,
III vote for Horace Greeley,
and then sneak ont of sight.
Unjust be reformer,
And join the rebel crew
Shake hands across the ''chasm,"
And join the Ku-Klux too;
For Grant, the great usurper,
Is fearful in his might,
III vote for Horace Greeley,
And then sneak out of sight.
Pm anxious to repudiate,
In almost any way;
The nations debt is burdensome,
And we must never pay,
The war was all great mistake,
And we must make it right,
III vote for Horace Greeley,
And then sneak out of sight.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-10-31
What better Endorsement of Grants

What better Endorsement of Grants
administration, asks the Boston
Globe, could be asked for than is
found In the fact that when he was
inaugurated 800 6 per cent. gold
bearing bond was worth $82.72, while
to-day it is worth $106, and is eagerly
sought after in the money market Of
the world?
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-10-31

Mr.. Gratz Brown, whose name has
become familiar in connection with
Mr.. Nast's pictures of Mr.. Greeley,
and who resides, we believe, some
where in Missouri, made remark a
few days since that Grant might pos
sibly carry three States!
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-10-31
Select Miscellany.
fi GFrom the Washington Chronicle.
THE FIGHTING TANNER.

AR-"ROOt Hog or Die"
There was fighting tanner
That lived in Illinois,
Who bore aloft the banner
That treason would destroy;
The rebels came to meet him,
With baynet, shot and SHE'LL
. And swore they would defeat him,
But he tanned their jackets well.
af4 CHORUS.
Ku-Klux and Tammany,
Birds of feather,
Jackdaws and carrion crows
All flock together,
Oh march along
There was mighty farmer,
That lived at Chnppaqua,
OF 'sCopperheadsr charmer,
A man of 'higher laws"
Says he, I'll beat the tanner
In any kind of weather."
But Grant had on his banner
''There is nothing like leather"
Ku-Klux, &c.
The rebels vote for Greeley,
The freedmen vote for Grant,
The White House race will freely
! Make Horace sweat and pant;
But Grant viii be the winner;
For he's the boy can ride
The ''old white-coated sinner"
VIII lose coat, hat and hide.
Ku-Klux, &c.
The boys who marched to battle
To save the stricken flag,
Who faced the cannon's rattle,
And ne'er were known to lag,
Say that they'll finish treason
With paper bullets now,
And leave 'olds Cincinnatus"
AT Chappaqua to plow.
Ku-Klux, &C.,
Boys march along
And sires of gallant soldiers,
And all that love the right,
VIII gather round Ulysses
And aid him in the fight;
And high shall float their banner,
And millions shout for joy,
When conquering comes the tanner
That lived in Illinois.
Then Ku-Klux and Tammany,
Birds of feather,
Jackdaws and carrion crows,
Shall fly away together,
Oh march along.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-10-31

Since the election the Liberals can
say feelingly and with truth: '"The
melancholy days are come, the saddest
of the year" Poor fellows! Novem-
Der will only aggravate their misery.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-10-31

"I veoataere to suggest that General
Grant aoiU be far better qualified for
that maomento4S trust of the Presi-
dency7 IN 1872 than he aoas IN 1868.
Il Horace Greely
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-10-31

The people have determined that
Horace Greeley can be of more use
to the country in promulgating his
knowledge of agriculture, than he
could by running the Government.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-10-31
Grants Reelection.

The reelection of General Grant
VIII be something more than a mere
party triumph; it will be the voice OF
the people, indorsing an honest, eco
nomical, and patriotic administration
of public affairs.
The administration of President
Grant has been tried, and not found
wanting Individual, State and ma
tional interests have prospered The
laborer receives better wages than
ever before; the merchant is blessed
with prosperity; the manufacturer
has all he can do; the products Of
the farm command good prices; the
national debt has been reduced over
1881, 100000 IN little more than three
years taxes have been reduced since
1866 S228, 100000, and the policy of
the administration is to carry the re-
duction still further; the Indians are
no longer terror to the frontier set
tiers; the army has been reduced to
a peace basis; the rights of law7abid-
ing citizens are respected and pro-
tected everywhere; and our nation,
thanks to General Grant and his wise
policy, is at peace with the whole
world.
This is the picture the party pre-
sents to-day, after more than twelve
years of power No true Republican
can turn away from SO glorious a rec
ord. Ten thousands of honest Dem
ocrats throughout the land have no
desire to change il, and in the coming
election viii use their influence to
make it still grander in the future.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-10-31

The work of hand-clasping goes
bravely on. A "Stonewan Greeley
Club" has been organized at Rich
mond, Va. A Gratz Brown Temper
ance Society will be next in order.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-10-31

Democracy has lost all heart, and
President Grants reelection is such
certainty that no Greeleyite can be
found willing to bet new hat, how
ever badly he may need one.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-10-31

1t is comforting fact that every
one of the ISLANDERS heaped upon the
president by the Tribune, this year,
are triumphantly refuted in the col
umns of the Tribune, last year.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-10-31

A facetious chap wittily and truth
fully says that Grant has the advan-
tage of Greeley in this campaign, fol
the former quietly smokes his cigar
and Greeley takes the stump.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-10-31

The Tribune had a thousand Iiber-
al Republicans in Ashtabula county,
headed by John Browns son. Ash
tabula shows Republican gain Of
1000 Where are they?
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-10-31

Greeley's friends may keep up a
contest to the close of the campaign,
but it is already apparent that they
can only come forward to be foored,
like groggy pugilists at the close of a
protracted fight in the prize ring.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-10-31

The late Mr.. Greeley's chronic ad
vice was to $50 West, and grow up
with the country" He took it him
self, and the consequence was that
the country sent him up-n bal
loon.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-10-31

Sam Bowles thinks Gratz Brown
can carry fewer States and more
whisky than any candidate ever pre-
sented to the American people for
their s1lffrages.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-10-31

Dr.. Schwab, Liberal candidate for
Infrmary Director in Seioto county,
repented of his sins themo1ning after
the election, and is now enrolled as q
G,antita
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-10-31

The reply of the colored individual
to the Liberal and Democratic bland
ishments- -"Shoo fly, don't bodder
me, for I belong to ULYSSES G!"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-10-31

Things are. getting lively in Illinois.
Another "Joliet man" has come out
for Greeley. He was pardoned out
He Will not take the stump, but he
will take anything else he can lay his
hands on.