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The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-08-29
A COncaVe Mirror,
WHAT GREELEY Is. WHAT GREELEY Y

WHAT GREELEY is. WHAT GREELEY WAS
"Ibe very point "Horace Greeley
Wnere Grant has is not now, and
failed most conspic- never has been, a
uousiy is where man who ought to
Greeley has succeed be trusted with an
ed beyond ali pre- official position re-
eedent. 1t is trulylquiring practical
surprising, and a wisdom, ordinary
matter OF congratu- craftsmanship, or
latlon, that the can-Ihrm, consistent ac-
didate for the Pres ton. Still less does
ldency who is mostit want men with
likely to get the craftsmanship so
election has spentmicroscopic that
his life in the broad -they can see moth
est and closest studying in public busi-
OF public affairs, ness but the mileage
ana IN the most pa and per diem of
trlouc efforts forItheir fellow-mem-
their Improvement ibers. If Mr.. Gree
A born statesman, ley is not satisfied
he could not possi-lwith his position as
bly, have had betterjournalist. and if
training for the eli the Republicans of
max of his life-work New York want to
We assert, and willdo something for
show, that no other him, let them make
candidate ever NAM him State Prison
ed Tor the Presiden- Inspector, or even
cy had, prior to his Governor; anything
nomination, larger that will not make
experience in pre-lthe outside of the
clsety that kind ofiState responsible for
es o n bilit yIhis follies. The
which devolves up country at this time
on a President. ."-I wants no inspired
[Chicago Tribune. HarIequins in the
July %, 1872. national councils" ="
-[Chicago Tribune,
November 6, 1871.
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A Dirty Trick.

rom the New York staatszetung (Democrat1
One OF the dirtiest tricks that we
have noticed up to this time is that
OF the German Greeley press, in Cir
culating speech purporting to have
been made by Senator Wilson, who
occupies place on the Republican
ticket as Vice Presidential eandi-
date, about twenty years ago, in
which the speaker Stimulates the
most rabid Know -Nothingism, and
makes use Of the most Infamous ex-
pressions with reference to the Ger
mans. The charge was first made
by an obscure paper in the North
west, and was Immediately copied
by the Westliche Post, but denounc-
ed at once by several journals
as being either an Intentional or
an unintentional change of per-
sons. The speaker was not Senator
Wilson, but member of Congress
OF the same name from Indians, who
is now for Greeley. 1t was shown
at the same time that Senator Will
son was always an opponent of
Know-Nothingism. In spite of the
fact that these corrections have been
before the public for some time, the
German Greeley press has taken no
notice of them, and the so-caIled
abusive speech of "aSenatorD Wilson
against the "Dutchmen" is still cir.
culated by that press.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-08-29
The COIOred Vote.

The Greeleyites pretend to think
that their candidate will 'ssweep the
South" by means of the freedmen's
votes. They will be disappointed
if the newly>made citizens believe
the words of their true and tried
friend, Wendell Phillips. Hear
him:
"No negro can vote for Greeley
who values his life or property or
cares for his race. If by frown of
Providence, he is elected, 1 shall ad-
wise every Southern loyalist to load
the revolvers that Grants arrest of
South Carolina Ku-KIux has allow
ed tobe laid aside. If he is elected,
let the negroes live in squads of fif-
ty, whom no coward will dare shoot
down, and show no property after
sunset. Lonely men will be shot,
and no black will own mule forty
eight hours if any rebel knows the
fact. For a loyal Administration to
protect the negro, awe the rebel,
snd give the working man chance,
Grants little finger is worth bak-
er's dozen of Greeleys.'
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-08-29
Apologize and PenitentiaI.

Through partisan malice, and in
stigated by the D-l and all man
ner of evil lust and concupiscence,
we last week grievously insulted
the Toll Gate residing on the Rains
boro pike, near the residence of T.
Shields, Esq. We merely "wanted
to know, you know" and We have
found out that all we wanted to
know we could know on the afida>
Wit of two or more responsible wit
nesses; but the Toll Gate, taking
the matter as a personal affront, land
threatening to sue US for sIander if
we don't retract, we will just say
that we said what we did say, and
hope no offense is meant; and that
we are willing to "shake hands
across the bloody chasm" with the
Rainsboro Toll Gate or any other
Toll Gate that we have inquired in
to- Grant Battery.
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From the indianapolis Journal.

"The truth is, my friends, Grant
is a wooden head, who was fortu-
nate enough to have Rawlins with
him until his death surrounded
now by such men as Butler, Came
ron, and Morton-renegades and
pirates--men that the Democratic
party has spewed out"
The above specimen of black
guardism was delivered by Cassius
M. Clay at Springfield, Ohio, last
Saturday. He was our Minister to
st. Petersburg, and was removed by
Gen. Grant. His removal had been
requested by the Russian Govern
ment, as he was personally offensive
and odious to the Court. He was
drunken, open and shameless in his
debaucheries, and was continual
reproach to our country. Pass him
around.
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Personal,

Does the truly moral Shepherd of
the Democratic flock wish to hear
further from "the sneak?r If so,
he and the protesting Christians of
his party can be accommodated
Battery.
We have heard enough from the
author of the above. If a Hbrother'p
deems it his business to sIander an
elder of his church who has served
as such, faithfully, more years than
the said brother is of age, just be-
cause the elder differs with him in
politics, We don't want to hear from
him or his friends either, on any
thing [Hillsboro Gazette.
We believe you, that you have
"heard enough" Probably you
wish you had not heard quite so
much. AS Mast says, to the dis
gusted Schurz, "there is no law to
compel you to remain in the United
States," so there is no law to compel
you to read the Battery" especially
aClteD itnlakes you sick.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-08-29
''Nasby" at ChappaQua.

The "Rev. Petroleum V. Nasby"
has gone to Chappaqua and is in
stalled there as master of ceremon-
les. On a late occasion he was
greatly embarrassed by having to
conduct the reception by Mr.. Gree
ley of a delegation of Free Traders
and one of Protectionists at the
same time, each insisting upon the
sage's adoption of their peculiar
views. Mr.. &. relieved himself of
the dilemma by fainting, and as
soon as carried into another room
winked at "Nasby" and said "get
them out as quick as you can, d-n
them I" which was done. s'Nasby"
thus tells the rest:
To avoid the constant danger Nv
two parties Nv somewat different
views comm to wunst, | immejitly
he'd the house at Chappaqua altered
accordin to this plan:
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-08-29

The new President of Mexico is
Lerdo de Tejada, who has been, at
any time these last ten years, in
triguing for the place to which he
now peaceably succeeds. He had
been for long time Minister of For
eign relations in the Cabinet of Juar-
rez. Last year he became a candi-
date for the Presidency, and took
the position of Chief Justice of the
Supreme Court, the holder of which
succeeds to the Presidency on the
death or absence from any cause of
the Chief Magistrate.
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TabbS Gross.

Of the above named gentleman and
the treatment he received at Cincinnati,
the Hillsboro Gazette speaks thusly:
"What is the country coming to ? The
above is a high-handed outrage, that
should not go unrebuked, and the cow
ardly rascals should not go unpunish-
ed"
Just so, Mr.. Editor; but why didn't
you mention that little arrangement
over in Indiana, where the Democratic
Ku-Klux threw stones and clubs at the
passing train, iDjuring many innocent
Greeley "OnpLeaSant1sesS" over IN Lering-
ton, Ky.? Oh! OH!
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-08-29
HlsborOugh Highland County, Ohio Thursday
Stanley Matthews OH Greeley.

| StAHIey mattneWS OH GreeAey.
Judge Stanley Matthews, of Gin
cinnati, is everywhere recognized
as one of the ablest and purest pub
lie men of the West. When the
"LiberaI Republican" movement
began, he joined in it, and was fore
most in calling the Cincinnati Con-
Vention. Upon the assembling of
the Convention on the first of May,
he was made its temporary Presi-
dent. But the bare-faced bargain
between the friends of Greeley and
those of Gratz Brown, by which the
former was nominated for President
and the latter secured the second
place on the ticket, disgusted Judge
Matthews, and ho repudiated the
whole affair. He recently made
speech at Clifton, in which he
said:
"The Convention fell below the
mark of its own necessary standard.
1t was filed with politicians of Or
dinary stamp; men who wanted off,
ces for themselves and friends, who
consequently determined that no
one should be nominated to dispose
OF an office in case of his election,
who would not remember the obli-
cations to reward party services.
1t was formed of such men as were
personally, and by agents, solicit
ing the Presidential nomination;men
who, personally or by other spokes-
men, were willing to negotiate for
it. A bargain was struck and the
nomination made"
Referring to Grants administra-
ton, he said:
"The general conduct of his ad-
ministration, so far as his executive
duties have been involved, in my
estimation has been pure, and char
acterized IN the main by regard
for the Constitution and the law,
by wisdom and prudence and a
conscientious desire to promote the
public interest. On the other hand,
Greeley's training has been in the
school of bitter partisan politics; he
has always approved the Jackson
ian doctrine, "1o the victors be-
long the spoils," and hence no hope
of civil service reform lies in his
election to the Presidency; and,
considering the fact that if elected,
he must necessarily represent the
worst wing of the Democratic par
ty, there is room for the gravest ap-
prehensions that that branch of the
public service under his administra-
ton would be liable to a greater de-
gree of corruption than any which
has yet been charged to it."
One by one the props are drop
ping from under the "Reform"
movement, and on the 9Th of No
vember the people will administer
to the bargaining tricksters and
spiteful enemies of Grant a rebuke
that they will never forget.
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Why Is 1t d?

That the toll gate on the Rainsboro
pike is down on Republican Con-
ventions, and up on Democratic
days2 1t is true that all roads out
of the Republican party lead to the
Democracy, but are the pixies out of
Hillsboro turning "Liberal" only to
help the Democracy ?-[ Battery.
Now, brother, give your authority
for the above statement, or else we
shall have to brand you as a SANDER
er.- Hillsboro Gazette.
Messrs. J. 81. Keech and J. G..
Eubanks, gentlemen who frequently
travel the Rainsboro pike, make the
following statement, to which they
are willing at any time to be sworn:
On Thursday, August 1st, the day
of the Democratic Congressional
Convention in Hillsboro, they passed
through the toll-gate and found it
up.
On Saturday, August Sd, the day
of the Republican County Conven-
tion, they found the toll-gate doa0n.
On Thursday, August 9Th, the
day of the Republican Congression-
al Convention, they found the toll
gate doaOn.
On Saturday, August 10th, the
day of the Democratic County Con-
vention, they found the toll-gate up.
Mr.. Eubanks is willing also to be
qualified as to several other politi-
cal occasions when the like occurred.
Other citizens living in the same
section of the county, have repeat
edly noticed the same fact, so that
it has become a common subject of
remark.
These condolences are, to say the
least, suspicious. In view of them
we claim the right to ask, "why is
it ?" =
Now BRAND !-[Grant Battery.
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REAR.
FRONT,

The advantage of this plan is OBJ
vius. There can't possibly be a
mix, if the conductor is sober. The
room marked l is for protectionists,
2 for free traders, 3 for the religious
element, 4 for the boys nv a conviv-
ial turn, 5 for extreme Southern ers,
and 6 for old time abolitionists. Z is
q hall running across the house,
from which any one of the rooms
kin be entered, and S is where we
shell keep Mr.. Greeley hived, when
the weather won't admit of chopin.
We hev the rooms furnished in ae-
cordance with the tastes nv the
people who will see the insides Nv
EN-. In the religious room there
will be a tract or two and Bible
left carelessly on the table; in the
room for the boy. there will be
stumps Nv cigars and bottle or
two in the corner; in the tariff
room, there will be specimens Nv
ores and coal, and in the free trade
room there will be the cards Nv all
the importin houses. shel reserve
all tire callers, and after assertainin
who they are, shell take EN- to the
appropriate room, and going out
thro the hall shel conduct the great
and good Horris in to EN-, and he
kin talk to EN- in a satisfying man
ner. Ez we may hev, ez in this
case, more than one party, 1 hev
he'd the walls lined, so what is sed
in one room can't be heard in an
other. From this time out it will
be easy sailin. Sich is the power
Nv mind over matter.
PETROLEUM Y. NAsBY,
(Which wuz Postmaster, and wich
hopes to be agin.)
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-08-29
A Ridiculous Attitude.

A contemporary shows the ridi'
culous attitude of Greeley and the
what-you-may-call.'ems in this
way:
Everybody is for Greeley. JEFF
Davis is for Greeley.
Everybody is for Greeley. Beau
regard is for Greeley.
Everybody is for Greeley. A.
q. Stephens, Vice-President of the
Southern Confederacy, is for Gree
ley.
Everybody is for Greeley. Gen.
eral Forrest, who murdered the col
ored soldiers at Fort Pillow, is for
Greeley.
Hurrah for Greeley and the
Union.
Hurrah for Greeley and protec-
tive tariff.
Hurrah for Greeley and free
trade.
Greeley and Democratic princi-
pies forever.
Greeley and Republican princi-
pies forever.
Greeley and negro suffrage for
ever.
Greeley and the Ku- -Klux forever.
Tweed is for Greeley. Tammany
is for Greeley. Oakley Hall is for
Greeley. Hurrah for Greeleyl
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Nor IN THAT CROWD.-John M.
Todd, of Oakland, writes to the San
Francisco Chronicle, giving irrefuta-
BILE arguments for resigning his posi-
ton on the State Central Committee.
He winds up his letter thus: "For
an old Republican to support Gree.
ley in this contest would be hazard
Gus to the safety of the nation ;
would be treating the memories OF
our loyal dead with contempt, and
would be base ingratitude to the
surviving participants in the great
contest for human freedom"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-08-29
The Republican Ok and the
Democratic ASS.

Greeley says (and the Democrats
agree with him) that the Democrats
by nominating him did not cease to
to be Democrats, nor did he, by ac-
cepting the nomination, cease to be
a Republican. Well, then, they
have not only violated the old Jew
ish law by yoking the OK and ass to-
gether, but they have shown that
they are utterly lacking in judg-
ment and sense, by hitchiug said OK
and ass at opposite ends of the
chain
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-08-29
Confederate Bonds Rising.

Late arrives from Europe state
that the holders of Confederate
Bonds are greatly encouraged by
the hope of Greeley's election. They
think no doubt, if the Democracy
get into power again, the rebel war.
debt will be paid by the Govern
ment, and the rebel bonds will be
worth something. What do you
think, of that, Union soldiers ? How
do you like the prospect? Vote for
Grant, and there will be no danger.
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Gen. Grants Economy.

Nearly every department of the
Government shows a large reduc-
ton of force under General Grant.
Only in those branches where the
growing business of the country de-
mands an increase of force has any
taken place. The War Department
the Navy Department, the Treasu-
ry, have all been largely reduced in
clerical force. To show the reduc-
ton that has taken place in the in
ternal revenue service alone, we ap.
mend fha folIowino.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-08-29
A DIRGE FOR III. G."

Close the polls his work is dorel
What to him is friend or foeman,
Rise of wheat, or fall of corn,
Woodruff. Stone, or other womau7
Lay him low, let him blow,
OF his turnips white as snowI
What cares her lie does not know
How the ruta bagas growl
Old sorehead vainly thought he might
Reach the White House by his endesvor;
Let him soon forget the fight,
Aud keep upon his farm forever.
Let him go, let him blow,
In his clover white as snowI
What cares he? He wants to know
How the German pretzels growl
Fold him in the ''stars and bars"
Roll the drum and fire the volley
What to him are all our wars,
What but gigantic folly?
Let him go, let him blow,
Midst his hats, once white as snowl
What cares he2 Except to know
How long-handled broom corns growl
Leave him to JEFF IS friendly eye,
Trust him to the hands that have him,
Breckenridge weeps idly byi
Baltimore could never save him.
Let him go, Let him blow,
At his farmhouse white as snowl
What cares he? He wants to know
Where the blind potatoes growl
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The New York Tribune, in its ioy
at getting Jere, Black into the Gree
ley fold, forgot to read his letter
carefully before printing it, and ac-
tually indorsed the opinion advanced
by Mr.. Black that the amendments
to the Constitution are a bill of at
tainder, and are "frauds" from
which Mr.. Greeley's election will
free the countryl
The Democratic authorities of Lex
ingtOn, Kentucky, refused to the
Republicans to celebrate the Norh
COrolina victory within the city
limits. Afterward the Democratic
went to the meeting and by shout
ing, throwing rotten eggs and dis
playing guns, broke up.
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1t might have been better for Mr..
Greeley If Mr.. George N. Sanders
had reserved his Endorsement. 1t
cannot be to the advantage of any
honest man to receive the certifca-
ton of any one of the crew of felons
who organized yellow fever, riot, ar
son, assassination and treason on our
Northern frontier during the war.
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Repayment of the South for
Her Property and Slaves.

from the Speech of E Ex-Governor Brown, Greeley
lite, at Nashville, Tenn.
81 do not care what Greeley has
said in the past against the South
and its institutions. 1t is enough
for me to know that now he is in
favor of restoring her to her pris-
tine rights. Greeley, if elected,
will pay the losses of the South"
While asserting the right of every
Republican to his untrammeled
choice of candidate for next Presi-
dent until a nomination is made, I
venture to suggest that Gen. Grant
will be far better qualified for that
momentous trust in 1872 than he
was in 1868.-[Horaee Greeley.
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A Nut for Liberal RepubIi-
cans'' to Crack.

cans'' to Crack.
The "Liberal Republicans" who
support Greeley claim that if elect
ed he will administer the Govern
ment on Republican principles-ac-
oording to the Cincinnati platform.
His Democratic supporters, however,
think and talk differently. Senator
Stevenson, of KY, for instance,
said in a speech near Covington,
July 9th:
We are willing to forego all party
associations for our country, in the
election of men iUho aOiN hare to adj
minister the Government upon Dem
ocrGtic principles"
He further declared-"that the
fourteenth and fifteenth amendments
had been perpetrdted in fraud and
i'siquity, and there was not power
enough in the land to extort from
him a statement that they were
right or legally consummated."
Now, will any "Liberal Republi-
can" tells US lOho is to be cheated in
case of Mr.. 'Greeley's election?
Either Mr.. Stevenson and his fellow
Democrats, or the Liberal Republi-
cans, must be. Is it not much more
likely that the ninety-nine hun
dredths of the Democracy who sup
port Greeley, will control his adj
ministration, than the one hun
dredth of Republicans? There can
be but one answer to the question:
The Democratic majority must
and will rule, and the few Republi-
cans who help 10 put them in pow
er will be kicked aside as of no
further use.
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Wanted,

A frst>rate medium, who can fur
nish speeches from the late Captain
Henry Wirz, of Americas, Georgia.
to travel through the North and
West and make Greeley and Brown
speeches to Union soldiers and the
relatives and friends of the men who
died while visiting Mr.. Wirz, urging
all hands to vote for the above nam
ed G. and B.
All expenses paid, including &C.
tr0S.
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The Republican demonstration at
Columbus last Tuesday night was a
grand affair. There was a brilliant
torchlight turn out, and the speech
es of Gen. John NJ. Harlan and Hon.
Robert G. Kirk were able and con.
vincing. 1t is estimated that there
were five thousand people present.
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On Friday, August 9th, there was
an enthusiastic meeting of anti
Greeley Democrats at Atlanta, Ga,
under the supervision of the Young
Mems Democratic Club of that city.
There were about twelve hundred
persons in attendance. Resolutions
were unanimously adopted pledging
the party to eternal opposition to
the Greeley ticket. Among the
speakers present were Hon. James
L. Seward, formerly member of
Congress from the Third District,
and conspicuous Democratic lead,
er in that State /; Mr.. Atkinson, a
representative of the Democracy of
the old school, and Colonel w. 81.
Weems, one Of the most gifted and
popular of the late Confederate
leaders in Georgia.
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Hon John ]. Taylor, an eminent
citizen of Tioga cuuty, N. Y, and a
lifelong Democra, has just pronoun-
ced himself in favor of the election
of General Grant. He has served in
Congress, has been the candidate of
his party for the State offices and
has for many years been hhe most
honored and influential Democrat
on the Southern tier. His action
is significant of what the the better
thinking men of the party feel.