The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-07-11

MS most aStuto Secretary, BLACK
Secession was wrong, but nobody had
any power to "coerce," or enforce
the Constitution and laws! When
Mr.. II. says or implies, that any
law-abiding citizen is deprived ofany
of his rights; when he charges that
"domestic and fireside government"
is taken away, SO that the people
have no longer any protection for
their rights, he says that which is
not true, and is unworthy of any
one but an unscrupulous partisan,
whose purposes the truth will not
answer.
1t is Mr.. HIS party that has as
sailed the rights of the people, and
with scarcely suppressed curses en-
deavors to subvert ''domestic and fire.
iside government" It is his friends
who invade the abodes of the Union
men and the cabins of the unfortu-
nate Freedman, whose only crime
is, that he accepted freedom when
offered him as a gift. The real SUBJ
verters of sdomestic and fireside
government" are the incendia
ries who burn school houses and
churches who endeavor by reign
of terror to deprive the people of
their equal political rights; they all
belong to the Democratic party.
Is the Democratic party of the
South engaged in the work of guar
anteeing and maintaining all politi-
cal rights and franchises, when it
endeavors, by a system of organ
lied violence and terroism, to ex-
clude from the polls those to whom
the Constitution and the laws give
the right of suffrage? Is this the
way to maintain and respect what
ever rights have been acquired by
the war. Mr.. Hendricks and his
Indiana friends have certainly pro-
nounced their own condemnation
in these avoWals.
Mr.. H. further states that there
is ga set of States south of the Ohio
river whose government has been
taken away from the people," Here
again this Democrat of model ex-
cellence, deliberately asserts what is
not true. There are no such States.
There is no such State. The whole
people have the right to vote THE
right of suffrage is more extended
than ever before. There are no
classes excluded by color or caste,
or any arbitrary discrimination. A
few hundred of the principal leaders
of the rebellion have been excluded
from the right of holding office. This
is the only punishment inflicted
upon the authors of the rebellion,
who perjured themselves in initia-
ting war against the government Of
the Union. Why did not Senator
H. tell the truth ? Is it not time
that we should come to the light /?
If the Democratic party really de
signs to take ia new departure, let
them commence by giving the truth.
Let them discard the old Democratic
methods of misrepresentation and
demagoguic appeals to the passions
and prejudices of the multitude.
Enough mischief has been wrought
by the political tactics of this party
in the past. By them the South
was deceived before the war; it was
deceived during the war. Senator
Hendricks proposes, by his exam
pie, 10 fight it out upon the same
line. He will never gain the conf
dence of the people.
Mr.. Ii. charges that frauds and
speculation have increased State
Indebtedness until now they are in
a condition almost of bankruptcy.
This statement is uncandid and un-
true.
Has this Senator never heard of
frauds and increase of State indebt-
: edness north of the Ohio, where
Democratic rule prevails? In this
connection Mr.. H. appeals to his
, Indiana friends to give these op-
pressed peoples political and moral
, support. Will not Tweed, Connolly
and Hoff man, who have governed
, New York and given such a moral
f example of honest CD administra-
ton, also rally to the rescue, at the
: call of this Senator? Of course
, they will.
One other point only will I notice.
He states that this Administration
t is insincere in its professions in re-
3 gard to "civil REFORM" "The pres
| ent session has closed without any
y sincere and honest attempt at re-
: FORM" This also is untrue, in the
breadth given to the statement. Mr..
e II. and his party leaders must adopt
and practise moral reform, before
q they can show themselves worthy
n to be received as the Avatars oi
! either civil service reform, or any
= other reform.
LOVER OF TRUTH.
:, Theodore TiltOn, of the Golden
Age, exclaims: "Save me from &
God who damns ~ We should like