The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1875-08-19
TWhOle No. 2O47.

shall be permitted to use as money.
If the spirits of these old, time-hon,
ored Democrats were permitted to
know what is going on in this sub
lunary globe, and the base uses to
which their namesa and characters are
applied, by some who pretend to
venerate their memories, it would be
enough to make them unhappy, even
in the blessed home where they now
abide.
1t is really surprising, if any thing
could surprise one in our time, that
Gen. Ewing and Lew. Campbell
should be the master carpenters, to
make the Democratic platform for our
State, and that Gen. Cary should be
its chief expounder, whilst the old
and experienced Democrats, men
who have been honored members of
the party all their lives, had nothing
toado with it.
To recur to Burns, I donot believe
the Democracy of Ohio will endorse
the doctrine, that base metal is as
good as pure metal, however stamp
ed by public authority; that paper,
which has no value, is better and
worth more than genuine coin; that
debts are, or can be, capital or money,
in the hands of the people, no mat
ter who may be the debtor.
These are propositions that the
true Democracy will never sanction.
The true Democrat believes that
Government, as well as Individuals,
should be honest, and do as it would
be done by. The difference between
the real Democrat and the dema-
gogue, is the same as that between
the Christian and hypocrite. The
one is patriot and friend to the
people; the other mere pretender;
a promise never to be redeemed or
fulfilled.
The Democracy of Ohio do not
want, and will not have, either Aliens g
or Cary's horse dignifed with a
'First Consulship," though either of
them, for aught 1 know, may have q
horse, such as is described inD'the
Scriptures, whose "neck was clothed
with thunder" and which could
"scent the battle from afar off, or
equal to Ale1ander's famous horse
Bucephalus.
Ihave no doubt there were syco-
plants in Caligula's day, who fondled
his horse, as though he was really
First Consul /; SO 1 suppose there
are many now, who will follow these
false teachings, and who are igno-
rant enough to call them 'Democra-
cy." Cary is now perambulating the
State and addressing the people in
his peculiar vein, and in the manner
and spirit of King Henry the Fifth,
in his address to his soldiers before
the battle of Harfeur, when he said,
"once more unto the breach, dear
friends, once more, or close the wall
up with the English dead" And in
the close saying, 'The games afoot!
follow your spirit, and upon this
charge cry, God for Harry, England
and st. George!' So 1 fancy 1 see
Cary crying out, "once more unto
the breach, dear friends, once more,
Or close the wall up with the" Demo
cratic "dead." "The games afoot
follow your spirit, and upon this
charge cry, God for Samuel, the
Ohio Democracy and irredeemable
paper money!
The above are some of the views
Of an old Democrat, who has rarely
a single name on any
ticket at any election for
nineteen years-one much older in |
5he party than either Ewing, Camp
oell or Cary, and who learned his
Democracy in the school of the
athers.
may explain in future my views
If other parts of the financial plank
If the Democratic platform, in rela-
ion to National Banks.
BENTON, JR.