The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1876-01-27
Correspondence of the News.
Letter from Washington.
WAsHINdToN. Jan. ia, 1876.

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the losc branch of Congress, and has
served to unmask the animus and
purposes of the Confederate leaders
We have long insisted that the Reb
els are just as much rebel to-day, as
when fighting in the field. When they
were overpowered in arms they yield
ed because they must, and from that
time on they have been seeking to
gain by diplomacy that which they
could not obtain by the cannon.
Ever and anon their aims and in.
tent would crop out. One by one
they have captured the old States Of
slavery, and are cementing them in
to a political phalanx. They obtained
control of those having the fewest
blacks first, and have gone on until
they have all the South well in hand,
but South Carolina, and they are
fast winding their Shiny folds around
her.
Mississippi was their last conquest,
and the way they won it is history.
Every where South they proclaim,
'this is scI'ite mans government.
Under the Constitution it / the Peo
pies, government, the black man hay-
ing all the legal rights that belong
to the white man. A republican
form Of government is guaranteed to
all, l,and the White League, which over
throws and defes the guaranty, is
just as much an enemy of the Union
as the army of Gen. r. E. Lee at
Gettysburg.
These Confederates are willy fel-
lows. They are anything to win.
Imagining themselves a superior
race, which comes from their long
domination over the ''raigger," they
feel themselves outraged unless per
mitted to rule. They have no choice of
flags unless they control. They ruled
this country when Democracy was in
ascendant, and its corruptions the
disgusted the best men in its ranks,
and it lost power, then these chival-
ric men of the slave region made war,
seeking to establish a government OF
their own, the corner stone of which
was to be slavery. Failing in this,
they are back again, and now Just as
they and their old allies get control
of the House, they are again showing
their cloven foot.
Hill, of Georgia, their chosen cham
pion, dropped the mask and show
ed the whole form of the monster
His speech is before the country, and
we areglad it is. We hope it will
awaken northern men to a sense OF
danger, and rally them in time to de,
feat the Confederates in their plan OF
capturing the Union 'ohile IN 1t.
Such audacity of pretenses and
such Justification of history rarely
finds utterance in our halls of legis-
lation. Think of the impudence OF
pretending that heywere the observ-
ers of good faith, and the Govern
ment alone offended! Out upon that
"Punic iaith" which marked all their
transactions. They the friends of the
Union. Has shame no blush! One
would suppose that a man capable of
such an utterance must have gradu-
ated from an. institution where the
Father of Lies" is professor.
These imps come back dripping
with blood, and fostering in perfidy,
and audaciously plead that they were
the wronged party. Their preten-
sions were literally demolished by
Blaine and Garfield, and we hope
that the debate will be given to the
country as campaign document.
By the law of nations, these rebels
forfeited ali rights to life, liberty and
property. They all know this, and
it WAS the purpose of their leaders to
flee the country, and many went to
Mexico, Brazil and other places, te-
cause they well knew they had forfeit
ed all claims, even to life here. Soon,
however, it became apparent that our
Government was inclined to be mag
unanimous in its treatment of them,
and most of them remained. Our
Government was too lenient, restored
their rights too quickly; and now the
serpent warmed into life turns and
stings us.
The charges of Hill was "Satan re-
buking SIM" His defending JEFF
Davis was evidence of the extent to
which treason can go in audacity. We
care nothing for the person of Dav-
is, but for our Government to give
him the right to be President of the
United States, without his asking for
it, and with all the rebel spirit boil
ing in Dixie, we think is the insanity
of clemency, and men who claim it
for him are bold indeed. We accord
bravery to Southern men, and that
was their only virtue in war.
We regret as much as any one the
fact that rebellion is yet rampant in
our country, and while treason raves
let the "6loody shirt" flutter in the
breeze. We say just so soon as you
cease to be rebels, we will cease to