The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1876-01-27
[WhoIe No. 2O7O.

1 eAOAO 49, --Aos AAAO LsOOo OOas-OA AS-
The party are now straining every
nerve to get control of the Senate.
Witness their late Louisiana Sena-
torial election, their charges against
an Alabama Senator, and their pepar-
ations fa< > comp detat in the Palmet-
to State: An these point towards
rebel rule IN the Senate. They have
three modes of proceeding against
Republicans, by fattery and bribery,
by Intimidation, AMI by pistol
| rhetoric.
They captured Gov. Chamberlain
by the first mode. Having got him
so that he VIII neither call out the
State troops, nor ask the General
Government for aid against the White
League, hey VIII be able to carry the
State, for the Confederate Sambo
goes under next election in the Pal
metto State, and that makes the
South unit for ''Democracy, as it
is called
Here they have 134 electoral
votes, and q pretty alarming proba-
bility of being able to carry some of
the Eastern and Western States. If
they can get control of the Senate
and elect a President, what have we
to expecR Either they will rule in
the Union, granting rebel pensions
and paying for slaves, and in time
paying the Confederate debt, or they
will step out and have a kingdom of
their own, and Sambo will have to
get out, or take his former position
as a sldue 1t soiU be ,ohite mans s
government. The Constitution is
only binding on one side. Rebels
ignored it, waged war against us, and
insisted we must whip them within
constitutional bounds. Again they
deny black men their rights, compel
them to vote with them, or starve, or
die. They thus ignore a CoDstitu-
tional provision, and if the Govern
ment attempts to make its guarantees
good, it is violation of Estate
Rights" an infraction of the Consti-
tuition, and destruction to the iber-
ties of the peoplel
We do hope the friends of the
country will see in what direction
things are tending, the dangers that
threaten US, and again rally as in
1868 and 1872, and rout our old
enemies.
We confess to being somewhat
alarmed. Abuses under Republican
rules have soured many. Glittering
promises and hypocritical professions
have lured many Union soldiers back
into the party from whose ranks they
were driven by the treason of their
leaders. These men would quickly
turn their backs on their party if
they could only come to realize the
purposes and intents of those Rebels
who have now got control of it.
We6annot but fight it over again,
by ballot, we mean. The Amnesty
debate this week, shows us that we
must defeat the claims of Hill party,
or lose all that was won by our army
in the civil war.
Congress is getting an immense
number of bills, nearly a thousand
in the House. Every green member
thinks he must introduce bills, or
his constituents will think he did
nothing failed to earn his money.
This causes an accumulation of trash
that is appalling. We need some
members who are good at Killing
bills. They are more valuable than
others. Too much Legislation is a
CRYING evil. A little wholesome neg
lect of doing anything, would be a
benefaetion. No Legislation of a
general nature yet through the mill.
Even the Centennial Subsidy will
will fail this week to get through.
Our wayward friends, who live near
neighbors to tie sun, threaten to de-
feat it unless JEFF Davis is made
gentleman by act of Congress. He
made traitor of himself, and an act
of Congress is hardly sufficient to
cleanse him. We would say, let him
occupy the position he deliberately