The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1879-08-14
THE OKOLONA STATES AND THE
NORTHERN PEACE DEMOCRATS
OF 1S61-5.
The States Shows that they then
Agreed Exactly.

Certain Northern Democratic pa
pers have persistently charged upon
the Editor of She "Okolona States,
that he is in the pay of the Repub-
lican politicians. This he has re-
peatedIy and bitterly denied
The Editor of the estates" was
born and raised in the South, fought
the war through in the Rebel army,
and his utterances simply echo the
sentiments Of the great majority of
the Southern people to-day.
FOur-ffths of the Southern papers
copy and endorse his most virulent
articles.
The following is the way in which
he ''comes back at" these Northern
Democrats
The Hardin County (Ohio) De-
mocracy made the following bold,
blunt declaration of principles at
their Convention in Kenton, August
20, 1864:
"Resolved, That the States have a right
to Withdraw their consent to the Union,
and assume their independence by repeal
ing their ordinances Of accession and pass
ing ordinances Of secession.
Resolved, That a State having with
drawn from the Federation with the con-
sent and by a formal act of the people, can
not be invaded with the purpose to compel
its return.
Resolved, That in the application of
these ideas, which in our judgment are
constitutiOnally reasonable, evident and
lust. to the conflict between the Union and
Confederate States, We but perform a nat
ural and social duty in declaring to all
whom it may concern, that no citizen Of
OHIO, resident of Hardin County, shall be
compelled to Join the Federal army to con-
summate the avowed designs of the enc
mics Of State Rights, even should 1t prove
Necessary to give effect to the decision by
force of arms"
We could fill column after column,
page after page, paper after paper,
volume after. volume, with resOlu-
tions of q similar tone and temper
that were sent ringing through town
ship, county and State Democratic
conventions in 1865, with huzzahs,
throwing up Of hats, futtering of
handkerchiefs, and all and every
demonstration of approval peculiar
to political meetings.
The Democracy of Hardin County
were not alone the Democracy Of
Ohio were not alone in uphOlding
the right Of secession, in repudiating
the principle Of coercion and in rec
ommending resistance 30 Lincoln
cOnscriptiOns.
On the contrary, the Democracy
of the whole wide North scOwled
their disapprOval of the Yankee war,
and their hearts beat in harmony
with our own.
The platform we have quoted was
the platform of the whole Peace
people in 1861-5, and, while stand
| ing squarely upon it, Vallandigham
polled a vote of 276,OOO in Ohio
alone-a heavier vote than any Dem
ocratic candidate had ever drawn
from the ballOt-bOxes of that com
mOnwealth before.
1t is the platform on which the
OkOlona States, in company with
the unpurchased and Unpurehasa-
BILE millions Of the party, North and
South, is summing itself this 10th
day of July, 1879.
It's a Platform instinct with the
vital and immortal spark that lends
life to our party, to our Sovereign
| States and to Liberty herself.
Yet, 10 and witness! there be
| few sneaks, cravens and traitors who
have crawled off this Platform
this Democratic Platform-this Oko