The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1879-09-25

calico at seventy-hve cents a yard
and do not see him in the field, and
their patriotic eyes pop out like
mushrooms with horror and their
hearts grow faint within them. They
think, talk, dream of this outrage
Gus behavior until it fattens them,
and compared with all other con
sideratiOns dwindle into significance.
Tell them that the slave States had
the control in the Supreme Court
of the United States, the majority
of our foreign ministry, the ruling
of every Cabinet from the beginning
of the Administration of Washing
ton until the election of Abraham
Lincoln, although the North was
superior in wealth, intelligence,
population and power, they reply,
What does that amount to when
Charley Foster sold calico at seven
ty-fve cents a yard? Tell them
that Lincoln was fairly and honest
ly elected President, and that the
Senate of the United States was
Democratic, to pass on all his ap-
pointments, and they reply, Who
cares about that, when Charley Fos-
ter sold calico for seventy-fve cents
a yard?
Tell them that old dotard, James
Buchanan, declared that the Gov
ernment had not power enough to
preserved It's life from destruction and
they will reply, What has that to do
with Charley Foster selling calico at
seventy-fve cents a yard? Tell
them that the traitors seized our
custom houses and pOst-Ofices, rob
bed our Treasury, fredlOu our flags,
battered down our forts, menaced
our capital, threatened our archives, |
murdered our President, and they
murmur, Who the thunder cares for !
that when Charley Foster sold calico
at seventy-five cents a yard Tell
them Of the widows and orphans, of |
the imprisonment, punishment and F.
suffering of our men at Libby; of |
their languishing and dying under F..
famine, torture and poison, without /.
food, water or shelter, at Anderson
vile, they reply, What the deuce do |
we care for that, when Charley FOs- |
ter sold calico for seventy-fve cents |
a yard? Tell them of the thousands /
and millions and billions Of dollars .
expended to sustain the Government |
of our fathers, and they respond, /
who cares for expenses when Charley /
Foster sold calico at seventy-fve |
cents a yard? Tell them that the in
tense Democracy Of Kentucky nomi- |
mated and elected as their Governor, |
with full knowledge of his charact- |
er and conduct, Luke P. Blackburn, .
a scullion and barbarian, who had |
impregnated calico blankets and .
clothing with smallpox and yellow /
fever to introduce those diseases not /
only into our army but among the
women and children, to bear into .
premature graves the innocent and .
unofending, and they rejoin, Who /
cares what Blackburn did when /
Charley Foster sold calico atseventy-
five cents a yard ? Ask them why |
Dixon was so foully murdered by
midnight marauders, why Ewing and
Rice voted against a proposition
that no one should carry deadly
weapons at the polls, and their re-
ply is this, Didn't Charley Foster
sell calico at seventy five cents a
yard? Shame, perpetual shame, up.
on Northern men who can thus ig-
more manhood in servility to party
Charley Foster did not sell calico
or any other article in his line Of
trade for any higher price than any
other prudent merchant. I Will bet
one hundred dollars that Charley
Foster gave more money and ma
terial to support the war and the
families Of the soldiers and sailors
that were in the army and navy than
all the men you have in your city
who voted for Vallandigham. Demo
cratic towards, who, ike Jobs war
horse, ''smelt the battle afar of, /
aud prayed to God that it might
stay there, now are loud in their
"Where was Charley
Foster during the war; He was
at home, taking care of the families
of those who were in the fight, en-
enHstments and doing all
he could for the country.
Just prior to the war Charles Fos-
ter could number among the loved /
and living five brothers and sisters.
All were carried to their graves by /
typhoid fever, and he, the very
Youngest of the family, was borne to
the very gates of death by the de-
but luckily survived to be .
Governor of Ohio. He was the
only child spared in their fearful
to the aged parents. They
besought him to remain with them,
and his fidelity to them, with a large
and complicated business, which no
other person could either close or
carry on, compelled him to remain in
Fostoria. It was not a time either
for all the loyal men to be away
from Ohio, or the Buckeye State
would have been transferred to the
Confederacy in less than thirty days
after the Copperheads had ascertain
ed their preponderance. His re-
cord during the struggle is all right. /.