The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1879-07-10

As Described by a Mississippi Paper.
DAvIs-Kuightliest onel
Whose name, whose high, white name, viii shine
and circle with the sun
Until humanity no more its immortelles win
twine,
Nor offer up bright vOtive blood at Freedoms
altar-shrine SOUTHLAND.
The Mississippi Press Convention
was in session at PascBgouIa on the
4th inst.
Suddenly a telegram was received
that read as follows
evil be down on the 9:28 train
tonight" JEFFERSON DAVIS"
When the name of Jefferson Davis
was pronounced, the whole house
became surcharged with the cleo
tricity of enthusiasm, and when our
Chieftain walked up the isle, a few
minutes later, leaning on the arm of
Hon. Ethel BarksdaIe, be was sa-
luted by cheer after cheer. There
was a white cloud Of futtering hand
kerchiefs, followed by a rain-storm
of roses that beat, whirled and
drifted around the form of our Presi-
dent, until his path led up through
shining flowers and subtle fra
GRANGE.
When silence had been partially
restored he rose to speak.
The tempests of seventy winters
had whitened his locks, but there he
stood, tall, straight as an Indian
chief, with the quenchless fires of
his pure, proud spirit blazing in
his eyes, and the old, masterful
melody of his eloquence thrilling
through his speech.
'sI NEVER SAW A SOUTHERN WOMAN,
be said, ''wHO HAD BEEN RECONSTRUCT
ED.
Here he was Interrupted by a hur-
ricane of hUzzahs,
'THE CHILDREN OF THESE WOMEN WILL
YET RISE TO vnDIcATE OUR PRINCIPLES"
When this prophecy was spoken,
as only Jefferson Davis could speak
it, there went up one grand, pas
sionate, glorious cheer that rang out
into the night and went tingling to
the trOpie stars-a cheer that we'll
ed up from the holy of holies in the
breast of every patriot present-a
cheer that proved the undying de
votion Of our people to the princi-
pies symbolized by the Bonny Blue.
The Radical party, by and with
the help of the bastard Democrats,
are seeking through press and
forum and a thousand secret and
.insidious channels to create the i'm
preston that this Confedracy of
States is a Nation
Let them be warned in time that
they may beware in time.
That doctrine will never be toler-
ated by the men who fought, or the
sons Of the men who died, for State
Sovereignty.
NEVER
And if you of the North should
forget yourselves so far as to seek
the unifcatiOn Of our country into
one vast centralized power, you, and
you only, will be held responsible
for the result
Before this people will submit
they will tear your Stars and Stripes
from mast and staff and toss the
lying rag into hell-fre.
Nor think that you will conquer
as you conquered IN 1865.
There will be no surrender of our |
chivalry to your hirelings and Hes
slams.
If you want to Mexicanize this |
Republic, and make it a land Of per
enniaI revolutions, you will turn
your backs on the Jeffersonian doc
trine of State Sovereignty, and in
augurate a despotism under the
plausible but imperial name Of the
Nation.
Il BELIEVE THAT YOU HAVE DONE
RIGHT, AND I DO NOT FEEL THAT 1 HAVE
DONE WRONG.
These words should be craven in
gold on pillars of Parian marble
they should be printed in the text .
books of our schools, colleges and
universities-they should be bla-
zoned on our State banners, and
handed down from generation to
generation, until the last day Of
time.
The defiant ring of that sentence |
stirs the pulses of our chivalry like
the blast of battle trump. We for
get the trucking of our weak, pitiful /
Conservative COngressmen-whO .
have dared-DARED ask pardon for
our past, and we renew our VOWS Of
fealty to the righteous Cause Of
State Sovereignty and SecessiOn-a
Cause that is sweeping onward and
to supreme vindication.
When Jefferson Davis concluded !