The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1880-09-16
OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY.
WHAT IT HAS DONE, AND WHY IT
SHOULD NOT BE TRUSTED.
ASTALWARTLETTER THAT EVERY
BODY SHOULD READ.
BELFAST, Sept. 18, 1880.

BELFAST, sept. 10 looO.
The Democrats held meeting in the
sohOol-house st this place last Friday
night. There was a good turnout, more
than the house could hold. The crowd
numbered about 100 persons, composed Of
Democrats and Republicans. There was a
delegation from Hillsboro, Of some twenty
persons, who came with the fife and drum,
musical instruments they were not so fond
of hearing when Hancock and the "Boys
in Blue0 were in deadly conflict with Lee
and that class Of men that now make the
"solid South"
The South has always been the head Of
the Democratic party, and the North
the tail. The tail has always Wagged
when the head nodded, except at Charles
ton, S. G. Il would not wag there for fear
it would be cut of at the neck It Wag-
ged enough in time of the war to cost the
lives Of many OF our brave boys, and it
Wagged a little too fast during the draft
at Berryyille, when Gen. Mcdowell, John
Baskins and Madison Trimble came here
and stopped it. ~
But to return to the meeting. Mr..
Sloane made a long speech. He was not
as acdd as usual, but if Garfield is only
half as bad as he said he was, no consist
ent man can vote for him. You would
have hardly believed that Mr.. Sloane ever
took the stump and voted for Neal, the
salary-grabber, for Congress.
We certainly ought not only to look at
a mans personal record when he is out for
Office, but at his partys record. Let US take
sPeep at therecord of the Democratic party.
We know they haYenOt been friends to the
great reformatory movements, at least for
the last half. century. They resolved to
resist the agitation Of the slavery
question in or out Of Congress; they were
in favor Of "gag rule'' In Congress; tried
to force slavery in Kansas, and into all
national territory; justified slavery, with
all Its internal crimes killed, mobbed and
egged colored folks, and broke up their
meetings; fired on Fort Sumpter; stole
the property Of the Government in the
South; tried to destroy the Government; !;
killed thousands of our fathers, husbands
and sons, injuring our nations property to
the amount Of ssUsB or eight billions Of dol
Jarsj had the 'fSons of Liberty" knights
Of the Golden Circle" and so forth, in the
North, in order to have war here, so the
boys in "Gray" could kill Hancock and
the boys in Blue, and in this day Of
sunshine" are the enemies, as a National
party, to all temperance reformation.
mo sumptuary Iaws.7 And as they have
never reformed or changed their position,
how can a friend to Temperance vote for
the party nominations, or how can the boys
in blue, or the coIored man, go with the
"solid South ?"
Mr.. DeBruin made few remarks. My
friend, Mr.. Kirby Smith, did not get a
chance to tell how bad the Republican
party were and have been, with whom his
father served 8 years as postmaster.
The speeches over, the "unterrifed" left
for the Model Town. Mr.. McMeekin, the
hOtel-keeper, where they stopped, found
several empty bottles lying around loose.
FLORA.