The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1880-09-16
AN OPEN LETTER
TO HON. H. L. DICKEY, OF
GREENFIELD. H


GREENFIELD, o., Sept s, 1880.
EDITOR OF THE News The sub
! joined letter was picked up on Main
street this morning. From its read
ing it was no doubt intended as a
private letter to the Hon. H. L.
Dickey, but was, lost before being
sent. It has an anonymous sigma
ture, but whoever wrote it fully un-
derstood what he was writing about,
and no doubt was one ofthat audi
ence which heard Dickey's Secesh
speech in the City Hall Saturday
evening last. The letter is as fol-
lows:
GREENFIELD, O, Sept 5, 1880.
II. /. DICKEY, EsQ.-DEAR SIR Being
an attentive listener to your abe address at
City Hall last night, in which from gollr
standpoint, and ldjudged from SatisTn
standpoint, you so hOROr15lg acquitted
yourself, trust you viii not deem me IN
vidiOus in ERildLy entering my protest to
some points to which you were pleased to
devote your earnest attention. u am sus-
tanned in my defense by The assertion and
statement Of some Of your -DemOsrafic
friends, who lett the hall, saying upon the
street that you had made 3 grievOus mis-
take IN cemmitting yourself, and the cause
Of the party whose interest you esp0uss, in
champiOning that OdiOus and dangerous
dogma, States, rights, to which your party
is 80 blindly welded. ] vas, IN measure,
prepared 70 receive your views upon this
question, knowing that you have always
entertained a kindly feeling for our ae7iHg
Southern brethren, for you know "a fel-
lOW-feeling makes MS WOndrous kind, and
in this particular CONFESS was not dis
appointed, but rather give you credit for
80 boldly giving expression % your cherish
ed views, but 1 am sorry the free expression
of the same was not wholly satisfactory to
your Oirn party. ] am constrained to admit
your views are entertaiBed BY many Of your
political belief in the North, and I am free
70 admit that such views and doctrines as
promulgated by you are entirely wholesome
ig the South. Why any one should be sur
prised at your attitude, after your assOcia-
tiOD with your much loved Southern Brig
adiers in Congress, passes my c0mprshen-
sion. E-----
l Join m an expression, made publicly
by those who have been devoted to you and
your party, "that you are remanded to
private life, after your brief but briliaJt
career as amember of the Confederate Con-
gress, where you succeeded so rel In ms
representing your constituency. Doubt
less you cherish the belief that your speech
at City Hall last night should be recorded
as the "ablest effort Of your life, and as
you went farther, and was nanly enough to
expires yourself, even in advance Of your
party in the North, you should reflect that
the great body Of your party lately COM
posing the Southern COnfederaCy, are uifh
V0u, and as y0u are Nth them, the Old scrip
tural maxim is not Inappropriate, "Be-
hold how pleasant it Is for brethren to
dwell together in unity"
How the eloquence Of Webster palss be-
fore your oFatOry The fame Of Demos
themes and all the brilliant lights whose
OratOrical powers have thrilled the popular
heart, pales in insigni6cance when con-
trasted with your brilliant rhetoric.
fear your onslaught Of bitter invec-
tives, hurled at the devoted head of Gen.
Garfield, will at once cause a stampede
from his ranks to that of the brilliant states
man, Gen. Hancock, who only a few years
ago was engaged in the Unholy calling Of
a Lincoln hireling," with a collar around
his neck, bearing this patriotic legend, 81
am A. Lincoln's dog, whose dog are you 2"
Your able speech viii, doubt not, result
in doing as much good in securing the
election Of Gen. Garfield, asst qreaf speech
Of that roJJeT, John Sherman, at HiIlsboro
yesterday, and nothing, ] am constrained
to believe, would result in more good 20
the cause Of the Republican party than for
you to continue on the stump
Thanking you for your Tree expressions
in our behalf,
] am yours very truly,
CONE WHO Was THERE