Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1859-11-19

be hung on the morning of the 10th, and the
whites during the afternoon of the same day.
For the Ashtabula Weekly Telegraph.
Mr.. EDITOR :-Iu the present state of the
world, we find men are ambitious selfish aud
not unfrequently revengeful hence strife and
contention exist in every community, more or
less, hence we find States and Nations arraycd
against each other, in deadly strife, and their
"blood flows like water. Therefore, while
mankind remain in their present state or char
acter, we may calculate on future wars with
nearly the same certainty as ON the rising and
setting Of the sun-the particular time only ex-
cepted Preparation for war, and war itself
are matters Of course as much so, as the tilling
The idea of long continued peace, without a
radical moral reformation of man himself, is
idle as the mind, and altogether visionary. If
this be so, tit undoubtedly is) the question ma
turally arises, how are the future wars Of this
country to be prosecuted In one of two
ways, either by keeping on foot large stand
ing army, knowing at the same time that such
an institution is incompatible with a free popu-
lar government, as the people must do their
own fighting But the people will not fight
except in defensive and necessary war, and
fools if they would but in such war, they will
fight, with an intensity regulated by their own
estimation of the value and Importance of its
object If they will not do this, they will, and
ought to be slaves, for no people in the present
state of the world can long remain free who are
not brave, and their bravery guided by nteii-
gence and justice. But a standing army will
fight in one cause as well US an other, or for no
cause at all, and so will flibusterers, for the sim
pie reason that they are the tools of power, or
seeking for power, and are mercenary, and good
for nothing else. Look at Walker-seout gen.
eral to the Devils army. If there be any one
thing in which the people of this country can,
aud ought to be agreed upon, it is to set their
faces against standing armies saving a small po-
the Indians until they shall become civilized OIL
extinct. 1t may be taken for granted, that
those who have the courage and enterprise to
| settle and subdue new and distant territories
may some how get on with their elections with.
out regular troops.
venture to say, that there will be at least
three wars of more or less violence,in every
future century, but Of uncertain continuance
until the time shall come when the nations shal
learn war no more. venture to say further
that not more than one man of fifty, capable o
being good soldiers, will be needed in any future
war of this country to prosecute it to an hon
orable ard successful result We have now three
million of such men, and when such proportion
of that number cannot be raised as volunteer
to defend the country, or any part Of it, as tn,
case may require, or to enforce the laws wher
resisted we shall then cease to be free people
The history of the world is little more thal
q record of bloody wars. Its future history vii
be the same so long as its character remains tn,
same.
now come to the conclusion to which th
foregoing subject necessarily leads viz. that tn
soldiers of the war of 1912 performed service
for the country, which forty-nine others to eacl
one engaged, were under equal obligation t,
have performed They did duty in which the
had no interest which was not common to eve
, ry man, woman and child in the nation, for tn
paltry sum of eight dollars a month, more o
lessand hard rations-broke in upon their plan
for acquiring q subsistence and securing
competence for the future, and in which one
sixth Of their number lost their lives. And nov
l ask any of that six good easy men, who ar
disposed to tride with this subject how muc
, money would induce them to stand in line
2 knowing that one Of them should be shot deaC
and the rest should bury him on the spot, afte
discharging volly of musketry in his grave
fariBg as the soldier Jared. Must those whor
, God has honored with gray hair, take off thei
, hats, and fawn and wheedle to obtain a part
what is their honest due
. But to all this it may be answered, that th
3 honor of having done "happy deeds" is of itssl
sufficient reward. Be it so, if Congress an
: oil ourpublic servants will do the same-sery
: the public as faithfully without risk, (ereq
; from each Other) the soldier will be content
All that would "alter the case" they woul
'all with one consent begin to make excuse
they cannot live on the bubble reputation
! however obtained. Honor is but an empt
name, for "man when be deth shall carry not
j. ing away, his glory shall not descend after him
q The poets have had as much fame, and as lit
e to eat as any other class Of men, hence we ir
one of them writing (no doubt on an emp
8 stomach)-s
sFame Is unWholesome taken without meat,
: And Life Is best sustained BY what is eat"
n PooR RICHARD.
p. s. 1t would be false inference to su
o pose, the writer could be pleased with the su
J. ject Of human contention. "Peace on ear
G and good will TO man" is the prevailing sem