Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1859-12-24

Of Chicago'as the place. for holding the Repub-
licnn National Convention TO nominate candid
ntes for President aud Vice President OF the U.
States.
To THIS CowLExIoY HAVE WE CONE AT LAST.
The frame OF mind in which we 6nd our loco
foco friends, Is an index of their uneasness
within, and dissatisfaction felt Cor the position of
their party. The most composed and philosophi-
cal Of our contemporaries, among whom we have
been accustomed to number our friend Of the
Erie Observer, show signs Of irritation, and ap-
pear more spaIing ofcommon sense, selfcoutrol
control towards their opponents. They catch
the tone aud temper which has marked the
bearing Of the party at Washington. The un-
tenable and revolutionary position which has
there been assumed, and the necessary influence
which that position is having upon the public
mind and appreciation, is beginning to be felt
to be burden that no party can bear. They
well foresee that certain prostration and discom-
fture is an event that cannot be postponed
much longer, and that the certainty of the fact
Is 10 the ratio of their 6delity, or subserviency
TO their Southern masters. The power that
they have courted, and upon which their all has
been staked--to which has been unrcservedly de-
voted, not only dignity and selErespeci but
the rights of humanity, unexpectedly, in the
progress Of events proves the cause Of their
rim. The bond of union has become closer,
and selfimmolaton the more complete as the
prospect became more hopeless and dispairing
until at length they are driven to a point whore
retreat is no longer possible, and to advance is
ealy 10 multiply difficulties. With waning for
tuneS nccossions are not to be hoped for; indeed,
desertion offers the only escape from the com
mon ruin. The situation OF the party is aptly
illustrated by that of the man holding the wolf
by The ears. To let go is certain death, and to
hold much longer, beyond human endurance.-
Menace and ruin is all that is left TO the party.
IF we cannot maintain our position, say they,
We will bring ruin and desolation upon the land.
They are avowedy, and as it seems from the
necessity Of relationship, a secession or
treason party. Fortunately for the country,
their disposition is better than their ability
Their testiness they may indulge; but their trea-
son they must restrain. They lack the numeri-
cal force to give it character. They may blus-
Ter, but at the point where execution begins,
they will no doubt let their. discretion take the
lead Of their valor. A Republican speaker to
the House, in all probability will be chosen, and
when they have made virtue Of necessity, and
yielded to that event, they may prepare for
another. lesson inspatriotic submission, and give
In their adhesion to the election of q Clerk-of a
man, perhaps more distasteful to them than
even the candidate for Speaker. JonN w. FoR
NEY, for whom Mr.. BUCHANAN and bis friends
have a more cordial hatred than any other man
10 the country, is just as likely to succeed to
the second Office of the house, as Mr.. SHERMAN
is to the first. This second step 10 the series,
probably no hostility, or chicanery can prevent.
When this discipline shall have been administer
ed and the road to submission shall have be-
come more familiar and easy of travel, they will
be prepared for the third, which is to introduce
them TO the full fruition and rational enjoyment
Of patriotic citizenship. The election of Re-
publican President, or at least one opposed in
principle to the extension Of slavery, and in fa-
yor of a well balanced government recognizing
the rights and interests Of every section Of this
broad land, North as well as a South, who
will treat treason at the South with the same
unfalteriDg justice, as any attempts from the
North to disturb the Institutions egitimately
protected by State sovereignty, will restore our
national affairs to the dignity and consideration
which it was the intention Of the fathers they
should maintain. Slavery must drop its AFRO
gance, and let-go its exclusive control Of the
departments of the government. Free labor
must be allowed to take the position which its
numerical, political and social Importance en-
titles it. To this state of things, we are fast
approxamating, and until it is reached, there is
no reason TO expect settled and healthy con-
dition Of the body polite. All cries of peace
all menace Of destroying the political fabric, all
attempts TO repress that which is "irrepressible,
will be but child's play. No settlement can be
effective or permanent, which is not founded on
the eternal principles Of right No true pa
triot covets or desires agitation, or sectional
hostilit But If they are the necessary mediums
through which to arrive at moral and political
souBdness, no true patriot will shrink from the
endurance of them.
In the bad feeling which has taken possession
Of the advocates of slavery, although much to
be lamented, we see nothing really alarming
A dissolution Of the conlederacy is not a prac-
tieabe event. The North will never submit: to
Il, and the South could not sustain the separa.
tion. The evils which she complains Of would
only be teniolded, and that which seems so in
tolerable now, would be only intensified, and
placed beyond endurance. The South has nc
resources for a reliance. The only possible
chance for sustaining herself would be by lean.
shg upon some sther--some foreign aid. And
does any one suppose for an instant that such
an afilliation could OF would be tolerated or al.
lowed by the great confederacy of the North
aud West We presume not The idea of dis
solution, is, 10 every feature an impossible and
preposterous oDe. There is no other course
than that TO which we are so fast tending. o.
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