Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1859-10-29


liams, musical critic Of the Evening Post,
the correspondent of Dwight's (Bostou)
Journal of Music. Besides these, there
are crowd Of Bohemians, who write
Cheap for the little country papers, one OF
them having from fifteen TO twenty interior
journals on his hands.
DouGLAs AND mrs PRosPRcrs--The intellI.
gent Washington correspondent Of the n. X.
Independent has just returned to his post. and
written his frst letter of the season. 10 that
letter he thus alludes to the little giant. His
observations upon fllibustering and the anti
slavery sentiment 10 the capital city, seem so
judicous and forcible, that we copy them also.
Mr.. Douglas does not make headway with
this class Of Southerners. They distrust the
man and his leading idea. Both are delusons.
Mr. Douglas has no depth Of character. His
radical vice is lack OF any moral or religious
principle He processes, among his Northern.
friends to prefer free over slave Institutions
and to believe that under fair play the free will
always triumph over the slave but in putting
them on an equality he entirely ignores the
the moral aspects of the question. The man
has no appreciation of moral principle. BE
can feel an economical argument, but none
which touches the conscience. Hence he argues
that the people of a Territory should be left to
s.tte their economical questions; If they think
slavery is profitable, let them have it. Mr.
Douglas 'is more dangerous politician than
Jefferson Davis or Gov. Brown. Senator Da-
Wis will admit that if slavery be sin, as polyga-
my and murder are, the General Government
should not give it moments existence. He
claims simply that slavery is right---that slaves
are rghtfully held as property; and if his prem
ises were correct, no Republican would deny
him the Congressional protection he demands,
| Mr.. Douglas tries to iguore entirely the cAGrde-
| ter of slavery.
No man is shrewder or buster than Mr.. Doug
las. He is in Washington at the present time.
and planning the campaign of 1860. He has
the Northern Democracy with him. and SO
plausible are his sophstries that his friends ex-
pect to carry most Of the free States with the
Douglas ticket They will certainly be disap-
pointed ifthe friends Of freedom are sufficiently.
awake to disseminate the truth. The Popular
Sovereignty argument will not hear examina-
ton for moment. The principle is fraught
with continual dangers to the country. 1t re-
news the Kansas troubles in every new terrific
ry, and offers premium to fraud and violence
Slavery is prolific of marauding soldiers and fl-
busters, and these restless cut-throats will al
ways carry CONSERVATION among peaceful set
tiers from the free States just as they did 10
Kansas Under the workings of Mr. Douglass
beautiful principle,a dozen border rufiaus will
always terriry hundred quiet farmers into the
acquiescence in their political rule.
The dlibusiers are in the very last act Of
their play. The Government organ here is out
in abo1ed article against them-whch shows
conclusvely that the shareholders are sick OF
their maraudng champions. Walker, Hem
ningsen & Co. The intelligent people OF the
South perceive that slavery has lost ground
rapidly through the flibustering propensities OF
some OF its enthu siastc chiefs. and Mr.. Buch-
anan can now put his foot on Billy Walker il
he chooses Not even Stevens or buster
ing Toombs will demonstrate. When Commo-
dore Paulding bravely and spiritedly arrested
Walker and his band, Mr. Buchanan accused
the honest Commodore of committing great
error" Since that time the Administration has
taken credit to itself for the very act 1t is
certainly an encouraging sign when Demo-
ocratic Administration aud the South sicken OF
fibustering. It shows what the opinion Of
the civilized world will one day do with slave
i - - L.
it disrespectable-and it will then pass away
like the barbarites Of other ages.
Slavery has bnt slight foothod 10 this city
and yet see every day enough OF its enormi-
ties to make ones blood boil. This vary day
, poor woman who has bought herself and one
son, came TO see me about the redemption OF
another child. He is likely lad, and was q
waiter at one OF our hotels, but getting uneasy
in his servitude he planned tour in the direc-
ton of the North Star His owner--a lady
belonging TO one OF our Orthodox churches,
and who reads The " Y. Observer every
week--hearing Of his proposed trip sold him
of TO Alabama so quickly that he could not
even bid bis good old mother gOod-by. This
woman works out as a cook at ten doars .
month, aud has already saved $500 toward
buying her second son
Manuel Mason another Of Africas sons. (by
descent,) is begging money to pay bis ine foe
harborng his ehild-said fine having been paid
Into the Golfers Of the United States The
broken down old man has poor success here,
there is such a multiplicity Of like cases IN lho
District. God pity him--and the cot a ~ too
when such things abound. Repentanoe or
terrible retributon must soon come TO put an
end to these outrages.
pG- 1t win not be regretted by many