Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1860-02-11

Tux CoSDlrIoN or TuiNos at Washington
since the accomplishment Of that event which
was 70 destroy our civil fabric, has been less
alarming than we had any reason to expect
We do not hear that anybody has refused his
mileage and salary, or that single congress
sionsl Eeat has been vacated The Union
stands in all It's integrity, unscathed and unim
paired, and destruction aud desoiation. under a
republican organization, have become very pro-
per and well-behaved elements
The House having perfected its organization,
has got into very good working humor, and the
objects Of immediate, pressing concern, such as
The providing OF ways aud means for meeting P.
o. and other contracts, are receiving due atten-
tiou. In the appointment Of committees, Mr..
Sherman, as is due will, no doubt be called to
the chairmauship Of the Committee of Ways
and Means, and thus assume the post Of leader
OF the House.
This state Of things is fatal to the game Of
Union Saving. 1t is a shower bath treatment, to
che little founding that was to form the nucle-
rs Of new Union party. The quiet that has
succeeded the organization Of the House, is
killing out the whole thing too suddenly, and
efectually, for wholeeome regard for excite
ment and amusement in the approaching cam
paign. The states that we're moving in the
matter OF seconding their representatives in
Congress, finding their shores knocked away
are subsiding into little more common sense
South Caralina stands almost alone ID its incipi.
ent treason Virginia respectfully declines to
come into the grand convention to plot nullif-
cation and secession Maryland Indignantly
refuses and denounces the scheme as treason
able Texas and Florida signify their determi-
nation to stand by The Union Tennessee and
Kentucky were never more hearty in their ale
glance. Mississippi alone responds to South
Carolina, and she only so far as to consent 10
60 into a southern convention to consider
whether the Union shall be broken up or not
This is pitiful result Of the three months 4
terrific bluster and bravado we have been treat
cd to. Even South Carolina will lapse into
quiet and grumbling acquiescence when she
finds that she must stand alone in her treason
and we shall lose the satisfaction of seeing her
disciplined into order by republican admins.
tration
This state Of things is very melancholy for
the prospects of the new Union party. II no.
body is just about to quit the Union Of course
there is no call for the prostraion of our north
ern alarmists on their marrow bones to entreat
them to stay. The need of union party il
there sno disunion party. or next to none, is
paradox ? Events are making the position
of union saving painfully awkward. II the
South generally had only joined in with South
Carolina and raised the flag of disunion, the
union party might at least have made respect
able show. Now there will be no alternative
for them but to sink their eminent respectability
and 60 in for democracy. 1t was unknd in the
southern disunionists TO stop their clamor so
soon. But this is a miserable world, aud we
are sll 'poor critters" The South has come
10 the conclusion, and JET Davis has made the
announcement, that she will not secede until
the republican administration that is to be-
shall violate the constitution and make war on
the.rights Of the South and they begin to
realize that these contingencies afford very
meagre prospect for alarm.