Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1860-04-14

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equally strong in Virginia and Massachu-
setla 10 was the cause Of he United Colo
Miss but Massachusetts,, then as now, for
hatred Of tyranny. was designated as the
victim. and led the van in freedoms army.
You boast that you gave bs Washington,
aud ike Moses Of old, be led our armies TO
the promised land hut his Joshuas and
Aarons he gathered from the North.
When the North thonght yon wanted
help II sent you Lincoln then, Gates. Az
Camden you bad sufIiciercy Of troops
Your army numbered four thousand, and
the enemy two thousand yet you were
overborne. / would scorn to charge it to
a lack Of courage. Then it sent the old
Quaker of Rhode Island Gen. Greene,
and be saved the men of Carolina aud drove !
the British from your borders.
Inl7S1, when Cornwalls appeared in
Virginia, although Clinton had large
feet in the bay, and a large army in the
city Of New York, with impetuosity he
marched his N9rthern armg, aud, with their
tents, they "encamped on southern soil,
and the evening of the 18th day of Octo
ber 1881, drew its mantle over the man
gled and liGeless northern soldier on the
field Of Yorkstown ErgiRia's ris1 'had
boon returned" and the evidence were the
bones left whitening on your sunny plains.
Several Of the fre-eaters had in their
speeches cast their aspersions upon the pat
riotism of the North from the days of the
Revolution to the present time. Van Wyck
returned the compliment after this style
After the attack on Charleston, in l716,
you were free from foreign foe until l779,
Then the enemy removed a part of his for
ces to the South because he expected
sympathy and succor from the Carolnas
and Georgia, on account Of the great nun.
Der Of tories ia those States and he did
receive it. AT the battle of Kings Noun
tain in the enemy's ranks Of fifteen bnndred,
probably thirteen hundred were Carolina
and Georgia tories hence the opening Of
new seat Of war in the South. speak
not to your injury. No country ever pro-
duced truer, braver patriots, then the Car
conflict They had to fight the English
ou the coast, and their tory countrymen at
the hearthstone.
The greatest cruelties and spoliation you
suffered was at the hands of your native
tories and from threats of rebellion and
violence | conclude their descendents are nU-
HlerouS on that soiI With their blood
seems to have descended their principles
One more extract 1t is in reply to the
threat made by disunionist that the south
would muster half million of men, seize |
on the capitol then march North aud con-
quer and subjugate the free States To |
this plantation gasconade he answered
The honofable member of South Carroll !
na, Mr.. Ashmore, in his speech on Tues
day last in an eloquent and glowing de-
seription of the South, presented to our
imaginations an idea Of the South, present.
ed to our imaginations an idea of greater
proportions than the grand army Napoleon
led to Moscow. They will probably take
counsel of prudence and remain at home
they might find Russian winter in their
path. Does the gentleman, candid and
frank as know him to be, forget that por-
tion of his history which assures him that
many good men in she South dreaded re-
bellion against England in consequence of
the insecurity that would follow to slave
property that this system of bondage
prevented his people from beStowing the |
full measure of their abilities to the cause |
of Independence that two of the serious
defeats you suffered in the South we're in |
consequence of your chattels suddenly con-
verting themselves into sentient beings, and !
leading the enemy upon your armies Are
not the obstacles which your fathers en-.
countered increasing every year, not only
from the addition of numbers, but the in.
telligence which you say you are implant-
ingin their minds ? Will the slaves qui-
etly stay at home and work, while the
kind-hearted patriarchS are engaged in the
easy task Of chaStsiDg the Northern hea-
then ?"
Sir, desire not, | will not suffer myself
to institute comparison between the North
aud South, but when gentlemen talk of ar
mics of one hundred thousand to control
opinion in the North, it must be they are
talking to amuse our fancy they certainly
are not weak enough to suppose they can
excite our fear. If book Of two hundred
pages convulses your empire, aud is so
deadly spark in your dangerous maya.
zine if John Brown and twenty follow
ers could ffighteR your brave men, and
make your women nervous, as one of your
bihl" lawyers sulu III LDe laJe stare tfl-
ais in that state, do not decisive yourselves
by any delusion that you can annihiIate
eighteen million freemen.
Charge not upon us the folly of your
weakness. Envy not the North. You |
possess now more than half the Union. to
the exclusion Of Northern freemen with |
climate genial to nurture the fruits of
the tropics, and soil rivalng that Of the
Me IN richness. Saving the blight Of
slavery, "among the smooth stones Of the
stream is thy portion !" while the North
wrsstles with the waterfall, digs into the
Mountains, struggles with The qnarry, and
enitivates here and there, fruiifal valley.
BE content to let slavery wear itself out
on your own sell. Insist not upon your
expansion theory, nor plant on that virgin
soil serVitnde which will disgrace it for
your ow nnegroless whites feel more keenly
than We, that
"hs badge Of the slave is the scorn Of the free.'
The speech was finished amid the fero-
aiouq aQOwlo Of tho d;,...:a.