Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1860-12-22
ASHTABULA, o, SATURDAY MORNING. DECEMBER %. I86O

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for their own convenience and pleasure it
seems that they came for our benefit I /
think, II they came for luxury, they will
come again; and il they did not, / think
we.sholI ccntrive to live little longer. 97ha
Bnt 1t is said they won't sell us their cot.
ton. Whot will they do with it ? They
sell as much to Great Britain now as she
wants. Will they eat it 2 Will they cease
raising i Z They won't trade with u.s., some
say Have they been trading with us for
our benefit or for their own? If-interest
was a necessity in days past it viii be i9
the future. Interest never runs mad and
cuts cnpers, as Carolina does II does not
get the blood IN its head. Interest follows
certain great laws of trade. If there ever
@as people that would try to break its
commercial relations with another county
il was these colonies after they broke away
from Great Britain. She was our enemy,
while France was our friend, and had ren.
dered US essential aid. Yet the laws of
commerce sent US to Bristol and Liverpool
and london, not to Paris. And so, ii they
seeede, the laws Of commerce will take no
notice Of their furry. They willnot trade
in New Orleans, or Savannah, or Charles
ton, any more than nov; theyrwillJ trade in
New York, Philadelphia and Boston for
these laws OF commerce are things that do
not let men meddle with them They con
troll men, and are not controlled by them,
and viii continue to do so. -.E '''o'
And as for them, my Friends, the South
are in no state to be stable. 10 Do you sup
pose that these men who are Sc, Quarrel
some, and lighting against this Uni1n q arc
going to be lambs when they are among
themselves AS long. as they have lambs
and sheep to devour, they will be wolves
and lions against the aock but when there
is no flock TO deyour, they viii be lions aud
wolves among themselves, and devour each
other. They are not Of the right temper.
Freedom Of speech is thing that is lost
there's Freedom ofsthe press is not Thought
of there. phere areno sueh1ideas of liber-
IT, andgoyernment ia the South as we have
in the North. They are lnotsftto TO control
themselves in statc Of independent gov
ernmeat. ,-...s. -.......,. -..t....
That is not all. Our thunder storms are
in the air above our heads, their thunder
storms are under their feet, and the dark
cloud, surcharged with hthe divine vengeance.
makes the ground heave at every STEP
Now--and | cannot deny it--itis the con.
seryatiye moral-and political power of the
Northern States, that holds in check that
Terrific element, Let them stand BY them
selves, and servile instructions and war are
Just as certain, it seems to me, as explosions
are, where fire comes to guhpowder.9 ta.tg
And that is not all. There is a white
squal more dangerous than the black squall
The oligarchicaI few of the South are alb
horred athome by the free white people.
1t has been their policy to raise up issues
as between the whole community and out,
side communities, in order to keep the peo-
pie united at home, and maintain the con-
troll of the aristocracy over the masses.
Only separate them, aud not FIVE years will
pass before the free white clement and the
ruling element will be quarreling, and will
have their hands upcn each others throats.
II they depart now like the pFodigal, they
will by aud by come back like him very
ragged aud very humble and very willing
to get in, as servant, in their fathers
house. Applause. would not have
this. would, by all honest aud true mea-
sures, by spirit of undaunted frmneSs, by
speaking plain words to plain men--I would
have oil done that eau be done to prevent
this folly. If you stand shivering in your
shoes, and undertake to give up, for the
sake of the Union, you will only prompt TO
new aggressions in the time to come
Loud applause There is but one way,
and that is to stand where our fathers stood,
in their spirit, as Christian freemeu, saying,
One country our whole eountry, our coun-
try undivided, if it may be held together
by the cohesion Of justice and truth, hu,
manity and liberty; but if the whole may
not be had in that spirit, then so much as
can hold to the original and revolutionary
principles let them stand together, and
theirs be the glory and theirs be the safety
So much for patriotism, Prolonged ap
plauSe. .........