Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1860-07-14

ABOUT the same age, ana IN good health
If the health be much unequal, both will
suffer, hut the healthier one the most-the
invalid suffering for want Of entirely pure
air.
So many cases are mentioned in standing
medical works where healthy, robust infants
and large children have dwindled away
and died in few months, from sleeping
with grandparents, or other old persons,
that it is useless to cite special instances in
proof. Halls Journal of Health.
The success of that party whose exponent is
Mr.. LINCOLN would be hazardous to the peace
if not the continuance of the Union.
~. NJ Y. .News.
1t would puzzle any one to prove that
Mr.. Lincoln's election would be "hazard.
Gus 20 the peace or continuance of the I'm
ion" The Republican party proposes no
infringement upon the rights of any section
There is not an article in its creed which
is not in entire harmony with the Constitu-
tion and with the doctrines of the Fathers
What is there heretical or oppressive in
the principle of Freedom in the Territories?
Not man lived in the revolutionary era,
nor for generation afterwards, who sane
toned the idea that Slavery was an insti
tuition to be extended. The problem with
them was how to wipe it out and their
prayer was for its determination, not for
its expansion. In this direction, Washing
ton and Jefferson went as far, if not farth.
er, than Lincoln or Seward and the Re-
publicans of 1898 were far more emphatic,
in their words and works, than the Repub
licanS of 1860 In insisting, therefore, upon
FREE TERRITORIES for FREE MEN, we are
Uuly treading ''in the footsteps of our illus
trious predecessors" and trying to bear up
the Banner which they first gave to the
breeze.
Is there anything "worthy Of death or
of bonds" in the doctrine that the People
have the sovereign right to elect whom they
please as their Chief Magistrate We
know very well that great many very
foolish men have threatened TO dissolve the
Union if Republican should reach that
distinction. But no one Of sound mind
pays any attention to these threats. They
are so absurd and unreasonable--they so
clearly emanate from men who have Meth
er the courage nor the power to carry them
out-that they have not, and will not have
the weight Of feather in determining the
conduct or the vote of single elector.
So little "hazard" is there to the Unior
from the happening of the event these Fire
Eaters depreeate, that policy of insurance
could be had against its happening. at rate
so low that they could easily be paid from
the proceeds of an exhausted tobacco plan
tatOn.
VIII it 'hasard the peace, il not to th
continuance Of the Union" should Presiden
Lincoln recognize the existence of such
principle as FREEDoM and such thing as
NORTH in bis Administration of the affair
of the Government Why should il? i
did not 10 the days of Washington anC
Jefferson, when the Ordinance which pre-
served the great Northwest FREE, was en-
acted. Why should the recommendation
or the enactment of like Ordinance now
Slavery is now Just what il was then, and
so is Freedom, The one pulls down the
other eievates. The one is demorallzlng.
the other ennohling, The one is reproach
the other is an honor to any people. Presi
dent Lincoln will doubtless therefore, il
imitation OF tue rdtneIsi uSo us Po"e'
wisely aud constitutionaly, aud his iuau
ence, kindly and legitimately, to secure fo
the Territories already formed, or yet il
embryo, what Jefferson aud his 0rdinanc
secured for Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Wis
consin aud Michigan. Would this be trea
SOM
Or would it "haSard the peace If not tn
continuance of the Union" should Presiden
Lincoln recognize the People of the North
as equally, aud in the same proportion wit
the People Of the south, entitled to the o.
fees; honors and emouments at bis dispc
sal 7 Hitherto, the government has no
only been used to extend slavery, but Z
enrich and elevate SHAREHOLDERS. BY Ia
ducing southernsrs TO look upon goVernmep