Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1860-01-14

pie, and that its recognition as fundamer
tai principle, TO be hereafter exercise
whenever occasion may be presented, ia il
dispensabe to restore the simplicity an
purity Of the Government and TO carr
out the great purposes of the Constitutio
as declared in its. preamble ITO form
more perfect union, to establish Justice. in
sure domestic tranquility, promote the reu
eral welfare and secure the blessings of lib
erty TO ourselves and our posterity .oS
Such are the judgments Of the people @
Ohio, repeatedly expressed on the subiec
Of slavery, as q social and political cues
tlon. But they do not conceal from them
selves, that the practices of the Fedora
Government have long been opposed tc
their convictions on the subject. The,
know that it has been administered foi
many years 10 subserviency to the purpose,
of the slavery extensiousts of the slave
! holding states Tue war to extend thu
boundary Of slavery to the Rio Grande-
the violation of the Missouri COMPACT
the war against Kansas, to extend slavery
TO the Pacific, are all sacrifices of the pub.
lie opinion, and the moral sense of the
masses Of the country, by ambitious incum
bents in the federal administration, to that
| combination in the south, which brings the
vote of fifteen slave states in phalanx to
divide and conquer the Free, and so contin.
ue their triumphs in Presidential elections.
This combination has long been absolute in
its mastery over nominations, elections. ad-
minStrations, and even legislation, touch
ing the maintenance and expansion of the
institution of slavery, to which it owes its
political strength.
What is the result ? Is the combina.
tion satisfied a? Far from it. There is a
growing power impaired by free institutions
in the anti-savery States-by their indus.
trious economy-by their intellectual re-
sources, which gradually render abortive
oil the acts of intrigue that pervert the
organs of the national will into instruments
of q sectional olIgarchy. The selfish combi-
nation in vain Suburns northern asprants
to its purposes, rendering all the corrupt
influence its consolidated force can command
to seduce support in the North, to carry
the Chief Magistracy, and threatening, in
case of defeat, the overthrow of the Union
to coerce patriotism itself to submit to the
miner, to avert the great mischief In vain
its leaden sceptre has stunned and swayed
the national ctionaries-broken the con
ciliating compacts Of 1920 and IS50-and
interpolated slavery as part of the ma
tion's constitution. The spontaneous vigor
Of free labor overgrows and heals all the
wounds inflicted by these blows of its ene
mics. Freedom is a giant which, while
asleep, Lilliputions may bind to the earth
with innumerable iine-spun cords, but arous-
ed, he breaks with ease the meshes, holds
the pigmies in the hollow of his hand
Kansas, Nebraska, California and Oregon,
show how Intellectual are the intrigues Of
selfseeking politicians to dwarf the growth
of free people. The prosperous and pop
ulous free-Soil sends forth its children over
the inviting territories, and the resistance
of barbarism is overwhelmed.
The politicians of the oligarchy see this
with dismay, and seem to be meditating
change Of their design, from that of seek
ing perpetuation Of their control over the
Union 10y multiplying Slave States within
to fill by new impOrtatious of Africans. This
must result in tue subsection of the free la
boring native class of every complexion to
a common condition of slavery, by the glut
following the infuX of myriads of naked
negroes, working like the OK under the
goad, aud fed only to support the yoke, re-
ducing the price of labor to bare subsist-
ence. A full supply of negro strength
will render the masters oil the domain indie
pendent Of the poor whites holding neither
land nor slaves. They must become slaves
TO escape starving
We have heard it announced that a
League has been formed to compass the
its ramifcations cover all the
Slave States-that the principle nulifers
everywhere are in the conspiracy, and that
It is part Of the scheme to leave Virginia
aud Maryland, Kentucky and Tennessee
and Missouri in the Union for a time, to
cover the seeding States from the invasion
ot northern force to restore the govern
neat of the confederacy over the lower
and the borders of the Gulf of
Mexico The policy of leaving tier of
Slave States, in connection with the Free
states, confdlng in the perfect protection of
he peculiar institution" under tho wings
of the latter, while the nulIifying States fly
of to open the slave trade and subdue the
republics of the south to, be-
'oms the receptacle of the human spols of
their piracy, is proof that the nullifying
leaders well understand, that all the rights
of the South recognized in the Constitution
are safe in the Union. 1t makes manifest,
too, their fears, that in abandoning it, and
entering upon a praticGl career against the
liberty of two henisphercs, they hazard
revolution in their own communities full of
bloody issues, the least fatal of which
would be the Instant overthrow of the in-
'tltution, for the extension of which they
put everything else they hold 10 jeopardy.
II attended with success at the threshold in
dlssovlng the great confedcracy and Great
ing a small one, the introduction of stand
ing armies to confront border war on
the slave and free frontiers, and to push
the scheme of southern conquests, and to
maintain them and keep down domestic in
surrection, would be the succedaneum for
The security conferred by common govern
ment. But the way 10 success of the League
cannot be opened without assurance of the
and enslavement of Mexico and
Central America, the obstacles to which
seem not to have been considered