Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1860-11-03
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Tuesday, November 6th--now scarcel
ten days off--isthe day appointed for th
choice Of Presidential Electors throughou
the thirty-three States composing our Fed
eral Union. Kansas, which should ghav
been admitted last Wibter--was kept on
simply because Slave Democracy did no
choose to feel her modest weight cast in tht
scale OF Republicanism in this momentou
contest. But vain are all DEVICES to over
rule and ercumyent eternal justiee--Kan
sas, in spite of the unjust prescription Of {
Pro,Slavery Senate, will be felt in this Elec
ton. Denied the vote that she is undeHi
ably entitled to cast she will be voted fol
10y hundreds Of thousands. "REMEMBEF
KANSAS should be spoken in the ear oi
every laggnrd who .isincliued to suffer press
ing business, or some slight illness, or o re-
cent bereavement, or q visit from friends,
or sickness in his family, to keep him from
the polls. After all her heroic efforts, in
defiance Of her unqnestionabe rights, in the
midst of her unparalleled sufIerings, Kan.
sas remains to this dsy under the feet oi
the Slaye'Power through the Vaccinations
OF its servitors in the White House, in the
Departments, and in Congress. The 9th
Of November will break ber last shackle,
and give to her people the glad assurance
that their long cycle Of oppression rapidly
approaches its certain close. When the
Republicans Of the several States assemble
to congratulate each other on the issue of
The contest, lee them remember the great
disaster which has befallen the people of
Kansas through the terrible drouth Of the
past Summer and resolve TO contribute of
their plenty to the aleviation of their breth-
ren's miseries. Hi 1#4
The Election is yet to be held /; yet few
cherish any doubt as to its result. When
the telegraph, two weeks since, flashed
across the astouished country the uuexpect-
ed tidings that Pennsylvania had gone for
Lincoln by fully Thirty Thousand majority,
Ohio by nearly an equal number, and In
diana by about Ten Thousand, the Repub-
licans felt joyfully and their adYersaries
fearfully realized that the struggle was vir-
tually ended-that It's issue was no louger
doahtfol A like result ip these States four
years since would have certainly elected
Fremont is it credible that, since they
have come over to the side of Freedom, n.
York has fallen away to the side of Slavery?
Do revolutions thus go backward? When
Pennsylvania, which gave Buchanan Egh-
ty Thousand plurality over Fremont, now
declares overwhelmingly for Lincoln, is it
likely that New York-which gave Ere
mont Eighty Thousand plurality over Blu.
now go over to Fusion And
yet in the desperate chance that she viii,
hangs the last hope of defeating the Repub.
Leans at the November election. New Jer-
sey will pretty certainly follow in the wake
Of Pennsylvania as Illinois will respond TO
Indiana but, even we're they to do other
wise, they would avail nothing to the Flu
sionists provided New York stands with the
other. great Free States in support of the
Free Labor cause. The last Pickering hope
Of the Fusionists rests on the power of their
money TO roll back the rising, rushing tide
of Republicanism, and thus battle the uni
7ersal expectations of our people and of
he civilized world
Can this be? Can New York be indnc-
ID to stultify herself and proclaim to the
world that she never had any convictions
adverse to Slavery extension, or if she ev-
,r had any, has been wheedled and bullied
,ut Of them? Can she be induced in effect
% say, True, declared that / wnald pey-
n consent to see Slavery diffused over the
common Territories Of our Union but
ince the Slave States threaten to withdraw
heir trade from our jobbers, and even to
freak up the Union, am ready to eat my
VordS and agree that Slavery may go wher-
Yer its votaries shall see fit to carry it ?
IS this the attitude in which her citizens
choose to engrave themselves on the ever
Turing tablets of History
No, it cannot, must not be New York
will be true to herself, to her better in
tincts, her grand traditions, her heroic
ouls who strove and won, and passed away,
eaving to their children the precious legacy
# their illustrious memories When she
vas herself Slave State, she repeatedly
'oted that Slavery should be excluded from
he Territories by act of Congress shall
he now proclaim that she "cares not wheth-
n it is voted up or voted down." after hay
ng rid herself of the incubus that wastes
he soil and cripples the growth of her
Southern sisters ? When but two States
,ut of thirteen were Free States, the whole
thirteen united in voting that Slavery should
rot be diffused can New York in 1860
vote to efface the great moral landmark
South Carolina and Georgia united
with ber, in planting in 1872 Unwise,
unnecessary, you may say the
Prohibition of Slavery in the Territories
was and is but how can you say that it
was or is an aggression on "the Rights of
The South" when it was first proposed Tin
l784) by Thomas Jefferson, a Virginia
STAKEHOLDER, was unanimously adopted in
1871 by the last Continental Congress, COM
posed in good part of slaVehol ders and re.
presenting mainly Slave States, was ratified
n I7S9-9O by the first Federal Congress
with the special sanction of George Wash
ngton, another Virginia STAKEHOLDER, and
was practically upheld by successive Con-
yresses in 1926 on the reports of John
Randolph and Jesse Franklin, both slave
loldersH Surely, we may do, in obedience
o our earnest conviction that Slavery is
wrong, what shareholders for generation
lid, in accordance with their belief that it
vas impolitic and Improbable!
And yet the raven croak Of Disunion is
he last remaining hope of our motley an
agonists. "If yon elect Lincoln, the South
III saoada y is their unVaryinp monition