Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1861-01-12
Are we two NaslOnst
M HoRAcE dEgELsY.

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The public mind of the Free States is
slowly realizing the possibility lit is not
yet accepted as probobiIity-of severance
of these United States into two distinct
aud rival cohfederacies Alarmists query,
If two. why not dozen ~ aud talk of
republic on the Pacific, an Independent
New England, federation of the Middle
States, of the Northwest, etc.-bnt all
this is fantastic aud absurd Everything
tends to perpetuate and maintain the Uniou
everything. but one--Slavery If we
arc divided, that divides us--nothing else
New England, New York, Pennsylvania,
Ohio, the Northwest, the yet unsettled
Missouri region, the Pacific States are di-
verse in their characteristics, their indus
tries but their several pecularities pro.
woke no antagonism they rather prove
that a a rjA
"All Natures dlIsroncs makos all Ma ture's peace"
They are more valuable to each other than
though their pursuits and products were
strictly homogeneous they benefit each
other by their reciprocal wants and supplies;
California is the complement Of New Eng
land and each is blest alike in what the 9th
er takes and what it spares.
So it might be as between the slave
states and them also it would be hut
for slavery. They produce what the free
states need-they need what the latter pro-
duce Ia excess. Every staple Of the south
is largely consumed at the north ;---where
the demand for each of them is steadily in
crenSing, 1t is difficult even yet for the
people Of the free states 10 conceive that
the south is intent on breaking away from
them. Though in the south it is every day
assumed that the north hates and would
destroy her, there still prevails an almost
uniform and fervent goodwill for tho south
ct the north. Ii is because slavery bur
dens the south, crpples the south, scourges
the south, peryerts the moral sense Of the
south. that the north wishes it for ever
baniShed from that sunny cline. No sur
geon ever removed tumor or wen with
more sincere goodwill 10 the patient than
the north, if allowed, would aid the south
to rid herself Of the fearful anomaly in a
Christian Republic which she hugs to her
bosom as though it were her richest bless
ing. And if blind peryerseness, head
strong madness, shall induce the south to
cherish this vampire until it shall have
drained her of her liie-blood, nowhere will
her nfatustion be more profoundly deplor-
ed than among the Anti-slavery men of the
north. .t t.Is ... ..,i a. a.
Aud we call all parties and classes in
the free states to witness that the grounds
whereon the south proposes to break up
the Union are hardly comprehensive by
the north They seem so fimsy, so unreal.
that very few of US eau believe that they
are put forth in earnest. Millions do not
this day believe that the south viii defy the
federal authority, mainly because they can
conceive nothing like a ieason for so doing.
Only very few Of the most indurated de-
mocratic politicians at the north now PRE-
tend that the south has any valid excuse
for seceeding Aud Europe. the Canadas,
the civilized world, in fact, regard the
matter as We do, Nowhere, outside Of the
slave states. is it really believed that even
the Cotton States will actually secede, be-
cause it is everywhere felt that it would be
madness on their part TO do 50.
For, in fact, all their complaints aud
grievances resolve themselves into this |:
I'VE of the south cherish slavery and love
it therefore you Of the north have no
right to condemn aud oppose it,. The ar
rangement of the Free states for their re.
sistance to Slavery Extension, their delei
ent aacrity in slave e,catchng, their repug-
nance 10 guaranteeing the safe return Of
slaves brought into free states by their
masters, etc, etc, rests clearly on this as,
assumption. Are we not brethren 7? asks
the south of the north 'and If we are,
why do you object TO our slavery p Yea,
replies the north, we are brethren there-
fore dare not be indifferent to your faults,
nor partner in your sins.' Then, retorts
the south, since you 1OiR intermeddle with
what does not soueeTn you, / leave YOU
Hence State Conventions, Secession 0rdi.
nances, and keen demand FOR Miaie rifles
aud reVolVers, d - u -- ,..s.,-... ,..,
The Southern requirement ls IN essence
this Since we are stockholders, apd,we
form with the free states one nation, that
must lie slayeholding nation Mr.. Cal.
houn's dispatch Of Aug 10, le4l. to Hon.
Wm. r. King, our Embassador to the
French Court, justifying In advance the
Annexation Of Texas. proceeds throughout
on the assumption that slavery is not SEQ
siooal bat . National Interest 70 be advan