Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1861-01-12

Emperor OF Brazil, and was answered by a
mostexpressiye silence. Messrs. Buchanan,
Mason, and Soule Ia their famous Ostend
Manifesto not only held this ground, but
advanced beyond it. We were therein not
merely committed as nation, TO the sup.
port and diffusion of slavery we were
held to be justified, by our interest in the
peculiar institution in seizing and annex.
ing Cuba Whenever Spain should evnce a
purpose to abolish slavery therein The
doctrine thus proclaimed to a shocked, as
tonIshed world, was SO nonstrons that the
American Minister at European Court
publicly pronounced the Ostend Manifesto
a forgery when it FIRST reached him in a
newspaper, holding it impossible that three
American ambassadors could have thus
committed their government to doctrines
that better be6tted the quarter deck of a
pirate than the diplomacy of Christian
state.
Are we, then, essentially two nations I?
Yes, we are, il Slavery Extension is to be
the avowed and paramount object of one !;
Tor that is not the nation which Adams and
Jefferson founded, which Washington de-
Tended, which Warren, Montgomery, aud
Mercer died to make free If' that is the
American Union, there mnst and will be
another as Mr.. Lincoln's Administration
is certain to conform to the essential re-
quirements of such policy as Calhoun aud
| Wise and the Ostend magnates assumed
ours to be, it is plain that the Slavery Pro
pagandsts must bide their time or seek in a
different Union the consummation at least
temporarily denied them 10 this. A repub.
cap administration must repreSs the slave
trade, and encourage the formation of fee
states, and speek kindly to Liberia, and re-
IJoice in the Frightening prospect Of Hayti,
rs no prosloyery sway has done or can
safely do. 1t will neither in its foreign nor
In its domestic policy walk in the footsteps
of its pro'slaVery predecessor. Hence
slavery prepares TO take up It's bed and
walk, not fearing that Mr.. Lincoln will do
anything especially obnoxious TO its inter
ests, or dangerous to its existence but be-
cause it feels that the National atmosphere
thus created or demonstrated is nnfagora-
bic to its longevity.
Idle, then, the question-Ts Secession
cure for any of the evils it afirms 2 All
know that Il is not None supposes that
the Slavery Extension will be insured, or
the return Of fugitives facilitated, by a
separation Of the slave from the free states.
But the Shareholders virtually say, Our
government must be earnestly, affirmative
Fly, actively pro-Slaveryl; we cannot live un-
der any other. The Uuion has ceased to
be our especial convenience therefore, IL
must cease to command our obedience. We
must declare it nuisance and repudiate it,
" neither the slave states will ,or will not
in fact renounce The union and break away
from it, it is certain that they have, as
| class, ceased 10 revere and confde in it.
Should they remain in it through Mr.. Lin,
coins term, it will be rather from fear than
love. The treatment accorded in the south
since Lncolu's election to very many citi-
Izehs of free states has been such as even
sayages do not bGstow on those they regard
as brethren. A thousand of our most ram.
pant king-haters might traverse the most
despotic kingdom of Europe with far less
juStiGable apprehension Of personal annoy
ance or peril than the hundred bes; known
and best.loved Americans must feel If call.
ed tomorrow to run the gauntlet of the
slave states IL We nre indeed one people,
then it is clear that our southern brethren
have peculiar modes Of illustrating their
notion of fraternity.
Let us know, then, whether it be indeed
tdisioySlty to the American Union to love
and hope for Universal Liberty. Too long
has Uniunism been held up as the autago-
mist of Impartial Freedem-too long has
The Union forever 2 been the wstehword
of the champions of slavery y-extepsion. At
last, the swelling words wherewth Web
Ster closed his great reply to Hayne-'Lib-
erty and union, now aud foeveT, one and
inseparable, are felt to glow with a new
and deeper meaning-for the union has ta-
ken the side of Liberty. Forthwith, S.
Carolina tears down The Stars aud Stripes
aud runs up the Palmetto instead--her pre-
lates cease to pray for the Presdent just
when his need Of prayers would seem to be
at its hight--it becomes treason to whistle
Yankee Doodle 10 the streets Of Charles
ton aud Lord High Commissioners visit
the trembling tenant of the White House
to tell him that, unless the threeseore U 3.
S. soldiers in the harbor of Charleston are
promptly withdrawn they will not be an
swerable for the consequences La the
presence of such demonstra tOns, ideas are
developed aud judgments ripeaed with un-
wOnted velocity and thousands Of honest
citizens who have been reared to like slave
ry and hate Republication, are impelled ia
to new trains Of thought. Let the good
work 60 on unhindered, nor doubt that it
will result in just and benehcent conclusions
SPIRIrUALIsBf As an illustration OF the
entirely unreliable character OF the MESA
ges from the dead, on which the Spiritual
lists build their religious faith, we find in the
last Banner of Light, in the same column,
message from the ghost Of Catherine
Cready, who says she is still good Catho-
tic, and that she has been to pnrgatory and
that il is "a place where you stay, thinking
what you do and also message from the
deceased Margaret Donnelly, killed in the
Lawrence mills catastrophe, who says, ~
whish my children TO be brought up 10 the
new faith, as 6nd old theology TO be Of no
account here TO make one happy. There
Is no such place ss pdrgatory, rs the priest
taught me.D Now what are we poor NOR
tails 10 believe, betgeen such conflicting tesi
timonV as this from those who are on the