Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1861-11-30

BY HORACE GREELEY.

The month of November, 1861, is dis
tined to be memoiahle in The hsory of the
yreat rebellion. The battle o Belmont,
Mo -glOroas to the national cause in its
exhibition of The signal vaor and efficiency
Of even its least experienced defeuders--lhe
replacement of Fremont by Hunter aud ul-
Iimately by Hallcck, in the department
Of the West-the triumph OF Nelson 10
Eastern Kent nlucky--the capture of the
confederate plenipoteniaries Slidel andMa
son, on their way to Europe, after they had
tancied all danger Of it happily pasSed-
have severally contributed 10 intensity the
interest with WHICH each days budget of
| war news is awaited and devoured Uu-
doubtedIy, the general impression made on
| The public mind by The current of onr advi-
rcs since The opening of this month has been
| favorable to an early and decisive suppress
sion of the, sIaveholdiug treason. But no
'Iher occurrence Siuce The commencement of
the struggle has diifa,ed such Sohd and
hearty satisfaction throughout the loyal
states as the reduction of the rebel bate.
rieS at The eutrance OF Port Royal and the
nnoppoSed debarkatiou Of $4,000 loyal
troops on the ground thus triumphautly
cleared Oh rebels. with their firm establish.
ment on The soil of South Carolina. Even
the traitors discern and confess the fitness
Of The movement thus happily inaugurated.
South Carolina began the war" SAYS the
Charleston Mercury. land it is fit that she
should end it," YeS, she did begin it. by
bombarding seTeutY isolated Unionsts in
fortress bull a grea! expense by be coun
Try for ter protection SO long as she remain.
Ell loyal and It was eminenlly fl TINT
b"mtardment of her strong holds by a IN.
ION heet should be the next incidenr she
was called 10 witness of the war she had so
'ecklessIy in"ugnraIed. The concenl ric 6ie
on devoted SumIer, of the many batteries
which had, prior 10 The outbreak of hoslil.
lilcS, been advanced almost 10 is walls
manned by at least one hundred times the
iOrce by which it Was defended, was fairly
and hlly avenged 10y the grand proces>ion
OF national vessels which swept maiestically
past Forts Beauregard and Walker in fiery
Splen or, vomiting shells into those nests of
rebellion uatil the surviving inmates ware
glad 10 seek safety in preeiptale fight. In
this Tact Is no Impeachment Of their courage
or conduc. Tho rebels fought gallan,ly
aud braved death unainchngly until they
became satisfied that they could not sue
ceed-lhat they were squandering their
lives to no purpose-wben they broke for
the woods, and the boats that were to
spreds them to safety, at Charleston
or Savannah. Thore we leave them 10
runInale on the chances Of war aud devise
The Nays and means Of cxterminating the
Yankee "mudSilS," who have dared not
only to meet them by their own hearths,
bat to vsuquish them there, while we strive
to read the future of the Palmetto dominion
by the light Of her past.
South Carolina has for generations been
the mnkeweighl of n SluVehoIding oligarchy
She was about equally divided in the Rev.
olatlon between wings aud tories, and ren.
dered 90 effective aid to the American
cause. Her authorities and leading citi.
zens offered, in times that tried mems souls
That their state should maintain strict
neutrality during the residue of the contest.
bot the British commander would uot con.
sent, 1t is doubted whether such neutral.
ity would have more relieved or emharrass
ed the bard'pressed cauae of American lib
erty. Her patriots frankly confessed that
her slavery fettcred and crippled her so that
she could render no efficient support to the
Continental cause. Probably the noblest
OF them all was Henry Lanrens, who re.
turned from England at the close of IT74
to take part in. the struggle, was immedi.
ately chosen to and made president of her
council OF safety, elecled TO congress in 70,
anu chosen It's president, appointed minis.
Ter toll olland in '79. but captured on the
passage by the British and closely Impris,
oned in The Tower of London, thence 70.
leased near the close of The struggle and at
once sent by congress TO Paris, where he
was associated with franklin and Jsy in
negotiating The preliminaries OF psacs.--
The great and good man, writing Just af.er
the declaration Of independents, 10 his 500
then remaining 10 iEnglAnd, recognized
clearly that the struggle thus iusugurated