Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1861-07-06
From the n. Y. Independent.
What is there to Compromise

On Ine lOLn OF Aprll last, Jne IreSiucnt
of the United States issued his proclama-
tion informing the country that the execu.
tion Of the laws was obstructed in certain
states "by combinations too powerful to be
suppressed by the ordinary course of
judicial proceedings )" wherefore he, as in
duty bound, called out Seventy five Thou
sand Militia to suppress or overcome those
combinatirs, commanding the persons com.
posing them to diSperSe and retire peace
ably to their aboGes within twenty days
from This date He at the same time sum
moned Congress TO meet in Extraordinary
Session on the 4th of July ensuing.
Such is the legal basis and formal juSti-
cation OF the military preparations and
movements with which the republic has
ever since resounded, and which but now
approach their elimination,
Two formidable armies now confront
each other along the northern frontier of
Virginia from Hampton Roads to Grafton,
while Western Virginia is about to be made
the theater of still further conflict.
At Cairo and within reach, Ten Thou.
sand Union soldiers control the navigation
of the Ohio and the Mississippi, while an
irregular and desutory conflict COuvuscs
the entire state Of Missouri.
Briefly, Two Hundred and Fifty Thou
sand men are this day in arms for the pre-
servation of the Union and the overthrow
of rebellion against the Federal authority,
While at least Two Hundred Thousand reb-
els are mustered TO defeat them.
But the disparity in numbers is the least
of the contrasts which predict a speedy
triumph of the defenders of the Union.
Every man embodied on our side has chosen
to enlist in the War for our National in
tegrity whether a regular or a volunteer,
he was in no wise constrained TO become a
soldier. On the other side there are thou
sands of drafted militia, called out by state
authority and compelled TO serve anyhow (;
while thousands more are men of northern
or European birth who, living in the south,
were violently suspected of secretly cher,
lshlng union sentiments, and who we're there
fore prOifered this alternative to be mob
bed and UOrIured-perhaps unto death-as
'LincOlnites,' and 'AbOlIionists,' or to en-
list in the armies Of the rebellion. These
men need but the opportunities which vigo
rous movements on our side must afford
them, TO escape from their detested thral
dom aud join the defenders of the Union
And again
Our soldiers are fairly equipped, geuer
ally well provisioned, aud in the main pune
tually paid. Our government has credit
arms, and money. The rebels on the 9th
er hand, are scantily aud precariously sup
piled withprOvisons, arms, equipments, anC
munitions while of credit they have none
and Of money rather less. They are def
cient even in medicines, and have nothing
like an efficient army hospital. OF shoei
and boots, there is probably not decen
pair for each rebel soldier to-day within the
! dominions which own the sway of JEFF Da
Wis and the habitual shoemakers for tha
kingdom are now carrying muskets in tbt
armies OF the union. Neither shoemaker
nor leather in adequate supply exist in salt
Kingdom; and there are no tanneries there
The traitor chiefs feel that their hour il
at hand. OF men, such as they are, tina
they have no lack but every added regi
ment increases their perplexity and the
distress Futting pay wholly out of th,
question: and leaving uniforms to chance
their need OF suitable firearms, tents, CAM
equipage, powder, lead, shoes, and almos
everything else required to ft an army 70
the field and secure it tolerable freedom
and celebrity Of movement, is terrible II
is doubtful whether they have in Virgini
to-day sufficient ammunition for singl
pitched battle between to armies, each 9