Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1861-04-20

II cannot be longer disguised that the
Southern States, which now wage war upon
the Government Of the U. s. began IN the
seizure of the national furtresses, arsenals
ships, money, and other property, aud cul.
miuating 10 armed resistance to the gov.
ernmeut furnishing supplies to the famishing
garrison at Fort Sumter, have been, through
the leaders whose fundamentally brought
about that issue, constantly conspirinR
against the integrity aud peace Of the Union
by disolving the compacts and long estab-
lished precedent which settled the rights of
the Government over its Territories and
thus contrving to subject them to State
Nominations. In both aspects II is a war
of conquest on the part of the malcontents
in the South, to spread the dominion Of
slavery whore it has been prohibited by law
sanctioned by the common consent of oil
sections of the country during successive
generations.
Failing to accomplish this, even with the
aid of faithless agents brought under their
control in the several departments of the
General Government, who could not defeat
the laws of nature, these dangerous confede.
rates aga nst nll constitutional government,
have taken the sword in hand to conquer
and partition the country. Aided by the
treason Of high officials in the Administration
of Mr.. Buchanan, they have already seized
many OF the most important bulwarks erect
I'd Ly the u S. to secure the commerce and
protect the shores and the whole interior Of
The country from invasion. This armed
frontier which cost the nation more since
the establishment Of its independence than
the war which achieved it, is necessary alike
to every portion Of the Republic Charles
ton. and the hurhOr now commanded by the
forts built hy he U S. was twice conquered
| by the Confederacy from the British.
While 10 the hands Of foreighn pow er, it
was the basis of military operations against
the Northern States, affecting even the re.
morest Can the Government Of the u. S.
relinquiSh this posi- ion to the petty power
now assuming q mock sovereignty over it
ind the adjacent seas, without suhieciing its
commerce and the whole interior of the
country TO the mercy of any formidable enc.
my it might introduce as an ally against
the Union or which might acquire mastery
there in any other mode Must all the
other places Of strength along the cost from
the Chesapeak Bay to the Rio Grande,
which the u S. has made TO fruwn with its
fortresses and bristle with its cannon to re.
pei invasion aud alright pirates, and has
inmated with light houses to point ont the
path to ommerce-must all these places be
surrendered TO The seeding States, to pass
into the hands Of any foreign nation which
may suppant their power If so. the slave
States, in commanding the avenues of com
u. merre from he vast in eriOr States Of the
9 North and West to the Ocean, must sub
jrct them ns conquered provinces.
What is 10 be the condition Of Ohm aud al
her sister states in the Mississippi Valley i
the slave States are to give law on The
lower Mississippi? Secession. The seizure
o and appropriation Of what belongs to the .
S in The seeding States, aud the uSurpa
ton Of all sovereign rights over the adj 'crn
" seas and the navigablc streams and 0the
q avenues Of commerce in that section 0f th'
1t Union, make u conquest which strips th'
T. in erior Of its independence, and the Gov
e ernment of the u S. Of the national al
tributes conferred by the Constitution t,
d maintain it and all the interests OF the cont
II nent committed to its charge.
| rejoice TO he able to assure you tha
the executive installed al the Capital Is re
, solved to rpel the attempt at conquest. /
will assert all the rights conferred by tn
Constitution. by all the power with whic
it invests the Government. The most Wig
W orous measures will be taken to resume tn
authority Of the U. S. over the places froE
Is. which il has heen expelled /; and cannC
doubt hut that the stream which huai
I, the commerce of the regions between tn
) Rocky Mountains aud the AlleghanieS wi
soon be delivered by the General Cover
- menr from the assumed sovereignty whlc
the states, purchased from France. now a
sprt over IT, But as the conquest may gro
~ to greater dimensions than is now anticipa
ed. deem it my duty to recomend to tn
General Assembly Of this State to mai
ty provision proportioued 10 its means to
sist the National authorities in restoring u
as integrity and strength of the Union in all !
n. amp linde. as the only means Of reeoverlr
the rights of ths States, and assuring pe
mnnent peace and prosperity Of the who
TO country. .. ......
eu. ] earnestly recommend. also, that an a
OF. preparation OF MT less than four hundr'
rt. and fifty thousand dollars he immediate
be made for the purchase of arms and equi
ho ments for the use OF the VOLUNTEER militia
- the State.
~ need not remind you Of the pressiI
~ exigpncy for the prompt organization al
arming of the military force Of he state.
led w. DENNIsoS.