Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1861-05-11
"stand by the Gorernment.v "

"OccaSional," the we'll informed Wash.
ington correspondent of the Philadelphia
Press, has all along counseled compromise
for peace-demandng every concession,
even OF principle, for its preservation. 1t
will be seen, however, by the following
from late letter, that he has found, at last,
that the concession policy is a grand mis-
take, and that it isrhe duty of the Govern.
ment to Vindicate its honor at all hazards
as the only argument that will reach trail
tors. We commend his arguments to
Union-savers aud compromiSers generally.
lie says
AT last distinct issue is to be presented
to the American people-at last broad
line is to be drawn between the friends and
the foes Of the country. The end may be
war, but is not war inevitable at any rate !
If the government is to perish in any case,
at least let it not go down without an effort
TO preserve it on The part of its real friends
| have pleaded and importuned our people
and their representatives in these letters to
make all sacrifices for the sake of the coun-
try. | have called upon the Republicans
to give up creeds and platforms for the
common good. have addressed indepen-
dent democrats to forget old feuds, and to
come forward and join any party that
stood willing TO yield anything aud every
thing for the purpose of recalling the Cot.
ton States to the Union, and of retaining
the Border States in the Union. Is not
only that the appeals of men in my position
have been in vain, though answered, as yon
will perceive, by the last great speech of
Judge Douglas, in which be showed that
the republicans n Congress had conceded
everything that the south had any right to
demand, 1t is not only that these appeals
have been in vain, as addressed to the
southern conspirators, who while regarding
all offers of Cancellation as evidences Of
cowardice, have, during such magnanimous
manifestations of the Administration aud
the free states, been increasing their pre-.
parations to destroy the union, aud to ruin
hundreds of thousands of men.
While Douglas gallantly testifies to the
fact that there is no practical cause for Sc.
cession-that everything that has been de-
manded by the south has been yielded by
the Republicans and approved by a Re-
publican Observation-Disclosures, a Bor-
der State leader, who processes to favor the
union, rejects the counsel of the patriotic
Senator from Illinois, sneers at the whole
some legislation of the last Congress insists
upon misconstruing President Lincoln's In
augural, and demands new guarantees If he
aud his disunion confederates are to return
to or remain in the union And what say
the disunienists of the cotton states I?
While denouncing Lincoln aud Douglas 10
the same breath-elassing them together
as alike disloyn, treacherous, and hostile
they refuse to accept the ultimatum of their
own willing candidate for President last
year, and declare themselves forever out oI
the Union. -..ts -.-..... 81. ...... .
The cotton states insist upon capturing
forts aud stealing the property of the whole
people-and doing this, too, by force oi
arms, aud following it by military prepara'
tion of the greatest magnitude ; aud mean
while, they demand that the border states
insist that the Federal Government, SO de-
spised and harrassed by the disunlonlSlS'
shall not protect itself from annlhllat'oi ;
shall not even enforce the laws made WIN
the aid of the cotton states themselves out
shall patiently stand by and see the work d OF
devastation aud decay gong on' "nuou'
raising u hand to save our uhnaPpy Soun-
try.- In other words, the seceders ask, nay
demand. that the border states shail hola
the government while they are cutting ont
lis heart and mutilatiDg us limbs
This game has been played long enough