Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1861-08-24
Mercy 60 shs Nroroll.s,.

The N. Y. EUeHing Post sketches with +.
master hand, the contrast between the humane
course ofour government and the inhumane poli.
cy Of that Of the Rebels:
1--WE restrain our soldiery from treadino
the soil Of the state that wears the mask of
peace and protests her loyalty. until she
casts aside her pretense and reveals her hills
covered and her forests and defles with hal.
teres. We spare the lives of traitors. rcIv.
ing on their honor and their oaths and
soon after find the subjects of mercy in tho
ranks of our foes. We have respected in
oil cases the usual signals of truce but
they contound the hospitaites of war by
carrying our banner as a decoy, and hav.
lngwon, by so base and cowardly nr net
an advantage OF position, they pour their
muderous hire on our soldiers about TO en-.
brace them rs brothers. We give our
wounded enemies water, and with reyiyinp
strength they plunge the bayonct to the
heart Of their benefnctors. We give free
access to our military posts and our prison.
ers OF war, even TO Congressional traitors,
and perpetual truce TO unarmed rebels,
but Northern men are imprisoned or shot.
all over the South We gallantly permit
the wives Of rebels in arms to boast their
family disloyolty in the circles of our Cap.
ital, and indirectly live from the public
treasury, and at the same time complaceut-
ly hear of Northern women, sojourning in
the Sonth, stripped TO the waist and whip.
ped with the knot, for no cline but the
love of the government of their fathers.
We withhold, nay suppress the stampedeS
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they force their slaves 10 throw up the
breastworkS behind which they may in com.
paratlve safety deal death to the defenders
ol the Constitution. We decline the service
OF men whose color, as well as whose occu.
patton might be Objectionable to our faStidi
Gus foemcn, and send our white citizens
alone 10 do the parallel entrenching aud to
Tall nnder the fire Of negro battalonS. We
discourse feelingly Of our recent fraternal re.
Iations, and hope that the rebels will lay
down their arms and return to obedience TO
the Constitutions and the laws of peace .
they point US TO their newly formed alliance
with the pirates of the seas and the Indian
savages of our frontiers. The world will
Judge which side of this national struggle
glows with that glory Of 'cbivalry' that ac.
SouutS IL H"HoI W give tue OuuS 10 your
enemy in the deadly contest"
"a people who, in defense of their gov.
crnment, are asSailed by all the Internal ell.
ginery of both civilized and savage warfare.
who meet foe that like the stealthy Indian
fights by ambuscadcs, rewards mercy with
treachery, and makes his name terrible by
reason of his atrocities after the battle, can.
not restrain their wilder impulses forever.
They will he at length goaded into revenge,
and the contest will then be turned from n
war to butchery. Worse than that, the
various considerations which have hitherto
withheld the North from warning upon the
domestic system of the South, will lose
their force, and servile inSurrecton add its
horrors TO civil war. Frecmeu will no,
long consent 10 see their brother fall before
batteries constructed by the labors of slaves.
1t negroes are TO be used against US, it will
not be long before they are used against the
enemy. When the nolhern homes are
made desOlate by weapons placed in the
hands of the African race, it cannot be ex.
pected that southern homes will he shelter.
ed from The same hostility.