Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1862-10-04
From the N. Y. Independent,
THE UNION THAT rs TO BE.
Br HORACE GREELEY.


to what that end precisely must be. New.
ertheless, through the haze which dims the
future, certain great landmarks loom out in
unmistakebIe soidity. And these are Of
them
The past cannot be recalled. History
does not repeat its great eras nor its great
events. The Union may be saved or lost
II can be saved it should not be lost--but
"tbe Union as il was" is thing of the past.
Whatever the future may have in store for
us, the re-assembling of Jefferson Davis and
William II. Seward, Johu B. Floyd and
Charles Sumner, Salmon p Chase and
Judah p. Benjamin, Auson Burlingame
and Lawrence M. Keitt, under be same
roof peacefully to debate and decide on the
affairs of their common country, is a moral
imposs bility. Either the Hammonds aud
Toombses have ceased forever to direct
the lolicy of our Republic, or the Wmots
and Wades are Oh the verge of vigorous
aud final exclusion from power. The strug.
gle which has been transferred from the
forum to the field cannot be restored to the
former arena. 1t must be decided were it
now is, and for ever.
III. The term Compromise" cannot con-
ceal tho real nature Of the transaction
Whereby the Republic shall be surrendered
TO the control of the traitors who have
waded through seas of blood for its destruc.
tion. When Missouri was admitted as a
Slave State, to her own and the Nations
lasting injury, the Slave Power said, at
shall be so, or the Union shall perish P' So
in 1885, the Slave Power said California
shall not be admitted as Free State with.
out equivalent concessions 10 Slavery if it
is, the Union snail be Shivered !"-and in
either case the qualiug of the Free States
before the menace was termed Compro.
mise. Bat if the Nation should now buy
back the rebels TO lip loyalty by new pros.
trations before the bloody Mooch of the
South, the whole world would see that We
had succumbed to slavet old treason, aud
would cry shame at our ab0sement.
III. The Slave Power does not want to
be conciated. 1t dres not chose 10 be
brought up. 1t iutesely hates its consistent
adversaries in the Free States as fanatics 4;
it still more intensely lothes il late allies
aud companions among us as diSsemberS
aud hyprocrites. We whom it stigmatizeS
Abolitlonists have not deceived aud dsap.
pointed it as have Que neghbors in whom
it formerly uSted. They had so often as
sured it that, in case Of u collision between
its volaries and 'the fanatics" their treas.
ure aud blood should be poured out in op
position TO the latter, that they did conf
IDENTITY expect 10y the bombardment OF Fort
Sumter TO reyolu ion Ze aud divide the NoI I'll
as well as electrifying and unite the South.
The failure of that calculation has left them
quite as deeply embttered against the Con.
servatives whose goods they bought on
credit and never paid for, aud who were
Ill last year their dear frieLlI, as against
he Radicals whom they always openly de-
ested. IL is question whether they do
not now deprecate reunion with the for
mer quite as much as with the latter. The
dominant influence at the South prefers un
disputed dominion in the Slave States to a
disputed aud precariouS asceudency over
the whole Union. 1t regards the whole
civilized world as hostile to Slavery, aud
gloomily interprels The ampionship of its
Northern servitors as dictated solely by the
remembrance of past and hope of future
advauIages-aS insiucere in spirit and sin
ister in purpose 1t is no longer in the
mood 10 prize or welcome allies who hesi
tate to fight in its cause. 1t asks to bt
let alone
". A large and controlling portion oi
the conservatives add partisan Democrats
of tue Free States is wiIlfuly blind to these
facts. 1t refuses revolt against Republi
can or Abolition rule. Its IngerSolls, Sey
mours, and Vallandighams virtually say
"Only put US, into power aud the Soutt
will gladly come back 10 the Union" Blu
the South says nothing like IL. 1t com
plains OF tariffs and navigation laws, ant
denies to Europe that our civil war mainly
concerns Slavery and Abolition. Northern
predomiuence, Northern selfshness, cupid
ty, greed, rapacity, oppression, form the
burden OF ito plant It's indictment agains
US would have been just as pertinent anC
valid had we elected Fillmore or Everett
President, us 10 the actual case. The Lure
held out that Democratic restoration u
the North would insure reconciliation 0
the South to the Union are sustained by NJ
facts, but contradicted by many.
V. The Shareholders feel that they can
not as shareholders return to loyalty. Fo
years they have plotted and threatened dis
union. After two or three false starts, he,
have at length made decided plunge
They feel that as caste, they must triumph
or perish. TO return to the Union ani
obey it constituted authorities is to confes
themselves lhorougly bealen-is it to STAN
baffled and humilialed in the eyes of thei
slaves. 1t will be TO them dangerous IT
yelaIon that somebody or something
Massa'S Master-as premptory as and strong
er than he. A whipped stakeholder VIII
remains stakeholder holds position a
once more perilous aud piliable. And T. er
is not slave in America who will nc
know that the shareholders are whipped
they unconditonally return to the Union.
vi. On every side demonstrations multi
ply that tho Union Of the future must be
free UnioD. Each battle won or lost, eaC
life noby given for The integrity of the r
public or criminally squandered for lis d
stTuction, is al addiuOuul obstacle to
Pro.Slavery Reconstruction. II Slavery
: conserved by the peace that must com
e that peace will prove but truce, wheth
"a the Union be maintained or given up. II
,e Slavery aud the Union are the Rome al