Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1862-09-20

ASHTABULA o.. SATURDAY MORNING. SEPTEMBER 20, 1862

| Washington. Does this look like the
Union putting down the Rebellion Does
IL not look mneh more like being put down
by it ?
do not here deal with criticisms on the
Administration or its generals seasons of
odyelsi sity are always fruitful in SUCH often
with good reasons. | treat only in this ar.
tIcle OF popular discouragemeui--i Its reasons
aud It's uureaSon. Let me briefly show
why consider it senseless and unworthy
We have this day far larger ond more
elective armje, in the field than ever before.
THESE armies have met no serious reverseS.
lhey are beng REINFORCED by rev, enlhn.
siaslic Ievies at the rate of some Ten Thou
sand per day. They are amply supplied
thoroughly armed and equipped ond fiber.
ally paid. Most Of them have received
oounIle', which have enabled them to leave
their families in assured comfort. They ave
intelligent, brave and patriolic-by far
better raw material L speak more especial.
" OF she new Ievies) than has composed any
army since that of Oliver Cromwell.
They have enlisted to fight bleed, (and If
need be) die for their country. Wlth de-
cent Generals, they arc match for an
eqnal number Of any other troops in the
"orIu. Aud they will not be obliged to
wear Their ieet off in hunting for the enemy,
nor to nSsuil him amid labyrinth of am,
bnscades, inlrenchments, and masked bat.
terleS. They will now meet hin on equal
ground.
IL. The Rebels have invaded Maryland
IN force. This movement implies at once
desperation aud famine They know that
they thus place themselves between the pop
ulons and resou;e loyal States and an army
which ut least outnumberS theirs They
must live on the country they invade, aud
must somehow he provided with draft ami.
mails, wagons, mum tions, tens, and cloth.
ing being now i'll provided in every respect.
Maryland which has hitherto been enriched
by The war, is henceforth to be deyonred by
II. And to subSiSt great army on a ueu.
trail region is 10 convert lis Indifferent
or avarlciouS inhabitants from neutrality to
bitter enmily. War is far more cos " to.
day than in any former age, and must be
boun eousIy fed or it dies ont An army
without base or assured drpots of con
"tantIy accumalatimg supplies, mus advance
ana conquer daily or il cats OUT its own
life. For the Rebels to stand sill week
III Maryland is to invoke certain dcstruc
ton.
III. This movement brings US within
striking distance Of peace. The Rebels
place their main army within easy reach of
ours. Let them be as,aicd in the
rear and the Potomac barred against their
retreat by superior force, aud they are
ruined. Sixty days must see them victor'
in Baltimore and Washington, or routed
scattered, and undone They eau no lon
ger get behind intrenchmcntS and make
10000 men do duty for 100, 600. The frs
Of November must see one party hopclessI
wOrsted, and compelled TO submit tc
the enemy'S terms. If we cannot now
discomfl and utterly crush the rebels, we
shall be compelled to acknowledge their in.
| dependence. To those who have long
prayed aud hoped for speedy close Of this
desoating war, the prospect should be in
spring.
VI. Finally and principally, GoD REIGNs
If He has decrced the humiliation and
overthrow of the Union, lie has good rea
sous for so doing which the result will
make plain, "If we are doomed to be a ma
tOn scattered and peeled, it is because We
have deserved to he If our overthrow is
at hand, It's reasons already exists in onr in
fidelity to principle, our greed of blood.
stained gold and our heartless betrayal of
the oppressed and dowutrodden If oar
Nation is to die, it is SO dccrccd in order
that humanity may truly and nohIy live.
The downfall as well as the uplifting of ma
tons is a lesson dvineIy mercifully, given
FOR the instruction of maukn l.
"Sit" said once Christian to statesman
who had feared that everything would go
to destruction in case of his failure aud
death in an enterprise wherein he had en-
tered ,"do you not think the world was well
goverened before You were born into it p
Certainly" do you not trust that it
will still be well governed after you shall
have been taken out of it 7" "Of course |
do" Then why act as if you believed moth.
ing of the sort p
Let Us neve despair of the American
Republic. 1t can ouly die when It's own
corruptious and iniquities shall have render.
ed it no longer ct TO live. SO long as it is
fitted TO be light and star of hope to
the nations, so long will God preserve it
from all enemies, foreign aud domestic
when the day shall have arrived in
which it can better serve them as a beacon
and a warning, no valor and no devotion
crn longer avert its doom. But even then
when its good citizens and true patriots will
serve aud die for their couUtry as noJly and
usefuly as ever And while there still re-
main million hearts ready joyfnlly to pour
ont their last drop Of blood for the deliver
ance of this nation from the perils which
environ her, it is impossible that her ruin i;
at hand. She still lives, and will live to re
buAe faint hearted dependency and to pun
+ isb red.handed treason. Her necessity il
Gods opportunity, and her deliYeFnce shal
yet astonith and diseomRt those who arr
waiting to exult over her ruin.
General Pope's OniciaI Report.
II. uot enoca for tho Uhoia af Gnn