Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1862-05-17

soldiers, all impatient to be discharged from
the service and at liberty to return to thei
homes:
What then ?
The states Just restored by force to the
Union will be summoned to elect members
OF congress-of this congress-to appear
next winter iD Washington and resette ouI
distracted country. What sort Of men will
South Carolina, and Georgia, and every
other state and section wherein the rebellion
has for months borne undisputed sway, be
likely to elect And what sort of measures
will they be likely to insist on as required
to satisfy, tranquiize, aud reconvert to Un.
ioni,m their constituents And what kind
Of response are they likely TO elicit from
the Bayards and Carlisles, the Vallandig.
hams and Voorhieses, now constituting a
minority in either house, but who will Thus
be converted into majority Who that
has honestly and earnestly fought treason
throughout will be regarded with favor by
such an ascendency?
The slaveholder's rebellion is now seen to
have been an enormous blnnder. No sue
cess now possible will make slavery
so strong as the day after Lincon's elec.
ton That election was desired, designed,
conspired for, rejoiced over, 10y the engn
GERS of disunion, us certain to afford them
their long awaited opportunity. They
might have succeeded had they chosen 70
do so. and governed the whole country as
in their halcyon days, when Lewis Cass, the
northern plenipolentiary Of ii northern pre-
sident, defeated at Puris the suppression
of The African slave trade as when John
c. Calhoun, the Secretary of state of pre-
sident, by the woes Of Massachusetts
and Vermont, instructed Minister VIM r.
King to inform the French Court that we
must annex Texas in order to secure Amer.
lean slavery against the insidions uroads
of abolition as when James Buchanan
met with John Y. Mason and Pierre SOuIc
at OStend, and in the name aud behalf Of
our government and people, concocted and
issned that atrocous circular which shock
ed the nowise delicate moral sense of En-
rope, by proclaming that We should wrest
Cuba by bloody violence from Spain when
ever it should, in our opinion, become ne
crsSnry to do so in order 10 preserve and
perpeiuate human bondage in this country.
AS Napoleon |. was not Satisfied with hav-
ing Spain his vassal his satellite lis con.
venlence his puppet, but must lose not on
ly her but everything in an insane grasp to
make her more palpablY, formally his, SO
the slave power, not content with having
the Union its beast of burden must risk
everything on an effort TO kick aside he
ladder by which it had mounted to emiu-
ence and world wide sway. /, has thrown
al Il
it ten0eTly in the full posses sion Of all it so
recklessly, traitorously cast away. Such is
the meaning, such the drift, of what is COM
mended in pro slavery northern journals as
Reconstruction" 1t is simply restoring to
the slave power, all it has righteously for.
feited by wanton rebellion, which will
have cost the republic Que Hundred Thou.
sand loyal sons end a round billion of dol
lars.
And to day our surest hope that this
great wrong and peril will be averted, rests
on the blind obstinacy Of the rebel chiefs.
Were they ready to-day TO throw down
their arms and appeal to the clemency of
the nation, they would probably regain, so
far as practicable, all they have righteously
forfeited. The poor blacks of the Sea Isl
ands would pick for their now fugitive mas
ters the cotton they have planted for them
selves Howell Cobb and Toombs would
resume their seats, and again display their
habtual insolence in the capitol ; and few
months would witness the resumption of
save-hunts in northern sta eS for those who
escaped from traitorous masters during the
turmoil of civil war.
But let the rebel leaders persist in their
treason for even few mont hS longer, in its
lforganizing guerrilas under their new
act of Congress- and all will be changed
The heat and pestilence of August and Sep
tember will compel the employment of 10y
al blacks in marning the recovered forts on
our southern seaboard, and in relieving our
northern soldiers from the intolerable fa-
tgue of inrenching and other camp labors
under a southern sun. When guerrlas be-
gin to cut off our supply trains and lure
Federal detachments into deadly ambns-
cades, it will be found absolutely necessary
to employ black scouts and spies to guard
against these unwelcOme perls Every
hour that the war is protracted after the
rebel armies shrink from meeting those of
the republic in equal combat, will be an
hour of increasing peril to slavery and of
strengthened hope for universal freedom.
One year of this struggle has been devoted
10 the saving of the nation from division
and overthrow heneeforth each hour of
protracted and desperate resistance on the
part of the baflled, despairing, wrthng
treason will be an hour of precious opportu-
nifty, of bouuteous promise, to national en-.
reimbursement and the inalieuable rights of
man.
From the Western Reserve Chronicle
From Burrows Battery.
PHTsBURGH LANDING. TENN.