Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1862-03-08

ent who Wishes success to the rebellion who
Is not vehement partisan Of slavery
Can any man doubt that it is slavery
alone that fomented this else must unnatn-
raj and irrational conspiracy to destroy the
noblest frame. work Of government by which
Man was ever blessed None
Now suppose o compromise oould be ef.
fected which would restore the precise state
Of things that existed prior to secession
that would return Mason and Hunter,
Bocock and Pryor, Rreckinridge and
Bright. Toombs and Cobb, Chestnut and
Wingfall, Benjamin and Polk, to the Seu-
ate, and put the control Of Congress and
the Supreme Court virtually into their
hauds--what would recompense the loyal
people Of the free states for the suiferngs
and sacrifices imposed on them by the re-
bellioH? What would be their security a.
gaiust new rebellion whenever Floyd in
the War Department can have Stolen and
carried of government arms enough TO up.
hold it
Wherein is our indemnity for the past ?
Wherein our security for the future
Among tho European ohsersers aRd
thinkers who sympathze with the Ameri-
can Republic 10 its desperate struggle with
its parrieidal assaiIants, there can hardly
be one who does not hope that this war will
terminate the existence of slavery And
II may confidently be affirmed that there is
not one who does not deem such result
emineutly, transcendently desirable.
Slavery cleuched the nation iu death
grapple. il has lost, though it long SEEM
ed likely to win. If, now, instead Of Civ
ing mp the ghost like penitent malefactor,
it insists on reclaiming all the privileges it
enjoyed before The rebeIon--on having oil
1t risked restored to It, and even an eularge.
ment Of its conceded bounds-why will it
not have regnined 10y diplomacy all that it
forfeited by rebellion?
And why should this trinmph be conce-
ded TO the head traitor of yesterday
What moral obligation now rests on the
North to resume the odious, loathsome
work Of returning fugiIives from southern
slavery Is it not plainly Impossible that
this shall generally be done II so, is it
not criminal TO promise what We eanuot
perform?
With what emotions shall we hear that,
in consequence Of the Compromise Of S62
slavery has been established in Arazonia
and New Mexico, while secret ornaments,
looking TO the conquest of Cuba from Spain,
have been resumed since the close of our
civil war, and are being vigorously pushed
on, under the cover of the machinery of Sc
eret societies
Nearly Two Millions of American free
men made noble record for themselves in
Novemer 1860. In de6nnncs of threats
and every form Of mean appeal to sordid
influences, they voted that--not even to
avert q Civil War-would they consent to
the further diffusion Of Slavery under the
sway Of the Union Can those they ther
placed in power forget or defy the conyic-
tions they thus proclaimed
Fellow-clizens listen not 10 begiuliul
words II we are faithful to priaciplc, WI
may leave results to Divine Providence
The Nation will live, though indiv idual
may die. The one question which viii
| dwarf all others in any his ory Of this war
will be, How was Slavery affected by IL
progress and result If its events should
prove the death Of Slavery-not necessarily
this year, but at some time-the historian
must soy that the sacrifices and sufferingl
OF the contest have been nobly blessed
but If the instruction shall lie strengthened
and fortified by a compromise at the close
then will much misery have been braved
much precious blood lavish ed, essentially
| in vain.