Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1862-08-30
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your election, aud Of all who desire the
unqualified suppression Of the Rebellion
now desolatng our country, are sorely DIS
appointed and deeply panied by the policy
you seem to be pursuing with regard to the
slaves of Rebels. write only to set
succiently and unmistakably before you
what we require, what we think we have
right to expect, and Of what we complain.
I. We require Of you, as the first SER
want of the Republic charged especially and
prcemineutly with this duty, that you Exc
CUTE THE LAWS. Most emphatically do we
demand that such laws as have been re-
Gently enacted, which therefore may fairly
be presumed TO embody the present will and
TO be dictated by the present need OF the
Republic, aud which, after due consideration
have received your personal sanction, shall
by carried into full effect, and that you
publicly aud decisiyely instruct you subordi-
mates that such laws exist, that they are
binding on sll fuuctionaries and citizens,
and that they are to be obeyed to The
letter.
IL. We thiuk you are strangely and
disastrously remiss in the discharge Of your
official and imperative duty with regard to
the emancipating provisions Of the new
CoufScation Act Those provisions were
designed to fight Slavery with Liberty.
They prescribe that men loyal to the
Union, and willing to shed their blood
10 her behalf shall no longer be held, with
the Nations consent, in bondage to persis-
teut malingant traitors, who for 20 years
have been plotting and for sixteen months
have been lighting to divide aud destroy
our country. Why these traitors should
be treated with tenderness by you, to the
prejudice Of the dearest rights Of loyal men,
we cannOt conceive.
Ill We think you are unduly Influenced
by the counsels, the representations, the
menaces, of certain fossil politicians bail.
ing from Border Slave States. Knowing
well that the heartily, uncoudilionally loyal
portion of the White citizens of those
States do not expect nor desire that Slayey
shall be upheld TO the prejudice of the
Union for the truth 10 which We appeal
not ouly to every Republican residing in
those States, but TO such eminent loyaIists
as B Winter Davis, Parson Brownlow,
the Union Central Committee of Balti.
more, and to The NashUiAe Uaion)-w
ask the inciting cause and sustaining base
Of treason the most slaVeholding sections
ol Maryland aud Deleware being this day,
though under the Uuion flag, iu full sympa.
thy with the Rebellion, while the Free
Labor portions of Tennessee and Of Texas,
though wrihng under the bloody heel of
Treason, are uucouquerably loyal TO the
Union. So emphaticaIly is this the case,
that most intelligent Union banker of
Baltimore recently avowed his confident
belief that majority of the presen. Legs-
laluie of Maryland, though elected as and
still protesting TO be UnioniSts, are at heart
desrou> of the triumph of the jeff Davis
conspiracy and when asked how they
could be won back to loyalty, replied
Only by the complete Abolition of Slav-
cry" 1t scenes TO US the most obvious
truth, that whatever strengthens or forti-
6es Slavery in the Border States streug.
tleIS also Treason, and drives home the
wedge intended TO divide the Union. Had
you from the FIRST refused TO recognize in
those States as here, any other than un-
conditional loyalty which stands for
the U MON, whatever may become Of Slav-
ery-lhOse States would have been, and
some 10 the defenders of the Union than
they have been, or now are.
w. We thiAk limid ceunsels in such
crisis calculated to prove pe:ilous, and
probably disastrous. 1t is the duty OF
Government so wantonly, wickedly assailed
10y Rebellion as ours has been to oppose
force 10 force iu defiant, dauntless spirit.
1t cOnnot afford te tempoFize with traitors
nor with semi trtors 1t must not brioe
them 10 behave themselves, nor make them
fair promises in the hope ofdisarming their
causeless hostility Representing brave
and bighspirited people, it can afford to
forfeit anything else better than its own
selfrespect. or their admring confidence.
For our Government even TO seek, after
war has been made on it. TO dispel the af-
fected apprehensiOns of armed traitors that
their cherished privileges may be assailed
by it, is TO invite insult and encourage
hopes of its own dawn!all. The rush 10
arms Of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, is the true
answer at once 10 Ihe Rebel raids Of John
Morgan aud the traitorous sophistries Of
Beriah Magofin.
v. We complain that the Union cause
sely from mistaken Difference to Rebel Slav-
cry. Had you, Sir, in your Inaugural
Address, unmstakably given notice that,
10 case The Rebellion already commenced
were persisted in, and your efforts to pre-
serve the Union and enforce the laws should
be resisted by armed force, yO~ 1oOaId re.
cOgHize no loyal person as rightfuHy held ta
SIGrery bV a traitor, we believe the Rebel
lion would therein have received stagger-
Ing If not fatal Llow. At that moment,
according to the returns, Of the most re-
cent eletiOns, the Unionists we're large
majority Of the voters of the Slave States
But they were composed in good part of
the aged, the feeble, the wealthy, the
the timid-lhe young, the reckless, the
aspiring, the adventurous, had already
been largely lured by the gamblers and
negro-traders, the politicians by trade and
the conspirators by instinct, into the tolls
of treason. Had you then proclaimed that
Rebellion would strike the shackles from
the slaves of every traitor, the wealthy and
the cautious would have been supplied with
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