Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1862-02-08

each man, woman, and child in the Union
will be less than the total cost. The bread
Of many poor mans child must 60 unbut-
tered because Of this war IN not few in
stances the bread itself (alas y will also
be wanting. None is so rich or fortunate,
scarcely one so poor aud miserable, that be
will not be personally serious loser be
cause Of the rebellion. And to what end
Is il indeed true that our Federal Con-
siitution constrains us to fight and vanquish
the rebellion in such manner that its chief
Indictment, its animating soul, shall receive
no harm Can IL be that onr fathers have
bound US TO permit Slavery to plot and strike
indefinitely for the overthrow Of the Nation,
while the Nation shall iu no case strike one
blow at the life of Slavery
We who nre called radicals insist that
this is not and cannot be the true reading
of our Constitutional chorter-that all the
rights Of shareholders under our Govern
ment appertain to a state Of loyalty on
their pert, and are suspended If not annul.
led by their rebellion When Col Mallory
Of the rebel force beIeaguering Fortress
Monroe sent to the commander of that for
tress early last summer demanding the re-
turn of his negro who had fed from his SER
vice and taken refuge under the Stars and
Stripes, the modest requirement was prompt
lly aud bIuntIy denied, with the hearty
appropriation of every loyal citizen. 1t was
seen at Onre to restore fugitive slaves to
rebels who were fighting to divide and de.
stroy the country was to make ourselves
the secompliees and partnersof their trea-
son for they might even send negroes in
to our camps as deserters, aud, after they
had picked up what Information they could,
might demaud their return q fugitives, thus
supplying themselves with weekly reports
of the strength and movements Of our forces
To state the case as it is aud must be is to
indicate The inevitable conclusion. In brief,
the rebellion was necessarily--so far as the
rebel States and districts were concerned
the end of returning fugitive slaves.
But more
The slaves Of the rebels-(and they are
nearly all the slaves in every State for
the shareholders of Maryland and Missouri
are with few exceptions, as demoniac Se
cessionists as those of South Carolina)
are, with scarcely on exception, loyal
to the Union. They fly insInctiVely for
protection from their masters to the slip,
the camp, the fort, whence floats the flag
of our Nation. They forsake home, family
everything they hold dear but God and lib
erty, to find refuge under the wing of Our
eagle. Admit that their loyalty is at once
selfish and based on an illusion, does it i'm
pose no obligation on rs Suppose the pee-
pie of South Carolina--thet is, the aristo-
! cratic minority who have fomented this re-
r belion-were to be convinced by defeat
+ and disaster that they coald not succeed il
destroying the Union nor in defying its an
u thority, and were thereupon to say, "WC
= will return to loyalty provided You will re
o store all our slaves 10 the masters who raI
It away from them when you took the forts a
If the entrance to Port Royal, and who hav
|, since been plotting your vessels, unloading
D your cargoes, and picking cotton for you
Il Government, bow many of US are bas
enough to respond, 1--WE agree to that
Send Hammond and Chestnut back to th
Senate, with Keitt, Rhett, Orr, and Boyc
70 the House and VIC will put your negroe
back into your service and help You reduc
them again to bondage 2" Who does mol
know that Christendom would scorn nnC
loathe us if we were capable of such base
ness
o my empty headed hollow hearted fel
low citizens your parrot-talk of being
'opposed alike to Secession and Abolition
is very dreary platitude, and bears no re-
lation to any living interest or issue As
well might yon say that you are alike op.
posed to the INCLUSION and the Art of
Printing-to Witcbcraft and the Equator
That you do not wish the triumph of JEFF.
Davis nor a general emancipation Of slaves,
we quite understand but the case in hand
concerns not your wishes but the triumph
of Law and Liberty in the crushing out Of
this rebellion. The real question involves
not what you would have but what can be
You dream of forcing the shareholders to
return to the Union-putting them back
where they were two years ago. But to
do this you must conquer them-and have
you ever considered what an anomaly
conquered STAKEHOLDER must be How is
he to command the necessary fear and awe
on the part of his slaves who have seen bin
badly whipped and compelled to submit to
a rule he detests Plainly, he is not the
man he was you cannot make him snch
by contriyanoe or coddling. lie is your
snbiect-your liberated captive--yonr par
doned eulprit-and cannot really be any
mans master until the memory OF his hu-
initiation is effaced by some great revenge,
Rely on it, he understands his position bet
ter than you do. and would sooner free his
slaves than hold them as q vanquished,
pardoned rebel. Take any form but
that 70
A few months-it may be weeks-must
decide for what the People Of the U. S. have
been called to meet the fearful trials and
sacrifices imposed ou them by this rebellion
What it may be, it boots not here TO inquire
but this is certain--it cannot be that the
burdens laid on our loyal citizens will have
been borne wholly in vain.