Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1862-06-21


Into practical collision in North Carolina
Mr.. Vincent Colyer was at Newbern, "a citing
officially as Federal Superintendent Of the
Poor and bis private or individual capacity
as Superintendent Of Voluntary Education
having opened schools for White children
and also for black. Hon. Edward StaDly
called from California by the Government
to act as Military Governor of his native
State wss landed at Newbern, and forth
with suppressed Mr.. Colyer's Black school
as contrary to the laws of the State-rhat
is, to the laws long before enacted and still
remaining in force when her authorities os.
sumed to take her out of the Union. Hav.
ing done this, Gov. Stsnly commenced re-
storing 10 their lately rebel owners slaves
who had run away. He could not have
done less, consistently with his suppression
Of the colored school.
That journals consistently and earnestly
hostile to Slavery should regard these acts
with disfavor was inevitable That journals
and individuals who champion Slavery
should regard them with approval aud ex.
ultation, was equally of course. But the
dilemma of habitual trimmers and tide wal.
ters was particularly perplexing. If they
sustained Gov. StaDly they must shock the
moral sense Of their readers; while by oppo.
sing him they would stultify their emphatic
denunciatton Of the Territorial theory,
while yet fresh in the public mind. Hence,
some of them had the wisdom to keep 81.
lence, while others shut their eyes to con.
sislency and berated Gov. StanIy as though
he had done them personal wrong by act
ing on the State.rights theory which they
had so stoutly defended.
Their dilemma is the Nations admoni.
tion. The problem they expose demands
an authoritative solution. 1t cannot much
longer be evaded. If we are indeed strug-
gliug merely TO restore what the Rebellion
has disPlaced-if State rights, aud STATE
laws stand unaffected by State Treason
then our Northern friends who have been
teaching and watching over the deserted
slaves Of Port Royal and the adjacent Sea
Islands have much to answer for They
have been Aagranrly violating the laws Of
the State in which they lvcl They have
rendered themselves liable to severe penal.
ties When South Carolina shall have
been fully restored to the Union, aud these
culpriis shall have fed in terror to their
No thern home, the vengeance of offended
law will doubtless pursue them What an.
swer shall Gov. Morgan and Gov. Andrew
return to the acquisitions which demand
their surrender as fugitves from justice
profering ample proof that they violated and
defied the criminal code of South Carolina
while domiciled on her soil? Have our
agile contemporaries ever looked forward TO
this conSummaiionT
Two generations Of hypocrisy, of servile
compliance, of heartless genuaexions, of M
principled catering to those who had favor
or custom to bestow, have brought The Free
States to their present position. The faith
ers have eaten our grapes, and the sons are
paying the penalty The question of the
day concerns the wisdom of persevering in
the course which has subjected us to such
Christening. If Massachusetts shall, at so
great a cost Of blood and treasure, have
horne in her stout arms wayward South
Carolina back into the Union only to have
her Commissioner hunted out of Charleston
by a mob, as Mr.. Hoar was aud her Sena.
tors bIudgeoned in the Capital as Mr.. Sum
ner was, while the naughty rebels of 1861,
shall renew in the streets of Boston the
scenes which characterized the seizure of
Sims and Burns, we leave her to compute
for herself the honor and profit of the pro-
cedure.
In the early stages of the great drama
now approaching its close under our eyes,
it was vehemently urged by Southern Uni
oniSts that Secession aoaS AbOlitiOn-that
Slavery could only be perpetuated under
the aegis of the Union. Gov Neil S. Brown
of Tennessee--who has been prominent
rebel, hut is one Of Gov Johnsons converts
pleads for the Union very much in this
spirit Parson Brownlow, among the many
grave misdemeanors for which he arraigns
the Rebels, asSerts-nO doubt truly-that
they have stolen more negroes in one year
than the Aboltionsts ever did is a dozen.
We are obviously gliding toward recon.
struction," wherein the active traitors,
thoroughly beaten in the appeal to arms
which they so rashly initiated, will condescend
to listen 10 Northern assurances that We
never harbored thought of hostility to
their beloved Institution, and will thereupon
lnagnanimously condeScend to forgive us
the past on our promise to do better in fu-
ture. They will take US on our probation
once more
In this spirit Reconstruction" may be
effected aud peace restored to this distracted
land But il will be a false and fleeing peace
"a delusye and unstable reunion. If Slavery
shall recover by the peace fall that she SO
madly riskcd and has so righteously forfeit
cd by treason, then the precious blood OF
thousands will apparently have been shed in
vain. And yet not really in vain, since no
act of generous selfsacrihce is ever wholly
fruitless. The seed rots and dies only that
the tree may spring from its decay. II it
be decreed that Slavery shall triumph in
the immediate issue of this contest, 1t can
only be that is downfall in the not distant
future shall be more signal and conclusive.
1t cannot be that this gigantic wrong and
shame is defined to outlive, in a country so
enlightened as ours, the present century. IL
is doomed to die, and our historian will see
in the wanton, alrocions Rebellion of 1861
the immediate cause Of its overthrow. That
is the galows erected for Mordecai, aud
Haman must swing from il ere the good