Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1862-09-13

ing refusal and dcfance-when the great
1 Navy Yard aud Naval Arsenal opposite
/ Norfolk, Va, with its two thousand cannon
several hips Of war, nnd immense stores oil
munitions, was shamefuly betrayed to the
| Rebels, and the Arsenal at Harper's Fer.
ry, near Washington, destroyed TO save il
! from imminent capinre by armed traitors
| acling in the name and behalf of insurgent
| Virginia, though her secession was still
kept sccrct-it was in that hour, when the
President and Cabinet were entirely barred
from all communication with the loyal
States, defended by handful of improvsed
volunteers, in city surrounded by the
mastering hordes Of rebellion, and itself
fairly honeycombed with treason-that
Matthew f. Maury, Lieutenant in our
Navy, stole away like thief from the de-
fense Of that Government to which he had
solemuly sworn allegiance, and made his
way TO the hea quarters of that insurrec.
tiun Which it was his solemn duty to aid in
.uprerssng, but to which he bad resolved
benccfo'th to odhere Never was ing All
tudc, pcrfdy, and treason more utterly with
oul eAcnSe
Lieut. Many had been not merely ia
vorcd servant of The Uuiou-hc bad been,
as the sequul proves u spoiled one While
drawing the liberal pay of o Lieutenant in
the Navy, be had heen detailed 10 light
work on shore. with the largest conceivable
oppOrt unlies fof achieving world. d.wide
fame. His peculiar sphere Of duty commen
ded him to the ncqnnintanccs and favor Of
the mU>t hOnored and llusriouS meno of 9th
er lands anu he Is now Improving he III.
tmaCeS thus formed to give currency aud
character to The most atrocious libels on
the G Government he has betrayed, and The
People he is seeking 10 ruin. His letter,
lately pulishcd, 10 the French, Admiral.
Chabaunes, far exceeds in malignily and
falshood tile manifesto wherein Benedict
Arnold sought to Justify, but was able only
to embazan. his own.a abhorred treason
Let us look at some of Mnury's assertions
and endeavor, to comprehend the manner
of man they indicate as their author. And
first as 10 the connection of Slavery with
the Rebellion. he saws
"The Negro Is not, as the Yankee would
have the world belle, ethe cause or the object Of
the war. They arc a union of sbopkeepcrs and
pedders' nnder pre'tXt oil raising revenue
TO main'a'h ,he government; o"n'nern III
Tyi5 & %SS '"Aen ,i ~ '1''cu" ga, %Hco mo hS.
nriil ,bor insoi,nce hscs,oo % nnhearabo
We chnsa No Ionoer 70 snhmit- 70 tbei, rpla
and so souobt simply to withdraw from all no.
ljcal associations with them
The fuss and turmoil about Slavery is merely
incidental in this unhappy state of affairs. In
most OF me Nof'hcrh STATES II Is against lhe
law ,TI neo mvgo ron cu o0,e %a 'Hs,u Ss nsy m %
among them y
Surely this must .astonish at least our
Northern conservatives, who have so long
and so earnestly s,rivcn to save the Unicn
bv snnpre>sinG or Debating all opposition
to Slavery |! I.rhr Sou,hcrn leaders had
but sen>onally advised them that they
cared little noihing about Slavery agita-
ton huf were only nverse to " hat Lieut. NJ.
calls "the tarifp | am very sure that
"our shopkpeners and peddlers" would
have been able to satisfy them with less
than half the trouble they voinly took TO
that end. Our immense conservative
Union" m etings, and process ious. and Iav
ish expenditures throughout the Pre,iden
tai canvas of 1860, wetp all impelltd aud
governed by a dPplorable miSronceptior, If
Lient NJ pow speaks truly for they oil
dcprecate anti Slavery legislation and anti.
Slavery agitation as the only source of per
il TO our Uuion The Peter HarveyS and
j. Thomas S'evcnsons and E Bigelows of
BoSt on will hear with amuZcm'nt that they
did nothing in 1860 to avert The peril of
of disnnion, because, while they fought the
Aholilionists 20 the extent Of their ability
and means, they adhered to their old Wig
faith in protective Tariff Only think
Of this class heing convicted If causing the
secession of the South, while Wendell Phil
lips and LLOYD Garrison and Ralph Waldo
Emersou-being free Traders, like the Reb,
eI chiefs-are triumphantly acquitted
Bmt Lieut. Muary does not speak truly
The record is Overwhelmingly against him
There is not hearty SecesSionists in
America who is not devoted, body and
soul, TO Slavery while men are for and
against the Union in utter disregard oftheir
notions respecting Tariffs. The tariff under
which the Cotton States seeded was one
framed by themselves, adjusted to their own