Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1862-08-23

| is mistaken" promptly replied Ben. Wade:
1--WE do nat forbid his taking his old nanny
with him to Nebraska. We only say that
he shall not sell her after be gets her
there"
Mr.. Badger, after The deceose of the
Wing party, was q Fillmore American,
then Bell Everett Unionist-"FUr the
Union, the Constitution, and the Eenforce.
ment Of the Laws" AS such, he resisted,
with nearly all the ex Wings and many
Democrats of North Carolina, the first at.
tempt to take bis State ont of the Union.
But at length the expedient of lombard.
ing Fort Sumter in order TO fire the
Southern heart" was tried with astounding
success. Sumter was taken President
LINCOLN was constrained to resist force by
force and North Carolina thereupon rush
ed into rebellion Now let us hear Mr..
Badgers statement Of the case, in a recent
letter to Mr. Ely, Nj. c. from Rochester,
n Y:
'MR Ely In your letter to Mr. Stanly
you propose to him The Office of cherishing
the feelings Of ~ Unionsm" in North Carroll
na,aud as that letter came to my hands in an
unsealed envelop directed TO my wife, l take
the Liberty Of setting you right upon a fact
and showing yon what q hopeless task you
have suggested 10 Mr. Sanly
There is in North Carolina no Union
feeling, as you suppose, aud as is probably
supposed by the generality of Northern
men. There 0dS in this state a very strong
love for the Union establ shed by our faith
ers--whica induced the people, by q very
large and overwhelming majority, to voe
down the putpoSe OF seeding from the
Union on account of Mr. Lincoln's election (;
and this was represented by immediate Sc,
cesSonists here as proving that the Uuion
men here were base suhmissionists, ready to
submit to any injury or insult rat er tbun
resist wrong, and, stand in defense of our
rights and honor. But as soon as Mr..
LincOln's proclamation of April 1861, ap-
peared Offering us the alternative of joining
in an armed invasion Of our Southern sister
States for their subjugation, under the pre-.
tense of executing the laws, or ressen to
the authorities Of the U S our position
was taken with ut moments hesitation. A
convention was Immediately called,S Instant
Iy aud without dissenting voice, that con.
venton resolved to take our side with the
already seeded States, and share their fate
for good or evil From that moment, how
ever we may have differed in other things,
in this there has not been, aud there is NOT,
any difference. 1t would, perhaps, be too
much to say if were to affirm that there
was, on this subject, an absolute unauimity;
but there was such an overwhelming pre-.
Il l,,p, ,;po oF
to what is called a moral unanimily-
hence the people with one heart sprang to
arms Union men-that is, those who pre-.
vionSly had been Union men-not only
among the first, bat, truth aud justice re-.
qurie me to say, the very first. Hence the
people have nearly sixty regiments-not
skeletons, but full regiments and among
them there is not one conscrpt or drafted
man. Hence we have freely taxed our.
selves, aud used our credit in making large
loans TO sustain the war and the spirit
which has produced this has never tagged,
and is now as high as at first.
Mr.. Ely, thing a moment. We have
been invaded 10y an enemy as unrelenting
and ferocious as the hordes under Atlila and
Alalit, who overran the Roman Empire.
He comes o rob us, to murder our people,
to insult our women, 10 emancipale our
slaves, and is now preparing to add
new element 10 this most atrocious sggres.
sion, and involve US in the direful horrors
Of o servile war. lie proposed nothing
less than our entire destruction, the
total desolation of our country unver-
sal emancipation not from love Of
lo elo h,,t fr,,,,, lat -, Il,
us"-to "wipe ont the SJuth" involve
US in irremedable misery and hopeless ruin.
Now, Mr.. EIy,if your own State of New
YoIk we're so invaded aud so threatened,
what would be your feelings and proposes?
From these you may judge of ours. We
look with horror at the thought of Icing
again united in any political connection
with The North. We would rather far that
our State shud be colony of England,
or France, or Sardinia The North may
be able (lhough we believe it not) to cou-
quer us, and even to keep us conquered !;
and if it should be the wise and good pur.
pose of Almighty God that this should
happen, me shall endeavor 10 suffer with
patience whatever evils may befull u.s.
But voluntary return to any union with
the North, this we cannot, will not aceept
upon any terms; a revival of Union senti.
ments-lhis is a mere impossiblity.
/ think, therefore, Mr.. Ely, you would
do well to advise Mr.. Stanly to abandon
his enterprise.
! have thus quoted the whole of Mr..
Badgers letter that bears on the right aud
wrong of the conflict now proceeding. Let
US caudidly consider it:
l Upto the bombardment of Ft Surter
there was no reason for defying or dissolviug
the Union, Mr. Badger and the People OF
North Carolina being judges Liucoln and
Hamlin had been elected; Congress had re.
fused to adopt the CritIenden Comprom.
Use the Peace Congress- had proved abor.
tive; Mr.. Lincoln had assumed the Presi.
dency and promulgated his Inaugural
aud still Mr.. Badger and North Carolina
remained loyal to the Union. cite them,
therefore as unimpeachable witnesses that
all which had been previously done in de.
faHce of the legitimate authority of the
Federal Goverumant, had been so done
wantouly and wckedly.