Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1862-04-05


judge him is 10 see how he atones for like
errors at the feet of a single aud weak IN
dividual
The Government put itself at the feet of
Great Britain, and returned the Comlnis.
sloners Well now am one of the people
II am democrat have passed 40 odd
years talking and it God grants me forty
more, | shall still keep talking, in order to
make this nation strong enough, so as not
to have any other nation dictate to it what
decks it shall visit, or what harbnr it shall
hll up. Applause 1 recognize no
right in Great Britain to tell me
whether | shall sink stone or anything else,
in the harbors this side of the Atlantic.
think the England of our generation insult
no. hing but weakness, and If | had any
lh1nehce over my generation, it should be
exercised toward making this Coufederacy
OF States strong enough to secure her re-
spect. Ii there is one thing England re.
spects it is success. Il Is the only thing
But the action--lhe magumimous action
on the part Of the Government to which
l refer aud which excited my hope aud eli
cited my admiration, was the restoration to
VI Otu OOIu ". EItInOuI.
Tue audience here gave expression to
their feelings in the widest and most ex
cited manner, the male portion throwing
their hats aud caps through all portions of
the ball. while the ladies did the same with
their muffS and hankerchief>, cheering and
Opplanding in the meantime With the great.
est enthusiasm
The Herald, supported by the bunker
dom of the North rupplause, indicted him
for neticIcncy aud lack Of integrity. The
Grand Jury met at the White House, and
wrote ignOramWs in the indictment Laugh
ter That | read, think, in the act of
the President in sending him to the noun
tain. IT John Brown cannot have he
-laughter,-I know of no one to
whom its care could be better inlrusted
than John O. Fremont. Applause
My first choice would have been Brown
but bow to the dsp
tion of Providence and Virginia, and take
John G. Fremont Applause We
have many bright spots in our history.
Prominent among those in the history of
this War are Mill Spring, Springfield, Fort
Henry, Fort Donelson Roanoke aud Balls
Bluff. Oh that was brave, brave spot
There Massachusetts stood, martyred by
the Treason Of her General but she stood
without flinching. Applause
The blood that stood Mt my side through
long aud weary Winter, and looked in the
face of Boston mob, when the Mayor
Joined it, and said, thus far and no father,
crimsoned the Potomac in defence of your
capital. 1t was a bright spot but the
brightest spot in our history is not the bat
tle-ield. 1t was when successful general
on the eve of victory, a thousand miles
from The Capitol, sheathed his sword at the
bidding of the Government and came back
to submit in silence to gross suspicion
Enthusiastic applause - The charge o!
his body guard at Springfield was bright,
but it paes before the Roman silence, more
than the Roman submission of their gene.
raj. Never since Washington has q man
been privileged by God to do such credit
to republican institutions as that general in
the hight of his triumph, when he bowed
his head and came back in silence. All
hail, John c. Fremont | We thank you for
vindicating Democracy Great applause.
But, as citizen, am anxious which
part Government takes out of these wars.
Ladies and gentlemen, care very little
about the technicalities of the Constitution
very little. | think Daniel Webster was
a very bad lawyer though a great states.
man), when he said, "If one section of the
Constitution is voluntarily broken, there is
no obligation on the other to abide by it,"
He knew well that in strict leg Il phrase,
the sections were not parties to the COns'i
tuition; aud be knew quite as well, that one
wrong does not Justify another lie was
also aware of the fact (for be taught Hayue
the doctrine), that the Constitution was no
partnership. 1t was Government resting
upon the people. But he knew also, that
there did underle this Constitution great
compact-'a great compromise between rival
institutions He knew that in the time OF
81, the South-esseniialIy nobility, e..
Sentially an arislOcracy, an aristocracy
based on Skin->light litter among the fe-
males-ar aristocracy based on race, based
on noney-that they made compact with
the North, democracy and that compact
was essentially this: Slavery is sin,
Slavery is an evil, Slavery is a weakness.
The country is in perilous circumstances.
We 10 fact, dare not trust God. Justice
seems to be sin. No; we caunot believe
that doing right is Smniag We cannot
rise to the level of that Christianity. Bat
we make a compromise. Ifyou let Slavery
be al peace-ify you allow her to come under
the normal aud persistent influence of free
ideas-if you will assimilate her among
other institutions Of the country-we grunt
you so much, we will advise the father to
forget his children, the husband his wife,
the mother to sacrifice her crad'e-we will
grant il ell, and the compensation shall be
that you shall keep that system quier under
the broad influence of free ideas, aud that
our compensation shall be, that in The ulti
mate result, as an atonement for this tenn
porary injury, our ides may mold, assimilate
aud gradually melt away, this abnormal in
stituton. That was the essential compact
Our fathers said: We cant make justice
the existing law Of the land, but we viii
plant the seeds that will produce it in thl
future. Tbs South said: We will remain
in, aud VIC will keep quiet. The NORTH
said: We will trust to the inevitable, th,
''irresstable conflictp Of ideas.-Applause