Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1862-09-06
WHOLE NUMBER 60S.
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a copy Of Gen. Hunters reply to the in.
qniries Of the President Of the National
Freedmar's Association
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r Hilton Head, Port Royal, s. q, July II, 1899. ;
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= S1R: have the honor to acknowledge
the receipt Of your communication dated
! June 2 1862, expressing to me the approv.
al of my course in regard to the freed slaves
Of this department by the important aud
benevolent association Of which you are
President.
Satisfied Of having attempted, in the alb.
seDce of Instructions, to do my duty in the
matter according to the best lights of my
judgment and long experience, every as.
surance of sympathy from men whose
characters l esteem is gratifying, and
enables me to wait with more patie nee for
those inevitable days which are to give a
policy on the slavery question to our G ov,
erpmcut.
1t is my only fear that the lesson may
not be understood and acted upon until
read in characters of blood al the freside
Of every northern family. To attain wis
dom we mnst suffer but that wisdom on
the Slavery question must GnaIly be ob.
! iuUIth, 10 III SuSbulHiuB lhlAu.
Our people are not dull Of ofcomprehenSon
in regard TO matters about which free play
is given 10 their common sense When a
fire is spreading through a block OF honses
they do not hesitate to batter down an in.
termediaie house TO save the remainder of
the block. When the plague occupies an
infected district, the distsict is quarantined
aud every resource of science and industry
put forth to rid the locality of its presence
The soldiers of health are by no means order
ed to mount guard over each smiIten house
and see that the vested interests of pestil.
ence are protected "Break open doors if
they be not opened" is the order on these
occasions Let in fresh air aud sunlight
let purity replace corruption.
But in presence of one great evil, which
has so long brooded over our country, the
intelligence of large portion of our people
would seem paralyzed and helpless Their
moral nerves, lie torpid under its benumb.
ing shadow, Its breath has been the
pestlence of the political atmosphere in
which. our slaiesmens have been nurtured
aud never, fear until its beak is dripping
with the best blood of the country, and its
tuIous tangled in her yitals, will the free
masses of the loyal States be fully aroused
to the necessity of abating the ahomna.
ton at whatever cost and by whatever
agencies
This is written, not politically, but &C.
cOrding to my profession in. the military
= sense. looking forward, there looms mp
= IA possibility (ouly too possbIe) Of a peace
which shall be nothing but an armislice,
with every Advantage secured to the Rebel.
lion. Nothing can give us permanent
; peace but successful prosecution of the
war, with every weapon and energy at
our command, to its logical and legitimate
conclusion. The fomenting cause of the
Rebellion must be abated the ak must be
laid TO the root of the npas tree which has
rained down such bitter fruit upon our
country, before anything like permanent
peace can be justly hoped
Already | see signs in many influential
quarters, heretofore opposed to my views
in favor OF arming the blacks, OF change
ot sentiment. For recent disasters before
Richmond have served to illuminate many
minds
10 speak of using the negroes merely for
throwing up intrenchments is step in tho
right direction, though far short Of what
must be the end. 1t has the Advantage.
however, Of making the further and final
steps necessary for men working in face
Of the enemy must have arms with which
to protect themselves ifsudddenly attack
ed.
On the whole, there is mnsh reason to
be satisfied with the progress made by
public sentiment, considering how deeply,
rooted were the prejudces to be overcome,
the general failure of the nation to realzs
! a first tho pFGpnrliAnc Of bo
impunity still extended TO tho o Northern
) traitors. who are the plunderers Of the Gov
ernment by means Of fraudulent army and
navy contracts, on the one hand, while
using every energy of tongue and pen Ia
excite discomfort with our Government
and sympathy with the more candid and
courageous traitors of the South who are
in arms against u.s.
In conclusion, it may be not nappro,
} pirate 10 say that in transmitting the APP
proval of the National Freedmans Relief
Association of my course, you were--doubt-
less ously-indorsiDg views which
your own earnest eloquence bad no slight
share in maturing. Though without the
pleasure of your personal acquaintance,
2 was, during year, member of your con
gregation, and take this opportunity Of
SFaleIuiy ackhoWleugIhg my lhdeOtedness
TO your teachings.
Your letter would have been earlier an
Swered, had not.presSingiduties too fully oc'
, cupcd my time.
Believe me, Sir, very truly, your obliged
and obedient servant, ID. HUATER
Z. S.-None of the carefully fostered
deusions by which slavery has sustained
itself at the North, is more absured than
the bugbear Of "a general migration of ne,
groes to the North" as q necessary seqn-
ence of emancipation. SO far is this from
being the fact. that although it is well
known that give passes North to all ne
groes asking them. not more than a dozen
have applied TO me for such passes since
my arrival here, their local attachments
f being apparently much stronger than with
the white race. My experience leads mo
to belieVe that the exact reverse az the res