Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1862-08-30

Of every traitor In America-~with scores
Of like tendency, have never provoked even
your remonstrance. We complain that toe
officers Sf Jour Armies have ha5isasli : se.
PEELED rather than invited the approach OF
slaves who would have gladly taken the
risks escaping from their Rebel masters to
our camps, bringing intelligence often Of
ineslimable value to the Union cause. We
complain that those who hare thus escaped
to us, avowing willingness to do for us
whatever might be required have been
brutaIly aud madly repulsed, and often
surrendered to be scourged, MANNED and
tortured by The ruffiau traitors, who pre-
tend TO own them. We complain that a
large proportion of our regular Army OF.
GERS, with many of the Volunteers, evince
far more solicitude to uphold Slavery than
to put down the Rebellion. And finally
we complain that you Mr. President, elect
ed as a Republican, knowing well what an
abomination Slavery is, and how empati-
cally it is the core aud esseuce of this
atrocous Rebellion, seem never 10 interfere
with these atrocities, and never give di.
rection to JoIr Military subordnates,
which does not appear to have been con.
ceived in the interest Of Slavery rather than
Of Freedom.
VII Let me call your attention to the
recent tragedy in New Orleans, whereof
the facts are obtained entirely through Pro.
Slavery channels. A considerable body
of resoIute, able. bodied men, held in Slav.
cry by two Rebel sugar planters in defiance
of the Couliscatior Act which you have al.
proved left plantations thirty miles distant
and made THAR way to the great mart Of
the Southwest, which they know to be in
the undisputed possession of the Union
forces. They made their way safely aud
quietly through thirty miles of Rebel terri
tory, expecting to find freedom under the
protection Of our'hag. Whether they had
or had not heard Of the passage of the Con.
fscation Act, they reasoned logically that
we could not kill them for deserving the
service of their lifelong oppresors, who had
through treason become our implacable
enemies. They came TO us for liberty and
protection, for which they we're willing to
render their best service: they;met with hos
tility, captivity, and murder. The barking
of the base ours of Slavery in this quarter
dccoives no one-not even themselves -
They say, indeed, that the negroes had no
right TO appear in New. Orleans armed
with their Implements of daily labor in
the cane feId); but no one doubts that
they would gladly have laid these down
if assured that they should be free. They
were set upon and manned, captured and
killed, beca use they sought the benefit
of that act of Congress which they may not
specifically have heard of, but which none
the less the law of the lnnd-which they
had clear right to The benefit of-whch
it was somebody's duty to publish far and
wide, in order that SO many as possible
should be impelled to desist from serving
Rebels and the Rebellion and come over
10 the side Of the Union. They sought
their liberty in strict accordance, with the
law of the land-they were butche red or
reenslaved for so doing by the help of the
Union soldiers enlisted to fight against
Slaveholding Treason. 1t was same
bOdy's fault that they were so murdered
if Others shall hereafter suffer in like man
ner, in default of explicit and pnblic direc
tion to your generals that they are to re-
cognize and obey the Con6scation Act, the
world will lay the blame on gov. Whether
you will choose to bear it through future
History and at the bar Of God l will not
judge i can only hope.
VIII. On the face of this wide earth,
Mr.. President, there is not one disinterested
determined, intelligent champion of the
Union cause who does not feel that all
attempts TO put down the Rebellion and al
the same time uphold it's melting cause
are pFeposterous and futile-that the Rebel
lion, if crushed out tomorrow, would be
renewed wi hin year if Slavery were left
iu full vigor-that Army Officers who re-
main to this day devoted to Sla very can
at best be but halfway loyal TO the Union
aud that every hour of Difference TO Slavery
is an hour Of added and deepened peril to
the Union. / appeal to the testimony of
your ambassadors in Europe. 1t it freely
at your service, not at mine. Ask them
10 tell you candidly whether the seeming
subserVincy of your policy TO the SlaVehold'
ing, slavery upholdng interest, is not the
perplexity, the despair of statesmen of all
parties, and be admonised by the general
aoswer
TX. / close as began with the state.
ment that what an immense majority of the
Loyal Millions Of you countrymen require
of you is frank, declared, unqualified,
ungruding execution of the laws of the
land, more especially of the Confiscation
Act. That Act gives freedom to the
slaves of Rebels coming within our lines,
or whom those lines may at any time in-
close-we ask you to render it due obedi'
ence by publicly requiring .aIlIyO ur subordi-
mates to recognize and obey it. The
Rebels are everywhere using the late anti
negro riots in the North, as they have long
used your officers treatment of negroes in
the South, to convince the slaves that have
nothing to hope from Union success
that we mean in that case to sell them Into
bitterer bondage to defray the cost of the
war. Let them impress this as truth on
the great mass of their ignorant and credu
lous bondmen, aud the Union win never
be restored-neVer. We cannot conquer
Ten Millions of People united in solid
phalanx against Us, powerfully aided by
Northern sympathizers and European al
lies. We must have scouts, guides, spies,
cooks, teamSters, diggers and choppers from