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

Let me cite one fr,m among his man,
railing accusations" against the loyn
States and People m
Happily Cor the cause oftrutb, you. in Europ,
are beginning to fud The Yankees out, aud Il
understand their nendacious proclivities. The,
know 1t, and have recently resOrled to neV
dodge. You have ceased to believe their new
papers and have begun to find out their repre-
seniations Of the Southern cause, or Souiherr
proves, sentiments, and feelings, are not to bC
depended on, so they now send you what pur.
ports To he Southern papers but they orc
counterfcits printed in the North
They will AXE one Of onr Richmond ~ pers
for instance, duplicate its form and tyne copy
its advertisements. I'LL its reading colums witf
its own Inventions give il the Richmond i'm
print and send it abroad Ms bona 6de
Southern raper which you will he sure Ia
believe. From this counterfeit their own pa.
pers are filed with extracts credited to the Rich.
inoud papers Thus the designing men there
still seek to deceive their own people and tho
world
They boast Of his as one Of heir "cute Yam.
kee tricks They are Curious set.
Now If this we're at all truc-ir there
were a shallow Of ground for tit could
not he nerrssofy 10 rest in generulitcs II
There had ever been one instance of Nor.
thern counterfeit Of Southern journal.
constructed TO palm of as Southern upon
Europe sentiments which the South abhors,
then it would be just as easy to cite the in
stance as to make the sweeping charge.
Why is not this done p? Above all, if the
Northern people "boast of this as one of
their cute Yankee tricks" that boast at
least might be cited. But no their is no,h.
ing like this. We are to be convicted be-
fore Europe of the baseSt deceit and false
witness without being allowed to know by
whom, or by what, or when, the crime that
hlasts our fame was pcrpe'nntcd We are
held np 10 scorn as fOrgers but thosa who
must have been the dupes Of that forgery
are not allowed to know which of our
many citations from Southern papers is Of
our own fabrication. But henceforrh
whenever We cite to Europe from Southern
journals the official orders Cf Dtvis aud his
suto"diuatcs, booming Gems Hunter and
Phelps to execution eS rrlons because they
have armed aud drilled fugitive slaves, aud
ordering that every Slave who attempts to
escape to The Unioni>'s shall be hurg on
his masters plantation and in sight Of all
the other slaves. the ready answer will be,
call these are forgericS-hns not the di>tin
guished sar0at, Lieut.. Muury warned us
ogainst them
People of Europe this man is a wilrui
deceivcr and desperate william Having
broken his oath of fidelity to the Uuim
which so long fed aud honored him-hrokcn
it On utterly false pretcx,S as have shown
it matters no,hing to him that he should
add few more Calschoods TO the black rec
ord Of his tlnstiug peinry. Having for
sworn himself in becoming IL traitorit were
absurd to imagine thHt, in the same bad
cause, he should scruple 10 utter new fake
hoods. r f#
| must not take rnom to answer his 9th
er calumnes on the Union cause aud ts de,
tenders bet me rnther close with His
statement of the ohS tacles which bar the
rosd to a Di,uuon Peace
But peace is very difficult at prescott admit
in the North, reason has lost its sway over the
mind of the people. aud the judgment of tteir
rulers has been taken away. In the South pas.
sious run high. Therefore, in the present ten.
per of the two people il lcouid be impossible jusi
uo,c for Them 10 agree upon The preliminary step
10 ann lasting peGce-v;z the adjustment uI
buuudries. We are, Therefore drifting in a
war of exhaustion.
There are rumnrs of an armed in'erver-
ton from yuur side hut upon what basis t'is
intervention is To take place. the many tounred
dame has not designed To enlightr Us. Any
such Intervention cannot hut work mi-chievouS US
ly If it fail to rccoguiza he right Of the people
in the disputed states Of Delaware, Maryland,
r. 4 q. 4 E.. H. L
eide for rlhemspdv whittier they will cast their
lot with the North or with the South Meth.
er can il he supposed that intervention would
recognize any dismem6ermem Of present
Stats. ssa8 10 p.
Here is about the only truth contained in
his etter-trulh which | have often en-
deavcred To make plain lfthe loyal states
werc willing to let the Rehels go, that
would Ivy no means give rs pea ce. They
would insist, not only that East TenneS> ce,
already tramped under their bloody feet
should he surrendered 10 an abhorred tyran,
nv already drunk with her blood, aud that
Delcwarp, Maryland, Kentucky and Mis-
souri-all Union StateS-,hOuldb be assigned
to the Union or the Confederacy as they
should severally vote-and as to what sort
OF Young lutIt SuihIlu btt AHt utStbIl Ol
Kansas ulfordS The most striking Indication
but Western Virginia. Free dboring
region as populouS as Vermont and nearly
twice as spacionS-l region intensely and
all but unanimously hostile to the Rebellion
should he delivered over to its tender
mcrcieS by the baseSt deSertion and bad
faith on the part Of the Unionisls. That
surrender would bting the Confederncy
within HUNDRED miles of Lake Erie, in>o,
ating the North from the Free West, and
virtually forcing the latter to break of
from the Union and seek refuge in the slave
holders Confederacy The geographic and
commercial. indictments to such step
would he all but irresistible, aud would
weigh like gravitation till their impulse was
oheyed,
The triumph Of he traitors is the end o
peace on this continent. 1t is the delica
ton of crlme-Ihe sauctfcation of wantoI
periory and Hberticide. II loyal Safe
must 6e crushed beyond hope ere they caI
submit TO such disgrace and ruin. '1
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