Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1862-06-28

so accustomed, up to this hour, to receive
from their Northern allies in past struggles
assurances ofperfect accord and sympathy
in all things, and Of q common resolve to
resist by force what was vaguely termed
Abolition rule that they confidently coun
ted on material as well as moral aid from
these allies in their meditaied rebellion -
Ex President Fillmore's Albany speech in
1856 bad been understood by them as fore
shadowing il not directly promising this;
the entire and uniform complacency with
which Gov. Wise's consultations and prep.
arations to resist by force the inauguration
Of Col Fremont in case Of his election, hsd
been observed by both the Ant. Republican
Parties; the open ard ostentntious proffers
made in behalf of, if not by Mr. Buchanan
in 1856, that, in case Of a disruption, Penn.
sylvania should go with the South and by
leading New Jersey politician at Charles
ton in 1860, that his State, in case of
conflict, would send Twenty Thousand men
to the defense of the Soulh-the oracular
utterance of Mayor Wood, foreshadowing
q separation OF our City from the State, and
q thousand kindred indications from every
part of the Free States, assured the Yam
ceys and Rhetts of the Cotton region that
the North would be paralyzed by its own
feuds and collisions in case of any attempt
to "subjugate the South" Their error was
indeed grievions, but it was not without ex.
cuse. There is in the Free States to-day,
far more sympathy than is avowed by the
SHAREHOLDERS Rebellion; but there would be
many times more had the representations
and assurances of those whom the South has
been accustomed to regard as true exposi.
tors of the conservative" sentiment of the
Free States proved thoroughly trustwor.
thy.
1t was plainly essential from the outset
that the new Administration should do its
utmost, consistently with principle and good
faith, to stimulate and strengthen the 10y
atty of the Free and of the Border Slave
States. That Republicans should stand by
it in the hour of trial was matter of course;
that Democrats aud Bell men would gener.
ally do so, was not so manifest. The man.
ifestations of their recognized leaders and
organs down to the bombardment Of Sum
ter were far from justifying the presumption
that they would.
Let us suppose, for illustration, that the
President had become convinced-no mat.
ter at what period-.thaL the breach between
Slavery and the Union was immedicable-
hat the former, in drawing the sword, had
lung away the scabbard, and that the Uni
on could only be restored through the des
iruction of its implacable foe--was it his
duty forthwith to proclaim that conviction?
Suppose he had done so,and The immediate
effect had been the array of half the Dem.
ocrats of the Free States and nearly all the
Unionists of the Border States in open and
vehement hostility, not merely to the Ad.
mini stration as such, but to its efforts to
put down the Rebellion, would the result
iDggOod have balanced the immediate and
enormous evil? Would not thousands have
been supplied thereby, with long sought ex
cuse for avowing that hostility TO the Ma
ional cause they have thus far been com
PEELED TO suppress? Would not the cry be
instantly beloved from thousand throats
that the President had sacrificed the Union
cause to promote that of Abolition?
BE it observed that not merely Rebel but
Democratic reports have repeatedly affirm.
ed the refusal of Illinois as well as Ken
tucky and Missouri regiments to serve Ion
ger in the Union ranks because of the
Presidents Emancipation Message or some
vote in Congress. And it is
an undoubted fact, not so we'll known, that
Dfficers have resigned important positions in
our volunteer force because required to
serve under General whom they charged
with Abolition. Who ever heard of Re-
publican officer who resigned because of the
Presidents modification of Fremont's or
Hunters emancipating order? Yet what
concerted howl greeted Gov. Andrews in-
timation that Massachusetts could send
more volunteers to fight for Freedom than
for Slavery
/ make no pretense to any private or Pc
culiar knowledge of the Presidents views or
feelings. Judge him as he is entitled to
be judged-by his public aud official acts
| take mis- self prompted and unique Special
Message proposing 10 Congress that the
States be encouraged to iniatiate Emanc
patton as the best exposition of his secret
thought, his animatng purpose, That he
is determined TO be faithful in word and
deed to the Constitution and to disappoint
no just expectation of thoroughly loyal
Democrats and Border State men is beyond
dispute. But his Emancipation Message
is of itself clear recognition of the truth
that Slavery is the soul of this Rebellion,
without which the breath could not be kept
in the body for a single hour. That he
would gladly see soul and body vanish to-
gether anu at the earliest moment, no dis
cerning mind can doubt.
Let, then, those who aided to place the
Administration in power be assured
that they have not labored in vain Let
them never be tempted by such an act as
the suppression of Fremont's or of Hunters
Anti.Slavery order, to distrust or desert
him who has so far led the Nation onward
10 the path of Honor and Duty In the
nature of the case, the Government must
often wait on Public Opinion, even when
fully sympathiziug with its most advanced
pulsations The Nation has during the
past year, made paIpable progress toward
a recognition of great truth, that wrong
done to the humblest and most despised is
s.s -, oil nd hot