Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1862-04-05
WHOLE NUMBER 64l.

or all this was Constitutional, and your
/ Supreme court decided Il was--anytling
was Constitutional which was necessary 10
save the Union, New England yielded like
a patient. law.abiding subjuc,, and contin-
ued to drudge and strive and to-day she
commends dose of the same mixture to
south Carolina [Applause. She says
this despotism which abolished commerce.
N order to save the Uuion may cnt ND
Slavery, root and branch for the same pur.
pose Why can't i'll Well, 60 further
than that have very little respect for
parchment. / remember that Slavery has
ruled this Government for sixty years. re.
member that, when Thomas Jefferuson want.
de be mouth OF the Mississippi, he said, and
John Quincy Adams concurred There
is no fright in the Constitution; but America
needs it." lie purchased It, aud to-day
il is the Jewel in our Western colonies.
Applause. Illinois. Indiana, and Wisron.
siu will pour out their blood thicker thIn
the waters Of the Mississippi before they
would surrender il. [Applause And
to-day he North has said, we own down
to the Gulf and we will have il, despite tho
Carolinas. [Applause
When Slavery ihoughi she needed Texas
she stole it. (laughterl, and added it
to this Union by joint resolve. Aud this
is said TO be constitutional, The weapon
she has forged for me for 10 years, shall
not use it ? Shall Despotism do great
'hings Illegally for two generations, aud
Liberty do nothing at all according to
law This constitutional maxim which
The South has Taught me, and held me boun |
like spaniel to her 70, tstool, while she
CARRIED il into execution, in order to build
up the Union, have no right to take it
aud forge 1t into weapon in the serves Of
Justice ? Is the Union all Of one side
May the South fight with free feet, and
| free hands, while we must go into battle
with Mnior.Gen. Mcclellan, having both
feet and both hands bound2 No? Ap-
pIause say, all that the Consultation
has given US for 10 years claim to day
caim il in behalf of the negro who has
been ground down for 10 years under its
exercise. My fat hers promised the 400, 900
of the Caronas that they would not quit
until they saw him through. don't intend
to. They promised him the ultimate infu-
ence of Massachusetts ideas before they
would let him go. believe to-day in the
rightful, constitutional power, according to
the strictest law of John Quincy Adams.
and according TO the repeated precedents
Of all Administrations, THAT what the
time 6uds necessary and all the future
acquiesces in, il law" claim it to-day
Any ything that a nation finds necessary it
is hound to adopt in order to save it.
SELF
Why, gentlemen OF Washington, you
have spent for US two million dollars per
day. You bury two regiments month
2 600 men by disease without battle
You rob every loboring man Of one-half of
his pay for the next thirty years by your
taxes. You place the curse Of intolerable
taxatation on every cradle for the next
gene alton. What do you give us 7 What
is the other side of the balance sheet The
North has poured out its blood and money
like water. Ii has leveled every fence Of
constitutional privilege, and Abraham Lin
con sits to-day more uulimited despot
than the world knows this side of China.
What does he render to the North for
this unlimited confidence Show some
thing, or tell you that wthiH two years
the indignant reaction of the people will
hurl this Cabinet in contempt from their
seats --applause--, and the devils that
went out from yon der Capitol, for there
has been no sweeping nor garnishing, will
come back seven times stronger. For | do
not delieve that Jefferson Davis, driven to
/ the Gulf, will go down TO The waters and
perish as ccrtrin brutes mentioned in the
Gospel did. Laughter / believe
that, when he finds the battle won't serve
him, he will accept a compromise. Yes, l
believe that it is possible that the democra.
tic indifference of the North may get so
that even President Davis may consent to
come back iuto the Senate of The United
States But it is possible that even this
conVulsion may be passed and we reap
nothing that we may go through all this
expense of blood and treasure and politically
we may reap nothing. | do not mean that
you can stop ideas. thing, however, yon
have lost the golden moment. When John
Brown took possession Of Charleston aud
on that Sunday held iC in his right hand,
when the dsheartened town believed that
there were 9 600 men in arms in the noun
tsius, be nigh: have gone to the hills and
there made his preparations, when, instead
OF Virginia only trembling, the whole South
would have trembled at the base of the
! Alleghancies. He sat down these men
| Win SOl. w dsulnStOuI VuuOofOiihB NONOh-
ciliate friendly shareholders. Mondays
sun rose upon him, that golden hour Of bis
actual purpose was gone, and God lifted
him to gallows that made him the most
influential man Of this generation. --Ap-
plause.-
/ think it possible that the Government
may in some way have lost its golden OPP
portuniiy, that all we may gain from this
war will be its influence or ideas, unless
you will rouse The Government 10 the iuli
sense Of its responsibility never shall
believe that it is aware OF 1t until 1t says
until the organs of Government use dif.
ferent phrase in regard TO the black race
We are all looking and wanting TO know
about experiments with tho blacks. The
Cabinet is said to hesitate what they shall
do with the blacks. Well, now, as an
Aboltionist, ladies and gentlemen, all
want is that you shall fight. Go right into
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