Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1863-02-21
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had perfect light Of ingtess into svefv
State, and TO vindicaie and enforce iie
righnul authority there, yet this right was
q practical nullity, because there existed no.
constitutional means Of enforecing Il ~
/ Government is not to be br ought to dead.
lock by such hair splitting subleties. III
the Government Of the United States has
clear right to maintain nnd enforce its
authority IN South Carolina thronghthe in
strumentallNtes Of District Judge, District
Attorney, Marshal, etc , then it has rlQhs.
10 create or improyise those functionafies
expressly tor the porposes And Il the I'm
ion has a paramount right to exist. and
Slavery creates insuperable obstacles 10
such existence, thea the Union has ! Yivhl
to save itself BY destroying its deadly an.
tagonst 1t Is NOT possible that onprovok-
cd assault on the one side should not iug
volYe the right Of nnfeitered resistance on.
the other.
Now, then, The testimony Of The Uuloe.
lists OF Missouri, Of the new Governor fCana
non) OF Delaware, of exsGovs Hicks Of
Maryland. Of Gov. Hamilton OF Texas. OF,
uenn, Butler and Of Rev Mr. Anghay and,
at least seyeh-eighths Of the Uuion refugees
from the Rebel States, that Slavery az the
melting cause, the vital impulse, ofthe Re-
bellioas Is not eonfuted by the face thas
some loyalists from that region dissent from.
It. is within the truth 70 state that
seven.eighths Of the Unionists ot the Rebel
States concur in the Judgment Of Governor
Hicks (himself a slaveholdef) that We can
never again hare peace IN this country till
Slavery Is expelled from it. That Rebel.
lion and Slavery respectively are strong.
and weak in precisely Identical localities-4 Z
strong 10 the Cotton growing aud Sugar.
making districts stroDg where Rice aud
Turpentine are produced weak among
the mountains. in German settlements. the
Quaker neighborbeods, aud wherever else
there are few owners Of property In Man
Ought OF itself TO be conclusive s4l "a
But, thongh the correctness oflthe Pres.
ident's conclusion lathe pr smisesis denon.
strable, it is not essential The vital as.
sumption is not that he has judged wisely.
but that he has acted 10 good faith He
is charged by the Constitution with the
chief command of our Military and Nevall
forces-yi,h the general conduct Of tho
War. He is solemnly sworn to maintsin,
the righful authority of the Government
and enforce the laws of the Union. He de.
cides, after giving the experiment. fair
trial. that he, cannot do this and uphold
SIavery-tbat the Union must be lost un-
less Slavery is outlawed Suppose, for ar.
gnmeurs sake, that, he Il mistaken in thIs.b
what citizen Is thereby released from bis OBJ
legation Loyalty to serve and save his ceun-
tryf You believe, the President has erred
in Judgment admit 1t !. aud what then =
Has his error affected yonrdaty I True.
you may tomperately, respectfully, expose
his mistake but may you say,g because Of
that error, will refuse TO obey his legal re.f
quirements Is that the way to save the
Union from disruption and the land from
anarchy? hsi 1850 %
The recent Democratic demonstrations la
Congress aud the Legislatures of New Jer.8
sey Indiana. Illinois. etc, justify sad FORE
bodugs, Their drift runs substantially
thus UNLESS the Government is admins
tered and The War conducted according to
our notions Of propriety aud policy, we will
impede, obstrnct embarass. the prosecution
of that War TO the extent of our power.n
But they forget that. While it scas so car.
red on for weary months, half Of them were
as hostile to 1t MS they now are while the
Republicans, who deemed the Border State.
policy then prevalent palpably futile, did
nevertheless recognize aud fulfill their obIi-
CATION 20 stand by their country. AID
this example the Opposition will JET feeio
constrained to follow.
The War will go on. Intervention, Me-
diaton, Arbitration, will only he talked OF:
or, IT seriously preferred, viii prove unavall,l
ing. There probably never was, aud there
certainly is not now, any danger of forciblss
interfereucs. in our domestic quarrel since
France, which has alone been suspected Of
it, has at least q good years
work before her In Mexico, aud neither abil-
ity nor taste for complicating ths costlys
enterprise with another still more formid.
able, Let every loyal citizen realize that
now is the time for arduous. combined, de-
voted effort; and that. while each has
perfect right to plan aud to suggest, yet3
hat success is attainable only through ths
concentration of all Efforts. the union Of oil
snergss, under the direction and lead of
he legally constituted authorities Of car
,cuatry. ,.y.,.-,. .l...t .-..-..f. ~.