Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1863-06-20
The oSj.et OF IN. war Unchanged.


Confederacy. This proposition none vii
controvert it is universally admitted.
But nll are not agreed as to tie object
Of the war as prosecuted by the Administra
tion. President Lincoln has asserted again
aud again that the purpose of the war is to
crush out the rebellion and restore the au
thority aud supremacy of the Federal Un
ion and so say oil loyal men without re
pesct 10 their old or present party associa.
tions.
But there are some, protesting TO be 10y.
al who assert that the Administration has
changed the object of the war altogether
They assert positively that the abolition
oil hegro slavery is the primary object Of
the war, while the restoration of the Union
is secondary matter. Indeed, some of the
intemperate opponents of the administration
assert that it is not seeking now 10 restore
The Union.
Thes accusations are absurd aud mis-
chevous propositions, and destitute OF n
vestige of evidence We deny that the
AdmniStrat ion has changed the object of
war, or abandoned its original purpose -
Suppose that the property of rebels has
been coniiscated by law that the Admin
iSlration is enliSting negro soldiers that
the authority Of rebel masters over slaves
is not Recognized; aud that Kentucky, by
a sweeping act Of her Legislature, has dis
fSanchised her whole brood of traitors
does all this prove that the object of the
war has been changed by the Admnistra.
ton? Not at all. There has been change
10 the policy--a change Of the meaus used
by the Administration, in some respects, 10
coerco the rebels. The ustrumentalities
have been increased, but the result TO be
attained remains most assuredly the same.
Who ever thought that u change Of means
was equivalent to change OF the eud 10
be attained ? Nobody supposed that Gen
erul Graut had abandoned his orlgmal pur-
pose OF taking Vlcksourg because be stopp'
ed digging canals, aud mar ched upon The
city
The policy. advocated by the Conserva-
tives, or, more properly, the Destructives,
was tired for The first eighteen months of
the war with poor success, and to the great
encouragement Of the Nation. Gloom set
tied OH all loyal cOan eGanccs, and traitors
were exaltaut aud full Of hope. Littl.
Mac, the kiug Of Spades, reviewed his
troops qnieuy OH the Potomac, the Mis-.
souri, Republican denounced the lamentcd
General Lyon for breaking up the traitors
deu at Camp ackSOn, and selfish politicians
proclaimed the doctrine Of armed neutrality
IN kentucNy, aud actually refused the gall.
ant Rousseau a camp ground on The South
efn o4uk OF the OAio Il yer, for his recruits
for the National army Loyal men every
| y ba.r hat All
erable manner, would soon result in the
abishment of the Richmond dynasty
aud that clique of Conservative political
gamblers in Kentucky, Maryland, aud per.
haps Delaware and Missouri, were only
awaiting the hour of the nations exhaust
ion, by the suction of the Conservative
Vampire, to sell aud barter their States
also to JEFF. Davis !; just as their coadjul ors,
Henry Totten and Barrow, sold out the
S'atc Of Tennessee. The cry of the people
went up Ike thunder for the adoption Of
Severer war measures, and more ygor'
Gus prosecution Of the war. The conser-
vative, concilatory, compromising war
policy has been thoroughly tried, anu found
not only worthless, but positively peril.
cious. Comm sense and experience taught
US that loyal men must be as earnest, as
vlgoi Gus, as uuSpag lug in the use of means,
TO support he Government, as the rebels
were to be destroy il. A more vigorous
policy was gradually adopted, aud from
that hour the Union cause has aourished,
prospered and advanced.
But the ject of the war is precisely
what it was " hen Mr.. Lincoln called tor
IS 600 men in the sprlng OF 1861, for
winch he was denounced in the bttetest
terms by those Conservative organs--the
Louisville Democrat aud Journal especially
The latter. Suppose that Congress had
passed conG,calion act Is not the
penalty Of treason in all countries death,
is it worse to take property than life =
Suppose the Government has freed the
slaves of the rebels, aud even invited them
to fly teitS lines and enlist !; is not that
the means of weakening the rebels, aud
attalng the original object of The war
Suppose Mr.. Lincoln has enlisted negro
soldiers to defend 1 he Uu:on against rebels;
did not Gen. Jackson enlist negro soldiers
10 defend the Union against foreign inVd'
sion Suppose Governor Johuson has
levied comparatively light assessments upon
I6hulUH, Hcdliuy IGuclN, iul buC pShNhl VI
the poor is it not just that few hundred
, families reduced to starvation, by the wick
eduess of rich rebels should receive pitt
ance, by laying tax on their dcstroyers
Has this assessment, this most just, rghie
Gus, and benevolent deed Of humanity
changed the object of the, warl Suppose
, spies, and malignat traitors have been sem
beyond our lines, instead Of being shot ol
hung; does this change the object Of th'
wa. or is il the duty Of the Government tt
harbor, and shield deceilful horde who
would stab it 20 the heart ? None OF al
these measures have in the least, changed
the ohjact of The war 1t is still, pre-
cisely what it was in A Aril, lS6l-THE
: PRE-, ERvATIoN OF THE FEDERAL UNION. The
. multiplication Of the means FED to preserve
f the Union has not, aud canuot alter, IL
any sense, the grand purpose of the war
> 1t is clearly aud emphatically the same. L
is stllI war for nationality and free gov
i ernmenl and neither the tongue nor pei
!, of slander and d dsloyalty eau make it other