Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1863-10-10
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When the Loyal Millions suddenly foard
Themselves prcciptated, by the rebel bonn.
bardment of Fort Sumter, into the abyss of
Civil War, the FIRST impulse Of every pa
triot heart was to make the struggle as
brief as possible. :" Call out Mil ion
Soldiers, and crush the Rebellion at once p
Forward TO Richmond y "Snmmon the
Nation to arms, and smash the traitors be-
fore they can iutrench, and fortify, and cast
cannon, and pr0care munitions !"--such
were the eager demands Of all who really
desired that the Rebellion should he over.
thrown. In the merely Military, as in
the Commercial view, this vas entirely
right--the rebellion should and might have
been stamped ont in the two months which
preceded the battle of Bull Run. The
Army of the Potomac should have been in
Richmond and Western Army in Kuox
vile on the 4th of July. 1861 aud easily
might have been. The saving of life and
property which would thereby have bten
secured are incaCulablc.
But there was a purpose higher than
Mans which had decroed that this shoulI
not be short nor a comparatively blood
less war. What could not then be seen is
now plain in the dullest geze "The Union
as it was" might easily have been restored
in the Summer Of 1851 :now, it cannot and
never again can be. Various results of our
great struggle are possible this alone is
not. Gather the dews Of last mouth into a
reservoir if You will /; bring Yesterday to
look 70 Morrow full 10 the face but the
Union of 1850 go has vanished for ever. A
worse we possibly may have : butter ]
trust We shall have : the same we cannot
have
Why is it that in this respect the Rebel
oracles make no impression Oh the dull sen
sorium of partisan Democracy ? Every
Northern Copperhead will glibly assure you
that Z" the South" is ready and anxious to
return TO the Union---it only waits for the
withdrawal of the Proclamation of FREQ
dom. But that same South" is nowise
responsible for this assurance, has given it
no countenance, but has uniformly dsa
vowed it. "The South" does not now ad
init that she is fighting for Slavery she
says her aim is simply and solely Independ.
ence. No single individual who ranks so
high as captain in the Military or Justice
of the Peace in the Civil service of Def.
Davis has ever authorized the statement
that "tbe South > would return TO the Uu-
ion if the President would recall his Pro
clamation of Freedom. On the contrary,
we have reiterated and commanding assur-
snces that she would do no such thing.
Peace" too is considered and com.
mended only in the loyal States. No man
is authorized to say that the Rebels would
be satisfied even with Independence il re-
strlcted to their present actual boundaries.
They have never yet formally offered US any
terms of reconciliation whatever. They
have never said, Let us take so much of
the whole country as its own people, by
majority vote, sbOll choose to give US, and
leave you in peace" On the contrary, they
have been, and apparently are, resolving to
wrest from US Kentucky, East Tennessee,
Missouri, and Maryland, in defiance of their
emphatic Unionsns and no matter at what
cost, They began this war upon thu as.
sumption that they were our natural mas
ters-lhot they were born 10 command"
We lated 10 obey--and they are not yet
fully cured of the deusion, so as to be ready
openly to repudiate it. They talk of no
peace but one dictated by their triumphant
Generals, aud embodying our accession TO
all their arrogant demands Nothing less
than the Potomac and the Ohio as their
northern boundary has been indicated by
any one of them as admissible, while the
surrender to them of Mary land and Mis-
souri, in addition, and payment by us for oil
their losses of slaves aud other property by
the war. are insisted on by some. In short,
whenever a rebel talks complacently Of
Peace, he means one by which the Union
gives oil and gains nothing, And even at
this rate ten words are said for it on our
side 10 one Oh theirs n" IIet us crush Rose. |
Grams, abase burnside, har back Meade
and menace Washington, then Vallandig |
ham will be chosen Governor of Ohio,
Woodward Of Pennsy aud the North |
ern Democracy, everywhere triumphant
through their countrys ruin, will demand
and secure for us such peace as we re-
qnire--a disuhion peace" Such is their
may 1t never be realized.
But to this end it is essestial that the |
People shall eVince in two ways their un-
devotion to the Union--frst,
by replenishug the Federal Treasury and
the Union Armies secondly, by backing
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