Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1863-06-06
from the New York independent.
The Rennscence Of Loyalty.
By HORACE aRKELEr.

struggle, the popular heart has never for a
moment despaired of the American RepHb
lie. After Bull Run; after McCIellan'S
reverses aud retreat from before Richmond
after the disastrous failure of Pope's cam
paign on the Rappahannock; after Burn
sides sanguiuary repulse before the brlst'
ling, slippery nights overlooking Freder.
icksburg, there were ample reasons for ap'
pretending the ultimate failure of the War
for the Union. Nay, more: when the re-
suits Of our last Falls State Elections had
been ascertained aud considered, the pros
pect for the Union War was darker than
after uny of our lost battles. For our
chief peril never glared at Us from the
South but from the North, aud hreatened, /,
not that the Union would be vanqnish ed
by Rebel bayonets, but that it wonld
break down through the refusal OF men aud
money wberewith to uphold it. And the
elections of last Fall-that is, the results
achieved through the absence Of our heroic
volunteers. in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, New
Jersey, Pennsylvania, aud New York
were, in purpose and effect, notice served
on the Federal Government by the Cop
perheads of those States that they had de-
termined tha. it should break down. and
that the struggle should terminate in the
complete triumph Of the Shareholders Con'
federacy. The great bulk OF those who
voted for Seymour, and Parker, and the
Democratic tickets in each OF the Free
States, meaut this and nothing else.
"What, are the Democrats DiouuionlstsI"
No. they are not. Fernando Wood is
not, nor ynllandghom, nor Thomas Ii.
Seymour, nor any Of that school. Tnere
are not thousand D.sunIoni,IS, pure aud
simple, in oil the Free North. But, ao
some extreme Aboiionists were formerly
hostile to the Union because it was III
their view the shield aod bul"ark ot
slavery, SO the great bulk OF the Demo
Gratis of the Free States had come 10 lOUk
with repugnance on the War for th1 Uu
ion, because they realized that 1t was
tending TO undermine and overthrow slave
ry. They loved The Un'on after their faSh-
ion, but had no idea OF preserving II other
wise Than by their Traditional anu cherish
ed policy OF making any concession, sub
mttiug 10 any ezacuon, thst Slavery
might Insist on In heir conception, tue
Tnree Hundred Thousand eiovenullers
were "lhe South," aud TO resist their PFC,
tensions and to defy their hostility was 10
ALLEVIATE and eXasperate ''the > 'hth." Eve
ry battle won 10y our soldiers was, III Their
view, fresh aud more foI Imidabe obstacle
to what they understood by "reuuion"-
that is, ahject submission 10y the Free
States to the government and guidance OF
the Slave Power. They were sadly wrong
and quite consistent in dep!o ing and de-
prccnliug the War on our side as ruinous
mistake, and in seeking Peace on any
Terms no matter how humlliatiag to the
Loyal States. For, the greater our hun'l.
iation, they argued, the more certain our
readiness to accept reunion on such tenn,
as the triumphant Coufederacy should see
| tit TO impose. Aud since they had no
conception OF any impulse to D1sunion but
such as grew naturally aud rgh'eously out
! Of The indignation and alarm Hhere~l'h The
machlnationS aud efforts OF the Abolition.
lists were regarded 10y 'ou: Southern breth-
reD,' they had no conception that any 9th
er result Of our struggle could Oe so auspI-
clous as one that should bind the Flee
States over to the most affect devotion 10
Slavery aud is pretens'ons, lis claims aud
its prujects, through all future time. TINS
they believed triumph Of the Rebels would
secure; aud on this basis they were conf
dent the South would interpoSe no bar to "a
Reconstruction Such were the ideas which
.mpee ed thousands of Northern Democrats
to chuckle even over the fist Bull Run
dscom6 lure, aud to look with cOmplacency
on the failure OF Pope and the achieve.
ments of Slouewall jackson.
do not mpeach the patriotism, only
expose the perversty, OF the great body OF
the Copperheads of the Fee States, when
| assert that, had the Rebels been able,
after General Burnside's bloody repulse
last December, TO cross the Ruppahauuock,
dlsperse our dishcartened army, and, pres
sing rapidly across The Potomac, capture
Baltimore, invest Washington, and compel
our beleaguered Executive and Congress to
conclude peace whereby the Independence
OF the Coniederacy was conceded, and oil
the fifteen Slave States with the Federal
District given up TO its control 'hat result
would have been regarded with satisfaction
by great majority Of those in the Free
States who voted the Democratic tickets
in oar most recent State Elections. THIS
they would have said to themselves and
each other, gives US Peace; it crushes the
Abolitionists Tor ever; it demoishes the
Administration and its supporters; aud
aOw we can form new Unou wherein il
shall be treason 10 say one word against
Slavery. Even if the Coniederates should
Insist that every Black aud Mulatlo shall
be slave evermore, and that Gas by their
present Coustllu'iou) a. Shareholder may
take his Slaves into any State aud hold
them there during their pleasure, what
matters il? Don't We all hale 'niggerS?
Don't we consider Slavery their natural,
| lit, and most benifcent condition? Then
why not set this whole matter at rest be-
You'd the reach of agitation evermorep
How immense the change wrought since
the days oil gloom that ushered in the
present year! How glad aud proud he
present popular pulse beat OF the Loyal
nd kut h.. hau IA