Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1863-01-03

which the ttbclllous States are invited hack
n IN N Unlan. (which has abolished slavery IN
the District 6f Columbia. aud inierdicted slave
~ 10 The TerfiiorIes--which vigorously repress-
e. the slave trade napgs be convicted saver
as pirnle--wtich necessitates emancipation
by denying tho expansion TO slavery, and
facilitates Il hysthe offer OF compensation. Any
Slave holding States which should return TO
suth Union might fairly be supposed TO reiurn
with the purpose Of peaceful emancipation.
The Presidents Proclamation smpy treans
this :--come 10, and emaucipate peacefully
with Compensation stay out, aud emapcipate,
DOR will protect you from the consequences.
Tho continuance 10 the Union is thus under.
stood is already made manifest by the votes OF
Missouri and Delaware ia the recent elections
Both ofthcss states have given strong majorlles
Eor emancipation Missouri long tending towards
emancipation, has alreany planted herself hr'hiy
on the great rock Of Freedom and thrown OUT
her bold aud eloquent appeal to the Free states
OF the North for aid in overcoming the dlthcut
ties of her position. Other states will so-u fol-
low nor is it too much to hope that before a
new yesr has gone far in its course the sacred
FIRE OF freedom will have flashed along the whole
line OF the border states responsive 10 the gen
erous proposition Of the President and Con-
gress. and that universal emancipation will have
become a HNtu laCl III tue = OuiVus
Will our sisters in Eogland feel DO heartbeat
at that event Z Is it not one Of the predicted
voices of the latter day, saying under the whole
heavens, alt is done ibe kingdoms of this
world are become the kingdoms Of our Lord
and Of His Christ?
And now, Sisters Of England, in this
solemn expectaut hour les us speak to yon
Of one ething which ellis our hearts with pain
and solicitude.
It is on uuaccountable fact, and one
which we enlreat YOU seriously TO ponder,
that the party which has brought the
cause OF Freedom thus far on its way,
during the past eventfuI year. has fcunG
little or no support in England Sadder
than this, the party which makes Slavery
the chief cornerstone OF its edi6ce finds il
England its strongest defe ders.
The voices that have spoken for Us whC
contend for Liberty have been few aiiC
scattering. God 70 bid that we shoulC
forget those few noble voices, so sadly
exceptional in he general outcry agans
us ! They are, alas, TO few to be easily
forgotten. False statements have blinded
lhe minds Of your community, and turned
The most generous sentiments of the British
heart against us. The North are fighting
for supremacy and the South for indepen-
aence. has been the voice Independence
for what to do whaii To prove the doc
trine that all men are not equal 70
establish the doctriue that tho white may
anslave the negro.
1t is natural to-s$me~+ltizs with people
who are fighting for their rights but if
these prove to be the right Of selling chill
dren by the pound and trading in husbands
and wives as mercbantahle articles, should
not Englisbmen lhiuk twice before giving
their sympathy A pirate ship on high
seas is lighting for independence! LIST us
be consistent
It has been said that we have been over
sensitive, thin skinned. 1t is one inccnveu
lent attendant of love aud respect, thai
they do induce sensiiveness. A brother
or father turning against Que in the hour
OF trouble, friend sleeping in Gethsemane
Of our mortal anguish, does not always
fEd Us armed with divine patience. We
loved England we respected, revered her
We we're bound to her by ties of blood anC
race. Alas must oil these declaration
be written in the past tense
But that we may not be thought to haV
over estimated the popular Tide against Us
We shall express our sense OF it in th
words Of an English writer, one Of tb
noble few who have spoken the truth on ou
side. Referring to Englands position OF
this question, he says:
"What is the meaning of this ! Why
does the English nation, which has made
itself memorable to all time us ete destroy
er Of negro slavery, which has se1nnk from
no sacrifices to f ee its own character iron
that odious stain, and to close all th
countries of the world against the slav
mechanically ia it that the nation wbic
Is at the head of Aboltionsm, not oni
feels no sympathy with those who are Ugh
ing against the slave holding conSplrac.
but actually desires its snceeSs! why
,he general voice of our press, the gener
sentiment of our people bitedy reproachi
10 the north, while for the South, u
ag0ressors in the war, We have either mi
apoloxies or direct and downright encou'
neement,-and this not only from the Toi
and anti.Democraiic camp, cut from Lioe
ais, or soi.disaat such ?
''This strange perversion OF tcell1
prevails nowhere else. The public
France, and Of the Continent generally,
all events the Liberal part Of il, saw
once on which side were Justice aud moe
principle, and gsSe It's sympplhieS. cons
tently aud steadily to the North. Why
England an exception
In the beginning Of our struggle, Il
voices that reached us across ire wat
said, "If We only were shure you we
Sighting for the abolition Of slavery, y
should not dare to say whittier our synlp
shes for your cause might not carry US"
Such, as we heard, were the words
the honored and religious no5leman wi
drsughted this very htter which you sign
and sent us, and 70 which we are now 7
plying.
When these words reached US. we sal
1--WE can wait our friends in England "
soon see whittier this eoLilict is tending
A year and half have passed step afI
step has been taken for Liberty ; cha
after chain has fallen, till the march OF o
armies il choked and clogged by the 81