Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1863-05-30
Gov. seymour,s Arrest Advised.


Gov. seymour's Arrest Advised.
Instead OF yielding to such threats as Sey'
mour indulges in, il the President regards the
sentence Of Vaandigham just. he should at
once approve it, and then order the arrest and
confinement Of Seymour. that ho and his trca.
sonable friend might miugle their sympathies in
a more intimate relation.-BuGaio Erpre"
That's wholesome advicel
Extract from speech by the Rev. DR.. BEL.
Lows, at the opening ofthe Union League Club
New York, May IL.
mau's instruction to his inexperienced COM
paaion at the fair.
"lf you see butter-nut, shoot him." has
become the compencious programme of
Union men in Missouri! A friend just
from there told me that member of the
legislature had lately described an interview
with "a man from the border, who told him
that his own case might serve to Illustrate
the condition Of society in bis region. II
had FIVE hrOtbers.in law. and every one of
them had sworn 10 take my life: simply be.
cause | adhered to the Unon. They
sought to shoot me through my owu win
dows, to waylay me, to kill me anywhere
or any how. have succeeded in sla ying
three ofthem. shall mot feel that smy
life is safe till have killed the other two"
A boy of sixteen, concealed in Union
house, saw his own mother taken out and
shot before her own door, I'D wantOBDess,
by an Internal guerrilla crew. lie went out
the moln.nt tho nssassins had Aed to pick
| up her lifelcs form; counted the wounds
there were nino-and having buried bis
mother, instantly, STRIPPING as be was, en-.
listed in the Union army. lie had already
made sure of the slaughter OF seven rebels
by bis own baud, and he swore he would
never cease until lie had two more rebel
liyes-one for ench shot in his mother S
body! These ore the terrible passions
which The malignity Of the foe has aroused
in the hearts of our brethren on he border |!
Do you wouder at them2 Is it not abso
lutely essential to self-preseryation that
they should adopt the policy, nay let me
rather say yield to the passion of extermin'
alton under such lurious hatred as our en-
emy feels and practices towards them?-
Can You wonder that they form solemn lea
CUES aud covenants OF common defence, aud
swear osths of mutual fidelity? Said on,
of them-an ultra peace man who, in thu
worst Kansas times, bad refused 10 weal
secret weapons: DO you know what il
means" and his face, said my friend WHOM
be addressed, glared with a terrible earnest
ness as he spoke--"do You know what i
means'to s~ear by Inspiration? For l hav'
so sworn TO have the blood of every rebe
that on any pretense comes sueaking int'
my neighborhood." He had seen dozen
of honest Union men taken ont by thes
villains and shot without proyocation.
1t was the possibility of scenes like this ID
cur own communities that started the oy
al Leagues In Baltimore, where the.
began, the danger was NOT merely imminent
, it had already fallen. The invasion G
: Peunsy lvania aroused Philadelphia to
J sense Of her own peril as o possible borde
city. Men began to look round to Sc
whom they could depeud on should mel
already traitors in their bearts an
tonguca find courage to turn trait
ors in their deeds. New Yorl
inception. did not know, from party appea
ances and animosties, bow soon it migt
! become necessary here TO compel every INA
, openly to show bis hand There was blu
tsriug treason in every assembly. HOY
, soon fearful trial Of strength might aris
: between the unconditional loyalty of tn
| city and its partisan treachery, none coul'
/ tell. Loyal men began to feel round 70
their peers. They wanted TO know wh
y. was Dho, and they determined TO form a
association in which men not afraid OPEN
\ and uucondi.ionlly to commit themselve
/, should enter into solemn covenant to stan
by each other in any and every moment
!. danger to the country aud the cause; to q
= to council in the sudden exigencies posslb
Z in the dark future; TO lay shoulder again
shoulder and form irusty phalanx wht
: social or commercial whIffiers aud coward
= should assail the government or threatt
n our domestic security; to from down vii
solid indignation the sympaty OF ligh
minded. pleasure-loving, fashion-led crow
!. of vulgar rich. with southern interests au
!, princplesl this was the original object
. this Union League Club. Happily, Il
p moot threatening part OF the clond who's
q fury IL was erected to draw of. has alread
!. dispersed under the wholesome wind OF po
ular agitation. But how much remaiI
for club like this to accomplish In puI
g flying the social atmosphere of this metro
10 oils! Here men who love their counts
}, with pure and devoted affection--men
IS solid character aud undertaking loyslt
r without regard to party or sect, bat on
Il men tried, known and trnsted--are 10 con
q together to confirm each others faith,
IS nerve eash other 10 fresh sacrifices,
d counsel each other In times Of doubt. au
!. to uphold each other in hours of calamit
IS to meet every disaster with fresh reserv'
= OF hope aud confidence, and to resolve. q
IS ter every postponemept sGd vexatious della
d on new patience, and longer persste
cy.