Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1863-12-05

ing RUNS, and plantations abandoned aud
iaio vast, meet us on all sides, and anarchy
and disappointment and discomfort, lower
over all the land.
| Have DO hopes from divided North
1t is on the surface scarcely goes to ,be
bottom of their politics, much less shaking
the great masses of their determined peo
pie. Remember, too, that much Of thu
South is with them. There is no division
as far rs fighting US is cuDcerned The
mildest of them simply proposes peace by
reconstruction. That rejected, they are to
press us with redoubled energy. Let Us
not, after all our miSforlunes and blunders,
construe the struggles between politicians
for place into sympathy for ourselves
But how could they propose peace ? Who
would bring the message? To whom would
1t be delivered /? Aud should the propos-
ition be made and rejected, VIC are that
much worse off for it. We have got
enough of the thing, ...l..-...|
/ am asked if Mr. Liucoln's Emancipation
procla nation will stand II you continue
the struggle, certainly. He has tie ply.
steal force at his disposal to carry it out.
If you cease now, you may save all 10 yonr
hands, or compromise on gradual emanci.
patton. But let, beseech you, the negro
no longer stand n the way of the happiness
and safety of friends and kindered .
The changes of sentiment upon this
question 10 the South have been curious.
| Not many years since, it was by no means
unusual for the press and public men, as
well as for the people generally in the
South, to concede hat slavery was an evil,
aud regret that it should ever have existed !;
expressing, however, no disposition Or de.
sire to be rid Of it. Yet, u few years more
the demand for cotton having increased
the price of negroes having advanced, and
the agitation Of the slavery question having
increased in vrulence-6nds MS defending
slavery as q divine institution. DeBow s
Reriew, aud others Southern papers aud
periodicals, with Senator Hammond of
South Carolina, were prominent in this de-,
fense. Their object was 0 educate the south
ern mind to this belief Such course has
been vital to the existence of slavery; be-
cause, to concede that negro slavery was
morally wrong, was virtually to concede
the whole argument to the Abolitonists
As the controversy warmed we became
sensitive. Aud so morbdly so, that the
North nil b. ave threat enel with impunty
to deprive US of horses, or other property
yet the whole South would be ablazei if
ssme fantic took one negro. Such was
public sentiment South, at the commence.
ment of this most unfortunate ond bloody
struggle. But revolutions shake up men's
thoughts. and put them in different chan.
nels. have recently talked with Southern
Shareholders from every State. They are
tired of negro slavery, and believe they
could make more clear money, aud live
more peaccably, without than with it. As
for the non-slaveholder of the South,
honestly thought the struggle was for him
more than for his wealthy neighbor--that
to free the negro would reduce to compara.
tive slavery the poor white man. l now
regret, that instead of war to sustain
slavery, it had not been struggle at the
ballot-box to colonzs it. Thus will clearly
be the next struggle. ..-... b.. ra'.--r
Let US, fellow citizens, endeavor to be
calm Let US look these new ideas, and
our novel position, squarely in the face
We fought for negro slavery. We have
lost. We may have to do without it
The Inconvenience will be great for awhile
The loss heavy. ThiF, however, is already
well nigh accomplish I'd. Yet, behind this
dark cloud is silver lining. If not for US.
at least for our children. la the place Of
these bondsmeu will come an immense influx
of people from all parts of the world, bring.
ing with them their wealth, arts and i'm :.
provements, and lending their talents aud
sinews to increase our aggregate wealth.
Thrift and trade, and common destiny,
will bind US together. Machinery in the
hills of Arkansas will reverberate to the
music of machinery in New England, and
the whirr of Georgia spindles will meet
responsive echos upon the slopes of the far.
of Pacific. Protective tariffs, if needed,
will stretch in their influences from the
Lakes to the Gulf, aud from ocean to ocean,
bearing alike at last, equally upon Arkau.
sian aud Vermonter, aud upou Georgian
and Californian. Difference OF section and
aud local sentiment will wear away and
be forgotten, aud the next generation be
more homogeneous and united than any
since the days of the Revolution. Aud
the descendants of these bloody times vii
rta /, with as much pride and little jealousy
of these battles of their fathers, as the
English aud Scotch descendants of the be
roes of Flodden-Geld read of theis ancestra
achievements in the glowing lines of Scott
or as the descendant of highland and low
land chiefs, illusions to their fathers cor
Gicts in the simple strains of the rusti
Burns. ... ...-..r ..
Let US live in hope, my grief stricken
brother, that the day is not far distan
when Arkansas will rise from the ashe
of her desolation 10 start on a path {
higher destiny than with negro slavery SD
ever could have reached while the rel
: nited government freed from this eanke
ing sore, will be more vigorous an
powerful, and more thrifty, opulent an
; happy than though the scourge of war ha
= never desolated her fields, or made sorrow
!, ful her hearthssoneSl mono al ~. AN.
I The sooner We lay down our arms su
b quit this hopeless struggle, the sooner th
!. days Of prosperity will return. .sri
Q / hesitated long, my felIow.eitizen
/. before l determined TO issuethis addres
b dislike to be abused and sandered. Bu
II more than all. dislike to live under elou