Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1863-03-14

| OeStfuctlYe TO the National cause as he has
ever boeH in arms as commander of an in.
dependent Rebel force. Jacob Thompson.
as Secretary of the Interior, was q public
| peril while as O Confederate officer and
spy.dipIomatist he has been scarcely more
than a nuisance. Isaac Toucey in Connect
cut is only an enemy Of the Republic iu her
struggle for existence against red-handed
treason bat Isaac Toucey at the head of
our Navy was able so to scatter our ships
OF war to the ends of the earth that no ef
fec i've service could be rendered by them
to the National cause during the 6rst half.
year OF the struggle. Never before was a
great Nation SO stripped and shackled by
its own high fuuctionaries in preparation
for the outbreak of a gigantic rebellion.
when this Congress FIRST assembled,
scarcely ground whereon to plant flag.
staff ia the eleven seeded States remained
TO the defenders of the Union. Fortress
Monroe and Alexandria in Virginia were
held by the Volunteers already called out
by the President ;and the heroic Uniouists
OF East Tennessee maintained a desperate
defiance to the trailorous hosts which. by
favor OF Keuucky's ilstarred neutrality,
were closing in upon and preparing to
crush her Three fonrths of the area of
Missouri was Rehel, under the lead Of her
Governor aud Lieut. G Governor chosen as
Democrats in 1860 Below Fortress
Monroe, we possessed no foothold on The
mainland, aud none near it except the san
dy isle'- beach by Pensacola Wherein
stands Fort Pickens The Rebels had
indicated their pcwer over the loug
stretch OF coast from the Chesapeake to The
Kio Grands by dismautliug all The light
houses, while they asked Europe TO shudder
al our 6arbarity in refusing them the priyi.
lege OF importing quuine and other medi.
clnss through our lines. Not less than
Ten Millions OF People-a full third of The
InhaOltants OF the RepuOIlc-were uuder
the rule of Jefferson Davis. .....
BY the campaigns aud combats of the in-
terVenlng twenty mont hS, third Of VIrgin.
Ia, The Sea-slaudS, and mach of The sea-
coast OF North aud South Carolina. the sea.
ISLANDS oI Georgia, and some of the coast
towns Of Florida, nearly half the territory
aud more than half the population of Louis
iaha, ihcIuuiuS the great city Of New D
leans, the chIef mart of the South, the lar.
ger periion Of tennessee, aud part of Ar.
kansas, have been recovered to the Union
Kentucky, so lohg hesitatlng and neutral |
Is now Union State, aud no Secession |
tiag flies, save fully, from any point with
III her borders. Missouri, SO long the are. |
ia OF galantly conteuding hosts, the scene |
OF thousand separate Tragedies wherein !
6ro1her with brother, neighbor with neigh |
Dor, met III deadly fray, at length rests
TRANQUILITY under the broad wings of the
Natiouol eagle. To day, not more than
Seven of our Thirty Millions are subjects of
the iron despOti5m of Davis; aud Three
Millions Of these are slaves, who fervently
pray and would gladly strike for It's over |
throw. May we not reasonably trust hat
another year will compe its dowDfI
The XXANIlth Congress has matured |
and passed measures, spart from those es
Sential TO the prosecution of the War, |
which won d suffice Of themselves to render !
lis memory ilustrious. The Free Home. !
stead Act, whereby the public lands of the
UHion are profered in quarter.Sections, at
the bare cost Of survey and transfer, to |
whomsoever will settle and cultivate them. |
is of itself more important and benefcent
than all the legislation of many preceding
Congresses together. The Pacific Rail.
road Act, whereby is secured connection
of the Atlantic with the Pacific by an un.
broken iron railway from Bangor to San
Francisco, is one of the grand events of the
Nineteenth Centary. That road will be
running up to the Rocky Mountains within
three years from the close of the War, and
to the Sacramento and the Golden Gate
Rafp . bo
present territories will be yielding at least
one hundred millions per annum of the pre-
cious metals, aud busy, resolute, e1erget
c population of millions will be rearing
cities, constructing vast hydraulic works
'Or the conjoinl uses Of agriculture, (through
rrigntion,) and mining along the now des.
plate banks of the Colorado and on the san.
ly steppes of the Great Basin while seek.
arS of health and seekers of enjoyment will
n thousands tread the glens of the pine.
clad Rocky Mountains and gaze with de.
lighted awe from the western shoulder Of
he Sierra Nevada across the deep, grand
valley through which the Sacramento and
he San joaquin pursue their opposite
courses to meet aud force passage west.
ward 10 the Pacific, And, as train after
rain shall pour into our Atlaalic marts,
bearing the gold of cur mountains, the sill.
'er OF our deserts, The spices aud costly lis.
ues of the Indies TO be proflably exc6aug.
ID for the food oi the Great Valley, the
abrics Of the seOboard, there viii miugle
With the lhauksgiviugs of reunited, once.
more peaceial, and prosperous people,
grateful memory of the labors and achieve.
nents of the XXXVlIth Congress.
Eyes. I.r