Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1863-12-05
WHOLE NUMBER i79,Sse.

the conflict will come back aud say. + sfaid
acith goE 10 the iastie HONOR me and ssiae,.
God deliver me from, such traitors 10 hu.
manity, and TO the interests OF our bleeding
peoplel To me The path or duty Is plain.
IL is to lead my feeble aid to stop this
useless effusion of blood. And, fthooehs
begger my family, and leaves me no ray Of
hope for the future. shall follow .it.',a
have witnessed be desolstion OF the south
ern States from one end TO the other. This
hopeless struggle but wideus IT, Q Each
day makes new graves, new orphans, and
new monrnersl Eacd hour flugs into, this
dreadful whirlpool more of wreck ed homes
broken fortunes and anguished heartsl
The rich have mostly fallen. The poor
have drank deep of the cup Of sorrow.
while surely and not slowly, the tidesof
ruin in its resisless surge, sweeps toward
the middle clasSesi A few more campaigns
and they will form part Of the general
wreck Each grave aud each tear,e eacs
wasted fortune aud broken heart, puts up
that much further off from the object of
the struggle, and that much further of
from peace and happiness. Viewing lit
thus, the terrible question was presented
to me, as to whether l should conlinne
my lot 10 au enterprise so fruitless and SO
full of woe, and help hold the masses Of
the people on to this terrible despotism OF
Davis, where only ruin awaits them, or
whether should be quiet observer Of 10
oil, or lastly, whether should assist in
saving the remnant of you from the wreck.
| have chosen the latter. shall
send this address to every hill and corner
Of the State, TO the citizens aud soldiers at
home or in prison, and shall send with Il my
prayers to Almighty God TO arrest them
in their pathway of blood aud ruin. Why
trust Davis longer2 Had he twice oar
resources be would still fail With sue.
cess he would be despot. Bot the whole
thing is tumbliDg to pieces. Soldiers are
leaving disgusted and disheartened, and
whole States have gone back to their
homes in the Nationsl galaxy. Maryland
and Delaware will never again be shaken.
Kentucky has entrenched herself 10 the
Union, behind wall of bayonets in the
hands Of her own sturdy sons. Missouri
is as firmly set in the National galaxy as
Massachusetts. Tennessee, tempes,.tossed
and bolt riveD, under the guide Of her geeat
pilot, steers for her old mooring, and will
be anchored before the leaves fall while
the rays of light from the old North States,
flushing out ftfully from her darkness
across the troubled waves, shows that she
stirs, is not lost, but isstruggling torejoin
her sister, Nouei Of these States will ever
juin the South again. Then with crippled
armies-with devastated 6elds--with desc
late cities--with disheartened soldiers, and
worse than all, with weak and corrnps
leaders, what hope is left to the few remain.
ing States, but especially to poor opptes.
sed aud down trodden Arkansas? None!
Better get our brothers home while they
are left 10 US. Open the way for the re.
turn of husbands, fathers and sons, aud
bind up the broken liuks of the old Union.
The people must act, 10 do this. / tell you
now, in grief aud pain, that the leaders
don't care tor your blood. Your suf.
erings move them not. The tears and
walls of your anguished and bereayed ones
fall on hearts Of. flint J. while they can
make dollar or wear an epaulette, they
are content. Finally, with q grief-stricken
and sorrowful heart, implore mothers,
sisters, wives aud daughters 10 assist, by
all their arts, in saving their loved onss
from this terrible scourge ere ruin overiaks
you and shem irretrevablyl While God
gives me strength, daunted by no peril
aud swerved by NO consideration OF self I
shall give you my feeble add oi r1oo7 20