Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1863-01-31
BY curipnst, go brightsreno
Gen. patlsr In new Ysfh..

We'll Osucr SaVe u Puouc Fecepti0u TO the
lcitiEens Of New Y ork on the evening ofthe
Dsdh. From the tcUor of some remarks made
by him we judge his recent con33efsiou to, be
permanent and thorough. Abiding 10 Slavery
y SF'Ns ss-1uOz 7IsaI mO,l qF Fs.iss 81 9di =
Ills views ha d sundergDheaa change dir.
ing his residences in New y Orleans; and
while entertaining no prejudice against his
I1oldnRo RoliHcal Fdssociates, who found fault
ontt hat score, he wonld only soy TO them
that if they had gone there with The sane
sentiments thatibe felt, atbey would ihave
come fway with sthei 4sames sentiments he
felt. q Langhteri1 He thought he, might
SAY 4 hat. The principal members of his staff,
and the officers ofbhis sreGinients, without
bany exception, went sout to New Orleans
Ilunker Democrats of the .hunkerest sort,
for it, was but nat uthl that he should draw
around him those whose stie&s weresimjlar
TO his own, sand every individual O of be
number had dicome to precisely the same be
| lief OH the Question ofqSlarerya as lie had
pntiforth in hisifarbwell address to the peo.
pie of New Orleahs: This tliauge came
hubout1from seeing whit all of them sa w.
Wy ua III tutS "NuT tu6 tBtH6 DTOD
eriy Of the South was as.aSainst us, because
almostuthc etitlre property of the, South
was boundlup in that institution This was
well known fact, probably, but he did
not BECOME fully aware Of it Until he had
speut some time at New Orleans. The
South had i$l63, 900 600 00iOfitaxableAprop
erty in slaves and $l63 1000 900 in all other
kinds of propertyo7l And this was the
cause why the merchants of New Orlea MS
had notremained loyal They found them.
selves sruined---all aheirl property being
loaned uponplonterls notes and mortgages
upono plantations and slaves ,gall of which
property is now reasonably worihless.-'
Again. he had learned what he did not
know. before, thatlthis was not rebellion
against us, abutsimplya rebellion to perpet g
nate power in thelhands OF a. few slavehol-
ders.h At first he had not believed that,
Slavery was the cnuse 6fsthe Rebellion
bat attributed il to Davis, SldelI and 9th :.
ers, " ho had brought tt'a bout to make po.
,litcnl trinmphs by which TO regain their
former ascendeney. The rebellion was
against the humble and ,pooreraclasses, and
there were in the South large aumhers of
secret societies. dealing in cabalistie signs
organized for the purpose of perpeiuatipg
the power of the rich over The poor Ii
was feared that these common people would
come into power and, that three or. four
hundred thoosnndq men could not
hold agdiTst eight millions. .rhe first
f1o ovetnent of these men was to make land
the basis Of political power ; and that was
not enough, for land could not be owned
by many persoasag Then they annexed
land to slaves and divided the property in
TO movable and immovableyg He was not
generally accused Of being a humanitarian
Lat least not by bis Southern friends. !
/ When be saw the utter Decentralization
of the people, resulting from slavery il
struck him that 1t was an restitution which
should be thrust frOhi' the Onion. He had
on reading Mrs. Stoves book-=-rURcle
Toms OabinDLbelieyed it to be an over
drawn, highly yfought picthr6 Of Southern
life, but be he'd seen with his own eyes,
and heard with his own ears, many things |
which 60 beyondsher book as much as her
book does beyond an ordipary schoolgirls ]
novel. He, related an incident Of the
shocking Generalization of society at New
Orleans There cane into his ofaee 20 I
man, 2T years OF age,e perfectly white, who
asked him in proper language II be would
put her 10 one OF her fathers boases.e Her
history was this HeC father had eddca.
ed her ID the city of New York. until she,
vas between II and 10 years Of age, and I
aiken her to one Of the metropoltau' no
els, where he kept her aasshis mistress i
Not felishing the connection, and desisibgl
% get away from him, she went to New /.
followed her, but she refused
o live with him, at which he whipped her
n the p3blic street, and made her marry \
lave. She aftergard resumed the pnhatu- j
al relation, going to Cincinnati, bnt was
lrough back by her husband, OF father,
With a child belongingto somebody. Her Z
ather fed from the city at the time OF It's
by the United States forces, Il
qaying her 10 q state Of destitntion. Shell
wanted to live IN one Of her father's houses, 4
'nt her story was not credible and he de.
efnined 10 INVESTIGATE 1t, TO hissulprlse.
t was found to be Well known, ana testl- "
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