Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1863-10-31
independent in all things.


onsly: This shall not be- And when they
went TO war to establish separate arsto.
cratic government, like the monarchial in.
stitntiobs Of the Old World. thei we wen
TO war TOO Now, then, the simple oues
tion before us is, Is this country worth a
war; Arc The hopes depending npon the
prosperity Of American institutions worth
enough to jnstify US in going to war for the
nations lift2 Is the life of the nation
worth enough to justify US in going to war
Look through the history of man, and tell
me where you can find people involved in
struggle for more noble object than
mat OF preserving nations life. We
mean to preserve the life Of this nation, and
the integrity OF this nation too; we mean
to make it thoroughly impossible, in times
TO come, that dsaffected faction in any
part OF the country can strike deadly blow
at the vitality of the country. CHEERS y
Next, as to the relations Of this contest to
81 very, and as 10 the Emancipation policy as
means toward the great end of preserving the
lie of the r prh'ic, what has been more tersely
or forcibly said than this?
1T was one of the most natural things in
the world, that when the war began we
should want to get through it without dis.
tnrhng the ins,i ution Of Slavery. have
often spoken to you in Cincinnati; and you
all know what my feelings are, for am
jn't The same now as was when l spoke to
you ten years ago. 1t was very simple aud
very plain that Slavery depended for its ex.
istencc outside of those States upon the
National will-which is simply saving your
will and my wll-that Slavery outside of
those States shonld not exist antagonistic
to free labor. Bnt With Slavery in South
Carolina, we in Ohio had nothing to do:
and | was just as much averse to any inter.
ference with anything within The limits of
olter States. Although dislike the nsti-
tuition and condemn it, yet l was just as
much averse to any in erference with it as
| should be with their interference with our
institutions here in Ohio. That was INV
doctrine; and so, when this Rebellion com.
menced. it would have hceu extremely
agreeable to me if we could have pnt our
foot p N the snake-I me IN the Rebellion
-anu crushed it out without any further
trouble. But, while greatly desired that,
and had been Geueral-n Chief / should
have attempted, in an awkward way, to
accomplish it.stll weall know the Rebellion
went on, and assumed greater ard grea ter
proportions. We put greater and greater
armies into the f,ld; but the slave popula.
ton of the South was the real prop of the
Rehellion-raising provisions for the army
while ii was fighting in the field so that
they could have had pretty much all their
| NJ 1ah uIat in hot
field; and they had another laboring popu.
ation behind them to feed and support
them; and thereto it appeared evident,
especially as we had to depend upon the
blacks in the South for information for our
armies, and the whole country was so de-
morulized that they were the only friends
our armies could find when they passed
throlgh-.it seemed | say, perfsctly clear
that We had to strike at this under prop of
the Rebellion; and so, when President Lin
coin thought fit TO iSsne his Proclamation,
| said Amen! with all my hear. Gre.
mendouS applause 1t was never intended
to interfere with tue States that were loyal.
This Proclamation comes mp as great fea.
ture in this wa. In my Judgment, the
Proclamation was the right thing in the
right place; and without it, | am Just as
sure as | am of my own existence, that we
could not have made the progress we have
made; and | ho'd that the man who de
nOunceS the Proclamation either speaks
| ignorantly OF that of which he knows but
little or nothing, or else he really desires
that the Rebellion should succeed cloud
applause } There is no alternative The
Rebellion wonld have succeeded but for the
Proclamation; if, then, man oppose the
Proclamation, he opposes it because he
does not understand it, or because he
wishes the Rebel ion to succeed
will make but one further extract-this
time from his remarks at Indianapolis. where
Gov. Chase said;
If there ever was any event 10 the his
tory of this world which was distinctly
marked by the tokens Of Divine Providence
it is this war. There had grown up an in.
stiturion in this country which had served
as the basis of an ariStocracy hostile to free
labor and all those interests which you
most cherish. 1t was an aristocrary that
pressed with equal weight upon the poor
white man of the South and the s ave who
was driven like the brute to his daily toll
This aristocracy had seized upon the Ma.
tional Government, and was making il Just
what they pleased for the purpose of work
ing their wills. They were striving to ex
tend Slavery into all the free territories OF
the country, and to reopen the Slave,Trade
that they might make fresh impor ations of
slaves from africa, at pleasure. They
secuted the very idea of free institutions,
ana had so organized themselves that they
preferred to overthrow and ruin the gov.
ernment rather than submit to having the
Republic governed by the people. In 1860,
they determined they would govern the Re-.
public themselves. Lincoln was elected
President. They still had Congress and
the Supreme Court, but thew were not con.
tent with this. They were not willing that
power should pass out Of their hands into
he hands of the representatives Of the peo,
pie And so they undertook to break up
the Republic, in the insane hope that they
could make new Republic, founded on the
Slavery of men. They expected that New
! York wond ioin them in breaking uD the