Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1863-06-20

accldents, favored by our possession of an
enormous area offertile put unocupied soil
aud the consequent absorption into the
work of subdung and reclaiming tho viii.
derness of the restless, reckless, disorderly,
un,umabe elements of our population
"Only wait little, till great cities shall
have arisen, and manufactures been estub
lishcd, and the forest shall have receded
and wealth been amassed, and poverty aud
proligacy developed their natural Ontago.
uism to thrift aud abundance, and then you
will see that this beautiful apparlion of
stable and tranquil Democracy will prove
q chmera which the FIRST rough touch will
dissolve-a fog wreath which the first
strong gale will blow away"
But an illusion, phantom, which stand
firm for eighty years, resisting ruce shocks
from without and fierce ass saults from with
in, takes at least the semblance of real
ty-becomes to most inlents a substance
and fact. So many vaccinations of ap
preaching anarchy and couvulsion, of dis.
ruption and explosion, had Leen falsfed by
the event. that the prophets were losing
credit even with their habitual devo, ees,
while the multitude were fast learning to
receive their doleful nuguries with horse
laugh of derision. So many of their pre-.
dictions that this country was just on the
point Of disruption and civil war had prov
ed fallacious, that u fresh cry of Wolf,
from the same quarter excited no emotion
but those Of deriSve contempt And when
at last it became unquestionable that the
wolf had actually come, The delighted ex.
ultation of the prophets fully cqnalel the
disappointed of their mortified aud crest.
fullen antagonists.
The desperate hostility of the slayeholdng
cast, including that large and respectable
portion of lis wealthier members whose
Judgment utterly condemned the revolt,
because their sagacity foreSaw its all Out
inevitable issue, With tie instructive sym
pathy of their Enropean peers, was to have
been expected No privileged class, unless
demuralizGd aud rendered clfrmnate aud
cowulLly by g,bvrutiuna Of luXury and case
ever yet sur eudcred ltS'prei ogatIvas with.
out ii deadly struggle; aud 10 modern ar
lis, ociacy ever yet cumbaied Il popular mp.
rising without commanding the zeulous and
active good will Ut ito peers throughout
| Cbri,tendom.
Bui the aid and comfort nifo ded 10 the
I'Slnveholders' Rebellion by Ihc Northcra
/ ID m0cracy is an element OF lSeocl strength
| in the struggle nOw proceeding Oh winch
! the architects uf national ruin had no right
TO calculate, though 1t is we'll known That
they did 1t has long bcen the especial
boast of this Democracy 'hntlt was pre-
em,ncn ly lhe party Of Nationality aud OF
the Union. When Geu. jackson win ii
strong hand crushed out Modification, no
hearIler Amen was heard than that of the
Democracy OF the Free States. Tac same
assumptions Of STATE Sovereignty aud Ma
tunnl impotence were involved in that
revolt as in this; aud never was IL political
heresy more boldly met or more sweepingly
rcfuted than in Old ii ckUfys Proclamu.
ton against South Caruiiua. He who ap.
proved the main po>iiO OF that vigorous
and mastery State Paper, yet now pre-
tends TO condemn Mr.. l., coln'S War for
The Union, is as grossly, iidgrantIy nconSs.
tent as il is possible 10 tie. lie who shnuts
approval OF Valkandlnghnm or Fernando
Woods peace" doctrines, as propounded
ut the late "Peace Convention" III our city,
aud does not know that he uuqualIiipdly
tcondemns the principles and acls Of Gen.
Jackson in his collision with Calhoun,
Hayne, aud McDufe; is simply unqualified
to compare two PARALLEL facts, o. analyzG
his own conceptions II he possesses the
reasoning faculty at a it is in so imperfect
and rudlmentary form that ah average
-aumal instinct would have served him a
better purpose.
But The prevalence, the intensity, the
activity OF Northern sympathy with Sou h
ern treason, though deplorabe, neverthe
less are facts How should they he dealt
W ilh by the Government Of the Unloni
Admit all the premises that the adyo
Gates of stroug measures Insist on-that no
citizen has right TO rebel nor 10 sympa
thize with Rebels-every mans imperative
duty 81 to sustain the Federal Govern
ment 10 the War so wantonly, wickedl J
forced upon it by slavehoding treason; yet
the fact remains that a great many, even il
the Free States, do ardeutly sympathiz,
with the Southern Rebellion, as they al
ways have sympath zed, always aoiU sym
pathize, with any effort which contemplate
the aggrandizement of Slavery, the degra
daiion of negroes: What'would you have
done With them?
Say that they are unfaithful to the mos
imperative aud sacred obligations have
you any process for making them otherwise
They are too many for punishment, TOO
strong to be intmated by making examples
CT the most malignant or the most conspie
uous. You meet them daily among you
acquantances and neighbors, and know
that thir hearts are with the Re bels---tha
the more frank and impulsive among then
openly display their exutatlon when th
traitors are victorious, while their more
crafty and secretive cOmpatriots chuck,
+ quietly over a Bull Run or Gaues
Mill disaster, and hope that one or tw
! more such will compel the Goyernmen, t.
! buy peace of the traitors by the mos
7 humilatlng concessions, whereof Dlsuniol
shall Ge but the euteriDgw wedge: VIVA
: would you have done with them!
To arrest aud SEEK 10 punish the wors
of tn III is to afford them all the opporIuni
, ~ they eovet 10 oppose and embarraSS tn
Government without appearing directly