Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1863-04-25
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Because we alone can be tie commercia,
rival Of Great Britain ! There has been.
in, my Judgment. deliberate attempt on
The part of Great Britain, under the plea
of neutrality, to allow our commerce TO he
rnined =, 1t is idle toA tell me that great \
Britain does not know these vessels are ft.
ted out in her ports. 1t lis idle aud Insult.
ing to .lell you thai she put the Alabama
under 90, 900 bonds not TO go into the SER
vice of the Confederate States We did
not SO deal with her when she was ct var
With Russia Oh The Suggestion .of the
b.. Minister, our government stopped, with
he rapidly Of lightning the shilng of a
steamer, until tie minister himself was will.
ling. We must take some means to pues
stop 10 these proceedings. l was told the
olber day that the amount of properly al.
ready destroyed amounts to $4,000, 600
What, then. is our remedy, for we must
look forward to these matters The go.
vernment is no doubs doing ,it1 but We our-
selves must look at it, for we are the peopIe
we are the governmeut, [applausel aud
when our government gets ready to take
tue step, we must be ready to suppotth.
Eugl and tells us what TO do when there
was likelihood of war. she stopped the
exploration of. those articles she thought
We wuuted. Let US do the same thing
Great applause, Let us proclaim nom
Intercourse so that no pounce Of food from
the U, States shall by any means ever 6nd
is way into an Epgllshman's mouth urtil
the piracy is stopped. But hear some OBJ.
jecto say, if we proclaim non-lnteTeourse,
England may go 10 war. Let ber gd|
We'll suppose she does am not to be
frightened twice running. l got frightened
a little more than o year ago. but have
got over that, Laughter] Itisa neces-
slly, for We must Keep onr ships at home
to save them from these pirates, If o dozen
Of them get loose upon the ocean. II be-
came war measure, which atiy nation an
der any law would have Alright 10 enforce.
1t should be made to apply directly toithe
Englsh nation, for never heard of block
ade runner under the French flag. or Rus
sian or Austrian, or Greek fag-no not
even the Tufks will do il. Lvud cheers.l
l have, lheretore, ventured 10 suggest this
10 you as possible, aye probable remedy,
unless this tbitg is seen TO aud stopped
We must see to it. We should protect oar
selves, and take a manly place among the
nations of til eearth.
.t-rirsrrisiat. zGlA
You will observe, friends, that 10 the list
Of grievances with which charge Engand,
| do not charge her with tempering with our
leading politicians. Laughter A So far
as any evidence | have, dou't knowfth
she is guilty. X But what shall we say Of our
leadiug politicians who have tampered with
her p G eat applause. IL have read
\ ,hat--which surprised me- more Than any
Other fact Of this war-that here 10 New
York, leading politicians consulted with the
Br Minister as to how this UDion should
be separated; and when l read that, every
drop of blood in my vains boiled, and
would liked to have seen that "leading pol
iticaI. p Enthusiastic applsuse.--I don's
know hat Lord Lyons is 10 blame. sup.
pose. sir, that if man goes to one of your
clerks and offers to go into partnership with
him to rob one of your nelghbors, aud he
refuses aud reports the matter you you
don't blame your clerk but what do you
do with the man who makes the offer p
think we had better take q lesson from
Wsshington's administration, though the
case is reversed. WheD the FIR. Minister,
dress 10 the people of the U. States, com.
plant was made to bis government, and he
was recalled aud law was passed pre-
venting for all time to come; any interfer-
ence of foreign ministers in the politics of
his country. | want to be understood
have no evidence that Lord Lyo is inter-
Tered at ALL but the correspondence says
that certain leading politicians of n York
came to him aud d4sii ed that he should do
what? That be would advise with his
government not to interfere Why? Be
cause it would aid he country-they would
be stronger than ever to crash the rebellion
and 1--WE and our party shall be crashed
out l-Great Lughter and cheers.-Mark
the lnsiiious p ONT. They knew how the
people felt against England. They knew
the people 10 Le true to the Consolation.
| They knew the people .wonld not
brook any Interference from Englapd,
aud they ask the British Minister TO
us the power of British diplomacy % get
Other nations, to interfere, aud g eat
Britain to keep out of sight lest we snould
sac the cat under .he meal.--Loud laugh
rrr.--Ishave used the phrase up 10 this
moment as you see, of politician, but what
kind. of politicians are they 2--Cres of Cop
perheads, traitors, from all over the house
Conservative politicians Loud laugh'er.-
They can't be Democratic politicians-Of
course thep can't-I should like to hear
old Andrew jacks say a few words about
such politicians, who call themselves Demo-
crats-He'd hang ihem.-NO, my friend,
/ duu't think he would hang them. i don't
think he would ever catch them -Laugb-
! ter-I have felt it ms duty then, and DOW
in the city of New Yok, from the interest
l have 10 public affairs, 10 cal attention
o tn IS most extraordinaY matter. IL IS
II matter which arrests the attention more
than any other, to wit that there are men so
lost O patriotism, aud so bouDd up IN the tradi-
lions ofpariy, and 30 selfish as to be willing to
tamper ilh Great Britain for the seperanon OF
this cuuutry Il Is the most alarming tAcs
: that 4 have seen--l, had rather see 100 900
men set in the field ON the. rebel side--Aye,
had al be see Great Britain herself armed against
Us Openly if you please, vs. she had been covert