Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1863-04-25

res, having spent all lnlS biOOu, n0G tDls
treasure, do not mean o go hack again
aud he cheek by jowl with South Carolina
, as was before, if eau help it. You're
right. Mark me, now, lest may be
misunderstood there are none so slow 10
understand AS those who do not want to-
| say ! do not mean 10 give up single
( inch of the soil of SOuh Carolina If I
had been alive at that time, and bad
the position. the will aud lhe ability,
would have dealt with South Carolina as
Jackson did, and kept her in the Union al
all nazhrds, but now she has gone ONT and
, will take care that when she comes in
again she comes in better behaved: that
. she shall no longer he he 6re brand Of the
Union; aye, and that she she'll enjoy what
her people never yet have. enjoyed, the
blessings OF IA republican form of Govern.
ment. - Applause Aud therefore, in
hat view, | am not for the reconstruction
OF the Union as it was. Yet | have spent
treasure aud blood enough upon II, in ron-
Junction with y fellow citizens, to make
it little better Chers. 1t was good
enough if it had been left alone The old
house was good enough for me, but as they
have pulled down all the l. part, propose
when we buld it up, t" build it up with all
the modern Improvements. s.-ProlOnged
laugh ughter.-Another Of the logical conSe-
qnences, that follow upon this proposition
that we are dealing with alien enemies, is
in our duties with regard to the conf scation
Of their property, and that would seem to
me to be easy of settlement under the Con
stitution, and without any discussion, and
if my first proposition is right. Has 1t not
been held from he begining of the world
down to this day, from the time the Israeli
ties took possession of the Land of Canaan,
which they got from alien enemies has it
not been held that the property of those
alien encmies belonged TO The conqueror,
and that it has been at his mercy aud hi,
clempDcy what should be done with it?-
For one, | would take it aud give the loyal
man who was loyal in the heart Of the
South, enough TO make him rs well as he
was before, aud | would take the balance
of it aud distribute it among the volun' eer
soldiers, aud so far as know hem, If we
should settle South Carolina with them, in
the course of "A few years should he quite
willing TO receive her back into the Union
Renewed applause. leads Us TO
another propositions: What shall he done
with he slaves? Here again the laws Of
War have long settled, with clearness and
exactness, that it is tor the conqucror, for
the government which has maintained or
, extended its juriSdiction;ever the territory
: TO deal wi h slaves as it phases, TO free
4 them or not as i; chooses. II is not for tn,
+ conquered to make terms, or TO send thei
), ftends into the conquerlng country to max
terms, upon that subject. Applause. -
Another coroliary follows from The prop
oSItlon That We are fighting with allen en-
emes, which relieves us from another DIFF
| ticuliy Which seems to trouble some Of my
, I'D Dcmoc aic friends and that is in re-
| lauon to the question of arming he negro
/ slaves If the States are alien enemies, is
i there any Objection that yoa know Of, aud
b If 80. stale IL, to our arming one portion OF
= the county against the other, wniie they
: are fighting u,?-Crie, Of Nc! nu!-Sup
: pose that We we,eut war with England -
{ VINO would get up he 10 New \ 1ork ,auC
? say that we must Got arm the Irish, lesu
. they should hurt some Of the English. -
t Applause AT tne time not very far gone
. all hose EnglIshmen were our graudfalh hers
{ brothers. But we are now separate ma
other reason because there is 10 iuterna
r tioual law or any other law OF government
=. al action that kno" Of which prevent.
e the country from armlng any portion o.
y Its cltIZcnS, and # the slaves do not take
j. part IN HE rebellion they become simply
$ our ciiz.us residing III our territory whicl
K is AT pre,enl uSurped ny our enemies. A
n this waning hour, do not propose 10 d 5
/, cu,s, but merely 10 hint at these variou,
t sui jec's. There is one question | am tre
f quenly aSked-Wny Gt,r. Bnttler, what i
e your experience? Will the negroes Ggn,
II 10 that | ansNer, | have no personal TX
} perence, because | left the Department q
t lhe Gnlf befote they were fairly brough
o into action. Bat they did fight unde
II jackson, at Chulmette. More than that
Il Let Nnpoen Ill. answer, who has hire'
! them 10 do what the veterans OF the c
y mra cannot do--to whip the MeXcanS
j Lei the veterans of NapoleOi | unde
e l." Ceve, who were WHIPPED out from Sal
i Domingo, say whether they will igh' q
a. not. What has been the demoralizinl
| effect upon them MS II race by their con
d tact with while men, | know no', but
!. cannot fog that heir fathers would 10
d have been saves. but that They were cay
y tives in war. And ifyou want to kuo'
e any more than that, | can only advise 20
le TO try m.-GreAt Applause.
N A great question put to me has been
" How are veto get those men hack?- ho
m are we to get this territory back?-how a:
.y we to reconstruct the union? think that
=, much better answered upon this hypothes
~ than upon any other There are but tw
4 ways 10 which this contest can he ended
n One is by re.revolutonizing a given po
ID ton of this country, aud having them as
n to be admitted into the union; the oihe
n is TO bring IL back by the triumph of victc
v ~. Whenever any portion OF the inhab
a ants of the South sial become again
il part in the Union, and shall erect then
nr selves into State and ask us to take theI
a, back with such Constitution as they augh
as to be admitted with, there is no d tficnlt
a, in this being done. There is no wiIche'
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