Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1863-01-03

Leu my ptople 90
And don't get lost in dc wilderness
Let my people go
He sits III de heavens
Aud answers prayers.
Let my people go
As VIC were leaving, an aged woman
came and lifted up her hands in blessing,
Dressed oe de Lord dat brought me to see
dis first happy day Of my lIfe! Dressed he
de Lord!" In all England is there no
Amen
We have been shocked and saddened by
the question asked in an association OF
Congregational ministers in England, the
very blood relations of the liberty loving
Puritans, ,-"Why does not the North lei
the South got"
| What give up The point of emancipation
for these four million slaves Turn our
| backs on them, and leave them TO their
fate ? What leave our white brothers to
run career OF oppression aud robbery,
that, as sure as there is a God that ruleth
iu the armies Of heaven, will bring down
day of wrath aud doom
Is it any advantage 10 be educated 10
man-stealBg as a principle, 10 be taught
systematically TO rob the laborer OF his
-uSages, aud to tread on the necks OF weaker
races 2 Who aWong you would wish your
sous 10 become sla3e-pi4nters. slave mer'
| chants, slave dealers And shall we leave
our breathren to this fate? Better gen
GRAFTON should die Gu the battla field, that
their children may grow up in libe ty aud
Justice. Yes, oar sons must die, their sous
must die We give ours freely; they die
i L. har haf 10 ham .
they give their blood in expiaIion of this
great sin, begun by you in Englanf, per-
peiuated by us in America, and for which
G rod in this great day ofjadgment is making
iuqusition in blood.
In recent battle fell Secession colne'
the last remaining son of his mother, anc
she widow. That mother had had solo
eleven children of an old slaye.mo!her, bel
servant That servant went to her anC
| said ,-"Missis, we even now, You sole
+. all my children u cd took all yOurn. No
: Que 10 blry eitaerof US. NO0i | forgiv,
you"
La another battle fell the only son o
another widow Young, beautiful. heroic
, brought up by his mother in The sacreC
, doctrine of human liberty, be gave bis liz
an oferiug as TO a holy cause, He died
No slaye-womah came TO tell his mother
{ OF Gods justice, for many slaves have rea
j son TO call her blessed
4 Now we ask you, Would you change
places. with that Southern mother w oult
you not think it great nlisfor une ioc q
or daughter TO be brought into such sys
TEN pa worse one to become so perVer eC
. as defeud il ? Remember, then, that wish
r ing success to his slavery-establshng eHJr
\ is only wishing TO the sons and daugh'er
of the South all the curses that Ged ha
/ written against oppression. Marx ou
r words If we succeed, the childleu Of tbes
: very men who are nov fighting US will rls
/. up to call Us blessed. Just as surley Il
q there is u God who goyeEus in the world, s.
, surley all the laws of national prosper
/ ity follow in the train OF equity; and 4 VI
succeed, we shall have delivered the child
ren's children Of our misguided brethreI
from the wages OF sia, which is always an(
eyerys here death.
! Aud now, Sisters Of England, think j
J not strange, if we bring back the words o
your letter, not in bitterness, but in deep
est saduess, aud lay them down at you
uOoT' we soy 10 yOu'-ois'eis1 JOu ne''
: spoken well We. have strVen in the cause
/ even unto death. We have sealed our dc
! yoli ~ by desolate hearth aud darkeneC
homestead, by the blood Of sons, hns6
ahds. aud brothers. In many OF our dwel
hngs the very light Of our lives has gon
out: aud yet we accept the life long dark
ness as our OWE part in this great anl
awful expiatioD. by which the bonds 0
wickedness shall be loosed, and aOid
, ing peace established on The fOundatlo
Of Righteousness Sisters, what have 20
done, and what do you mean 10 do
In view OF the decline Of she noble ant
slarery fire 10 England. 10 view Of all b
facts aud admissions recised from your ow
oape:s, we beg leave ia solemn sadness =
feInrn 10 your own worlds
"A conmon origlo, Je0mmou ialih ape