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


gent comprehended, that the Rebellion
aims inflexbly at the life of the Republic.
II is not mere irregular opposition to
Mr.. LincolD's rule; it is not mere out.
burst OF popular dissatisfaction with certain
measures of the Government; it is a bold
and desperate struggle for organic change
its authors are profound believers in the
irrepressble conflict They hold that no
cordial, sincere union between communities
essentially Democratic, like our Free
States, and those fundamentally aristocrat.
lc, like South Carolina or Georgia. is pos.
sibe. They feel that any such union must
be mere vanishing over of essen tal in
compstibities, a substitution Of grmace
and smirk for mutual kindness and esteem
They hold that the Slave States can never
run their proper course nor fully exhibit
the benfcence of their Institutions while
they remain bound up in one bundle with
Free States, no matter how complacent the
latter may strive to be. Hence, they look
with equal apprehension aud repugnance
on the Republican who would subdue and
the Democrat who would coneiliate them.
They fear the Greeks, whether bearing
"NNPOho vi plCoCubS. ulo tiulu tuO Oio
cussons and turtive negotiations Of the past
Winter have rendered manifest to all who
eau and will see: hence the number of able
and p ointment advocates of Cancellation
has sensibIy diminished
III. The Loyal Millions have earnen by
experience to feel and know their strength
aud the vastness of their resources. They
find that defeats. though deplorcd do not
exhaust them, and the victories do not en-.
able the rebels 10 advance, save in the way
OF raids. Every rebel, for instance, de-
vontly believes that our Amy OF the
Potomac never succeeded even in skir-
mish, ard has been often beaten to u jelly
yet there is that Army, which OF first
covered no more of Virginia than the
gronnd on which it eucnmped, now holding
firmly tho Eastern shore counties, the
North bank Of the Rappahannock, the
Shenandoah to Winchester, the tide water
county up to SuffJlk, aud threatening R,ch.
mond from West Point. General>hIp, Ger.
tainly, has not done this, but the umpli-
tude OF our resources, the irresistible weight
Of our regiments. And these must tell
more as the capacity Of The South to yield
returns, whether Of uIrn or means, TO the
ConSc'ption is exhausted
Ill. The sentiment OF Nationality,
always strong in republics, is lnVigornted
aud emphastzsd 10y war. Oar martyred
dead puickea ID US the love Of country they
so nobly illustrated. AS more aud more
of them receive the soldiers hasty burial,
our resolution is deepened that the earth
which so lightly covers their precious dust
shall not be foreign soil. We are resolved
that in the pilgrimages we shall make in
calmer times to gaze on thetrenches where
in they lie heaped indiscrimnately, we
shall not be exposed 10 the jecrs and ribald-
ry of our couutry's foes as we shed proud
tears over the remains Of our brethren who
died for our country and for Human Free.
dom.
". Finally, we feel that we have seen
the worst. We have arms we have mup-
tions we have ver,eran armies we have
an uuexEausted population OF brave and
loyal men, who arc willing to follow their
brothers to the battlefield, aud if need Jc
10 die there. The fIiIure of the Rebels TO
Invade the Loyal States, or their more
signal failure wherever they have attempt
ed such invasion, prove their inability to
cope with US on equal ground. They have
done their very utmost for years, and have
no' succeeded. Millions of people of the
Slave States are to day under Union rule !;
none of The people Of The Free States how
to the sway of the Rebels. We hold New
Orleans, St Louis, Louisville, NASHVILLE,
Memphis Norfolk aud other of their most
important cities claimed as belonging to
the Confederacy ; We are in force IN the
Southwest, on the Lower Mississippi, and
on almost the entire Southern coast
Tennessee is nearly covered by our troops,
and stubborn Mississippi bears reluctant
witness to the might of Northern valor.
Best of all, we realize that this is Provi.
dental War-that human wisdom could
not have averted it-that its Divine ends
are vast and benc6cient-that it will cease
whenever those ends shall have been
accomplished. And so, with thoughtful
sorywS, but with steadfast hearts, We take
our several places in the great Union pha-
lanx. aud with f'm step and flashing eye
moved forward