Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1863-03-21
Southern Prospeets.

10 recent debate in ths Virginia Leglsa-
ture, Mr., Anderson. of Roekbridge Count
dealt with JEFF. DAVIS tyranny after the fol.
lowing manner
1--WE are now living" lie said "under a
tyranny as complete as that which was ex
ercsed by the Lincoln Government, and it
vas owing solely to The noble patriotism Of
onr people that they have submitted as
they have What right lie would ask, has
a Confederate fanctionarv Ia seize his prop
erty aoithOut taw and 10 0iiolc one half ats
vaIue for as compensation There was no
law that author z-d he Confederate Gov
ernnrnt to take properly, and so ia as it
wrtheld compensation, il was TO6berV and
oppression ; aud he, for one, was uOi willing
to submit 10 it. If we were to have tyran.
ny, it mattered not whether we have it
from one Government or from another.
The Atlanta Georgia. Iltelligencer, iu an
article on Southern monarchy, says.
The unscrupul"ns mar ner in which pri.
vate p:"perly-in he shape OF any tnng 10
eat and Heat--iS seq d and apprupriu ed
by the GoEerhm ut, aud NAT, TOO, without
any reference 10 the pecunilfy inle. estS Of
the parties owning such property, aud when
>uch seizures tend 10 destroy all trade aud
cause the people TO lose all confidence and
all interest in The GovernInent-Sucha u
course, they CLAIM, is very strong proof thai
u monarchy is the thing aimed at
The reckIcSsuess with which the Govern
ment, through its Various agents, coudac' S
trade outside of the seizures it makes
tending, as it does, to place every necessary
out of the reach of The poor, looks, TO the
same end"
The Richmond Euquirer urges the people Of
Virginia TO plant corn and not tobacco. 1t
says
"lf the country can not supply the army
with pi DIVISIONS this summer. tie army can't
remain IN Virginia If ieares Virginia
IL must be giren up TO The Ylnkecs, Who viii
appropriate not only tobacco, routraband
of war. but seize everything we have. and
reduce the country TO a wilderness. Ifthe
Legislature adjourns without prohibiting
the culture OF tobacco, and requiring the
officers Of the law TO destroy every leaf
which they find growing for twelve months
to come, the chance of this State is indeed
poor"
The Baltimore American, noticing this beau
tiful condition of public liberty 10 Virginia,
says .at
"When the Richmond papers which con
tain these injunctions publish. at the same
time, the correspondence of Gov Letcher
with the proprie tors of the Gnllego Mills
there-reiusing to project them against the
Wholesale aud open robbery Of their fonr-
who need ruppose that the people of Vir-
ginia are going TO raise grain. TO he in like
manner seized for the support of the hOrie
of IoeusIs who infest aud devour their sub
stance And thus it is that, belwixt the
fears that the Northern troops may seize
upou their tobacco, and the certainty hat
the Confederate chiefs will rob them of
their corn or wheat. Virginia is sure not to
be cultivated 10 any great extent this year,
| even IL the able bodied men were left there
to do il, and The prospect, therefore, is. as a
| matter of course, that the rebel troops will
be starved out, even II they are not mean.
while whipped out,
"Bnt what prospect for Old Virginia?
What prospect for any Stale South,
when the tyrants at Richmond take upon
themselves to prescribe what shall be plan
Ied by The farmers, and then assume The
right 10 rob Them of It without color of law
or right2 Governor Letcher. when ap
peaIed to, declares his inability to protect
the most prominent aud entesprising eiti
zens of State, turning them over for
any redress 10 the law officers, whea the
iroh.heel of the military despo,ism iramples
all law into the dirt. What would be
said here were the people Of Maryland TO
be told what they were expected 10 plant,
corn or tobacco and what an additional
howl would be raised should the Govern
ment make raid ou the four warehouses
\ and milIsof the city"