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

Of their English sisters had been newly
aroused, a6d their only answer was the ST.
lent Continuance of these efforts.
From the Slnvchudiig S atrs. however,
as was to he expected, came food of in
dignant recrihina ion mud dfehuke. Nuu one
act, perhaps ever produced more frantic
irritation or called ont more unspqring
abuse. 1t came with the v hole uni ell
weight Of the B irish aris'ocracy aud con
monnly on the most diseased aud sen.itive
pnrt Of our national life aud it stimulated
thai fierce excitement which was working
before aud has worked sihce ill 1t has bro
Ken out iBtO upen war.
The time has come however, when such
an astonishing page has been inrned in The
anti slavery history Of America. that the
women Of our country, feehpg that the
great anii.savery work to which their Err
gIish sisters exhorted them IS almost deue,
properly and naturally frt m9ved TO reply
to their appeal, aud lay before them the
history of what has occurred since tie re-
cept of their affgctionate aud Christian ad.
dress.
Your address reached us Just as a great
morul conac was coming 10 its iuteuses
point.
The agitation kept mp by the anti-slh7ery
portion Of America, by England. and by
he general sentiment of humanity in Eu-
rope, had made the situation of the slave
holding aristOcracy intoerable. As Que
of them at the time expressed it, they felt
themselves under the ban Of the civilized
world Two courses only We're open to
them : to abandon slave Institutions, the
sources Of their wealth and polii icnl power.
or TO assert them with such au over~ helm
ing national force MS TO compel the respect
aud assent of mankind. They chose the
latter.
To this end they determined TO seize on
and ,Dirol all Ihe resources ot the Fed
erul Government, aud - 7Fead their inNli-
tutOns through new States 81 d TER ores
until the balnuce Of power should fall inlo
lhcir hands and they should te able 10 foIce
| slavery intu all the Free States.
4 lending Southern senator hoas ed
that he would yet call he roll Of his slave>
Oh Bunker Hill and for a while, The
| political success ut the Slave Power were
such as To suggest To New England that
til was no im,o>s BILE even.
They repealed be Ml,>obri Compromise,
which had hitherto STOOD, Ike the Chinese
wall between our Nurthwe>tetn Terriluri,S s
tand the irruplious Of slaveholding barbsr.
iaus
Then come the struggle between Free
dom aud Slavery i'll the new TerIitory,-
| the battle ioI Kansas aud Nebraska, Fought
with fire and sword and blood, where Il
race Of men, of whom John.B own was the
immortal type, acted over again the cOur
age, tire perseverance,, a1d the military re-
lIgouS ardor of The old C0venanters OF
Scnl land, aud. like them, redeemed the A k
oi Liberty at The price ut their own blood
and blood dearer han tleir own.
Tie time of the Presidential canvass which
elec ed Mr.. LINCOLN was the crisis ot Tins
great baile. the cuuaIct had become
narrowed down 10 tie one point of he eX
enSun of Slave-jeruory. If the slave.
holders could get States eanngh, they coulu
eoutr0l and rule; ii they ~ele out numbe' ed
| hy Flee Sta'e>, their Institutions, by the
very law Ut their ia ture, " Ould ole If shffoca.
ion. Therefore, Eusi i've Slave Law, Dts.
trict of COlumTa. Inier.S ate SiaVe.Tladc
aud what not, were all thrown out OF sighr
PresueuL was esnpledged 10 opposition
to this one tning dIeHe, IA man knU"n TO
Ue in favor OF The Fug'Ive Save Law and
other so called comprulnsesrot-l lee Cunsil
tuition but Honest and faithful in his deIer.
mlustion on this Que sutjrct That this
was indeed the vital point was shown by
the result The moment Lincoln's election
Was ascertaIued. ,he Shareholders resolved
to drsIroy the Union they could no longer
control.
They met and organized Confederacy
which tnry openly declared 10 lie the ii 81
repuollc founded OH The right aud dsIem
non OF the White man TO euslave The blark {.
aud spreading heir banners declu' ed Them.
selves To the Christian world of the 10 II
century as ia ION organised with the tuIi
purpose aud lnteul of perpeiuatug slavery.
But IN the course ol The Struggle that iOi'
lowed, it became important tor the new con
federation Ia secure The assistance of fOrei- u
powers, aud Infinite pains were thea take':
TO Llud aud bewilder the mud Of England
as 10 the real issues of the couAicL IN A
merlca.
l has been often and earnestly asserted
| Ihai slavery had nothing To do with this
coulicI that it was mere struggle for
power that the only object wuS 10 restore
The Uuou as il was, With ull It's abuses. Ii
is 10 oe admitted that expressions have pro
ceeded from the national administration
which naturally gave IiSe TO mISuppIehen
sion, and therefore we beg to speak on this
subject more fully.
Aud, first, the declaration of the eonied
crate states themselves is proof enJugh
that, whaleRer may be declared on the Oln
er side, The maintenance OF slavery is re
garded Uy lhem Us the vital object Of their
movement.
We ask your attention under this heaC
to the declaration OF their Wee Presideul
Stephens, in that remarkable speech dellv
cred on the 2lst Of March, 1861, at Savan
nah, Georga, wherein he declared the oh
jecI aud purposes ot the Conlederacy. Ii
IS Que Ot the most extraordinary papers
when our century has produced. qiot'
from lhe rerb0tiH report IN the SiVnuual
RepuDlIcau OF tue address rs il was deliver
cd "a tue Atheueum of that city, -On whicl
.,...,.si,,n ..v. thn X Rpn1nlirpu MIR SIenhpu