Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1863-05-23
Mt HORACE GREELEY.

OF the great struggle through which our
country is passing, the signal aud often
sudden fluctuations of fortune and of feel.
ing form striking pecuiarity. TO day,
the National forces sre advancing in san.
guine confidence to what seems inevitable
aud conclusive triumph: to morrow, we
are astounded and appalled, by tdings that
hey have been ronted, scattered. aud vir-
tually destroyed, aud that the Rebellion
mas become a Revolution: next dav, we
find that the defeat so Exaggerated was
out a partial and iusignigcant rcpnl.e, and
that our reorganized and inSpiri,ed bsttal
IONS are advancing afresh upon the retreat
lug enemy: and still the next brings advi
ces of unexpected snccess or defeat in some
emote quarter, which changes the whole
aspect-and so We alternate from ectasy to
despair wi b the celebrity and completeness
wherewith showers and sunshine chase each
other across the horizon of changefuI
April day. Never before were the muta
IONS of contest which convulsed a cont
uent and troubled the whole commercial
world SO frequent and so great
And this is an ordination of divine be.
hCNolCuNCp ulCu luSlbNS lIhL tIG dlleNllOfl
Of the American People shall not be for
nne moment divided or Withdrawn from the
progress of this gigantic drama. Neither
he heedlessness Of undoubting confidence
nor the apathy of sullen despair ia permit.
ted. This widespread panorama Of deyas
laion aud carnage is Gods moniton 10
our Thirty Millions that every tolerated,
legalized worng is a pnbc peril, which
will surely ripen into National calamity
The American Republic is called to jujg,
ment tor its fragrant sins of pride, oppres
sion, aud cruelty; and its people are com
PEELED to give attention to the process. that
they may realize that they have not been
visited unjusrly, and that it may be assured
that they are not inflicted IN vain.
There is, there ever has been, but one
plausible ground of distruSt as TO the final
issue of this war, and that is our National
llldeserylng. The enslavement and syste,
matte degradation of blumeleSS, inoflen.
sive race-its deliberate and thorough ex
clusion from intellectual light as well as ci.
vii liberty-lhough in itself Heaven.dar-
ing crime, was but one of our many outra
ges upon the rights of Humanity. Our
treatment of the Aborigines of this CONT
nent has been selfish, rapacious, corruptiug
debasing 1t has been eminently calcula.
ted TO destroy their few virtues and aggra
yate their many vices. Our demeanor to
ward neighboring nations whose strength
was inferior to our own has for a genera
tlon been baughty and aggressive. The
crime that hai its inception IN the fraud
whereby The soil of Texas was literally
conceded to emigrants from this country
under the fagraDIly false protense that
they were Roman Catholics fleeing from
Protestant persecution, was naturally ma
lured into violent seizure Of that Italy OF
our continent in the ABUSED name OF Lber-
Iy for the aggrandlzement and fertilization
of Slavery. That crime of few restless,
unpriucipled adventures, the Nation de-
lberately adopted aud justified by the cleo
tion of Polk aud The consequent war on
Mexico; aud now Texas repays it by arm
ing her whole male population from fifteen
TO sixty years of age 10 war against the
life of our Union. More than eighty thou
sand soldiers have thus been contributed
by Texas to the Rebel armies, good
part Of them halers of The Rebellion and
lovers of the Union but all compelled TO
6gbt in the ranks Of Treason or brave an
ignominious death. Was it for this that
our City and State in 1874 turned the
scale 10 favor Of Annexation?
Our attitude towards Spain was for
many years that Of pirate aud bully, and
! Spain is very naturally though mistakenly