Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1863-10-17
tnat any such calamity should now impend
over our nation.

over our nation.
Pennsylvania presents different asnect
On larger poll last year thNn that of Ohio
about $4,000 in all--the Democratic
majority was only about $500 But her
soldiers in the field, who did not vote then
are not to vote now, so that her case is 40
600 worse at the outset than that of hei
Western neighbor. Then her Democratic
candidate for Governor, Judge Geo. w.
Woodward, though essentially no better
than Vallandgham. has been more crafty
and reticent, 80 that his track is not so
easily followed. 1t is possible for one who
means to stand by his country and see the
Disunion traitors utterly confounded should
be SO blinded by party prejudice and war
ped by party ties as to vote for Woodward; /;
it is not possible that such one, if rational,
should vote for Vallandgham
Judge Woodward's conrsc, though never
q bold one, has ut least the merit of consis
tency. Before the Rebellion was inaugur
ated, he declared iu a public meeting that
the South would secede, and ought to
secede, if the North persisted in opposing
the extension of Slavery. Here was justi.
fication in advance of the existing Rebel
lion. Very naturally, he at the same time
pronounced Slavery AN inca!culable bless
ing When Secession became pronounced
and unmistakable-a fixed fucr that
needed unfxing-he declared that if the
country were TO be divided he wished PEN
nsylvania to go with the South. Even
the Rebel artillery battering down the
walls of Fort Sumter awoke no echo of
defiance in his breast Hon. Lemuel Todd
OF Pa, affirms that he, in conversation
with his neighbor, Hon. Hendrick B
Wright, defended the constitutionali' y of
secession and denied she power aud author
NY OF the General Government to eoerce q
State into obedience TO i,s obligations uu.
der the Constitution Mr.. Wright is now
supporting Judge Woodward; SO that, if
this statement we're untrue, it wonld re-
ceive prompt and emphatic contradiction a
his hands; yet it does not And a clergy.
man who rode with Judge Woodward to
u Gsttysburg. soon after the bloody battles
there, testifes that the Judge, in the course
of conversation on the journey, avowed his
neutrality or Indifference, with that OF his
party, In the great struggle now proceed
ing. The journals, the public speakers of
his party, are very often less cautious and
seldom more loyal than this.
Up TO this time, Pennsylvania and Ohio,
the two great Free States nearest to Vir-
gina and the Capital have had Governors
who We'd with each other in fidelity and de-
votion to The National cause Each has
done his very utmost, and done it with o
will. Should Messrs Curtin aud Brough
be now elected--as firmly trust they will
be--this will continue to be the case But
should Woodward and Vallandighnm be
chosen, the Rebel outposts will practically
be advanced to the Delaware and Lake
Erie, and traitors of every grade and shade
will be protected and cherished by the Elk.
ecutives of the great Central States. The
Rebel emissaries in Europe, the Rebel
journals ii Dixie. will with reason claim
these results as their vctories-as verdicts
by the people of these important States
against the War for the Union, and in ia.
vor OF the leading principles and purposes
of the Rebellion. Could we blame Lons
Napoleon for recognizing the Confederacy
after Pennsylvania and Ohio had so clearly
recognized and justified il? Citizens of
Pennsylvania and Ohio! think well of these
things, and act in patriotic accordance
with your convictions!