Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1864-12-03
The fsfch aonA Enquirer ON th. R.-Er.e
tion Of Abraham Lincoln.

We believe, ssys the Richmond Enqui
ret, that Abfsham Lincoln is Chief Msgis
.rate Of the enemy's country for four year
longer. How he accomplished this objec
whether the transaction is proper !.
called an election, or an usdrpation, or {
tonp deiat-is the affair Of his own sub
jects. aud no concern Of ours. There h'
is, and along with him the whole War Ad
miuistration, more bent on slaughter and
con6scation than ever aud backed by the
great war interest. hungry for new and
more enormous contracts. 1t would be
idle speculation for uS 10 occupy ourselves
with the possible revolt Of the defeated
aud disappointed party among our enemies,
or the probable break down of their fnan-
cial resources, with the chance OF riots, or
resistance to drafts, or conspiraeies TO sep
arate the Western States all those things
ure contingent and precarious--may hap
pen aud may not: tsdf it
W hat we are certain of, the real. pres
ent, inevitable fact is, that the whole Of the
material resources, the army. the navy, the
arsenais, the treasury of the Federal
states, all are now firmly grasped and
welded by the hands Of those who have
vowed to destroy u.s. TO seizs our lands aud
houses, to beggar our children, and brand
our names forever as the names Of felons
and traitors. This is the situation 4"
This is what we have now to deal with !;
and on the way iu which We meet it de-
pends the whole future of our race and ma
tion. Ii we shrink from the conflict, bet
Ter were II for us and ours that we had
never been born. Fortunately there is no
middle course for us. We must be victors,
or we must be anuihilatsd ; and it is Uet.
ter SO. We are glad that there is no room
for submission. Submission would be but
running to meet the shameful doom of sub
jugation it would not save us one acre OF
ground, cne right of citizenship the par.
ty hat has placed Lincoln at its head for
another term is not TO be cheated out Of
lis prey now by compromises of clemency.
1t knows what it has staked, aud has
counted what it means to win.
The Yankee nation has committed itself
to the game of all or nothing and so
must We. The only question for Us now is,
whether We shall call forth all the energies
and resources Of our country, all the ceur
age and manhood of our race, to drive
back the foul invaders of our homes aid
make them cxpiate their crimes with their
own base blood. or whether we shall fly
from our country, take false names, hide
our shame 10 the ends Of the earth, and
peep about to find ourselves dishonorable
graves"--or else remain as a generation Of
serfs. to beg shelter and employment from
Yankee aud negro masters. Such is the
alternative, ig
But this remains to be said. Although
nnsparing war, carnage and conquest may
be the present design or dream of that M.
ton and its rulers. it by no means follows
that are 10 be four years more OF war.
We do not believe that there can be. Man
proposes, but does not absolutely dispose,
aud whether there can be even one othsr
depends not ON the present in
tention of any human being or human
Government, but on events which we of
The Confederate S a,es have quite as much
power to shape aud determine as our enc
mics have. A strenuous determination
now to bring all our enrolled soldiers to
their post will, even before this year is out,
put US clear through the bloody deluge of
war, and place us on the safe shore, from
whence at Our. ease we may look on at the
absurd and 1atrocious Yankee nation going
to utter wreck in the, storm it had con-
jured up for our destruction.