Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1864-05-07

treason run riot through the laudl | will
II can, dismiss feeling from my heart, and
lry to consider only what bears upon the
logic OF the speech to WHICH we have jus,
listened.
First OF oil, the gentleman tells Us that
the right of secession is constitutional
right. do not propose 10 enter into the
argument. ! have expressed myself hither.
to upon State sovereignty and Sta'e rights,
OF which this proposition of bis is the legiti.
mate child,
But the gentleman takes higher ground
and in that ! sgree with bim--uamely, that
hve million or eight million people possess
the right Of revolution. Grant il; we
agree there. If ffty nine men can make
revolution successful, they have the right of
revolution. If one State wishes to break
its connection with the Federal Government
and does it by force maintaining itself, il is
an independent State IT the eleven South
States are determined and resolved to leave
The Union, 10 seceGe, to revOlutiouzn, and
can maintain that revolution by force, they
have the revolutionary right to do so -
Grant it. stand on that platform with
he gentleman.
And now the question comes, is it our
cons iluional duty to let them do it? That
is the question. aud in order To reach ] beg
to call your attention, uot to an argument,
but to ihe condition of affairs which would
result from snch nc;ion--the mere state
men' Of which becomes the strongest posi-.
BILE argument What does dis gem lenan
propose? Where will he draw The liue of
division? II Ibc rebels carry into success
ful secession what they desire TO carry, il
their revolution envelops as many States as
they intend it snail envelop, if they draw
Governor of Tennessee, in the rebel camp
near our lines, told Mr.. Vrllandighlm they
would draw it-along The line of the Ono
and Of the Potomac--if they make good
their statement to him that they will never
consen, to any other line, then ask ahat
is this thing that the gen leman proposed
TO do?
lie proposes to leave to the United States
a territory REACHING from the Atlantic TO
the Pacific, and one hundred N les wide in
the ceutrel From WellSvi;le on the Ohio
river TO CleYeland on the lakes is one hun.
drcd miles. | ask you, Nj. Charm ~, If
that the American people will allow their
magu Gcent national propo tions to be
sborn to SO deformed shape as this?
tell you, and confess it here, that
while hope have something of human
courage, | have not enough TO contemplate
such a result | am not braye enough to
go to the brink of he precpice of success
fol secession aud look down Into its damned
abyss. my vision were deep enough TO
pierce TO its bottom. l would not dare to
look If there be a man here who dare
contemplate such a scene, / look upon him
either as the brayest OF the sous of woman
or as II downright Mailman Secession /,
gain peace! Secession is the tocisn vi eter
nal war There can he no end 10 snch ~
war as will b, inaugurated if this thing be
| done.
Suppose the policy of the gen. leman we're
adopted to day. Let the order go forth,
sound the ''recal" on your bugles, and le,
it ring from Texas to the far Atlantic, aud
tell the armies to come back. Call the vic
torious iegions back over the battle fieI,:s o
blood, forever now disgraced C'l ihem
| back over the territory which they have
conquered Call them back. aud let the
minions of secession chase them with derl'-
ion and jeers as they come Aud then tell
them that the mar across the aisle IRON
the free State of Ohio, gave birth 10 the
monstr ous proposition.
Mr.. Chairman, if such word should b'
sent forth through the al mics OF the Union
the wave of terrible vengeance that wonl'
sweep back over this LAND could never iia'
a parallel 10 the records of history, Al
most in the moment Of iiual victory he IRE
call" is sounded by craven people not dc
serving freedom! We ought every man L
be made q slave should we sanction such
sentiment.
The gentleman has told MS there is NJ
such thing as coercion ju<'iiable under 'h'
Constitution. i ask hun for one moment ''
reflect, that no statute ever was enforced
without coercion II is the basis OF ever.
law in the unverse-Gods law a
we'll as mans. A law is no law withou
coercion behind it. When a man has mni
dered bis brother, coercion takes the muI
derer, tries him, and hangs him. Whc
you levy your taxes, coercion secures lheI
collection; it follows the shadow OF In
/, thief and brings him to Justice, it accom-
panies your diplomacy to foreign courts, an
backs the declaration Of the nations right
10y pledge of the nations power. b.
when the life of the nation is imperiled "
; are told that it has no coercive pGwi
! against the parrcdes in its own bosomi-
Again be tells us that oaths taken und'
> The amnesty proclamation are good f
y nothing. The oath Of Galileo. he says. VI
4 not binding upon him. am reminded
auo her oath that was taken; bat perhal
it TOO is au oath on the lips alone to whls
n the heart made no response.
y | remember to have stood in line
70 nineteen men from Ohio on that carpet 20
:. der on the first day of the session, aud | r
% member that with upifted hands beio
q Almighty God those nineteen took an oa
a. TO support and maintain the CONSTITUTE
:, of the United States And l rememo
4 that another oath was passed aud ea'
!, member signed it as provided by Jaw nt't
or y repudiating the rebellion and Its pre'ens'
7 Does the gentleman not blush TO speak
q. Galileo's oeth2 Was not his own Its cou
ny lerparll
!, lie says the Union can never De restor
- because of the terrible hatred engendeI
;" hv the war To provo il he quotes WI