Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1864-10-29
Whereof Judge Holt f,rcibly SAYS :

P'ecia'e tue DEMENT'S aud advantages OF civillEa
tion. .f
Whereof Judge Holt f,rcibly says
Hero is the whole theory of human bondage
| the right Of the strong. because they are
strong to despoil and ens'av the weak because
they are weak The language Of earth can
add nothing to the cowardly and loaihsome
baseness OF the doctrine, as thus announced
! II is the robbers creed, sought TO be nation
/ allied, and would push back the hand on the
.dial-plate oil our civilization to the darkest
periods of human history. It must be admit
ted however, that il furnished fitting corner.
stone FOR the government OF rebellion. every
fiber Of whose body. and every ihrob of whose
soul is born of the traitorous ambition and
slave pen inspirations oftbe South.
Manfestly. the creed would be imperfect
without the assertion that part is greater
than the whole--that any State may right
fully destroy the Nation at its sovereign
pleasure The Declaration, therefore, after
broadly affirming Sta;e Sovereignty, pro-
ceeds 10 assert that D"
The Government designated the Uuited
g. of America, has no sovereignty, because that
| is an attribute with which the people, in their
several aud distinct political organizations. are
endowed, aud is inaenable 1t was constituted
by the terms of the compact, by all the States
through the express will of the people, thereof
respectively--a common agent, to use and ex.
ercise certain 4 named, specified, defined aud
limited powers which are inherent in the sove.
reignities within those States 1t is permitted
so fur as regards its status aud relations. as
com mon agents in the exercise of the powers
carefully and jealousy delegated to it, to call
ifQpl hnt nnf
cordance with the principles upon which is
founded the American theory, Government can
exercise only delegated powers hence,
it those who shall have been chosen
to administer the Government shall as.
sumo to exercise powers not delegated,
they should be regarded and treated as usur-
pers. The reference 10 inherent power, war
power or military necessity, on the part Of the
fuDctionary, for the sanction Of an arbitrary ex-
ercise of power by him, we will not accept in
paldation or excise. -
Hence it is legitimely deduced that
1t is incem patible with the history and ma
ture OF our system Of Government that Federal
authority should coerce by arms o sovereign
State. uF l.. a. ..a....... -.
And then follows the application
Whenever the chosen officers or delegates
shall fail or refuse to administer the Govern
ment in strict accordance with the letter of the
accepted Constitution, it is the inherent right
and solemn and imperative duty OF the people
to resist the functionaries, and, If need be, to
expel them by force of arms Such resistance
is not revolution, but is solely the assertion Of
right the exercise of all the noble attributes
which impart honor and dignity Of fmauhood.
Space fails for tracing this nefarious
Order through its past career of active
and pal psbls treason, whereof Indictment
to Wholesale deseriion from the armies of
the Union, karboring and screening such
as have deserted, dissusdiDg from enlist.
ments, impslling to resist the draft, the
circulation of seditious and reasonable
books and documents, spying for and giving
informa ion TO the rebel commanders, run.
ming mails to. and from. the rebel lines
sending munitions of war and medicines to
the enemy. recruiting rebel soldiers 10 and
dispatchng them from the loyal States
planning and facilitating rebel raids and
invasions, are the less atrocious features
From Louisville alone, these emiSsaries of
sand men to the rebel armies in April and
May only Ct the present year, while The
stealing of horses in loyal States districts
| for service with tue rebel forces, was long
since reduced to science. So rebels how
could better serve their masters on our
side of the lines were received, concealed,
recloI he'd, and sent on their several errands
by these traitors; while TIE burning o.
Government siesnboats, storehouses, ar
senals. etc petc the expulsion by violence
aud outrage of earnest Unonits from Cop
perhead neigbborhoods in loyal States,
where their presence was deemed undesr
able, and the assassination of Uuion sol
diers wherever il could be accomplished
with mpunily. were among the dar ker
deeds Of these williams. One of their Maj
Generals ia Indiana was for sometime en-,
gagged in the manufatnre OF Greek fre, to
be used in lhe destruction Of Government
steamers and other properly. .,,.... =.
The Nortb1estern Confederacy, which
these censpirators professed TO contemplate,
was TO be a mere tender to the Southern,
by which it would very soon be absorbed
1t was simply convenient watchward for
Judge Holt concluded his Report
every word of which ought TO be read by
each American fre-sde--in these impres.
siVe terms lt .t. ra.l.. .Her l-
| In the presence of the rebellion and This
secret Order-which is but its echoand faithful
ally--wc cannot but be amazed at the utter
and widespread lproAigacy. personal and poll
ticai, which these movements against the Gov
ernment disclose. The guilty men engaged 10
them, after casting aside their allegiance, seem
to have trodden under foot every sentiment cf
honor and every restraint of law, human aud
divine. Judea prodnced but one Judas Iscariot
and Rome, from the silks OF her denorzsiion,
produced but one Catiline aud yet as events
prove, there has risen together IN our land an
entire brood of such traitors all animated by
the same lparrieidal spirit, and struggling with
the same relentless malgnity for the dismem-
berment Of cur Union.s OF this extraordinary
phenomenon--not paralleled, il is believed, 10
the worlds history--there can be but one ex-
psanptlon, snd all these blackened and fetid
streams Of crime may well be traced to the
same common fountain. So 6ercely intolerant
and imperious was the temper eugeudered by
slavery, that when the Southern people, after
having controlled the national councils for q
half century, were beaten at an elect; on, their
LEADERS turned nponthe Government with the
ihsoient fury with which they would have drawn
thsirsreyolyers uponsa rebellious slave in one oil