Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1864-01-30

Texas before April without fighting bat
tie at all. | do not believe there are
thirty thousand men now in arms against
the Union westward Of the Mississippi; !;
and l am confident that TO equip and pro.
vide concentra ed force Of even twenty
thousand, through sixty days of active
campaigning, wonld overtax the remaining
resources OF the Rebellion in that QUAR-
ter. AT all events, the Slave holders
CoDtederscy being permanently divided,
the policy OF concentrating upon aud
overwhelming the weaker portion Of it,
while the rigor Of the season forblds deci
sI'e operations in the other, is too plain
to need calculation.
A majority-small and doubtful one
year ago, but strong and certain ever since
the Rebel defeats at Gettysburg end in
the suppression of the New York Riots,
has stood by the Government of the Un.
ion, and now joyfnlly anticipates an early
fruiton Of its long deferred hopes That
majority is launted by its adversaries with
having perverted the War for the Union
into War fer the Negro;" and that clam.
or is echoed by some who should be candid,
intelligent men Let US consider it:
/. There is no longer any open, pro.
nounced hostility to Negro Soldering.
They who might OF herwiSe be required to
serve themselves, and would rather be ex.
cused, are perfectly willing that the Blacks
should fight in their stead. And, as these
constitute large proportion of the Cop
perheads, the outcry against Black Reg
iments is suddenly hushed into profound ST.
lence, save in Kenturky aud among very
few fossils of other Border Slave States.
III. Nor is it any longer pretended that
the Blacks cannot he Induced to enlist, nor
that they will not fight Not less than
Sixty thousand Of them are already en-.
rolled under the National Hag, aud no week
fails 10 add OF least thousand TO their
humber. 1t is probable that we shall open
the next campaign with fully One Hundred
thousand Black Unionists in arms, aud
more getting ready TO follow.
Ill. Nor do we ofteH, if ever, hear OF
late that tie Rebellion can nerer be put
down By arms On The contrary, the Sey
mours and Parkers, the Richsl dsous aud
Coxes, who rasped away on this string al
most exclusively ten to thirty mouths ago,
have now subsidized into mournful silence
Instead OF ncessant and confident asser
tions that "the Union eau never be restor.
ed by force" we now hear from them as
positive assertions that Force has already
done lis proper work-that the Rebels are
subdued, so far as they ever ought to be
that nothing is now needed but 10 con.
fne the war to its legitimate objects
proferiug 10 the South a restoration ol
her rights-and We may have peace in 0
month
Nv. In other words: That substantial
success WHICH we failed even to approach
| during our two years Of Pro,Slavery War
for the Union, has coufessedly been achieved
by The very first year Of Anti-Slaver,
War upon the Rebellion; SO that tb,
Opposition stouly assert that the restora
tion Of the Union only awaits prope
overlures on the part of the Union AuC
1t is manifest 10 all that while we are Gu
listing and organizing at least fuI
regiment Of Blacks per week, besides ampi
replenishing our ,hinped regiments OF white
the Rebellion is not recruiting Its ArmIe
nor yet recuperating its Finances, but
visnbly growing weaker day by day.
V. Now, then, what is demanded by
the Opposition is, that we abandon tn,
policy which wrought this mighty ant
pladdeuing transformat ion-abandon th'
Fnur Millions of Southern people who's
prayers and whose best efforts, SO far Il
they could evade their shackes, have bee
given TO our cause, and concIliaie tn
Southern Rebels by sacrificing the mos
decided if not the most numerous d'vlslo
of Southern upholders of The Union.
What would be the morality OF such
course? What its probable issue, in uo
verse governed by Divine Omnlsclence
OmnipoIence, and JnsticeY
Suppose We were to do what the Oppos
,tion require, and thus restore the UnIo
on pro Slavery basis, and The slaevhold
eres should again revolt. (as hey dou tiles
would, at the frss prospect of >uc IS. J.
what lhenI Could we reasonably hope
win their slaves to our standard aVal"
Might we not rather expect TO encounte
their deadly, implacable enmityi VIII
says No?
Then we cannot restore the Union as i
was2
No my friend We caunotl That is tn
solemn truth. We tried most of us: bu
God would not permit it, Bull Run, LEX
ugtoD, Balls Bluff. Mechanicsville, etc
ETC., embodied His veto on that attempt
The only Urion now possible Is Union {
Freemen on the basis of the Golden RuI
and the Declaration of Independence. |
it wise to quarrel with the Inevitablel
The Horrible Catastrophe in Chilli.
The burning Of the Church in Santiago wit
the destruction Of two thousand lives, is Ii