Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1864-11-12

z Mr. LORENZO SABINE has just published
work entitled The Loyalists of the Ameri.
csn Revolution "a filter title would have
been the Tories OF the Revolution The
preliminary historical essay Is full Of facts
which sfford striking historic parallels 10
some Of the circumstances of the present
time. The Chrisfiaa Register says ~ :,
"a IL teaches that not u single wrong exists
now but existed thento greater cxteat
Do men now plot in secret against the
government Thirty thousand loyalists
according 10 the lowest computation, then
took up arms against the government and
South Carolins forced Gov. Lincoln to
.urrender her capital to the enemy in
1850. n'''o9 q a.;.d ~
Are there men now to be fonnd who sell
10 the enemies OF their county 7 Wash.
ington whjie his army was ia rags and
starving at Valley Forge, writes 70 Col.
Stewart, I am amazed at the report you
make Of the quantity Of provisions that
goes daily into Philadelphia Chen occupied
by the British army J from the County Of
Bucks. ,..',
Do officers, through personal jealousiss
or d desire TO shrink, now throw up, theii
commissions John Adams, in l771
writes: .-..., t5.,.',, 49,. ~,
] am worried to death with the wrsngle
between military officers, high and low
They quarrel like cats and dogs The]
worry one another like mastiffs, scrambini
for rank and pay like apes after nuIs.
n, Are surgeons now dismissed for iHcompe
tepcy or speculation Many o.! tbs sur
geons, says Washingt ton, are vary great
rascais, ,copn,euancing the men to- sham
complaints 10 exempt tbsm from duty. and
often receiving bribes to certify indisposi-
tions, with view TO procure discharges OF
farlougbs. They also draw medicines and
stores 10 the most prOfuse aud e1trayagapi
manner for private purposes. ao.s asi5Iq
Have we bounty jumpers : 30 had our
fathers. Men enlisted only to get tbei
Thousand dollars, and then desert. A
thousand men after they had voluntarily
enlisted; iperjured themselves, in order t
escape the service. Many dsserters resn
listed under new, recruiting officers. l
was no uncommon thing for them TO deser
by the twenty and thirty at q time ga
Cd Have We now shoddy Contractors VIII
fattsn sop fraud. and demagogues VIII
foment strife I Read Washing glou's pictar
Of bis time ] should 10 one word ss
that idlehess, dissipation, and extravaganza
seen 10 have laid fast hold Of most ths
speculation, peculation, and an iasa.
sbls thirst for RICHES, seem 70 have &c
the better Of every, order Of men. and tbs
party disputes aud personal qnarrsls al
the great business OF the day. " f'u' H''
There is. 10 fact. no possible discourg
ment no encountered by Anerican pstT
o4s, bat existed iu . greater degree duriu
the Revolution and yet our fathers trump
ed over all Of them. " "''' ' 80"
We do not press this subject on o'
readers TO excuse any rascalily OF tteasc
be. to show that our fathers ohsd 10 de
si.h the lsamo diascultiss which eopfro
US. ~ sin3m hgsfaD atBlc HSTI
Ens Add We woeld ways lbpSe men Who ne
plo, against The governnnent,t ithst th'
I knsmss., In conspeay with ibeir conspsaio
, of the RevolutloUs will 60 down 10 posteri
covered with isfatay.bptsaogar 4 10 1og