Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1865-11-04
From The New York Indlp2ndent
why we Should stsnd Fast.

treacherously, with the Colored Unionists
who bave ldbored SO powerfully to save The
Republic, and because of some other lsmen
table defections, actual or reported,we are
asked to desist from urging the justice
and expediency of cnfranchiSng the Blacks
of both the loyal and lately Rebel States.
If we do this, it s said. the Uuion party
will be compact, powerful. iuvlncible, and
may rule the country inde6ui' ely But
We cannot bonorably comply with this
solicitation, because h '.' i' l'
. i 10 soOuld be aching in bad faith The
Blacks have done their full part toward
saving the life Of the Nation They have
stood their chance for eoncsip,ion with
| Viii es1 aud have rarely or never A a to
Caundn, or elsewhere, when drafted =
They were exposed and subjected to
peculiarly harsh trea' ment il captured or
struck down 10 battle; they have stood to
btheir arms like men, and fought good
6gbt for Freedom and the Union Now
that onr cause has triumphed by their aid,
We cannot coldly consign them to those
tender mercies which are cruel. We must
stand by them as they stood by as and our
commnnJ country. 1gN' z a." FHa
naH IL toou1d be anrepnblicdn. There
are but three possible bases OF govern.
nenia3l. Force; q Prescriptions; 3 Con.
sent Thatsis 10 say, Despotism, Use and
Wont, and Republicanism. Onr fathers
based their resistance to and overthrow of
oBritish royal authority expressly on the
principle that governments derive their Just
powers from the consent Of tie governed :
But the Blacks have not consented, do
mot consents whe,her expressly or taei,ly
rio be gov erned by the Whites, having
themselves no voice ip the mana cement or
direction of public affair.g Every govern.
ment which refuses the % vote is there.
fore % usurpation sof their 'Inaleuable
rights" --succe ssfuli, and perhaps empora-
rily invincible, you will; but none the
less fagrant usurpation, which we must
wash our hands Of the crime Of perpetual.
ting even for year. 1Js is,l711 s.6H .tf
yaIIImtI: ,oOastd be perlious. gy Justice is
the only safe basis ofSpublic security and
tranquility. The country pressingly needs
peace and Industrial prosperity. Bot the
Negro waits to be assured that be shall
rep where he has sown. He is willing to
work; but not TO SOW, that another shall
reap. He knows by some experience that
he cannot trust The mere promise of the ex.
N sster, who regards his emancipation as
wrong, and bis future labor or its product
as rightfully property, whereof he--the ex
mas'er--has been wrougfully dispossessed.
The Negro knows that, in thousands OF
cases, Shareholders in the past have said
to those who were till recently their chat
tells. "Help me make crop, and will
share il with you," yet have driven the
poor Blacks away empty handed so soon as
the crop was made. Never will men
reared and trained in the exercise of mas.
tership knoio hoto to be just to Blacks un.
Til The Lato shall proclaim that Blacks have
rigets which Whites are bound to respect
that justice and right are the same for
White and Black. t..sr., a.atl Il
". IL toOpld ando The good ,oork of Tie
last four gears The States now in pro
cess Of Reconstruction" are ijyal only BY
virtue Of Federal bay yoncts-what are left
~ - ..iStm-arc - sooa 20 bo Withdrawn; the
Blacks sink into political nouentity if left
unen ranchised. Each Rebel State Of
1851 4 remains At heart a Rebel State if
tie political rights of its Blacks are igno-
red Each returns to Congress an almost
unanimous delegation of wbitewashed
Rebels, to combine with the Copperheads,
seize and run the Government in hostility
TO those who have carried that Govern,
ment successfully through the fearful trials
of the last four or FIVE years, 10 reverseits
policy and repudiate its National Debt
No Uuiou dpfeat-no succession Of Union
defeats-ever enabled the Rebels to enter
Washing on in triumph aud control the
action of our Government. An anti Negro
"reconstruction' pould do for them what
Bull Run and The Chickahominy, Frede,
ricksburgh and Chancellorfvile, did not
and could not.
v. 1t aoonld be, sqIandering a peerless
opportunity All talk of a concession of
the Right of Suffrage by the Whites of
The South TO the Blacks is sheer delusion.
Not one, eyen OF the loyal Slave States,
has accorded to the latter even those civil
rights which our Copperheads admit that
they should hare--such as the rightto
sue and 10 testify in courts of Justice
The Rebel States formally abolish Slavery
simply bcause The must; they repudiate
tneu ucobe cVubpSNSu ~ p'u. " 'nSr 4AsS'
bellion, for the same cogept .reascn; if
they concede the right TO testify, it win
be done precisely because they q cannot
help themselves. Had each Provisional
Governor required to proclaim o Oonsti-
tutional Election, and, with q view s'rictl u
10 the choice OF delegates to. clotbe ITEM,
porarily) every loyal man with tho, Right
Of Suffrage, lie mandate. would have been
unbesi, stipgly obeyed But, let the States
lately in revolt be restored to all their
pristine powers, internal, and external and
we shall then be told that the question of
Impartial Suffags is forelosed--ihat our
appeal comes too lste--that the Negro
has benceforth no choice but between serf.
dom and exile. For as to falter now is to
fail dsfnitively, disastrously, shamefally.
VI. IL VOuld Be suicide. Every Copper,
head organ at the North, with every Rebel
oracle attthe South boasts that the re
constructed' States will be unit in oppo-
sition to what they term Radical Repub
licanism' They confidently and ressousbly
predct that the return Of the States lately
10 revolt to Congress involves the inapgu.
ration Of q new rule at Washington. II