Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1865-07-08
AsHTABULA, O., SATURDAY MORNING. JULY 5, 1865 -


longer owns free " VI as its basis, zbus be.
gins and ends 10 ;coet coD. The ncountry
belongs 20 the government, the people, tc
| the Administration. and The minority to
the majority. The plan for political oper.
a, lions is, divide and Conquer Opposition
to the Negro Fifth Monarchy 10 the North
has been severed, By the war. from, opposi.
lion 10 the sSoush, and, having put down
the oDei' the pext thing in order will be to
put down the other, aud this is to be the
work of twenty five years more Of agitation.
b, And what theni What will be the
condition of the country when the twenty
fve years are accomplished; what the sta ie
of the white people,. what Of The black 2
Upou the best Of ,philasl hropo ssthority
We are assured that forty years of
most unwbolesome aud dis,rac,ing, agi.
tatiops, and four years of war, have,
es yet. gained nothing for The negro Five
thousand millions of dollars in. direct expep-
ditures, ten thousand millions 10 damage,
dilapidatop and incidental losr, two mil
lions of lives, a million of cripples, govern.
ment unba ianced. Cons,itu,ion troddeu
down, aud every principle of Administers
ton, however venerable for it's sge or re
vered for its Justice. displaced aud distort
ed industrial system broken up, society
filed With the seeds Of disorder, aud o
whole land poisoned yitb batreds and en-
mites, ell for the black man, and yet uoth
ing accomplished /! What a lesson for sgi-
| tatois
| And yet this is not the whole story nor
halt oflit; it is not thousand b part of it,
For all this. the condition of the negro Is
worse-iu6uiiely, incomparably worse -
The blood Of the negro rpsbes in deep
and rapid tide along The track Of the phil
anthropist the dark forest where ferocous
Aboliionism hat bors. is hor id with the
shreks of bis victims. The, history OF
Anti Slavery beney olence is, from beginning
TO eud, = history of, torture apd pnmerited
suffering (; o record OF cruelty snch as that
OF The worst Of times aud the most barbar.
ous of people can hardly parallel, ,,o The
triumph Of Abolitionism in America con.
sists in Transforming four mi lions of we'll
fed aud happy laborers, into three millions
of paupersG4!paqpers WITH no home, 10
country, no reeogRitioh the other million
having gone starving, tretzing, rotting, to
their graves. Aud yet, in proportion as
these sad trophies a'e ppIipied, phlan
rhropy grows more aud more inexorable.r-
In spite Of The selfeydence Of the fact that
its steps are marked with blood, and har.
bingered by shiieks-iu spite Of the self
evidence Of the fact ttat just 10 proportion
as each OF its plans has been carried into
effect, the negro has been made more help.
less and miserable, philsa, hsophy still insists
upon going forward, and completing. its
dreadfalj mission. Il dares not look back
upon the hesps of dead which strew the
path il has travelled but With on addi-.
lional Cain mark upon its soul for every
murder, and a new hatred for every pang
| which has assailsd is conscience with
epmity against God for refusing endorse
ment to their theories, and malice against
humanity for failing to be tractable TO It's
plans With new desperation for every
impeachment. and fresh spite for every
failure, 1t irusbes on, as il TO drown the
intolerabls memory OF the past 10 some
uutfied combination Of horrors in the fu-
ture.
From this point. 10 the history Of the
country. We have alright TO look back TO
| the time when, in spirit of faithfulness
1 that was little appreciated, " ven,ured To
inquire When slavery is abolished, what
is to become of the negro3 What will be
the fate Of the parasite when the bond is
broken which exists between him aud his
protector We have not forgotten the
lordly style in which we we're informed
that IL was not our business TO ask such
questions that this was matter which.
,kar l,a ptA A,,1l ion o. ha
party in power was fully competent to mao
age nor the sneering tone in which we
were given to understand that, though this
ight be vast problem tor our weak pow
ers, there were those who could solve it
of hand, without our sssis, snce. We re
gtet to say that we DO not see the solution.
We do not see IL 10 The facts and when
it is inquired after, the answer IL, twenty.
five more years of agitation. Aud what
then r..e.v v.. ..s ss. o. i. w a- .e.s ...e
Twenty Eve more years Of agitation, and
what then2 VINO eau calculate the e.
feet of twenty five more years of agitation
10 this country furPowed all oyer With the
marks OF forty years of agitation, and hid
eQus with the scars of f4ur years Of war ?
When We said, four years ago, that precisely
iu pfopoIttoh as tuo negro Ol tue 1Outu
was diSIocated, he would be rendered help
less snd uphappy, We said that TOO, the
trnth OF which every day Of these four
years has become testimony Foar years
sgo, there were not four m llious Of people
Ms happy and conteuted ss the negroes u
the South, upop the face Of The earth /;
now there is not people SO miserable
Why 60 on in this dreadful crusade p.
What bops-is there but of heaping mp still
higher thar pyramld Of b1gtap 'piscry
whose size is, even now, so appalling
PLANT MORE SWEET CoRs -E ven epto
July l5 sweet corn may be planted With a
reasoha Ole prospect of full ears before fest.
aud ripe ears il put in by the 4sh. Each
years experience teaches Us that We can
scarcely have too much Of the article, for
after boiling freely, making corn puddiags.
friIters etc, If there is any left to dry for
winter use il will certainly be appreciated
then. Many farmers have a fair supply for
few weeks. but neglectiug to plant at TO-
tervals SO as to keep up q constant success