Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1865-07-08
Twenty-Fivs more Years Of Agitetis..

II IS not unlntereslng occasionally 10
look at the arguments and admouitions OF
the friends aud sympatlIizers of slavery
aud lis passing institutions. Tue following
article from late number OF the Cincinnati
Inquirer. Will not be read without degree
Of relish s? .
IL is the opinion of Mr. Wendell Phil
lips, that unless negro suffrage can be fixed
throughout the Unlted S aLes by an Exeeu.
tive coup de main, twenty Eve years of agi.
ra;ion viii bv needed To accomplish It
through the agency Of party politics This
is pretty decided admission by high au
thorlly THAT the hnegro quest ion has no,
been put Ut rest by The war. Direct inter-
venlioD, or Executive coercion iu favor Of
colored suf sge is hardly to be expected at
he hauds of the present Chiet Magistrate.
The negro machipery seems 10 bave taken
10 running backyard Of i,s own accord -
The loyal Legislature Of Tennessee has dis
tinctIy recognized the difference bet ween
black aud white by the passage of many
disquaifying acts and provisions. The
Legi4alvse Of Virginia, elected by loyal
tuSNy 10 ihiouSa WIN fpiOkiSostNC uO-
tions which promise less than nothing in
favor Of The coiored friend and brother
Everywhere that the work of reconstruc
lion Is going on, abe auspices are decidedly
anti African, Nolhiug 10, more certain
than that. 10 The coloied aspect ;, the work
of National regeneration is very far from
being complete aud ltere are not few
who insist that II is not even begun.
Twenty five more years OF agitation !;
twenty FIVE more years Of negro politics !;
twenty i've more yea:sain which theories OF
the rights snd needs of the colured mtn of
the South will obscure aud dominste every
cons ,deralion of public aud general ipter
est twenty five more years 10 which pot.
ical parties will reyoiveo mound the negro
question:, and The merits Of public measures,
aud Of public men. will be measured by the
bearing they will haye upon ,he elaia, SET
up in favor of the admission OF persons Of
African descent to an equality of rights
with persons Of Europeap ancestry. And
how Ia this agitation to be carried onl-
Iu two wsys; by a terocious aud bigoied
prjpagaudisrn, 10 the pulpit aud lecture
hall, aud through the press, andby the set
ling loose u 'demsgogoes 10 bstgsip and
plot, BY every i@aginsble style OF parry
coalition apd combination. The priest will
ceuiiy to The saereduess Of The design, aud
promise the especial aid of the Almighty
for It's accomplishment; the poliica shy'tsr
will demonstrate 'its legality, aud its con
formi'y With sbe spirit Of our Institutions /
and the party camp followers will be ready
TO embark IN aby arrangement Of fo'ces.
however inimicaI to .he general welfare, to
carry il into effect. ,a,, s &c /. =, u y ~, ' pa
The thing TO be done. will be to put
down opposition 10 The North, as prelimi-
nary to putting " down in the South
Nosgeneral advance can be made upon The
latter pn,g The former is brought ipto a
state Of unity. How this unity Is to be
Iproduced. is, ss YET, . matter or delibers'
tion---no. In, respect TO the psinciple. bot
Iin. respect 10 the policy end mode Of pro
cssding The principle Of tbs right OF the
msjority to cosree the majority is sslsb
lishsd. Our system Of political IDEAS ID