Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1866-06-16

deny and imperil one Of the dearest rights
belonging to oor representative 70 run OF
Government, aud That we cordially approve
OF the action of the Union RepresenIativ
in Congress on that subject.
| Resolce@, That we will insist upon equal
suffrage without regard to color, ns the
only way to insure the protection Of all
men, and also as the equal right of all
Judge Wade than offered the following as an
additional resolution, which was adopted and
embodied in the series:
ResOlred, That we tender to the loyal
/ members OF Congress our hearty thanks,
for the passage Of the Civil Rights Bill
over the Presidents veto, whereby oil men
are secured in their right to life, liberty
and property.
Messrs. II. E. Parson, Darius Caldwell, s.
Hayward. A. Kellogg, N. L. ChafIee, w. M.
Eames, Abel Krum and w. G. Howells were
appointed delegates to the State Convention.
On motion these Delegates were authorized
to appoint substitutes, fill any vacancies or cast
the whole eight votes in case any should fail to
attend the Convention.
Mr. A. B. Watkins was appointed member
of the County Central Committee in the place
of s. Kelsey who has removed out of the
county, when the meeting adjourned.
A Washington correspondent says: "The
officer who suppressed the colored paper at Au-
gusta, Georgia, The Loyal Georgian, is Gen.
Tillson, the same worthy who stopped the
| IoN Ia tIo nf
the Union soldiers in the Cemetery near that
city. He is the chief of the Freedmens Bureau
there, and his reasons for refusing to allow this
tribute to the Union dead was because il was
regarded as "a reflection upon the recent action
of the ladies Of the place in reference to the
Southern (RebeD soldiers Doubtless The
Loyal Georgian spoke of this miserable excuse
as it deserved; for on a late occasion at Angus
ia, Tillson attempted to justify himself before
colored meeting and on "a show of hands was
defeated The Georgian is the organ of 4o0,
600 freed people in Georgia, who are at the
same time owners Of over three hundred meet
ing houses, and Tillson evidently felt that it
was his duty to stop paper that held him in
such light esteem.
FENIANIsM-to al appearance and expecta-
tion, is played out. Our Government has been
instrumental in this result to the full require
ment of neutrality law and the claims of conf
ty and good neighborly principle. Perhaps
this is WELL in view of what is due to humanity
Ito prevent the effusion of blood, OF which it
may we'll be aid,-thanks to the barbarism
and feroOity of Slavery's teaching, and tie
sneaking and contemplate completely of John
Bull,-there has been enough on this continent.
The vgor of the authorities reminds US very
much of the dealings of the strong over the
weak, and illustrates the inconsistencies and ca.
price that often regulates those dealings. Rob-
erts aud Sweeney are properly arrested and
held as enemies in tie absence of all evidence
of any unfriendy feeling on their part towards
! the government, while the arch traitor and as.
so ssip, Davis, who has drebched the land with
the best blood of its sons, n field, not only,
but deliberately doomed thousands to lingering
suffering and refinement Of cruelty such as
the worlds history presents no parallel, is The
subject Of a world of sympathy and tenderness
|
rebe!dom commenced lie work, humanity might
have been spared one of its worst aspects. II
the object of the powers that be is to conciliate
power that during tie rebellion. spurned
every demand for fair aud honorable dealing
they have certainly taken course that will
leave very little grouod for doubling their
earnestness. The Tribune well remarks
We do not suppose Messrs. Roberts and
Sweeney are any more enemies to-day than
they were mouth ago, nor that the Govern.
meat is now in possession Of any Information
which had not, in substance, been communica.
ted 10 it before blow was struck. IF the
Fenians are guilty now. they we're guilty then,
and we are at loss to know why the interpo-
| sition of our Government should not have oc-
Cured before this enterprise had eliminated,
and before that outbreak of hoStilites which q
word from President johnson 10 those who
consulted him might have prevented. There
certainly was no Feuan leader so mad as to
suppose that be could conquer Canada plus the
| United States, ncr any leader who would have
put bis own reputation and the lives of his
fol overs at risk, if he had not believed that
this Government would confne its opposition
within the rigorous limits of the law That
Messrs. Roberts and Sweeney are under arrest
TO day is only an evidence that they placed too
much reliance on what they were led to sup
pose would be the policy Of the Government.
1t does not appear that at this moment any
hostile force is on Canada soil. or is in any
position to cross the lIe effectively. Ger.
Swceney's first move has clearly failed, and
failed in such way that if be has any second
to play, its success is more a matter Of chance
than of calculation.
The True Spirit.
Judoe TInderwoo6 eyhihited not onI1 tba