Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1858-09-14
MORNING LEADER.
FoI the Leader
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Saturday correspondent, that our party would
gladly be rid of; and with all due respect for
your known generosity l am of opinion that
you would be more pleased than otherwise, to
publish to the world such ike sly and yet i'm
PetuOus thrusts at the Democratic Administra-
ton with the appearance Of a patrOnizing
friend this false "NlTIoNAL DEMOCRAT" adder
like, throws his iangs into the vitaIs oil the
party with the hope of effecting serious injury.
With due respect for your fairness, Mr. Edi-
tor, 1 believe you have given US Republican in
another persons garb to talk to Us of our Ma
tiOnal policy
At the first onslaught your correspondent
would have his readers believe that there had
existed terrible ieud between the President
and his immediate predecessor shame on such
an imputatiOn; it only beitiles the person who
would rnse such charge, and cannot have the
slightest effect upon the minds of intelligent
men. Mr. Buchanan descends to no such lev
el, and the President who chose him as his
Plenipotentiary at the Court Of St. James, Is
not deserving such ungeneIous inuendoes.
Your correspondent says '' As National
Democrat, had always supposed that popular
sovereignty meant that the people should be
left free; inst as Judge Douglas bill provides,
to form a constitution "in their own way -
This, no doubt, he intends as dead thrust at
the President, for intimating in his message,
that all future organic acts Tor Territories should
require that constitutions shall he submitted 70
the popular vote before the reception Of the
State by Congress thereby preventing them
frnm doing these things In ''their own way
lie says again. "He (Judge Douglass would
have the President iaterrsRe in the matter and
dictate to the people OF Kansas what kind Of q
constitution they should form, and the manner
or mode IN which it should be adopted. The
Democratic party have not so learned popular
sovereignty. Non lQtcrUsniiOR is the Demo
cratic idea Of, and an essential ingredient in the
term" This is another severe thrust at the
Executive for his acceptance ofthe Eng isl bill
AMI sending it back TO that distracted people to
be once agam an element OF discOrd. This Is ev-
idenl from the tenor OF his false reasoning that
iO,lows the sly and deep meaning taunt- Does
he mean TO insinuate that the President com
mitted al error in failing 10 veto the English
bill, by that means TO present the Intervention
Here, Mr. Editor, / come 10 the bOdest and
most shamefaced leit-handed thrust of this
wholesale National slasher the words are -
" Has he not even kept IN the Territory stand
ing army, that these Immunitles OF the people
might the more effectually be secured and pro-
teeted p He evidently intends this TO be n
thrust, and Is willing his readers should regard
the President as interfering or ilterEsgiag, but
such slahs in the dark do no injury.
H. - ,no+hr- ss 4 b.ra ora r0anv
honest and good meaning Democrats who cx-
press much sympathy, ami who are led 70 be-
leve that the Administration is doing wrong in
Withholding its support, but should favor his
Douglas) election. Did ever such baIeiaced-
ness exist A sort Of giving IN aud desire to
see others follow, there are many honest and
rood-meaning Democrats = What a desire
there seems to be to Dougiasize the Democracy
soft soder heal up, bring over to his Abolition
way Of thinking; indeed how PatrOnizIng he Is
70 the Administration. " Yet there are, DC
If were TO guess the author OF your Saturdays
communication, would at once hit upon your
own Edw. Wade if l could make up my mind
that he would descend TO such a level
Hear him talk on FOmey. A feeling OF
sense of gratitude alone for favors received
from It's beneiactor, should have induced him
at least to have remained silent Alr. Buchau-
an, IN the kindness Of his heart, overlooked the
qualifications for the place, undertook (very i'm
prudentiy as many OF his friends al the time
thought) to lend the influence Of his great name
to and this migrate 10 a seat IN the U ; Senate p"
| What d uble headed nonsense this charging
! the President With base wrong in the discharge
Of his duties as the Chief Magistrate elect of
this great nation. Such base slander should
not pass unrebuked. Again, " Bot supported
as he was by the President elect, who made
personal appeal in his behalf, and sustained as
| he was by the Democratic press, which almost
unanimously c7me to his support" Here, then,
Is about the final thrust OF the rapier so care
/ lessly handled by this self-styled National
/ Democrat he has now virtually read the whole
| Democratic press Of the Key stone State, the
Legislature, and the President himself clear out
of :he party, and sustains the minority OF the
/ faithfui who refused to vote for Forney Is he
not q more than CBsar-a greater than Alex
anderi
Again: " He was rendered the Consulship to
| Liverpool. which he Indignantly refused In
| the first place the President was never so weak
As TO offer this TO Forney therefore he did not re-
fuse. Your correspondent has drawn from the
resources Of the enemy TO gain momentum for
( his ely thrusts at the Executive. Let me say
to him that AIr. John ". FOrney never held that
confidence in the Presidents mind that he would
] have NOUr rE ..QETs UeflekE- ne EtuEluE L4I4hL
/ has laid tine entire Democratic party " low, lev
e with the dust" Here it is !" Like his (For-
ney's) great prototype be is willing to immolafe
himself upon the altar Of patriotism, if thereby
/ he can but rescue his beloved country, but par
ticularly the DemOcratie party, from the impend-
/ ing ruin with which It Is threatened, and in
which it bids fair to be ingulfed.n There We
arc, dead, defunct and " gone W" used up by
one who has sto. en- the livery he cannot do duty
in-a wretehed bad soldier, for he shoots at ran
/ dom, and prefers TO hit those at which his
/ breech is aimed-a kind Of recoil that seems TO
/ be designed in making the charge. From such
/ soldiers, Good Lord deliver US.
/ Let me say finally brethren" the Demo
/ cratic party was never more firm, strong and
| Do o3erful than at this moment She can with
/ stand 4 thousand Just such frothing politicians
as Forney and Douglas, and an indefinite num-
Der OF those sly and whimpering iutermedders
similar TO your Saturdays correspondent and
/ so long as they are putting Douglas and others
into importance they help TO Delittle the men
that come in juXtaPOsitiOn; aud l hope all good
and rational men will put blot on any fuiIher
unrighteOus intermeddling with things too sa-
cred for their damning touch.
Ii IS true that we have no press at our COM
mand, hut l can assure you that before the
waning of another moon we shall have an or
gan, and we then can fully speak. If men and
presses have failed to espouse the principles
upon which our government was established, 1t
only shows the liability of human nature TO
! err.
thank you, 8ir Editor, for this indulgence,
and would not have asked il but for the circum-
stance which this communication will fully ex-
plain. LEON.
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