Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1858-09-21

lou5 ana Was soon taken 10 nedNt en-, rs lOl-
lows:
An escort descended from Heaven,
His spirit with il upward few
Heavens bright golden doors were opened,
And welcomd was HppeeanOe.
At Washington's side he was seated
Old Acquaintance again they renew
Then came our departed great men,
And welcom'd brave TippecanOe.
Throughout the vast regious in Heaven,
The joyful tidings then flew
Then in turn each one saluted,
Their honest Old TippecanOe.
All viii remember that our honest and
brave Zack Taylor was taken to Heaven,
soon after he was made President, in the
same manner. Where they are chanting
the new song, loud and long, Reform. Re-
form, and with Clay are calling the prOdigal
Wings back to their fathers house, saying rs
the Wings did to ME on my return from
Buffalo in As, that there Is more JOY over
one sinner that repenteth, than ninety-nine
who self-reighteOusly claim that they need
no such repentance. l am willing to forget
and forgive, and hope all who have gone
astray will do likewise. am willing to say
with yOu-father forgive, for l knew not
what TO do. But think do now; and shall
try to "do right, and let consequences take
care Of Themselves" as Zack said to U. 5.
Comptroller Whitlesey, when he refused to
pay Senators for staying from Saturday till
Monday, their travelling charges hoD.s and
back, &c. would say to all do right and
happiness will follow rs sure as the orb of
day rises in the East and spreads its glOries
to the West Forget and forgive, doall you
consistently can to make Others happy and
it will make you so. Contribute all you can
to thesum total Ofhuman happiness all can do
something IN this way, more than they have
done, and remember that while the lamp
holds out to burn, there is hope that these
disunionists, these self-stiled humanityites
may return pray as Christ commands, Sc
cretly and daily, that Brother Wade's and all
the above named disunionists, may re-
pent and get the iCo0l out Of their eyes and
ears that they may see the light and hear the
truth, and that it viii set them free that they
may be free indeed of all their Negro wor-
Shipping m0HOmGRia. I viii try to forgive.
l hope God viii, but 1t is my sincere Opin-
ion / never can forget the incalculable injury
these misguided fanatics have done their
country, and to the people generally.
As some appear to have inexperienced nv
pilgrimage to Buffalo OF Aug 18th, Is47, al
low me briel- to say that / was well satisfied
before started, that most Of the immense null
titudes who met in that Convention in their
laudable desire to stop the increase Of slavery,
were going blindlold into probably the greatest
and worst political trap that was ever sprung
on the unsuspecting masses. / started on the
holy enterprise of doing all in my power to de-
feat Van Buren's nomination, aud 10 procure
the nomination of Judge MLean or some one
equally honest and capable 1 should have
had no objections 10 that honest man, Z. Whit
tlesy, Esq, Controller of the U, S. Treasury
nor to Mr.. Critienden of Ky, or Bell OfTenn.
made speech on board the steamer going
DOWN to said Convention, Judge Tilden in the
char, and the only one against Van Bursn-sta-
ting that nothing would induce me to support
that couupt man Martin, who assisted in bury
ing in 1910. That 1 would have nothing to do
with resurrecting the man who Joshua said on
the floor in Congress, Feb, 1916, was too con-
temptable thing to be meddled with, - Cbut he
voted for him few months after for President }
In my letter published in the Herald a few
days after my return to Cleveland, headed by
Mr. Harris, Hear bolterer bolt Van Buren,"
you will find the following:
Mr.. Van Buren, writes;
/ announced my opinion in favor Of the D0lrer
Of ofCongress to abolish slavery in the District Of
Columbia, although I was for reasons which
were then and are stu satisfactory 10 my mind,
1ery decidedly opposed to its exercise there y
They were informed that he had done more for
the slave States than any Southern President,
and that he had been rightly ehristened "a
Northern man with Southern principles"-that
he backed the one thing needed. which was
honesty, and besides he was opposed 10 abolish
ing slavery in the District of COIumbia-that
he had been tried and found wanting-that
Cass nor Taylor had been, that they might 90
better, but that they could not do IcOrse-that
one term was long enough for a good Presi-
dent, and great deal too long for bad one
that their platform, nor any other, could make
him an honest pOlitieian-that they had not
got him on it, and probably never wOuld-ihat
they might wrap it around him as tight as a
mummy is laced, and then white wash him,
and white wash him, and then he would be
Van Buren, ann nothing else" And now
would Just observe, that in the strife who should
nominate the lrOrSt man, we have beat the
whoei you cannot deny that Mr.. Herald- /
knew we could beat you some way. Do you
give it up-Own beat II you do not, I want
TO tell you that Van cInnOt even 90 the one
idea, and that although the platform Is as long
as the ll9th Psalm, the District of Columbia
was carefully left out lest IT should remind US
OF the veto message and his Utica letter.
But can't he repent / am asked by dozen
voices at once. If | believed in miracles /
might possibly answer in the affirmative
now wish to ask them one question
Cass and you were asked two. Is 1t not a
smart idea TO nominate a man for President
with 8 TEKEL " stamped on him, and thea ex-
Peet he will repent ...
And now one word to my old friends, the