Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1859-12-23
"sewSrd, Greeley, Cheever,
Three and one,
May they all perish

AS Nlu HOnu nloMus
This disgraceful Union burnt offering was
looked on with complacency by policemen as
well as by other devotees OF the Southern dis
uisionists.
The N. Y. Herald estimates that some six
thousand persons crowded into the Academy of
Music, where Mayor Tieman presided. Letters
were read from Gen. Scott, Mr.. Van Buren and
Ne. Fillmore. The principal speakers were
James Brooks, Charles O'Conor, Washington
Hunt, John A. Dix, etc. Capt. Rynders and
others entertained the outsiders
The meetings uttered no rebuke of the only
men arr party menacing the Union-the Dis.
uniOnists in Congress and Democratic party OF
tho South. On the other hand the outside meet.
ing passed a resolution commenting the Demo.
Gratis for re5istiag the organization of tho
Honse, and in the inside meeting, Mr.. O'Conor,
with an expression of appreciation, said:
maintain that Negro Slavery is not unjust,
that is benign in its influence on the white man
and on the black, that it is ordained by nature,
that it is necessity created by nature itself
that it carries with it duties for the black
man, and duties for the white man which duties
WALTON, and, if the gentleman pleases, the
perpetuation of the system. [Cheofs.l
The venerable EK-President Van Burtn's
letter is full of apprehension and tho timdity
of the old mans nature; while EI>PresideDt
Fillmore stifIens up his back so us TO receive
high concentrations from the Tribune and
Albany Journal. The Evening Post wickedly
suggests that Mr.. Fillmore has turned "agita-
tor" in reyiving the Kansas discussion, and has
done exactly what the Republican Senator, Mr.
Trumbull, is censured for doing by his propos'
ed amendment to Senator Mason's Harperl
Ferry resolution, Dir. Fillmore, after review
ing briefly the Compromise measures pasact
by Congress in lS49 and 1880, thus audei
to subsequent events
"In an evil hour the Pandora box of slavery
was again opened by what l conceive to be al
unpardonable attempt TO force slavery into
Kansas by repeal Of the Missouri Compro
mise. The flood of evils now swelling ant
threatening b. overthrow the constitution aut
sweep away the foundation OF the governmen
itself, and deluge the land with iraterna
blood, may all be traced to this unGortunat,
act"
Gen. Scotts letter was brief and patriotic o
course, and the papers say "was received will
thunders of applause" 1t was significant al
well as patriotic, for the old veteran said
This City is certainly in the right to take til,
lead in the cause Of Cancellation; and animated
by like patriotic sentiments, there are, l an
confident, in every State vast majority o.
citizens who, in any serious outbreak, woult
be found ready TO join in the national cry
The Union must and shall be preserved
Except in such case, l beg to decline, as
have now done for many years, taking part il
any public meeting-remaining a minute maj
with the great reserve of millions.
The Disunionists at the South, and thei
apologists at the North, will not need gIasse
to detect the spirit of Old HickorY's Proclama
tion in Old Chips remaining a minute maj
with the great reserve OF millions !"
The report OF the meeting in the Tribune an,
Times makes no mention of the nomination o
Presidential ticket, but the New York Herald
which just now has the Scott and Houston
fever in the burning stage, states that at IL
conclusion of the speech of Mr.. Savage to th
outsiders, be moved that the meeting nominat
the following National ticket for 1860, and tina
the nominations he added to the resolutions al
ready adopted