Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1859-10-25


has been stalking abroad ever since tho election |
Of Mr.. Buchanan to the Presidency.
The States had better move right down TO
Harpers Ferry. Gov. Wise has stationed a
guard there.
The Washington Constitution, the organ Of
the President, has solemnly uttered its opinion
Of the Brown insuuection. II proolaims tho
ianatical crusade Of Brown rs nothing more nor |
less than the first fruits of Mr. Stewards phrase
about the "inepressibe conflict" which must
subsist between freedom and slavery, and in
sists that the sconcs iu Virginia are the inevi.
table results of his teachings. The Constitd-
ton is lugubtiously solemn, and knavish as well
as owlish over the fright poor old Brown has
given the Slave beriddsn District of Columbia.
The Richmond Enquirer. the organ Of Gov.
Wise, also trembles that the "irrepressible con-
lict" has been begun by the crazy Brown. In
its terror it eRclaims;
Since things are patent, what safety has Ken
tucky from the hOrdes that swarm upon her
borders on the Ohio side1 The aid of the Fed
eral government was near IIarper's Ferry, and
was IN the hands Of those faitful to the Consti-
tuition, but another year may place that aid in
the hands Of our assailants, and the higher law
of an irrepressiblc conflict urge on and strength
en- the hands that murder our families and pill
lage our property. Is there no remedyl Shall
the Sopth, divided by useless conflicts about
Federal policies fall as single victims TO maTau-
ding hands of Northern fanatics! Can there be
NO unison Of council, actions and aims among
States so vitality interested in the integrity Of
| each otheIi
The Richmond Whig has found "renedy,"
which it urges upon the Northern people"
thus:
Let them assemble in every town, village,
county and neig ghborhood IN the Northern States
and unite before the country and the world in
bold and manly denunciation of tho Abolition
faction and their incendiary doctrines, aims and
projects. Let them thus publicly and formally
arragn these disturbers Of the domestic peace
Of the South, and commend them to the scorR
and indignation of honest men and patriots
throughout the length and breadth of the land
Let them do this, and thus show to the people
of the South and the great body of the citizens
Of the North, of all parties and persuasions,
have no sympathy with these Abolition inceu-
diaries, and will in no manner tolerate either
their diabOlic teachings or their diabolic con-
spiracies.
The people thus advised will no doubt take
the subject under respectful consideration
When the Southern people "assemble in every
town, village, county and neighbOrhood" and
unto in "bOld and manly denunciaton" of Bu-
fords murderous forays on tho free State set
tiers in Kansas; of Walkers fillibusterings on
Nicaragua; of the kidnapping and lyuching of
citizens of Free States; and of the Slave Pra,
cy re.opened along the Georgia and FloTida
coast, the disnterested advice will probably be
needed, but not till then.
The old Baltimore American, less fanatical
and better stocked with good sense, remarks
Gathering all the faets and rumors concern
ing the late affair at Harpers Ferry together,
it is difficult to decide whether it should be call
ed ludicrous tragedy, or a solemn farce
Wherever our language is spoken, the event
will be spread all over tho world The COM
menta Of the prees--North and South--apree
in an impol tant particular. The futile attempt
is everywhere characterized as the mad act of
D a few fanatics. 1t is not mere arbitrary ar
rangement that makes treason capital ofiense.
, And if all the insane folly, and the strocious
wickedness Of provisional Government
schemes should ever be successful, they could
never attain to the dignity of Revolution
, But It Is perfectly idle TO say the least, TO
= turn such an event into political capital. No
: party would drcam of endorsing these or similar
4 atrocities; and it is poor and unworthy class
.. .. of tactics that would seek to fasten the respon
/, sibility anywhere else than upon the misguided
:, actors themselves Whatever may be the ten
;, dency of their avowed principles, no organiza.
n ton, worthy of the name, has ever counseled
i violent resistance of the law in slave territory
a There arc a few demented persons scattered
- over the Northern States-so few that we
might also enumerate them--Genit Smith,
. Fred. Douglass, Mellen, if he is still alive, and
= two or three more But there 10 no party OF
respectable dimensions that has plank in its
= = platform upon which the late mad foray could
4 bo justified.
o And the Baltimore Sun says;
The whole affair dwndes into utter insig.
9 niicance as the literal facts are brought out
/, from tho uncertainty peculiar to the first dem
! onstration. And, although so bold, sudden, and
II formidable course of action naturally arOusGC
0 suspicion of a widespread and preconcerteC
0 movement, and induced the most eilicien
| means for its suppression, the measures adopted
. have almost a ludicrous disproportion to III,