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

Tho organ Of Douglas in Washington City
Is called "The States" When the HarpOr's
Ferry tidings frightened the Washington slave
holders out of their Wits the Douglas organ
made nm effort to raise mob for the destruc
ton of the National Era" and the "Republic"
offices, the only newspapers in the Federal
CITY not devoted TO the slave interest. The
effort signally failed, The Era quotes the
language of the States, aud remarks
This destruction of this printing office by
Washington mob will be the worst days work
which Tie people of this city have done in many
a day
The Republic also publishes tho incendiary
article of the States and says:
Happily, to the credit of our city, the incen.
diary appeal met no response but an indignant
one against its author, from the people OF
Washington.
The New York evening Post replies at length
t. the incendiary and fanatical organ Of Doug
lis, at Washington, which sillily asserted this
t. be "the most alarming and daring insurrec'
tionary demonstration that ever has been made
in the United States" and instigated Tetalia-
tory mob violence against the two Republican
j,nfnals published at the federal capital Tho
Post romarks
It is altogether an error to represent this as
the most darlug insurrectUn that has taken
ulace in the United States The southampton
movement in 1881, which originated with Nat
Turner, slave preacher, which was concerted
among the slaves themselves, and which was
only suppressed after the murder in cold blood
of come iihy or sixty white persons, was faI
M sfttaf af,IIn nT ri
aud ability. Again the revolt in Tennessee in
1857. the ringleaders Of which eVinced so much
determination, and the ramificatiOns Of whose
plots were supposed 20 extend not only over
tha5 State, but into Arkansas and Louisiana,
assumed more fearful proportions than this
Virginia stampede. Those Outbreaks wero
spontaneous movements Of the serVille class,
but this one was chiefly stimulated from the
outside, by few frenzied men, who conceived
they could best wreak their vengeance on the
shareholders in that way.
When the States proceeds TO aScribe the
agitation to the prevalence of Republicanism,
II suiTors its passion to beuay it into Stiffness
Tho Republicans haVO never cOunseed OF
cOunLenanced violence, either in respect to
Slavery or any other subject, but they havO
Teaisted it and reLukcd t on all occasions and
with all their might. Those lawless schemes
and deeds which have disgracsd tho nation for
Rome years past have not been their work -
1t was net thuy who invited the Missouri ma
Tauders into KansaP to outrage and butcher
innocent settlers II was not they who per
perated the sack of Lawrence, burning the
hotels, destroying the printing presses, and
shooting the women aud children. Nor have
the Republicans sustained the plans Of the fiji
li1uster Walker in his attempts to land bodiel
of armed cuL-throats upon the shores of 4
peaceful and uDofiending nation, to plumber III
property, murder it's citizens and OVSrturn itI
political government Neither have they en-.
deavOred To produce an invasion of the territory
of Mexico by United States troops in order 70
stir up civil war 10 sister Republic and seize
her provinces Much less have they recon
ncnded tho fOrcible seizure of the island O
Cuba as justifable and necessary part Of ouI
public policy.
The States is journal that has throughout
supported these prOce,d dings, and Ossawatomic
Brown is only disciple OF its own school -
lie has thought it just as right and proper tC
invade Virginia as it was for the States and it,
party to invade Kansas, Nicaragua, Mexico, OIL
Cuba. His reasoniDgs have been probably the
samo. great evil in his opinion, exists in
Virginia; It is his "manifest destiny" to abatG
il; and, following the examples that have been
set him, he undertakes TO abate it with FIRE and
aword. Mad the act was, and deporAbe AI
the consequences Of it nigh have been, 1t pro
ceeded from the sano AtrOciOus princpeI
which dictate Kansas forays, Central Americas
tllibusterisms and Cuba invasions. We defy
the, champions OF those schemes TO show th,
least difference in tho several cases. We
call upon them to Allege a single reason in jus
tifcation of their measures which Brown nigh
not with equal propriety allsge in behalf Of his
If he is an incendiary, so arc they; il his plot
was dahOlIcal, so were their plots; and th
more atrocious they make his conduct appeAr
the more they expose the at iOcity Of their owl
conduct.