Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1859-11-04
q nseclet sympathies Of mind,
Their pure, fresh flow, we yet may find
Our early dreams not wholly vain.n

Their pure, fresh flow, we yet may find
Our early dreams not wholly van.n
In looking back over the past what changes
have been wrought since l sat here privileged
to write the editorial I'VE" Our little party
then feeble as TO number, but strong in pIinc-
pie, and incased in coat of mail always forged
for just cause. has grown until il has GraN
tOtself and its principles an entire party, aud ia
most Of the Free States is invincible. It's
Representative men have since sat in Guberna-
torial chairs have sounded the tocsu Of lber-
ty in Senate Halls aud now are the great talk
ed OF for the Presidential Honor, with fair
prospect of having the baton OF power placed
in the hand Of one of them al the next election.
So widely has the principles we then defended,
with ''the life on the sleeve" almost, become
diffused over the country, that they are every
whele the received doctrine in politics so far at
least as the one party is concerned, Large ter
ritOrieB have been saved from slavery in despite
OF slave holding active Congressional interven.
tOn, Dred Scott Decisions, bloody invasion 4
squateT sovereignty, and all the resi- Of the
humbugs, by the power Of that principle alone
the principle OF civil liberty promulgated in
the Declaratio and watered by the aPli slave
ry agitation, and too freely enriched by the
blood of the Kansas martyr0. In coming down
from political to personal relations, the change
is as great. . .... =
Our friend whom we left in charge of the
abolition sheet" as the "National Democrat
calls it, has labored in the cause earnestly,
faithfully aud well for term Of years, has laid
down the peu and scissors and retired with
"honor, and has at length been overtaken with
disease and death and has passed on from theS 4
scenes OF turbulence and strife to the higher
and moro ETHEREAL spiritual plane-"has zone Il
that bourne from whence no traveller has evel
returned" as the poetic genius Of Shakspeai
has 30 beautifully spoken Of death. He ha,
fought the good fight has laid down his arml
and has gone 10 his reward. Who will say thai
that reward will not be high and glorious.
But another is in charge Of the "Ab6litior
sheet" he who workedatthe ease, tho "Deyip
of the office when | sat here as editor, is nov
the proprietor and editor. Worthily too, aoel
he MI the position. Bora and reared upon tines,
free bills he could not prove fAlse 10 the inspi
Taiions OF childhood, ard permit the paper /,
descend from the position II has heretofore oc
eupied in the anti-slavery cause, because 70 d
so would make him traitor and poi,roon
The winds Of autumn blow cold and bleal
over these hills, while in winter piercing il
the cold chilling the blood. Men are strong
true and noble that are reared here the.
arc trained from childhood TO love liLert,
and hate oppression, they look upon slSyery Al
the great wrong Of our otherwise plorioul
country, andto war upon the wrong and op
pose the Olgarchy is religion and a prin
ciple, and the men born and raised here, with
lew exceptions, are men whose life is one con
tinued warfare against slavery, slaVeholderl
and all who sympathize with them, or in any
way eount~nance or support the wrong, oithe
directly or indirectly. The present editor i
one who has felt the full power Of these happ,
Influences He makes this warfare a religion
lie is possessed Of large brain, warm and
generous heart, noblenesB Of nature, and
peculiar talent for easy and graceful writing
with genius for politics unsurpassed by an,
young man in my acquaintance, and Is wei
calculated TO hll the position. This younl
man, u health aud life is spared, is destined I,
be the second Horace Greedy Of the country =
He makes good paper, is true TO bis dutv, "a
) recently pTObed the editor Of The Nations
Demoeratin fore point and has caused III
: to show bis temper The papes Is we'll sup
pOited aud It's editor is hop,f fol and buoyAnI
and looks forward to glorious suooeAs. ]
will be won.
This may be the last time shall sd Al th