Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-06-11

And the Flag Of our Union forever.
After music by the band, A. G. Riddle, Esq.
was called upon. He said that we have q
very favorable prospect before US. We have
reached point from which we can calmly
contemplate the future The clouds that have
obscured the political heavens have been dis
PEELED, and the clear rays of the sun of pros4
perity are beaming forth, and the steady light
of the uprisen day is upon and around u.s.
The principles which we seek to establish are
those which were carved in the rock of eter-
nal truth and are irresistible. If now you
see man who is happy, who has deep seat
ed hearty, stead1 ast abiding CONSEQUENCES
Of success and futu e good, that man is a Re
publican.
We come here not with noisy clangor, but
with firm convictiOLl that we are in the right
and shall meet with success. We are in
a different position from that of four years
ago. All old party ties are dissolved and the
only opposing party to our success is one
which has ignored all the deep and eyerlast-
ing principles of right for which we contend
We fought tn 1t battle purely upon principle
We were rep,ulsed but not defeated, and if
the contest had been renewed the next day,
we should have stood stronger than on the
day of election. Now we have the popular
heart with us. Our principles have commended
themselves more and more to the public favor
and private conviction. We have now in
corporated matters of policy with our prin-
cipies, and our platform is wide and compre-
hensive; including every thing American,
with no distinction in favor of North, South,
East or West.
We fight for principles-not men. There
is no man living who can say be has right
to the Presidency. The Republican party is
the result Of no mans work. It is a natural
growth from the minds of the people, and if
all the great and leading N en- of the party were
stricken down, the party would still live and
60 on increasing in power and numbers. 1t
is not true that VIM. H Seward made the
party, and it is not true tn at great men must
eliminate in the President ial chair. In the
qualities Of true greatness, tn speaker believed
Salmon P. Chase to be above VIM. H. Seward,
but neither Of them was to be placed at this
time in the Chair of State. a man has been
selected from the West and we know too who
he is. Our enemies know also who he is
The Little Giant has had occasion to know Of
him. He has not been public man-and
why2 Because he was man Of principle
and a resident Of Illinois, so it IS evident that
he has not been in the majority. Laughter.
He would like to see the contest renewed be-
tween those two men-one standing SIX feet
four and every inch man, and the other the
little waddling, short legged giant. The
Democrats would move heaven and earth
no, they would move earth, but heaven had
nothing to do with them-to nominate Doug
las, but does any body believe that they could
elect him? Why, they, called the Convention
in Charleston, a thousand miles from any
Republican, and then they could not even
make a nominations in that hot bed Of
slavery, where there had not been Repub-
lican since General Green marched bis New
England anti-slaTery army back, after whip
ping the pro-slayery Democrats of King
George.
Mr.. Riddle then spoke of Messrs. Paine and
Pugh at Charleston, and showed that they
didn't dare to raise their voices against
slavery, but only opposed a Southern plat
form on the question of expediency.
We say to the Democrats, when they can't
agree upon any man, as the man said to his
wife, when she said she was sufocating and
couldn't breathe-"Well, my dear, if you
can't breathe, don't try Gather yourselves
together and 90 to Abraham's bosom. It's
your only chance, and if you don't do it in
this world the Lord knows you can't get
the chance in the next.
Judge Tilden was next called upon. He
spoke Of the Republican principles as iIlher-
ent to the human soul, and the natural result
of the conflict between freedom North and
oppression South As well talk of 4 mar
rage between Heaven and Hell, as between
these conflicting elements. Who shall go to
the WALTZ What is to be the result to COM
ing generatiOns2
We give to all equal rights, whether
prince or beggar. As to the Douglas and
Buchanan branches of the Democracy, there
was not particle of choice between the two
If the questions Of popular sovereignty IN
the Territories had Ioeen brought up at
Charleston for final g,ettlement, there would
have been blood shei and if Paine and Pugh
had then dared TO uphold any doctrines other
than such as the ,outbernsrs demanded, they
would have BEEN so cut up that they could
both have bee n brought home in bushel-
basket. WJIO dares to 60 South and utter
e-S oSAAbi AANeLll5 OF Lle DcclhIdtlOA " :
ence or to- preach the Gospel Of Jesus Christ Z
When charges Of corruption are made
/ against Buchanan, he does not say guilty-he
does not say not guilty--he will not even
say as the Irishman did when the question
was put to him in court-'fWhat the devil
were you put there for, but to ind outr'
No honest man but what would court inquiry
into his conduct.
! Paine had, to be sure, shown some little
manhood at Charleston; but if the people
hadn't been behind him with sharp stick ne
would have aequiesced in whatever the South
eruers demanded of him. His conduct re
minded Judge Tilden of certain Captain
Mitchell, who was placed in responsible
post in an action, but whose cowardly legs
carried him OF on run as soon as the hre be-
gan. He was caught and court martialed--
When asked if he had any excuse for MS con-
duct, he answered, tiny God, I've got excuse
enough-it was id dangerous staying
:. there (L1aughter) II q ia -
81 hold him responsible, said the speaker
'qhat when that tyrant from South Corobnl
Il got up and boasted that he had slaves from
Africa, thus acknowledging himself no bette