Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-12-24
voloo Of ths National 1nfolllrsnoer.

The National Iuselligencer seldom steps
h6mits cOnservaege platform 70 deh6ance
qAhlio olRcers, but whsn it does, it usakes nc
half y york With ID To those who have
suSwa ths iasgifigencgr through "a many
years of calm journalism, the following coh-
domination Of President Buchanan comes with
PsselisEpe Pc 7 .9 peTsri;ss- 'Tyyser.i.s ,ls SIP ,amI9I
"If Mr. Buchanan has no information upon
which he can depend in support Of his belief
tnat there is no need Of reinforcing the forts
in Charleston harbdr mi Groer 70 sedgfs them
from attack, we are sure the country will hold
hinl te- faaU4al asponsihiiit t5r the policy
be has pursued"
"Te 9teStly niShike The popular sense of
what IS due 70 "a decent respect for the cause
Of the Constitution and Of theA Union, if the
loyal citizens Of the United States can look
with complacency on the conduct Of the Ad-
ministratiOn in the easy tolerance and patron
age (which itaKards TO such among its mem
bers and spbordinates, as are avowedly and
ostehtatiohsly laboring fof tt1e destruction OF
the Government If but 1.-THE of the zeal
sthat has bseh displayed II tue Intimidation of
Of 'Squatter Sovereignty had been turned to
the diseqqrqgemsRtI0f tIose whom the Presi-
dent stigmatizes in his Message as attempting
,,1 neither more n0Ei less than RsreEOlution,' We
should not have had the spectacle of a Cabi-
net 0ftiesrO Owbiledn. the iInn discharge of his
official duties, indicting an address to the
people of Georgia. urgiigo them By every
consideration to commit that act of secession
which tAe President in his Message had sol,
emnly denounced as revolutionary and as
without justification. 0r5,afa Cabinet officer
had written an address of this kind on the
6tildd6 lDeeeu1AAf GSsh csholllall lAot fIHv5 ind
deep regrets expressed on the Sth of Decem-
Der at his withdrawal from Government
whose destruction Jhewas invoking, and from
which ,heIWas Withdrawing only in order to
work more ,eifsctpslly for its overthrow"
"Nhen there Democratic party, d al its
Charleston Convention, had broken up, in con-
4asi6ny and Was threatshed With chronic dis
ruption, grave ana del iberate statesmen In the
National Councils psnsed from their official
1abors to indite and issue an appeal in behalf
of political concilliation and reunion. But
ghsnn at the present dayg the. Union is in
danger sud7the Government on the brink of
ruin, these same high councillors have no
word Of healing to iutter;S and no measure of
statesmslEhipgte suggest, so entirely do they
seem 70 have given 70 party swhst Wss meant
for all mankind. Fertile In eXpedients for
the rescue of the Democracy, they are impo-
tent and dumb only when it is the country
that Calls {ot help. What wonder is it that,
d1ns prospect of these things the patriotic of
all parties cry out in tones of indignant de-
precstion and remonstrance2 The voice Of
impatient patridtisfnh reaches us from every
band, calling slond upon the nations rulers
and legislators, whether from the North or
from the South, and whether belonging to.
Ons party or another, to show AZ least some
signs of interest in the country, if they have
no wisdom equal to its present emergeneies.D