Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-08-02

Your cumulative lnhdelity 10 the country,
which has brought US 70 our present disinteg-
rating condition, was shadowed forth in the
beginning Of your administration, by base
ingratitude to individuals Step by step
friend after friend was sacrificed. The fact
of a previous obligation chilled you; great
service made any one odious. A President
should have no animosiiies. You are gov
erned only by your hates, affection you have
none. But two classes have any hold upon
you; those who had opposed and reviled and
cowed you and the supple parasites who
fawn upon you Yet, even these cannot be
devoted if they would. For the course which
is settled on to-day is changed by your vacil-
lating mind tomorrow, and on the morrow
the zg-zag programme is changed again
You even endeaYOr to pursue two opposite
courses at once. Witness your open instruc-
tons to Coy Walker, and your private in
structions to the Surveyor General, and 9TH
er officials in Kansas. Witness your late
declaration Therefore, every Democrat is
at perfect liberty to vote as he thinks proper,
and your secret circular ordering the dismis-
sal OF every ofice-holder in favor of Douglas.
Witness your contradictory declarations in
regard to the rights of naturalized citizens
abroad. Contradiction upon contradiction! F!
The Nero-liko perfdy to individuals which
characterized your administration from the
beginning now marks its close by the be-
trayal of the great and generous party that
has fostered you by its hitherto impregnable
organization, from your early days Of Feder-
! alist-apostacy, down 10 your last hours Of
reasonable ingratitude and disunion, in the
| Presidential chair. Never did man owe so
much 70 party-never was party so wan
tonly betrayed. False alike to persons and
party, you have not thought Of either but for
] the shallowest instincts of self.
! Did regretful silence and modest reserve
now indicate in you some sense of the errors
Of your administrative course feeling for
| our past relations, and that consideration for
old age which is its due in innocence and
! Lelplessness, would have claimed thought
/ from me. But your insane iatermeddling and
/ arrogant dictation, from the position you Oc-
cupy, with the patronage you WELD, make it
incumbent upon every patriot who knows
you 70 expose your infrmities that your de-
| ceptive words may have no undue weight,
/ falling from the lips Of the Presidedt of the
/ United States. Your repeated declaration in
/ London that you were too old for the Presi-
dency, was but TOO true. Had then known
your real age, and some points of character
/ revealed by the touchstone Of power, should
have avoided my share in the error of your
/ elevation. Your present shattered condition
| of mind has, however, undoubtedly been pre-
| cipitated by the accession Of a responsibility
/ which to your view involved only the exer-
/ else of a willful and domineering authority.
! Uprightness. of heart would have saved you
! even amid the shadows of declining intel
| lect but your moral Obliquity deprived you
of every stay which the virtuous mind pos
! sesses against mental weakness. In old age
| the vices and idiosyncracies of youth, it is
said, often resume their sway over long years
! of interested repression. Your prophetic
| quotation against yourself six years ago has
been realized but too sadly for your country
men; would its fulfllment had found you in
the oblivion of Wheatlands instead of in the
chair of Jefferson:
| In life's last stage what prodigies arise
/ Fears of the brave, and follies of the wise
/ Down MRrlboro's cheeks the tears OF dOtage
And swift expires, a driyeler and show"
GEORGE N. SANDERS.
Gov. CHASE IN MtCHIGAN.-Gov. Chase
will speak to the people of Michigan about
the third week in August, probably at Ponti-
ac, Flint, and Ypsilanti. He will be cordially
greeted by hosts of true Republicans, who
will rejoice to hear the eloquent and stead
fast champion of their principles.