Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-07-30

IhaYe been reading The speeches made BY
the RegubIi0aa Pq9aidsie F3l q i9F President wA'r
6S'EGs a BepTeseRiafKs in Congress in j isas
IN The "Appendi< to CongressioRal Globe
lst Session, soth eongrsas, Pr, sas 7os, and
l04l, are three speeches made By ARRAHAN
LISooLS ''on the War with Mexico On
einternsl improvements --and on "Ths
Presidential ouestiou, luad the Territories
eeded to the United States By Mexico Thess
speeches, il nov published 70 the world, Woald
stiiI NOR elevate cur excellent candidate in
the public estimation -. alae tsi Z. ''. I...
In speaking Of the declaration Of Mr, Polk,
that BY the act Of the Republic of Mexico q
state Of war exists between that Government
andthe United States, = Nj Lincoln said!
Ifthe President "can show that the soil
was ours where the first blood was shed
hat i was nos within an inhabited country,
or, lwithjH such, that the inhsbttants had
submitted themselves to the civil authority OF
Texas, or Of the United States, and that the
same Is true Of the site Of Fort Brown-then
] am with him for bis Justification, =
But Il he can not or lgiH n0t 90 this-if on
any nfstence, or no preteuce, he shall refuse
or omit it--then / shall be fully convinced,
Of what more than suspect already, that he
is deeply conscious Of being in the wrong
that be feels the blood OF this war, like the
blood OF Abel, IS crying to Heaven against
him that he ordered Gen. Taylor into the
midst offs peaceful Mexican settlement, pur-
pQsely 70 bring On a war; that originally
having some strong mOtive-lsEhat will not
NOW siopf3 give my opinion concerning Ito
involve the two countries in war, and trust
ing 70 escape scrutiny by fixing the public
gss1e upon, the exceeding brightness Of mill
tary x glaty-that attractive rainboW that rises
in Shove Of blOod--that sefpeut's eye that
charms to destrOy--he plunged into it, and
has swept on and on, till disappointed in his
calculation Of the ease with which Mexico
might be subdued be now finds himself be
knows not where. =
., hIhe President is IN no wise satisfied with
his own positions. First he takes up one,
and, in attempting TO argue Us fItO it he ar
CUES himself on Of it. 7s .al.ls
at is singular omission in this Message,
that il nowhere intimates lBAeB the President
expects the war 70 terminate At its begin
ming Gen Scott was. by this same President
driven into disfayor, if not disgrace, for init
mating that peace could not be conquered in
less than three Or four months. But now, al
the end of about twenty months, during
which time our arms have given Us the most
splendid saeesses-eVery department, and
every part land and water, officers and pri.
Yates, regulars and volunteers, doing all thai
men could 90, and hundreds Of things which
Il bad ever before been thought men could
not do-efter all this, this same President
gives US a long Message without showing US
thai, as to tie esd, be has himself even an i'm
agiuary conception. As have before said
be knows not where he IS. He is a bewil-
,dered, eonfounded, and fniserably PerPlexed
On the important questioned LEternaI In
proDealsHts, Mr.. Lincoln holds to no miserable
hair-splifting abstraetions. He is eminenly
practical.
Z A[T. Bincoln says;a 'ENO oOmmercial objec
of Government patronage can be 50 e4clu
siYely gepsFql as not to be Of some peculial
local advantage; bat, on the other hand
nothing is 50 local as not to be Of soma gen
eraf adVa1taga7' 2 -'s.iaff. q ,.. .s D. ''.a