Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-09-08

OF into italy, OF into the West Indies, or into
the East or IL Il suit them better, let them
engage the natives Of cotton growing regions
in the oldworld, 70 produces cotton and sugar
voluntarily and for adequate compensation.
Such course, instead Of fortifying and en-
laTging the sway Of slavery here, will leave
Us free TO favor its gradual removal. IL will
renew or introduce civilization on the shores
Of the mediterranean, and throughout the
coasts Of the Indian Ocean.
Il is unavailing now to say that this gov
ernment was made by and for white men
only, since even slaves owed allegiance 70
Gteat BritUiR before tho Revolution, equally
with whitemeli5zn6 we're equally absolved
from It by the RevolutionS>Ns1 are pot only
held TO allegiance now under '6ar.lP vB, but
are also subjected to taxation and ac.. " rep
re5entation in every department Of the Fed
erRl Government. No government can ex-
cuse itself from the duty of protecting the
extreme rights of every human being,
whether foreign or native born, bond or free,
whom it compulsorily holds within its juris-
diction. The great fact 10 now fully realized
that the African race here is q foreign and
feeble element like the Ind ans, incapable Of
assimilation, but not the less, therefore, enti7
tied to such care and protection as the weak
every where may require from the strongithat
il is pitiful exotic unwisely and unnecessari-
ly transplanted into our fields, and which it is
improbable to cultivate at the cost Of the
desolation Of the native vineyard. Nor will
the argument that the party of slavery is
national and that Of freedom sectional, any
longer avail when it is fully understood that
so far as it is founded in truth, it is only
result Of that perversion Of the constitution
which has attempted 10 circumscribe free
dom, and 70 make slavery universal through
out the Republic. Equally do the reproach-
es, invectiYes and sstires of the advo Gates Of
slavery extension fail, since it is seen and
felt that truth, reason and humanity, can
work right on without fanaticism and bear
contumely without retaliation. l counsel
this course further, because the combinations
of slavery are brokan up, and can never be
renewed with success. Any new cOmbina-
tion must be based on the principle Of the
Southern Democratic faction, that slavery IS
inherently Just and beno6cent, and ought to
be protected, which can no longer be toler-
ated in the North; or else on the principle Of
the Northern Democratic faction that slavery
is Indifferent and unworthy of federal pro-
lection, which is insufficient in the South,
while the national mind has actually passed
far beyond both of these principles, and is
settled in the conviction that slavery, where
ever and hOWsOever it exists, exists only to
regretted and deplored.
I counsel this course farther, because the
necessity for a return TO the old national way
has become at last absolute and imperative.
We can extend slavery into new territories,
and create new slave states only by reopen
ing the African slave trade; a proceeding
which, by destroying all the existing values
of the slaves now held in the country, and
their increase, would bring the north and the
south into complete unanimity in favor of
that return.
Mr.. Seward closed with hearty endorse
ment of Abraham Lincoln, Of whom he said
that he was q statesman "who possesses, in
an eminent and most satisfactory degree, the
virtues and the qualifications necessary for
the leaderin so great and generous move
ment," and "who would re-inaugurate the
ancient constitutional policy in the admin
istration Of the government successfully, be-
cause the Republican party, after ample ex-
perience, has at last acquired the courage
and the cOnstancy necessary to sustain him,
and because 1 am satisfied that the people,
at last fully convinced of the wisdom and
necessity Of the proposed reformation, are
prepared to sustain and give it effect. All
parties would acquiece to this, because it
would be the will Of the people, in the exer-
else of their sovereign power, in conformity
with the constitution and laws, and in har-
mony with the eternal principles of justice,
and the benignant spirit of the age in which
we live. All the parties and all sections will
alike rejoice in the settlement of q contro-
versy, which has agitated the country and
disturbed its peace SO long. We shall regain
the respect and good will of the Nations, and
once more, consistent with our principles,
and with our ancient character, we shall,
with their free consent, take our place at
their head, in their advancing progress, to-
wards higher and more happy, because
more humane and more genial civilization.