Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-03-17

with brave impetuosity be marched his North>
en- army, and, with their tents, they "encamped
on southern soil" and ths evening Of the 18th
day of October, 1871, drew its mantle over the
manRled and lifelsss northern soldier on the field
Of Yorktown. VirgiRia's Visif "hdd been FstIra-
3D." and the evidence were the bones left white
ming on your sunny plains.
Several Of the fre-eaters had in their speech
ss cast their ssperIiOns upon the patriotism
Of the North from the days Of the ReVo-
luton to the present time. Van Wyck
returned the compliment after this style:
After the attack on Charleston, in l776, you
were free from foreign foe until l779. Then
the enemy removed part Of his forces to the
South; because he expected sympathy and sue
cor from the Carolinas and Georgia, on account
Of the great number Of tories in those States;
and be did receive it. At the battle Of Kings
Mountain in the enemy'S rank Of fifteen hund-
Fsd, probably thirteen hundred were Carolina
and Georgia tOries hence the opening Of q
new seat Of war in the South. I speak not TO
your injury. No country ever produced tTusr,
braver patriots, than the Carolinas aud Georgia.
They had stern conflict. They had to fight
the English on the coast and their tory coun>
tryman ct the heaEthstone.
The greatest cruelies and spoliation you
suffered was st the hands Of your native Tories;
and from threats of rebellion and violence
conclude their defendants are RunssroES on that
soil. With their blood seems to have descend
ed their principles.
One more extract His in reply to the threat
made By disunionist that the South would
muster half million of men, seize on the Cap
itol, then march North and conquer and sub
jugate the Free States! To this plantation
gasconade he answered:
The honorable member from South Carolina,
Mr.. (Ashmore,) in his speech on Thusday last
in an eloquent and glowing description Of the
South. presented to our imaginRtions an idea
of greater proportions than the grand army
Napoleon led to Moscow. They will probably
take counsel of prudence and remain at home;
they might find Russian winter in their path
Does the gentleman, candid and frank as
know him to be, forget that portion of his his
tory which assures him that many good men
in the South dreaded rebellion against England
in consequences of the insecurity that would
follow to slave property that this system of
bondage prevented his people from bestoWing
the full measure of their abilities to the cause
of Independence! that two of the serious Do.
feats you suffered in the South were In conse.
quenoe of your chattels suddenly converting
themselves into sentient beings, and leading the
enemy upon your armiesl Are not the obsta.
cles which your fathers encountered increasing
every year, not only from the addition Of num-
bers, but the intelligence which you say yon
are implanting in their mindsS Will the slaves
quietly stay at home and work, while the kind
hearted patriarchs are engaged in the easy task
of ehsstising the Northern heathen."
Sir, desire not, will not, suffer myself to
institute a comparison between the North and
South, but when gentlemen talk Of armies of
one hundred thousand to control opinion in the
North, it must be they are talking to amuse our
fancy; they certainly are not weak enough to
suppose they can excite our fears. If book
of two hundred pages convulses your empire,
and is so deadly a spark in your dangerous
magazine; if John Brown and twenty followers
l = frighten your brave men, and make
pen nervous as one Of your Virginia
iawyers saiu, in the late State trials in that
State. do not de-, ave yourselves Dy any delu-
sion that you can a. uihiia'e eisu'een nilnOn
freemen.
ness. Envy not the North. lou possess now
more than half the Union, to the exclusion OF
Northern freemen; with climate GENIAL 70
nurture the fruits OF lhe troplcs' anu ."N -
valing that of the Nile in richness. Saving the
blight of Slavery, "among the smooth stones
of the stream is thy portion" while the North
wrestles with the waterfall, digs into the noun
tainS, struggles with the quarry, and cultiyates,
here and there, fruitful valley. Be content
to let slavery wear itself cut on your own soil.
Insist not upon your expansion theory, nor
plant on that virgin soil a servitude which will
a;...o,o -. for vour own ne0roIesa whites
feel more keenly than we, that
The tIise Of the slave in the Scorn Ofths free"
The speech was finished amid the ferOciOus
scowls of the disunion Democrats. A taste of
their own medicine threw them into paroxysm
of rage. Perhaps it will teach them to be more
circumspect hereafter in their assaults upon
the people Of the North.