Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-11-28
For the Morning Leader.
Keen Cool.

For he Morning Leader,
Keep Cool.
These are stirring times; and what we
say unto one, we say unto all, hep COOL
There is little cause for unpleasant excite
ment and yet some people insist upon getting
uncomfortahly excited. The Republicans Of
the Free Labor States must naturally feel
joyful, but this is by nc means hard TO bear.
To such We say, rejoice, with all your might,
mind and strength. Your barns and store
houses are full of the good gifts Of a merci-
ful Providence. Your fields rejoice in iatted
herds. The markets have been good and are
still fair. The election is past; you have la
bored earnestly in a glorious campaign, and
the victory is yours. Lincoln is elected ever
the most wicked combination that ever en-
tered the field against Liberty; and ere long
he viii supersede the last the weakest and
the most ~unprincipled Of Democratic Presi-
dents, and occupy that chair once honored
by Washington, Jefferson and Madison
Wait patiently, be joyous-but keep cool.
Our Democratic friends would do well to
heed this advice. There is no use in kicking
against the goad. The masses have risen
against you, and your condemnation is over
whelming. Submit like good citizens to the
verdict OF your country. Your editors will
still liei it is their nature; let them do it;
no one heeds them. If truth should find her
self in a Democratic paper about these days,
she would scarcely know herselfin a looking
glass When the editor Of the Plain Dealer
tells you that the cotton States will all be out
Of the Unicn in ninety days, "mark that''-
mark it, and put it away with a thousand
other things he has been accustomed to say
within the last FIVE years. he told you thai
Douglas would be nominated at Charleston or
some other ballot "Mark that" and we all
did mark it and We marked him for a Demo-
cratic editor, long since. We all know what
uncomtly words are Synonymous OF that
phrase.
When the editor of the National Democrat
tells you that ifthe Cotton States secede, the
whole North will come to want-that your
cotton mills must rot in idleness because the
South will put a tax on the cotton it has for
sale; that the North wont be able to get to
the Atlantic, because the negro drivers will
stop up the mouth of the Mississippi, or at
least lay an embargo upon your steamers,
keep cool-don't get angry because he is
practising upon your credulity. Dent you
know he is the organ of this Democratic Ad-
ministration2
But we have a Panic, and it is hard to
keep cool, even in Novemberl Yes, we
have a Panic-a young Panic-a baby Panic
and the Democratic editors tell you the end
Of the commercial world has come, and that
we Republicans shave been and gone and
done it" by electing Honest Abe to the
Presidency.
Well, keep cool, and let US talk ga Bit
about that point. It strikes us in the first
place that that is a very delicate piece OF
commercial machinery that can be bedly de-
ranged by a peaceful, constitutional election.
Our party hiss been often beaten in such cleo
tons, and although we had good reason 10
know that viliainous frauds were perpetra-
ted upon US, we did not kick this frail clock
work to pieces, but kept cool and waited our
turn. In the next place, we affirm that if it
be true that we have such a delicate piece Of
machinery, or such a fragile crockery shop
as you seen to think, and if we have such an
unruly bull ready to break in the moment he
is cornered, we go for killing the bull; or if we
have not the power to kill him, it is clear
that he ought 10 be hampered and have a
ring putin his nose, and be forever kept at a
safe distance. By all means restrain him
from running at large into any new fields.
Chain him up, by all means chain BIN upI
But in all seriousness what do these men
mean? Do they mean that we are in the
hands o. a system which has power to crush
our commerce, our manufactures, and our
fortunes? Yes, this is what they tellus Il
they tell US the truth, then our answer-the
answer ofevery high souled free mar, is ready.
We will use every legitimate and constitutions
al means to break the shackles that bind US,
to cripple the power that e~nslaves Us, to con-
fine it to the regions in which it is worship
ped. We want no better justification for the
war we make, we want no better ground fol
rejoicing in the victory already won.
Once more we say to the RepubHcansas to
all others, keep cool. The Southern tele-
graph sends you troops of lies, and the Dem.
ocratic Press repeats, and enlargss them
There is conservative force even at the Soutl
which will yet be heard. Congress will soor
assemble. The debate will then be Transferred
to Washington, and awhen Greek meets
Greek, then comes the tug Of war" But fol
the moment the rampant demagogues OF the
South, for purposes Of their own, have it al
their own way, and are playing such antics
before high heaven as must make the angels
weep. Good men in the Cotton States art
overcome, bnt a reaction comes, and tina
second sober thought will be heard. Coo
speed tine day. Meantime keep cool.
Agricultural.