Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-07-28

extremists, IS sheer iaiae pretensei
resorted 10 as blind and cheat, No fears
ever sprung from such parehage. Slavery
does not exist by legal enatment anywhere
il e the child OF force, and as the sentiment
ofthe world q against it Il cannot live with
out the sustaining hand OF power. sur
rounded by an atmosphere Of freedom Il ls
necessarily unsafe, and statutory safeguards
and defences become necessary Nassalage
and subisction never impress themselves,
without violence, upon the natural man,
whilst on the contrary, the sentiment Of free
dom must forever disturb the subjects ota
despotsm. The South, TO be safe, must
therefore, extend through and beyond all the
countervailing influences TO which have
referred, and consequently, our frontier pos
sessious must be captured. But as the inhe-
rent weakness Of the South Is not equal TO
tbis task. craft is resorted TO to supply the
needed assistance. Upon whom can this be
more advanlageously brought to bear than
President without courage, Judge Wltnout
candor, or a legislator without integrity =
We are sold or betrayed hourly, and If we
had not more forbearsnce than discretion we
would terrify traitors. Millions Of acres Of
fertile lands. every now and then, are hlehed
from our industrial classes, who require them
for the support and education Of their tami-
lies. TO be turned into barren wastes, by /
those who have already blasted more than
one-half of our soil as with an avalanche OF |
6re Factories and workshops are totterlng |
m ruins. and families and neighborhoods LETT |
starving and in rags, because tostered indus- |
try is not required in that region where the
laboriug man has no rights which the owner
L = tn rncnart And SIllDS IOL /
Al onr wharyes. and storehouses become but
a rendezvous for idlers and vagrants for the
reason that uncompensated ehattei slneWs
Weld fruits more cheaply than compensated
/ skill and require no snield against the pauper
products of Europe. If change Oh tSrln
laws were required by the South instead oi
| the North, they could not fail OF us accom-
| nlisbment. In that case the President
would advocate Il with ardor, if not with
/ sincerity. and our Senators would again
| illustrate the fact of their trucking suolec-
ton to those who secretly abhor their base
ness and in6delity. Our earnest wishes are
not only constantly disregarded, but our
prosperity is remorselessly paralyzeo Dy our
servants, without an audible murmur on our
part; and we are not much ayerse, as we
have often proven, TO conferring new leases
of Office upon such as deceive US, TO anora
them further opportunities ior mlschiei-
Does this seem unaccountable2 suggest
no in view of the truth have but Just stated,
that the party selecting them has its heart
and brain in the South, and its obeying
members, merely, in the North. The remedy
for this shameless evil is as easy as 1t IS sim
Ule We need but infinite the example set
US by those who have caused this condition
| of things. Concord and inheTibility Of pur-
nose will accomplish all we ask. Nothing
Else ever can or ever will. We might as
well expect a divided and discordant army,
marsbsled under opposing generals, to cap
tnre the powerful and thoroughly disciplined
and Guarded city, as for Northern rights and
Nortbern honor to be sustained by men IN
tbepav and keeping of those who would weak
On and reduce US. In the ordinary busl-
ness or life we never trust the faithless and
dishonest; l can imagine no reason for en-
/ gazing such as sentinels over our entire Tor
r tunes, Just so long as our custom-houses!
nost-ofices. navy yards, and mints shall
= he stocked with thousands, selected vir-
: tnally by those who are in banded op-
! nosition 10 us and whose principal bust
! ness we are instructed to believe, is COM
, pounding politics with perfdity, it Will b'
1 imnossible to render our condition better
r than it is. These leper-yards must be cleanseC
e Their occupants load the air with eonia
If gious corruption. Throughout their bodie
! and their souls they bear the marks OF the
II d;steYnper with which the aristOcratic pollu
e ZIONIST has touched them. | risk but little II
u saving. that at this very hour, this might!
pbalanx. scattered throughout the eighteeI
y Northern States, having a common and pow
l. erfnl bond of union, are devising measures
y desnoil our industrial classes, by conhnln
- them in densely crowded fields OF labor, o
49, taF .3<ynlallaF zee
If brought to believe that the doctrines of th
> Declaration of Independence are but stero
u typed lies; that the founders of the natiO
= had but 8 sorry conception of inalienabl
= rights that the Constitution which the
n framed was intended as an instrument Of cru
a city and crime I; and that the fairest featur
k of free republican association is a union c
,e States peopled with the lowest grade of slave!
D Am l right? What is the trouble agains
re which we have to contend2 Is it not tn
ID steady influence of what may with propriet
d be called political eonspiracies to misead tn
Il public mind, and faint the public heart
I it not an administration blackened wit
Il treachery, and crooked and tottering unde
/ the weight of its depravity, using all tht
10 patronage Of Office, and all the fascination
l. of position to utterly destroy US, by maxim
10 the Territories Of the country but garrison
i for the enemies Of freedom, and the labor @
?, white men degrading and fruitless, beyon
l. the limits of the present States2 If am il
: error, what is the correct Interpretation G
y the political discords of the last six years2
anticipate fully that my suggested mod
,e Of redress for existing abuses will be de
nounced as sectional; to which answer
is if it be so, the antidote to bane may be
= bane itself asimiEa'' ''simiibuS eaTGntar." Blu
v its liability to the charge is denied. Tn
: real sectionalism is arrayed against US; d
but counsel systematic and persistent resist
! ance. In studies of the fundamental doc
c trines of our common charter, and in tn
= dispensatiOns Of the favers Of government
, we should never know North, South, al
4 East or West. Ny complaint is that 9th
# ers act as if they thought differently.
4 trust we shall always be able to command
q the exercise of such patriotism ana comltl
: as to forever preclude us from aggression upoI
3 a section inferior to ours in every element o
i material strength and greatness. It eau ney
i er be otherwise than dastardly press upoI
=, the weak ana slckly.
) It viii be noticed that have spoken o
% the Democratic Party without reference to it
n present distractions. Ny reason for so doing
II is found in the opinion / entertain that thesl
a dissensions do not affect issues; as neithe
It branch indicates a disposition to meet, fairly
e and openly, the great political problem Of tht
b times. In casting our votes we should b.
70 accurately informed as to their effect upoI
d the policy we desire to see established. w
Il should not be made instruments in the hand
e Of any ambitious man, or in the hands 0
: any combination Of reckless and unscrupu
/ lous men; to force an unnatural growth o
IS Slavery in the country, aud to blast the hope
n Of onr own people, contrary to what hai
4 heretofore been the understanding Of thu
) Constitution Of the United States, and in pal
b pable violation Of what has been regarded
4 settled national policy It should be mat