Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-06-02

tories, should no~ be 90 ultra pro-slayety
men. The address written by Mr.. James
Brooks, as Chairman Of a N. Y. State Com
mittee in Is47, against the extension of
slavery, would, If published now, be one Of
the very best Republican documents,
In that address Of ls47 Nr. Brooks says
ave protest in the name Of the rights of
man and Of Liberty, against the further ex-
tension Of Slavery in North America. The
curse which our mother country inflicted
upon us, in spite OF our fathers remonstran-
ces, we demand shall never blight the virgin
soil OF the North Pacific.
owe viii not spend from fifty to a hundred
millions year to make slave market for
any portion Of our coHntrymen.
"The Union as il Is, the whole Union, and
nothing but the Union, we win stand by 10
the last; but no more territory is our watch
word-iRless Il be free"
In ls47 the words of Mr.. James Brooks, of
the n Y Express, had' the ring Of the gen
uine metal-now they are bogus.
Some Of the papers have abused Mr.. Linz
coin because he received pay for his excellent
lecture, delivered in the Cooper Institute in
this city last February. The facts are these.
A party Of gentleman, last October, Original
ted course Of lectures in Plymouth Church,
Brooklyn They offered Messrs. Thomas
Corwin, Of Ohio, and Abraham Lincoln, Of
Illinois, the sum of two hundred dollars each
If they would deliver lectures. The offer
was accepted. Ar. Corwin delivered his lee
ture when on his way to Washington. Mr..
Lincoln could not deliver his until the latter
part February and instead Of having it in
Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, it was proposed
TO have it in the Cooper Institute in this city.
They agreed to the change Mr.. Lincoln
delivered the lecture, and he was paid ac-
cOrding to the agreement. No Republican
association, or committee, had anything to do
with it. The lecture is one of the best ever
delivered, and on the slavery question, is one
of the most mastery expositiOns of the creed
of the Republican Party The impression
made by that lecture upon the minds of those
who heard it, viii make thousand Lincoln
men in this city. Hurrah for Lincoln and
Hamlin
CLEVELAND REMINsCENCEs.
How beautiful is the city of my early
manhood. How wide the streets-how
pleasant the homes, surrounded with ever
greens, and naples, and oaks, with lilacs,
with creeping vines, and with flowers of
every hue, and fragrance with sweetest per-
tume.
The old Court House is deserted. Who
will write its history It is deserving of
chronicle, although it has not seen as yet one
whole generation. But how many who have
crossed its thresholds are now no more Of
your associate Judges, how few Of your thou
sands now sremember Oowles and Fuller, and
Usher, and Barber, and Hosmer and of all
the men I ever heard at the Bar in the Old
Court House. none were superior to John w.
Wiley and Gregory Powers, in all the ele-
ments Of legal ability, mental force, and logi-
cal analysis. The one never cultivated all his
power the other died in the flower Of his
manhood; if he had lived, he would have laid
his hand upon the highest honOrs of the State.
How interesting and how well attended were
some of the "Old Lyceum" debatesl when
Cougar, Kennedy, Rateliffe, Baldwin, Curtis,
Bennett Smith, (since Supreme Judges in Cal
ifornia and Wisconsin, Payne, Foot Bolton,
Kelley, Backus, Bishop, Cross, White, Young
love, Barr, WhittleSey, Dodge, Umbstaetter,
Morgan, DEMO, Billings, Mather, Chapman,
Battell, and many Others, used to discuss all
sorts ofquestions to the edifcatiOn, and some
times to the amusement Of the crowded audi
tory 1t is strange, that of all whose names 1
have here mentioned, only three are dead. But
the locks of many-of all of them, are now be-
ing "aOhiteHed nth the sglOl0s thai neUer melt
But how many of the auditors-of the young
the beautiful, the accomplished, the lovely and
the loved, now "sieep the sleep that knows
no waking" The grave their bodies hold
their spirits, trust "heayen keeps"
And who that lives and was there, does
not remember the pleasant Fairs" and the
excellent "coffee' and " good fixings' on the
tables presided over by the Mrs. ScoYill and
Miller and Rouse, Mrs. Giddings and her sis
ters Mrs. Merwin, long since deceased, and Mrs.
Wilson, by Mrs. Harrington and Mrs LeHaen,
and others, some of whom have departed
and others who yet live, to bless and adOrn
society with their virtues and good deeds.
But, I must leave the past, withit sad, sweet
memories, and with faces mirrored only in
the glass of remembrance.
Oh it iOas pleasant to take if but for a
moment the hands of old and Hong cherished
friends-to look at familiar faces-to hear
familiar voices, speak kind words, although
had only time for 60 New Years calls, on
few, when there were so many I t0ished to see,
and hope to, at least once again. But the
Great Reaper Is busy, and the hearts OF many
loved friends may cease to beat, ere walk
your beautiful, but familiar and pleasant streets
again. "When life's fitful feveris over, hope
to be laid at rest in your quiet cold grave
yard" beside little grave, whose "little
mound represents an angel in the sky
at is well with the child" Old friends
dear friends, God grant it may be well with
US all. If have thought aloud, | could not
help it. Forgive me, aad believe me,
Yours truly. ....s. J. A. B.