Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-07-26

"WRITE Ne DowS An Ass" ."-The sandus-
ky Register would make as apt an imperso-
nation of ''Bottom' as Shakespeare himself
would have desired to see. It utters the re-
quest which heads this paragraph as openly
as did that eccentric operator in the ''Iid-
summer Nights Dream" and clearly veri-
fes its claim to have the request complied
with. Full of envy and petty malice at the
glorious celebration which is to attend the
Inauguration of the Perry Monument in this
city on the 10th, it loses sight Of reason and
common sense and writes itself down an
ass Hear the fretful child:
We are out for Put-in-Bay. The Cleve-
land inauguration don't draw. On the
square, eh2 Park quartered in cold blood
fountain dried up and all sorts of enormities
proposed for the sake of stealing a little
| Put-in-Bay thunder BAIL 1t is a bore.
Leave that beautiful little island, where
/ Perry had his look-out-the Bay where his
/ fleet lay-an the scenes of the battle-the
/ graves of the officers unmarked; to erect a
/ monument in distant city, where Perry
never set foot Never. Count US at Put
/ in-Bay with each returning 10th Of Sep
tember, while the bold rocks of Gibralter
stand. r-
We will 20 to Cleveland to inaugurate any
thing to which Cleveland is entitled; but
never to participate in a thing which so pro-
fanesthe memory of the gallant dead. n
If Perry was never there, his ghost may
be, ere long.
Firstly, the Park is not going to be "quar-
tered in cold blood" the Fountain is not go
ing to be "dried up" and no other "enormi-
ties" are proposed, but all arrangements are
going on prosperOusly until they shall cul-
inmate in the grand celebration Of the 10th.
Secondly, we do not object to anybody's
going to Put-in-Bay who so chooses, and
while we do not imagine the feeble efforts of
the Register and Toledo Blade to prevent any
body from coming here will be of the slight
est avail, still it shows spirit in strong and
disagreeable contrast to fair and sensible
journalism. .......4.
Thirdly, the idea which the Register ven
tilates that Cleveland is "not entitled" to
this Statue, and that the location of it in
this city "profanes the memory of the gal
liant dead" is so ridiculously absurd as to be
hardly worth noticing. We would like to
know how we "profane the memory" of any
man by erecting a monument to him. This
Statue is contracted for by Cleveland parties
designed by Cleveland artist, chiseled by
Cleveland artizans, and paid for by Cleve-
land citizens. NoNa cent of the expense il
asked for from outsiders, and now when We
have the largest marble statue in the United
States, and the largest of any kind except
one, and when that statue, after months o.
patient and sl1illful toll, has reached it
grand and fitting completion, and will gair
honor by comparison with any known
work of art, then we invite all the world t
t come up and see it,-and they are coming
too. r--t.ta
: The Register says that Perry never liveC
j here, and therefore we have no right to erec
5 a monument to him. How ignorant the peo
I pie of Baltimore must have been to dare t
! raise Washington monument there, ant
/ the people Of Richmond to set up statues o
Washington and Clay, How unfortunst