Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1861-02-02

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There are now collected here, between ar
tiliery and marines, about soc efficient men,
who are ready to deal with traitors as they
deserve.
MR. sLIpEtt woRKEa ON TIE PRESIDENT.
Mr.. Slidell was closeted with the President
several hours yesterday, Notwithstanding the
offensive manner in which he assailed him
recently in Executive Session, and dimpeaohed
his veracity. Connecting this fact with a
scene between Gen. Scott and Mr, Buchan-
an, in which the former arged an increase
Of more troops here snd the latter declined,
there Is reason to fear the President is
again relapsing into his old inBrmity and
oscillation. i-i 't,. L-Aa-li'
Special dispatches to n. Y Times.
GEN. SCOTT AND THR PRESIDENT,
Rumor says there is a serious disagree
ment between Gen. Scott and the Presi-
dent growing out Of movements at Fort
Monroe. The President Processes to be ex-
ceedingly annoyed and much mortified at
tho turning Of the guns Of this fortress inland,
Just at the time he was compllmenting the
loyalty of the ancient Commonwealth in
bis Special Message to Congress, While ]
give this rumor can't vouch for its accuracy.
A telegram rom Richmond says the Legisla-
ture will appoint Committee Of Inquiry 10
examine into and report the facts,
LOUISIANA HAS no RIGHT TO THE MISSISSIPPI.
The so-called fright of secession is clear
ly pretext put forward by men who were
pre- determined to establish a Southern
Coufederacy, regardless Of all other consider
atoms In the case of Louisiana, for instance,
no fair-minded man can for a moment be-
ievd that her Ordinance Of Secession was the
exercise Of moral and political ''right"
That ordinance declares as follows
HThat the ordinance passed by this State
on the 22d Of November 1907, whereby the
Constitution Of the United States and the
amendments Of said Constitution were adopt
ed, and all the laws and ordinances by which
Louisiana became a member Of the Federal
Union, he and the same are hereby repealed
and abrOgated." ti
Now glance ct the history Of Louisiana
On the goth of February, 1911, Congress
passed an act enabling the people resident on
the purchased territory of Orleans 70 organ
ize State. Sec. of that act, after provid-
ing for a Convention Of the people to frame
q Constitution, adds;
g., eSaid Convention shall proclaim by ordi-
nance, ,i7TsO0cable agithout The consent Of The
United States, that the people inhabiting the
said territory do agree and declare that the
River Mississippi and the navigable rivers
and waters leading into the same, or into the
Gulf Of Mexico, shall be common highways
snd forever free, as well to the inhabitants
of the said State, or to the other citizens Of
the United States.H I eT g
pERARRED PROM ASSUMING SOVEREIGNTY.
The act Of April 8, 1912, admitting Lou
isiana as a State-with the evident inten-
ton of guarding most jealOusly against the
possibility CT any future assumption of SOW
ereignty over the "Father Of Waters" on the
part of the State of Louisiana, repeats the
language of the Act Of 1911, word for word,
as the special understanding on which the
| State is admitted. The same language pre-
cisely was used in the act of March l, 1917
admitting Mississippi, as the condition Of ssch
admission. Whence, then, do either Of these
States get the siright' to assume sovereignty
over the mouth Of the Mississippi River, and
L cole out Luc DIlFlleEe VI Als HhNABdEou Dy
citizens of the United States IS a gracious
concession for which the latter should be
thankful
SECESSION MOVEMENTS Is EUROPE.
There is unquestionable evidence in town
that it is the settled policy of England not
to interfere directly or indirectly in our do
nestle quarrels-and certainly not to encour-
age the rebellious States BY recognizing their
Independence or by any more positive dem
onstrations. r
If, as stated upon semi-oficial authority in
Paris, Austris intends to declare war against
Sardinia next Spring. France and England
/ seem likely to have as much as they can well
attend to in arranging for the contemplated
secession of Venetia and Hungary. But they
/ need no such motive to restrain them from
needing on this side of the Atlantic, as
these Governments fully understand that
whatever else the ultimate result of the dis.
union movement, this Government will
stand, and become mightier power without
he slave States than is is with them, if The
separation becomes inevitable.
| TIE SECESSION PROGRAMME.
The Southern Congress having constituted
an executive government will at once adopt
Professionally the present federal constitution,
and all laws not locally inapplicahle. They