Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1861-02-19
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From yesterdays Chicago Tribune.
Kellogg as a Bully,

From yesterdays Chicago Tribune.
KeIlOgg as a Bully.
When professed Republican signifies biz
willingness to amend the Constitution Of the
q. s., for the purpose Of establishing in hall
the public domain the robbery, violence, ,athe-
ism and war which men call slavery, we are
not at all surprised that be should resort to
personal rufianism to justify and sustain his
course. Hence we express no astonishnent
that Mr.. Kellogg Of the Fourth Congression-
al District lllinois-the author ofthe attempt
to engraft the Breckinridge creed upon the
Chicago PlRtfOrm-has seen ft to make an
assault upon Mr. Medill, one of the editors
and the Washington correspondent Of this pa
per Might, with slave drivers, is right; we
do not wonder, then, that Kellogg, who is a
mass Of lone, muscle and .intestines, weigh
ing fall two hundred and fifty, has assailed a
gentleman Of delicate physique and uncer-
TIN health, whose heaviest dradght Is hardly
one hundred and thirty. We have no partic-
ulars Of the skirmisb beyond the meagre ac-
count which the telegraph gives. We await
the facts, conscious that Mr.. MediH has no
cause to be ashamed Of his share in the trans
action,
It is perfectly natural that q professed Re-
publican, who was elected to Congress as an
advocate of the principles of the Chicago
Platform, and who allows himself to be fright
ened by the busters of the Southern traitors
into an ignominious surrender Of those prin-
cipIes, should adopt the Southern fashion, of
using blows instead of argumentss. he is the
individual who called the venerable Governor
Wood, of Illinois, an old puppy" The spe-
cial report Of the Cincinnati Commercial,
which we publish, confirms the statement Of
the Tribune in reference to Kellogg being
physically the heaviest and most powerful
man Mr. Medill was formerly one of the
editors of the LEADER, and many of our read
ers will remember him as a small and spare
man, lily able to cope with man Of the size
of Judge Kellogg.
The Republicans of Judge Kellogg's Dis
tric. owe it to themselves to request him to
resign the position he now so unjustly holds.
Special Dispatches to yesterdays Gin. Gaz.
WAsHNGTov. Feb. I6.
LIyCoLN's SPEECHES IN CHARLESTON.
All the Charleston papers of Friday and
Saturday copy LinoOln's speeches and COM
ment on them. The Mercury, received to-
night, says: " In LincOln's opinion, the Uni
ted States, holding those forts which have
not yet been captured, and re-taking those
which have been captured by the Confederate
States, and tae collection Of duties in their
harbors, would be neither coercion nor inva-
sion, but a gentle exercise Of legitimate power
towards many rebelliOus counties, bringing
them to their senses. Lincoln Is a cool man
an able man; a determined man man not
of words, but action; who says what he
means, and means what he says; an earnest
man wlthal and no politician
THURIow WEED.
Fpilzr4e-- Wood lAft si.;y- 80 l..-.,.-.-t
he read LiRooln's Indianapolis speech.
Special dispatches to yesterday Gin. Com.
THE FoRsE BILL.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 18th.
The Republican caucus. last night, had un-
der consideration the policy T. be pursued
towards the seeded States. It was agreed
with great unanimity to support Bingham S
Force Bill, providing for collecting revenue
by armed vessels, stationed outside every
harhor where a custom house is located. It
was resolved to support a bill authorizing
the President to receive volunteers in aid of
the execution of the laws. These two
measures in addition to Holt and Colfax's bill,
providing for the discontinuance of mails
wherever they are violated, or the accounta-
bility of fDostmasters repudiated, (the last has
already passed) it is thought will enable the
Executive to test the question whether we
have government or not They viii pass
the House by large majority, as nearly all
the Republicans and such Democrats as John
Coehrane, will vote for them, besides a
number Of Southern Americans. Their fate
in the Senate is doubtful The Senate now
consists of twenty-siX Republicans and
twenty-eight Opposition, counting the Texas
Senators, who have not yet withdrawn. 1t
will require two opposition votes to carry
them, which must come from Pugh, Douglas,
and CrittendeR. Should two of these vote
it still remains doubtful, whether the present
Executive has the courage to approve any
measure looking toward the preservation Of
the rights or authority Of the Government.
KELLoGG's ATTACK UPON NEDILL.
Judge Kellogg, OF Illinois, made violent
assault upon Jos. Medill, one Of the edi-
tors of the Chicago Tribune, last night
in the National Hotel Kellogg demanded
an explanation of remarks in the Washing
ton correspondence of the Tribune, denounc-
ing him for his compromising course. Ne
dill refused to explain, or hold any cOnver-
sation on the subject, whereupon Kellogg,
who is a much larger man than Medill struck
him severely, knocking him down, and was
following up an attack, when bystanders sep
arated the parties.
TIE GUTHRIE DEMAND, OR NORTHERN CoSCEs-
SION.
Guthrie's scheme Of compromise rs carried
in the Committee of the Conference by II
yeas to nays, efectually denies the power
of the people of the territory to exclude slave
". About the only difference between this
plan and Crittendeh's, is that the latter CON-
pels protection, while the former takes away
prohibition.
The Peace Conference will probably have
a warm time debating Guthrie's report. In
all probability it cannot be carried. All New
England, 0hio, and the Northwest are
against it, and probably Virginia New
York and Pennsylvania are classed as doubt
ful. Even if adopted, it will be BY such mar
row majority as to have no weight before
Congress or the country; and on its own
merits, it certainly could neverpass the House
to carry three-fOurths Of the States, to ineor-
porate it in the Constitution.
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