Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1861-08-23

Tue Plain Dealer on he ''Pease'' aEen.
Ia last evenings Plain Dealer we end the
following.
aDisguise it as We may, every dsy brings
additional evidence, strong as hely writ, ihA1
leniency 70 treason in our midst Is unpsroon.
able folly. Treason Is emboldsned by u eno
calls for suppression, and
- 40 this complexion must veeemo At last
UEx.Senstor Green, Of Missouri mas re-
GENTLY been in st. Louis, pressing upon the
authorities there 10 join him in putting forth
neice propositions 70 the people OF that State.
Mr Green's plan has for It's basis the disband-
.iur of eli the government forces.
WBurnetG and Vallandlgham openly sdvo-
cate, with scarce q semblagO Of indirection,
treason in the House, draw their salaries, and
depart at viii, 10 post the rebels in all they
may desire to know, hundreds of rebel
clerks, schooled in treason by heir late heads,
Floyd, Cobb 4 Co., are simply dismissed and
their salaries stopped, while through mis-
guided forbearance and criminal leniency We
almost literally lie supremely on our backs
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enemies have bound us hand and loot
There is demand that we suppress traitors
and treason whsreYer we find it aud we be-
lieve
"'To this compilation must we come At last "
Upon reading the foregoing wholesale de-
nunciation of "treason in our midst" !"
Green's 'peace propositions" and Clement L.
vallandigh4m, we thought surely Gray had
repudiated his party and returned to the ad-
vocacy Of the patriotic principles which filed
bis columns prior to the con Sening of the late
Observation-Disclosures Convention. Bu'
upon turning to the head of his paper, we
found there still floating the ticket nominat-
ed by that Secession OOnventlon Then II
became evident that this was but one Of
Gray's Jaats, the object OF which is to divert
attention from his.complicity in the traitor
Gus action of his party. By party we mean
those self-styled Democrats who prefer the
success of their party organization to a unit,
ed movement of the people in support Of the
Goyernment-those who believe with Val.
landigham that the Union is good thing
but peace is better. The Medarys, Paynes
Vallandighams, Manypennys and few 9TH
ers of like ilk met at Columbus, and by acts
and resolutions virtually assumed this posi-
ton, and the Plain Dealer hoisted their tick
ct and endorsed their PLATFORM and so long
as Gray supports that ticket his condemns
ton Of 'ttreason in our midst" will be re-
garded very much as the rOgue's cry o.
''thief"
In the county where Mr.. Vsllandigham re
sides, there are two classes styling themselves
Democrats. One class repudiate Mr.. Vallan.
digham and advocate Union of parties in
support of the Government in its efforts tC
crush rebellion; the other class oppose the
war, denounce the Administration for carry
ing it on, oppose union of the people fol
the sake of the Union, advocate the election
of the party ticket nominated by the 50
called Democratic Convention, and endors'
Vallandigham in the following resolution;
tRssoIved, That our able Represe ntstive il
Congress, the Hon. c. L. Vallandigham, fol
his recent fearless exposure oil the violations
of the Constitution by the present Admins
tration, deserves the wsrmest commendstion
notonly of bis immediate constituents, bul
of the friends Of free and constitutional Gov
eminent everywhere"
Now, which of these two wings of th'
Butler County Democracy does the Plair
Dealer recognize as the genuine2 ThOs
,OhO adopted the reSOlutiOH endorsing q L
VdIlandighGm. 1t could not do otherwise. 1
supports the ticket and stands on the platform
which Mr.. Vallandigham, more than AM
other one man, was instrumental in giving
shape, and of course it must recognize a
Democrats those who sustain Mr.. Vsllandig
ham and his ticket and platform. The Day
ton Empire is paper in good standing il
that party, whilst it is the organ of Mr.. Val
,andigham, bitterly denounces the war polio,
of the Administration, and threatens to in
augurats civil war in Butler county shoul
: any attempt be made, as the Plain Deale
now recommends, to suppress treason il
our midst"