Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1861-04-04

The London MorRing Chronicle Of March
18th, has the following article. y laf

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A Roman Emperor inaRgurated his reign
by declaring that be was determined 10 be
hated. A similar ambition may be said 70
possefs the statesmen of Southern America,
whose constant effort, It seems, Is 10 cut
themselves OF from all human sympathy, to
be abhorred, and to concentrate upon their
faction the obliquy Of the world. There is
something preternAturally repulsive In the
slang, the swagger, and the rufiRnism Of
these cowhide despeIadoes Every fresh re-
port from the headquarters OF rOwdyism
aggravates the atrocity Of its brutaliEing in-
science. The Carolinian Senator considers
himself degraded unless be struts, like q
Dutch bandit, With a brace OF revolving pis-
tolls in his pockets or bludgeon, the mere
carrying of which would be regarded IS an
outrage even in Ireland. No country on the
globe produces blackguardism, a cOWardice
or treaehery, 80 cOnsummAte as that Of the
negro driving States in the new Southern
Confedsracy. Il is not enough for the auc-
tioneers Of African flesh and blood that they
can torture their stripped victims, and com
nit assassination with impunity il is not
enough that they are privileged to fay OF
burn alive their breathing chattels they
must stalk into the Senate House armed with
instruments of murder; they must conspire
to Establish reign-o Of terror by means of
eut-throat policy. They must plot to take
the life Of their new President, while the
Republic is eharlotng him 10 her sacred
throne. These malignant Wretches, impish
and paltry beyond conception in their ideas
Of political revenge, endeavoring to blow up
Abraham Lincoln with an internal machine
on his journey from Cincinnati, and schemed
to originate a railway accident by which
hundreds Of lives might have been lost, in
order to crafty their Jealousy Of a man who
has triumphed over the most dangerous cabal
in the Commonwealth. The worst element
in the position Of the Union is this position
of the South, which has derived from the
Spaniard its b1 bsrous vanity, from the Hu-
ron and Mohawk its savage indifference TO
suffering, and from the mongrels of the Gulf
| / loathsome habit Of combining the man
ners Of the bull-ring with the morals OF the
bordello. President Lincoln is called upon
to deal with this seditious, turbulent and
homicidRl population, Il is to his credit that
be has not yet been provoked into repaying
their menaces in such coin as ay be minted
at arsenals and issued at the cannon's mouth I;
but unless the crisis speedily assumes new
aspect such as the latest intelligence does not
warrant US in expecting, it is obvious that
| the crime Of civil fratricide will be perpetra-
ted, and that the liberties Of America will be
1 abandoned to the arbitration ofthe battlefield
Should this alternative be forced upon the
Cabinet of Washington, as appears almost in
evitable, it is in the highest degree import
| ant that the public opinion of Europe should
be qualified to judge impartially between the
belligerents. What, in reality, is the spirit
of the South which has challenged this do
nestle war, which has thus disturbed the
peace Of half continent, which has raised a
storm in the channels of trade, and compro-
! missed the industry Of the Old World by con-
tulsiHg the politics Of the New The North
/ has been-somewhatp prematurely and intem-
perately-accused of adopting commercial
/ system hostile to freedom, and injurious TO
the interests Of England. But the measure
/ so far as it has hitherto been developed re-
sembles one of selfdefense rather than one Of
aggression or monopoly. The Northern
States understand perfectly well that their
antagonists are without scruple, and that only
material sacrifices will restore to them a re-
fuctsht sense Of public duty. Before we
blame the exclusive tariff sanctioned at Wash
! ington, we may as well inquire whether it
has not been partially forced upon Congress
by the contumelious defances and boasting
arrogance of the Southern Confederation
| The slave drivers of Charleston have policy
of their own, which is to dissociate them
selves from those who at present sustain the
carrying-trade of America and to open up
system of Independent intercourse with Great
Britain. Naturally and logically, the Union
ist Party endeavor to battle these tactics; and
the result is, no doubt, inimical to the broad
principles OF free trade. Yet we must remem-
Der that the Union is upon its trial, and that
no effort can be too arduous which rescues it
from existing dangers. The South attempts
to treat the North as it treats its own block
vassals, who, ike the serfs of Sparta, are
scourged to death at the altar of the only god
that the cotton planter worships. And how
IS this policy exemplifed2 Ever since Mr..
Lincolns ascent to the Presidential chair,
the cruelties of the slave owners have been
multiplied and intensified, because it is feared
that, unless q system Of terror be established,
the hereditary bondsmen will make weapons
of their chains and crush oppression itself
under the heel Of revolted slavery. Not
in Algiers, when the Deys were at the
, summit of their ezecrable power; not in
Rome, when the poor captive girl, after
being fagitiOusly abused, was flung into
fsh-pond; not in Russia when
the executioDer cuts out the tongue Of
his knouted victim, have horrors more terri
BILE been recorded than have been testified tc
unwilling witnesses since the triumph of Mr.
Lincoln. The over-worked, under-fed, mis-
erably-clRd, and wretchedly-lodged slaves
have been compelled, as a means OF repress
ing their intelligence, to work in iron collars
to sleep in the stocks, to drag heavy chains
at their feet to wear yokes, bells and copper
horns; TO stand naked while their masters OF
mistresses brand them infamously, to have
their teeth drawn, to have red pepper rubbed
into their excoriated flesh, to be bathed il
turpeDtine, to be thrust into sacks with mad
cats, to have their fingers amputated, to bt
} shaved, and to be whipped from neck TO hee
with red-hot irons. It is Of no avail TO deny
this impeachment Congress itself, which
contains majority of slaveowners, admit
the truth. The American journals TEEN Wltl
advertisements of slaves whose bodies ar,
marked indelibly with the traces Of torture
Gases are frequently tried in the law court
J of the Union OF masters who have not only
! hogged their black girls to death, but havt
. deliberately carved the flesh from their bones
and since the beginning of the Tan;c causet
by Mr.. Lincoln's election these abomination
have been redoubled. The slaves are dis
.tinctly told that upon the slightest indication
of scheme for joining with the agitators o
! the North, they shall be tied up, one to ever,
! cotton and peach tree in the land, and fagel
lated until they are more abject than tn
) worms in the dust. These threats, accom-
panied as tsSsssyg are by exemplary atrocities
may for a time curb the impatieuce of th
negro population, but the planters are dis
! mally mistaken if they imagine that thi
: policy will in the long run uphold thei
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