Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1861-02-06
From the Cincinnati Press.
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lointpd Commissioners, under the name OF
or no-partyism, TO meet The /
south IN Convention, the very recognition /
y which accepts Southern demands as the
basis Of Northern concessions. Weak Re-
Dublieans, or fossils who have OutliVsd their
political principles, viii be selected from the
North, because that is conservatism. These
will be associated with Northern Democrats
both weak and reckless, whose weakness
will also be called conservatism, and whose
reckless game 70 reconstruct their party by
degrading the Constitution and their section,
Is called patriotism, and who. are seeking to
force the Republican party to take the odium
of putting that in the Constitution, which
the Northern Democracy split their party by
refusing 20 put in the platform at Charleston,
because they knew it would be fatal TO that
party in the North.
The South-to It's honor he it said-never
trusts ils Interests 10 neutral We 'knesa, under
the name Of patriotism, Uai0u, conservatism.
or Rny other name. There Is one section yet
LEFT where euasculaie timidity and cowHrdly
surrender of rights are not elevated into the
attributes of patriotism and statesmanship
where no politician dare talk Of surrender OF
rights except surrender To the south. These
Commissioners will meet in Convention with
those who have all the frmuess OF conscious
power, and the imperiousness which has
resulted from political associations In which
their demands are the recognized measure OF
the others concessions.
Let no one pretend that We say this out OF
enmity to the South, or to their peculiar do
nestle relations. We honor them for this
trait in their character. When their de-
mands are met by nothing but the talk Of
submitting and concession, the natural rela-
tions of the two sections are recognized and
established by the North and .nasmuch as
constitutions are founded in natural relations,
it is no matter hDw soon this is put in the
Constitution. If it is patriotism on one
side TO ey, It is equally patriotism in the
other 10 command. We thaEk God that
there is one section where the race which won
its liberties 81 bravely, has not 30 debased it.
self and the English language as TO MAKE sur
render synon, nous with pttriOtism II tn
is the effect of universal freedom, then doe
the Richmond Enquirer say truly that free
snciety is a failure, and is incapable Of per
Petuity.
Tue Commissioners from the Free States
will be hurried into Il Convention on ihe 4ih
If February. to deliberate under the fear OF
an immediate revolution of all the border
and the rest of the Southern States. They
will deliberate under fear and terror, and they
are 10 be selected Of those who can be oper
tied on by such influences They viii as
,rmble on a call from Virginia, which, #
It ictly ;onstFued, lays down certtin de-
mands as a condition of their assemblage;
aud it wiz be insisted on as a virtual recog.
milton Of the terms of surrender. r-
II they submit TO the terIns, the Legisls-
lures OF the Free States will be required to
approve them as amendments to tie COnsti
tuition, Immediately on the pretext that the
salvation OF the Union depends on instant
action. II tney refnse this, the Northern
Democracy have card which they propose
to play, By calling State Conventions to ap-
irOve the amendments, whether the Legis
iatures consent to the call or not. They think
that by rushing the question on the Secession
panic, before the people have time to learn
what the surrender is, and hy calling il some
specious name, such as missouri Compro-
mise, they eau carry If, at least in form,
But it is not intended by those who are
deepest in the secession plot that the North
ern Commissioners shall submit; and care
will be taken to make the demands rs huuail-
iating as possible, to prevent their submis-
sion, if that is possible; and this anxious
haste, which is to frighten them into any
thing to save the Union, is all arranged so as
to act before the 18th Of February, on which
day the vote for President is TO be opened and
declared by Congress.
On the instant that they refuse the terms,
It will be ielegraphed throughout the South
that the North refuses 70 make any compro-
misses, and is determined on the irrepressible
conflict to crush ont the domestic relations of
the South, and the only recourse left to save
the liberties Of the South, and the Oonstltu-
ton. and the Union as our fathers formed 1t,
is to secede at once, seize the Capital and the
Government, declare the people OF he Free
States rebels, and bring them 10 such terms
as rebels deserve; Just as Toombs, by dis
patch declaring that the Committee of Thirty
three had failed to offer any compromise,
carried the elections in Georgia for secession.
Even if the movement is not Immediately
begun By force, or if intimidated by the pre-
paration Of General Scott, the Border States,
if they adhere to the position which they
have taken, viii secede as soon as the North
eru Commissioners refuse to submit to Their
terms, and the Withdrawing Of their delega-
tons from Congress will leave it without
quorum to co business, or declare the election
OF President.
This is all arranged; and forces are organ
lied in Virginia, Maryland and other neigh
boring S ates, that will make resistance out
of the question, with the small force that
Gen. Scott will have, and only useless de-
struction of life and property. This is the
programme which our interesting Legislature
is helping to carry out u7der the name OF
conservatism Sinking the partisan 20 the
patriot and " meeting the patriotic Union
men of the South in cOnciliating and pat
riotlc spirit" They are playing their part
in the secession drama by the cue just as
true to the programme as Yaneey's secret 81
cieties have played it in the Cotton States
into a revolution, and now the Republican
States of the North are brought into the play
20 precipitate the Border States into the rev.
olution.
Are the Legislatures of the free States de-
mented, that they send Commissioners under
the threat which all the border States have
declared, that unless their demsndsare grant
they must know that their refusal to submit
viii be the signal for action; and when the
time points 50 plainly to the plot, Of which
they are to be nude + tool2
Has the madness which pFecedes destruc
lion, which we have been attribnting to thr
seeding States really come upon the North
Shall It, like the condemned wretch who gives
the signal FOR bis own execution, give the
signal for the seizure of the Government, the
iefeat Of the formal election Of the Presi-
dent, and the Inauguration Of rebellion with
The formslitses Of Legitimacy, while the
North will sink into the position Of rebel
lion against regular authority, with treason
1t home. armed with prete1t Of law by its
-upport in the Capitol Of the nationf
QUITE A MIsTAEE.-We are permitted by
Hon. c. b Dcnin, ofGalena, to tellthe follow
ing good st ry, Il is useless to premise that
Mr., D. has filed honorable stations among the
prominent Republicans of the State, AID al
who know him are aware that he is fond Of a