Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1861-01-14

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A few Of your readers well remember The
Crit.enden amendment to the Lecompton
Bill; the anxiety 10 induce the Republicans in
Congress to organize political party on the
basis OF its principles, viii, Douglas, Critten-
den Co as its leaders, and the defeat OF the
scheme by the frmness Of more radical Re
publican members. They also remember the
efforts Of certain Eastern temporisers to in-
duce the faithful Illinois Republicans to fol-
low up the scheme BY adopting Douglas, with
all his heresies on his head, and the firm adj
hesion Of the latter to the Republican Idea.
They have also seen this fidelity rewarded by
an emphatic Republican victory under the
leadership OF him who was the soul of this
fidelity.
Crittenden and Douglas are still together.
They still plot the overthrow of the Republic
can Party, and strange to say, still seem to
find allies within its body. Their last scheme
is to Orce, under terror of disunion, a coust-
tutional amendment acknowledging, and to
some extent protecting slavery. They desire
to naturalize it, ITO admit in the Constitution
the idea that there can be property in man.
which its trainers would not do.
I read, yesterday, an elaborate leader in
the Louisville Journal, which indicates the
programme of the conspirators Prentice
denounces the hot has te of South Carolina,
proclaims more than an Eastern devotion to
the Union, declares the honor, yes the HONOR
Of Kentucky involved in its preservation,
that she viii stand by it to the last, and even,
save South C,rolina, as in 1892, from the
consequences Of her own rashness. His
plan is to amend the Constitution. He is not
very definite how, but in some way to make
it prO-slavery instrument The hitherto
hypocrisy of their bred Scott claims is tao
lily admitted, and the sacred compact is to be
made in fact, what slaveholding rule has made
it in effect.
But how to get the amendment-there's S
the rub-and the device Of the writer is a
good Illustration Of the .houor" of the con-
spirators, and their love Tor the "whole
Union" It is no less than to induce the
"3order States to adopt the amendments,
and then form a new Union, leaving out
New England, and perhaps New York Yes
this Connecticut Yankee, as the mouth-piece
of Vermont Yankee and Kentuckian, both
Senators under oath to the Constitution, him
self par excellence a Union saver, aud whose
honor is deeply affected at the bare idea OF
breaking the sacred bond, gravely proposes
to the Central States to cast out that ever
brilliant Pleiades, that has given the Union
almost everything worth preserving in i'll
But you may say this scheme is not seri-
Gus; it is only intended to frighten the poor
Yankees into a surrender of their principles;
that these men only proclaim themselves
traitors, in order to be bribed to be loyal; !;
only announce themselves thieves to induce a
division of the purse; oaly acknowledge
themselves peJurors to be hired to be oath
bound. Doubtless this is tue, and yet if our
wondering ears do not deceive US, some sim
pie Republicans are for offering the bribe, for
dividing the pursel What miserable ctavens
some of our people arei P. B.
ELERIA, Jan. Z, 1851.