Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1861-03-12


Mr. Wigfall said, in the course Of the de
bate in The Senate ou Thursday, that
The adoption of the Crittendeu PROPOSE
tons BY Congress would have saved the cot
ton States 20 the Union. And there 3 no
doubt af it.-PldiR peaIer.
= Then al their bOasting and their war cries,
and their speeches in Congress and out Of it
have been a cheat, and a big sham. Why,
WigEan himself has said, dozen times, we
doubt not that the cotton States never would
eome back; never, never. They would an 60
10 ruin inst; their sons would all die upon
the batsis feld with the Southern flag in one
hand and bloody knife in The other, before
they would ever agaia enter the socursed
UniOa. Was the whole ceremony Of adopt-
ing secession. ordinances aud drafting sep
'aata Constitution, q farce with no rnsaning2
Are all the soldiers camping out upon sulli-
.Tsn's Island there merely for sport to be or
dered back home whenever the Crittenden
resolutions pass oongress2 Many Northern.
ers would fain have believed this, but tho
secession press has sworn that they would.
come back for no compromise and no conces-
.sisnGolazqa eI
But the Plain Dealer says We should have
passed these resolutions and thus eompFomi1
ssd with, The traitopous cotton States. That
napsT be backed down wonderfully OF late
he weeksaqog itlexhibitsd signs Of hones-
u and Northern self-respect Here is SAM
plehom Mascot -Fs5rpasy 2sth = % I
President Davis has visited in person Ma
jor Anderson and held a parley with him
within gsdsr walls of Fort (Sunter. It il
n6ttknoWn whethar be went as Peace Conn
mss 6leroF Spy, the latter NEST p1oba5ly.
WeEe W n ajor Ahdsrson We konld hold nq
parley with such an incorrigible traitor except
At ths6an8dn's month. 'IsgHe l1l 80
aNo palley' means '.no compromises
Again, on February 9th, the same paper gave
its idea Of what the Cotton States would d9
with any andaIl peace propositions if they
had the power, as follows:
uThe seeding States are'A little uneasy at
the check of secession, and much fear thef
will not have the company Of the big bordet
State The wish the Peare ConyentiOp had
been ssntto Washington BY telegraph through
Alabams, not that they would disturb it al
al, bat they we're 50 pleased with Dix's dis
patch, that they like to peep into all those
little private matters, and secure all the busf
ness they can for the Southern telegraph
lines z u 81 u 81
But on January 25tL the Plain Dealer ,wab
stih more firm against all attempts to cOn-
promise with traitors, It then said;
There can be no doubt the Government
property seized BY seeessioRists is, TO be re-
claimed at the cannon's mouth, at whatever
cost o. blood and treasure to the county,
There seems to Be no other course left consis-
tent with the idea of a Government at ALL
We cannot live IN peace with traitors. So
eessi0a- is reYolution, and revolution is rebeF
lion, which must be put down, or we can
have no Government at all. The rebels have
struck the frst blow. They have seized our
property and defed our power. 1t remains
20 be seen whether there Is vitality enough
left in che Government 70 defend its dignity
and protect its property. q
TEsB, Tiers vas e no other course left con
sistent with the idea Of q Government but
to Tetake the f9rts; nov, it would have saved
) DE coEton Ststss y 6FittsRden resolatiOnt.
Look on this picturs-then on that
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