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Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1861-01-26
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Nh. EDIToR-In this Thursday morn
ine's LHADHR, you quote Wendell Phillips
disunion sentiments as Abolitionism, and in
doing so, do IS great wrong to the great
majority of Abolitionists, as the South does
the Republican party in calling them Aboli-
tionists.
The great body of AbOlitiOnists are not
aud never were disunionists. They never
claimed any rights to interfere, except by
arguments and in moral way, with sla-
very in the States. Messrs. Garrison and
Phillips represent only a small fragment OF
AbolitiOnists.
In q sermon recently preached in defence
of slavery, by minister of Brooklyn, an
Abolitionist and Abolitonism are correctly
defined. quote, from memory, "An AbO-
litionist is one who holds and teaches, that, to
hold and treat men as slaves, or property, or
chattels personal, is sin, moral wrong,
and, like every other sin, ought to be aban-
doned."
Such an AbOlitionist was Franklin, who
signed the first petition to Congress for the
e aboKhOn of slavery" Such was John Jay,
the first Chief Justice Of the o. s., who de-
cidsd, UntR America comes into the measure
Of Abolition, her proTess to Aeavsnt0iH be N
famous"
Ihope asense Of justice viii give this brit
note spaceAin ! our paper, where many o.
Us feel Fronged when held up as disunion-
lists, though we wear as an honor the title Of
abolitionist An ABoImoNIsT.
Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1861-01-26
The London Times on Bnohauau.


The London Times of January 9Th, has
the follow, in the course of an article upon
American affairs:
"Never, for many years, can the United
States be to the world what they have been
Mr.. Buchanan's message has been greater
blow to the American people than all the
rants ofthe Georgian Governor or the "ordi-
nances" of the Charleston Convention. The
President has dissipated the idea that the
states which elected him constitute one peo-
pie. We had thought that the confederation
was of the nature Of nationality; we find it
is nothing more than partnership. Ifany
State may, on grounds satisfactory to local
convention, dissolve the union between it
self and its fellows; if discontented with the
election Of q President, or the passing of an
obnoxious law by another State, or if may be,
a restrictive tariff, give State the fright of
revolution, and permits it to withdraw it
self from the community, then the position
of the American people with respect to for
eign Powers is completely altered. It is
strange that a race whose patriotic captious-
ness when in the society Of Europeans is so
remarkable should be so ready to divide and
to give up the ties Of ielloW-citizenship for a
cause which strangers are una BILE to appreci-
ate. Still stranger is it that Chief Magis-
trate, who would have plunged the world in
war rather than a suspicious craft SHOULD be
boarded by English officers after it had dis
played the stars and stripes, or who would
have done battle against despots for any nat
uralized refugee from Continental Europe,
should without scruple and against the advice
of his own Secretary Of State, declare the
Federal Union dissolved whenever a refacto-
~ State chooses to secede.
Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1861-01-26

DOEGoLA, Union county, Illinois,
lWeaty-seven miles north Of Cairo,
January %, 1861.

Rusaty-ssvsn miles u5Ith fCairo,
January %, 1861.
EDIroRs LEADER Thinking your readers
might be interested in hearing from this re-
mote part Of the world, { drop yOu liue.--
The crops here were quite shori last year, al
most as much 50 ss-in many places farther
south, stin there IS enough grain and fodder
to keep Us through. an kinds Of business
are extremely dull The resiilt Of four bad
harvests.
A runner Of political changes has reached
the common people, natives mostly Of North
OarOlina, end having heard Of proposed line
Of division, (se0 800 they say il will take in
ali Of southern illinois. When, however,
they are told thut L crosses the Mississippi
forty miles south Of Cairo, they seem mOr;i-
fed, and some have expressed determina-
tiOn . remove to a slave State, in case the
Union is divided. Again, when told how
South Carolina is carrying OF" they think
she will b sptto get the dust shaken out Of
her jacket So it is impossible to speak about
a peoples sentiments when they have none.
The course which they will take win depend
upon that Of the leading men, and this, though
leaning 70 the Union, Is not very wen 6xed.
r. in case Of national disruption, the common
people here shoold side with the South, we
poor Black Republicans will have lively
times, and women and children had Hbetter
be getting out Of it," aad for myself now
begin to consider what may, when the worst
comes, be best for me to do. Ny place is ls
miles from Kentucky and u from Missouri,
and il may be expected that we miserable IA
uahcs will become an especial mark. be-
gin to envy the people Of the Western Reserve
and other like regions-fr removed from
+" vanity and lies" To give an idea Of what
many Of the folks here think Of Republicans
viii say that many times before election ]
vas told | ought to be shOti but ! only
laughed at them, for I am settled here and in
business, and well acquainted with their way
Of speaking, and stood in no fear; bnt should
war come, Of which there now seems no
doubt, IknoW not what they might be tempt
ed to do. We have one consolation, and the
people here know IL that up in the north part
Of the State the Abolitionists" are thicker
than fddlers N New Orleans, and from our
position, far south, and from the fact that the
Central Railroad terminates at Cairo, this re-
giOn viii not be neglected BY our Northern
friends. Indeed, in case Of war, It must be-
come the base OF military operations for the
great Northwest, when, you see, we will be
Fixed in the seat Of war, and thus be made
something of ct last The Illinois Central is
now doing a wonderful business in carrying
grain to the seceders. Scarcely half hour
passes during the whole twenty-four hat we
do not hear the steam whistle, for besides two
passenger trains each way, there have been
for two weeks seven regular freight trains,
making q passage both ways Of nineteen
trains daily. aThink Of thai, Mastsr Brook"
or any other Master of Transportation. 81
Yours till the war comes, and may be az
terwards, N0.M. =
Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1861-01-26
Legislative summary.

THURSDAY, Jan. "a.
In the Senate, several memorials relating
to Weman's Rights were received. Five
bills were read second time and refereed
The Senate took up the House bill for organ
izing the militia of the State, and after long
discussion PISSED it with several material
amendments. The rest of the day was taken
1p in considering bills in Committee of the
Whole.
In the House, a number of Temperance me
MORALS were presented and referred. Two
memorials recommending a National Consti-
tutional Convention were presented, and after
some discussion, referred to the Committee
on Federal Relations. Ten bills were read a
second time and referred. Bills-To amend
the act providing for Union Schools; to Sc
cure Religious Societies the benefit of their
Records, and to amend the act regulating the
duties Of County Treasures, were passed
Bills were inroduced-TO prevent Bankers,
Brokers, ETC., from receiving and passing
notes ofspecie paying banks at less than par;
to define the jurisdiction of the Probate Court
of5Champaign Co., and to enable the Medical
College Of Ohio to renew its bonds. A resolu-
ton was received from the Legislature OF
Virginia, rejecting the Resolutions of New
York, (similar to those passed in Ohio) in
relation to secession. Some general business
closed the session soon after oclock.-State
Journal
Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1861-01-26

The following plucky article we clip from
the Knoxville Tenn Wing, which is edited
by the renowned ParsOn Brownlow:
YoU CAN'T IErrnDATR Us.-Subscribers in
South Carolina, Alabsms and Georgia are
constantly sending in their insulting epistles
to US, and ask diseontinuance oftheir papers
because we are opposed to secession. We re-
ceive as many new patrons as we lose old
ones, but If we were to receive none, and
every man on our list were withdrawn, we
would have no part or lot in the wickedness
and treason Of secession. This effort to break
up this government led on by South Carolina
is q bold, wicked, daring and dsmnable act,
for which its guilty leaders ought to be
iguominously executed This whole scheme
Of disunion is more eonsumats Abolition
contrivaDce than ever was devised at the
North, by the most ultra anti-slavery men,
and win work the greater mischief to the
slave population of the country. It aOiIl
bring about the overthrow at slaUeTy one hundred
years sooner than the Republican party could
hare done q.
The cotton States may 60 out of the Union,
the border States may 60 out with them
altogether may form Southern C0nfederacy.
We shall adhere to our Union, Constitution
and laws, and denOunce secession and the
miserable Southern Confederacy that may
spring from it, and those who brought it
about, though it may cost Us our life upon
the scafold Nay, VIC shall dare say it in the
teeth Of South Carolina, that the Federal
Government ought to enforce the laws, collect
the revenue, and lash the rebellious States
back into line at the point Of the sword and
be mouth Of the eannonl
We have no desire to live under any
government controlled by the corrupt
wicked, and hell-deserving villains who lead
this revolution in the South.
In late nu4-ber Of bis paper, Parson
BrownIow thus sums up the sins and sorows
ofthe editor Of the Columbiana (Tennessee)
Chronicle:
This Locofoco DisuniOn sheet, published
in Alabama, and edited by one John W..
McRae, is out upon the editor of the Knox
vile Wing, as "a recreant Of the Lincoln
party"
REPLY.-The editor was born and raised
in South Oarolina-remeved to St. Clair
County, Alabama, where be took up q school,
got his pay and abandoned the school before
It was out he read law at Ashville, Ala,
failing to get practice be turned Methodist
preacher-was turned out OF the chureh-re-
moved TO Columbiana-turned Whig-after-
wards went into Democratic Convention
said in a speech if God would forgive him
for voting the Wing ticket, he never would
do 90 again2 He was caught on the street
By the boys, who administered baptism to
him with bucket Of slop from kitchen -
he now edits O secession newspaper. This
is our reply to all his slandsr and abuseI
Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1861-01-26
ProEroa q RsvoIatiou.

The Arsenal a Augusta, Ga, has been
seized, Gov. Brown heading 700 troops for
that p6rpOse. A resolution Of thanks has
bsss ,,.:.-sss 81 ithe Louisiana Convention to
the Governor for bis "pronpt action in seiz-
ing the Foris.R There Is notanother Govern
ment on earth that would bear such insults to
its hsz and not raise a hand to protect its
honor, And yet there are presses in the
North which cry out against "coerciOn" as
being provocative Of civil warl If We have
not civil war already; if the overt act =" has
not.bsen committed; # the South is not ar
rayed in arms against the Federal Govern
ment il treason does not stalk boldly
through the South, and even vaunt itself at
the Capital-then such a state Of things never
will exist. even when those in rebellion fulfil
their programme BY marching upon Washing
ton and setting spublic buildings, treasury
and archives. Verify, such Northern sympa-
thy IS marvellous
For these many years few Northern citizens
have been safe in the extreme South. Hanging
and tsrring and feathsring, have been the hos
pitalities which have been extended to the
travelerin the realms Of King Cotton. For
this, the mobocrats have made the excuse
that the victims were 81 'Abolitionists" they
had tampsred with slaves, and were danger
Gus members Of community. To the South
ern mind or the Northern sympathiser With
slavery, this excuse had shade Of reason in
it. But now We are daily called upon to
record acts Of open violence not against in
dividnsls, but sgaiust the whole power Of the
Federal Government Our nation is already,
from Its tame snbrnission to sucs sggrsssiOns,
making itselfa by-Wor5 among the European
powers We publish elseWhers an extract
from the London Times, in which the reader
may see that contsmpt, no less than sorrow,
aetuated the writer. And we who love the
Union; who have grown up to honor and
gIorify the stars and stripes; who have been
proud to say, 81 am an American" who
have boasted loud and long Of Che power Of
our Government to guard the honor of her
hag-we must bear sll this, and know that it
is true, while we are told by portion of the
Democratic press, that coercion would in
augurate civil war, and we must trust in
Providence and concessions" Such is our
position before the world and before our
selves.
Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1861-01-26

IMPRISONMENT FOR VIOLATION OF INJUNc-
TIoNs IN SELLING SEw1Ne MAoHINEs.-Mr. Jo-
seph Thorn has been arrested by the United
States Marshal, and lodged in Eldridge street
jail, for violating an injunction by selling
sewing machines. On motion of George Gift
ford Esq, an attachment was granted by
Judge Smally, in the United States Court,
against the defendant, for selling sewing ma
chimes, in violation Of an Injunction issued
against him, on the patents owned by the
Whealer & Wilson Manufacturing Company,
and the Grover B Baker Sewing Machine
Company, and known as the sewing machine
feed patents Violating the order Of Courts
is rather a serious matter, as it renders the
offender liable to punishment by fine and i'm
prisonment.-NeID York Times.
Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1861-01-26
The - ID De West Anal.

Lieut.. Hail, Of the garrison of Fort Sum-
ter, says expressly that the reason the fort
did not fire on Fort MouItrie or Morris Island
when the Star Of the West was steaming in,
vas, Major Anderson did not know reinforce
ments had been sent. he could only just
perceive a large vessel, through the fog, it
being impossible TO know what her mission
was. Lieut.. Hall says
sThs men were all at the loaded guns, with
matches liEhted, expecting the word every
minute to Ere, but Major Anderson, after q
struggle With his feelings, withheld the order
70 hren
Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1861-01-26

Mr.. Etheridge Of Tenn, made a powerful
Union speech in Congress day before yester-
day, which has besa referred 70 by telegraph.
The following is his preroration;
Mr.. Leaks Dem, Va. asked whether Mr..
Etheridge was speaking on the side Of the
North or on the SIDE Of the South.
Mr.. Elheridge-I am speaking on that side
which has few representatives on the floor
I am speaking on the side Of my eountry.-
| + Applause Already in the South bold
men, educated men, chiValrous men, were
drilling and disciplinihg the military forces.
Men were excited with all the pomp and cir
cumstance Of war. Men believed that Lin
coin and his cohorts were going b the South
70 apply the torch to towns, and hamlets and
dwellings, and these things arose from South
ern Misrepresentation Of Northern men. To
allay this, 10 stop the tide OF revolution, he
would vote for the OFittenden propositions.-
BE would vote for the proposition he had
submitted himself he would vote for the re-
port of. the gentleman from Ohio, he
would vote for anything that Yves Of
any value, that had any principle, and
that would relieve the public mind from
the apprehensions that beset It. He hoped
Congress would effect something to stay the
tide Of revolution; but if nothing could be
done, as be said before, be would 90 before
the people, and throw himself into the dead
ly imminent breach, and would resist the
wave of disunion to the last And if the
worst came to the worst; if his State should
be dragged TO the brink Of the fearful preci-
piee, and be made an unwilling victim, it
would only be at the last moments Of his
countrys ruin. And now, in advance, he
washed his hands clear Of the shame and Of
the crime that will attach tothOse who would
overthrow public liberty, and raise q despot-
ism on its ruins. Wherever the flag Of his
country foated, there would be 90, and be
would cling to it in this, the dark hour Of
her peril, with all the sacred trust and conf
dense of an enthusiast elinging to his God
Applause
Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1861-01-26
Nswn ana nIIncailnnr.

Mr.. Bowlby Of the London Times, who
was killed by the Chinese, win live in the
history Of journalism, as be is the first cores
pondent of daily paper who has sreceived the
crown of martyrdom while engaged in his
professional duties in a distant land.
in the Massachusetts bank commission
er's report appears the answer of Boston
bank to the inquiry, What proportion Of
loans doyou charge exchange upon2' So much
candor in bank is a virtue somewhat rare,
for they answer curtly, 60 All we can"
Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1861-01-26

There Is aprospeet Of duel between Rep
resentatives Rust, Of Arkansas, and Dunn, Of
Indiana. Rust could not intmidAte Dunn,
and 50 challenged him. Potter will doubt
less lend Dunn bis.big bowie-knife, If Rust
comes up to the sticking point. Or, if they
use pistols, and Rust stands fire, he may End
himself under-Dunn, before the brOil is over.
Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1861-01-26

Mr.. Schleich's fifteen regiment bill has
passed the Ohio Senate BY a vote Of twenty
toalpyeR. ThsssTegimsue are NOS to exceed
e,800 men who are to be entitled to So each
per snnum Tor araOty expenses. The bin
win probubly pass She House.
Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1861-01-26

Adispaleh to the N. 7. Evening Post says
that Mr.. F. c. Trea5wsn Of New York, on
Saturday placed il the hands Of Chief Justice
TansN an affidavit charging ToOmbs, Cobb,
Floyd, Irepon and several Copgreasmen,
with treason and misprisOn Of treason.
Judge Taneg refused to issue any pro-
cess and the clerk OF the Supreme Court re-
turned the aRdaYib saying that the Chief
Justice had pronounced It an improper
paper.
Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1861-01-26

Andrew Roberts, Porter Kellogg and Lewis
stebbias, who woEo convicted last week,
mainly upon the testimony Of an accomplice,
OF the robbery Of safe, containing bank
bills and property valued at S25, 900, from
The Adains Ezprsu Company, have been
sentenced % ave yealB each in he Connsoticut
siais Prison.
Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1861-01-26

GALL THINGS TO ALL MEx.''-A greenish
fellow lately arrived at Springfield, H., from
North Carolina and astOnished the hotel clerk
By adding the word "AbOlihonist" to hil
usms upon the register. Being pumped, be
confessed that be supposed athey we're all alb
olitionists where Lincoln LIVED, ,rea0y to Lynch
any Southernsr,r and hence thought best
while being among the wolves, to assume the
-;,-s ~ one
Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1861-01-26

Nj. President elect viii leave SPFingSeldon
the nth Or 18th Of February for Washington
visiting, on his route the CapilOls ofIndian',
Ohio and Pennsylvania.
Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1861-01-26
1anI.Innn seceasion.

The ordinance Of secession has been re-
portsd to the Louisiana Convention, and
probably passed by this time. The sscedsrS
are. nevertheless, ready to continue certain
United States Laws.
Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1861-01-26
THE LATE COMMANDER AT PENSACOLA.

The prudent poor OF Charleston are just
now in bad plight The Savings Banks Of
that city has over two millions Of their money,
and they can't get a cent of it'll The Directors
say it is invested IN mortgages On city property
and in City and State Stocks--which can
only be turned into cash at ruinous sscrifcesl
Thus these chivalricre start cut by plume
dering the rich and robbing the poOrI
Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1861-01-26

Timothy Hesnan, father Of John G. Hee-
nan, the Benicia Boy, died at his residence in
Port Schuyler last Thursday. Mr.. Heenan has
been for many years in the employment Of the
United States Government st the Wstervlist
Arsenal.
Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1861-01-26

- Misdirected stamped envelopes may be
exchanged at the New York Post Office for
perfect ones, paying merely tbs original cost
Of the envelopes, Ie cents per 100.
Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1861-01-26
Papers throughout the State please oopy.I
Affairs At washington.
Special Dispatches to N. Y Tribune.
THE NTERcEPTIoN OF GOVERNMENT Dis
PATCHES.


THE NTERcEPTIoN OF GOVERNMENT DIS
PATCHES.
Lieutenant Saunders of the Army, who
was sent to Pensacola with dispatches, has
returned here and made an official report to
the Secretary of War conhrmatory of my
previous statement. As soon as he reached
/ the hotel there, two men at first approached
him. who were followed by others, and de-
manded the dispatches, which he refused to
surrender, saying be would rather burn them
in the presence of those assembled if force
was employed, than relinquish his trust
They were subsequently delivered to Com
modore Armstrong, from whom they were
taken and read. This is the manner in
| which the Government officials are treated by
these armed conspirators.
THE PRESIDENT WATERING AGAIN.
There is reason to believe that the Presi-
dent has modified his recent views, and is less
decided in his policy and tone. He is unim-
pressiole as to the extent and character Of
! threatening indications here and ct Baltimore;
and counsels con6dentially with some OF the
most notorious Secessionists in this city, who
are Federal oficeholders, and known to hold
peculiar relations of intimacy with the lead
| ing couspirators who originated the secession
| movement This confidence has been COM
planned Of but still continues, and excites
much resentment His Cabinet stand firm
and if there be any more serious signs of
yielding, another explosion may be expected.
Mr.. sLIDELL ON THE PRESIDENT.
In the course Of the recent debate on Mr.
Holfs nomination, Mr.. Sliiell charged the
President with deliberate deception and per
6dy in the grossest and most offensive terms,
and alleged that siK Senators stood ready to
prove that they conferred with him person
ally, before his message, concerning the South
Carolina Commissioners and the allegations
| it contained were shanefully false. He said
other things equally hard to bear.
Special Dispatch to the N 7. Times.
THE LATE COMMANDER AT PENSACOLA.
Cant. Armstrong, late Commandant at the
Pengacols Navy-yard, had personal inter
view with Secretary Toucey to-day, and de-
tailed the circumstances attending his sur
render. Official judgement is suspended till
a written report shall be made. He says be
only had twenty-three instead Of sixty men,
to oppose five hundred and fifty assailants so
resistance was useless. Not more than one
twentieth Of those employed in yard remain-
ed true to the Cove nment. The rumor that
CAPT. Farran was one of the attacking party
is untrue. lie was the Commander Of the
ward. and when the assailants demanded to
see Capt. Armstrong, Capt. Farran escorted
their officers to Capt. Armstrong; quarters.
This have frop an officer who was present.
Lieut.. Renshaw's resignation had been &C
cepted prior to the transaction.