Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1861-02-09


box TO san ition such proposition, much less
agree n give Il additional guarantees, and
make Il perpetual by an amendment 10 the |
Consultation. This immense moral power,
with all the civilized and Christian world 20 I
sympsthizs with It welded peacefully and
eonstitutiouhlly, as ! trust il ever viii be
against slavery, cannot fall eventually TO
put il in the course Of ultimate extinction;
and ere long the citizens Of the SlsTe States,
in their ow1Esay, will put away this evil and
wrong from among them. This is the faith
and hope Of the Republican party, and, as ]
have said before, / win keep this faith, or
none.
II however, civil war is forced upon the
nation for the purpose Of extending and max
ing slavery perpetual, be must indeed be blind
who does notses that thesystem win 80 out
in blood. Twenty Eve million people, who
not only have no interest in slavery, but
whose pecuniary interests are against II, ss
well as their political and religious views, win
never submit to the dictation Of privileged
class numbering less than half million.
Sod in His mercy, avert the catastrophe Of
civil and servile war. But II It must come,
pray that the doom Of slavery, which viii
be inevitable, may not also prove the doom Of
the slave masters; that We may not see re-
| enacted, in any part Of our country, the
bloody horrors ofSt Domingo; for as jefferson
said, d the Almighty has no attributes that
can take sides with the slave masters in such
q contest
Mr.. Chairman, if it were possible for the
people Of the United States 70 permit the
Union to be dissolved, and allow southern
eoufederacy to be formed, il would lIe s con
federated despotism more intoleiant than any
Government OF the 18th century. Those who
have heretofore been the boosted champions
of what they have been pleased to call Demo
| cracy, do not hesitate AOW to declare in case
Of the establishment Of q southern confsder-
sey, that everything like Democracy is 10 be
ignored. Popular government is failure Z
exclaim the leaders of this southern reyolu-
ton, who, until now, have been loudest in
deelaiming for the sovereignty of the people,
Popular government is a failnrel respond the
united disunion Democracy. Popular gov
| ernment is a failure is eel oed back BY many
Of the 50 called conservatives, who, few
months ago were clamorous for the pre-
serFation of the Union and the enforcement
of the laws Popular government IS q
failure say the slave masters, who sre at
tempting TO establish slave empire, and
insist that government must be established
which shall prohibit free speech and free
press; for with them these are also q failure.
Popular government is a failure shout this
band OF cOnspirators of the former political
parties and all religious ereeds who unite in
demanding tnat strong military govern
ment shall be established, excluding all from
a voice in its deliberations who have not 9
pecuniary interest in maintaining the in
stitution ofslaYery.
They desire a GovernmentiE which the
slave master shall govern as the Bourbons
in Europe claimed to have governed, by the
grace Of God, and tnat the poor whites shall
submit And, as / said in some remarks
which I made upon this subject at the last
session. this despotism will have to be resis-
ted, " or the poor whites Of the South will be
disiranchised, then classed socially as they
are to-day, to a great extent, with the serVile
race, and at last they and their children will
be melted down in the slave population for
ever" Fhe men who are seeking the des-
truehon OF this Union and toe establishment
of such government are the identical men
who, for the past twenty-five years. have
dictated the policy, controlled the political
action Of ali their conventions, and finally
destroyed the old Democratic party in all the
free States What wonder that the northern
wing Of this old party should have been re-
pudiated BY the people, when their leaders
surrendered to the demands of this slave in
terest, and while protesting Democracy aband-
on the principles Of Jefferson, and Joined in
an effort to make this slave empire
Thomas S. Grimke, of Sooth Carolina, one
of the nOblest and truest of men, in 3 speech
ofgreat power and eloquence, while denounc.
ing the notification movement Of Calhoun
in 1888, referred to the certainty Of slave in
surrections, as also the ultimate loss Ofiiberty
to the poor whites in case Of civil war, which
he regarded as certain to follow an attempt
. to enforce the doctrines of notification. He
said:
"These insurrectons would be followed
by depreciation Of property, not only in
negroes, but Of all kinds Of wealth. and Of
the same time the necessities of war would
require an amount Of taxation that could be-
enforced only by a military Government
under which even the Liberties Of the whites
would soon perish"
II there is disunion and civil war 1t will
be no fault Of the northern people. If there
should be ssrvile instructions, the people Of
the free States cannot be Justly charged with
lHeLllAZ NAINLa IL VIII la Tie AhulL VI AAe
very men who IN their madness to sustain
slavery, have infamed not only the minds O.
the whites, but of the slave population alse.
A traveller returning to France under the
reign Of Louis XVI after an absence Of many
years, was asked what changes be found. =
I +" "Nothing, be answered, asaFe that the
people are now saying in the streets what
was formerly only said at the dinner table,
o and inthe draWing-rooms Of the leading mer
( in Paris"
! The traveller wac right. aThs idea 0
& liberty had gone down to the people. Phi
losophy, in deep and thrilling voice, had
: told the injured oftheir rights as men; It haG
reminded them Of their many CALLING wrongs
Habit still made them suffer in silence; bu
the seeds Of future vengeance were sown
That vengeance was the French revolution.
The slaves in the South, waiting upon
their masters at the dinner tables, at the poll
teal meetings, indeed everywhere, hear thI
Republican party denounced snd Mr.. Lincoln
called their frte ID. They hear their master!
/. declare that he IS TO liberate them By force i
4 necessary, and place them on a aocial and
d political equality with the whitss The SLAVE
= ostches up their thoughts vague notions O
a freedom take possession Of him; be meditatei
= upon is be communicates u nom cabin 70
+ cabin, from plantation to plantation; and
3 thus are the reeds Of insurreciion soWn By
the slave masters and insurrectious in tiTn'
E are sure to follow, whether the southern State
are in or on Of the Union.
But Mr. Chairman, am asked how pro
l. pose TO adjust our present difficulties. an
swer, by accommodating ourselves 70 thl
2 logic Of events by yielding to that which i
inevitable, and obeying the deliberately ex
pressed viii Of the nation. The people o
the United States are not only tined, but dis
), gusted with these everlasting diplomatic
r tEieks called Compromised patched mp By
Shareholders and political quaeks on the oni
1 side, and commercial timidity and northern
i hunkeyism on the other We have hst
enough O. these crafty tricks. which havC
decided nothingj which, instead Of settling
/, tbs dimculty, have r0stp0ns trtfo avvraVstl