Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1862-07-22
TrensopnbIy opposinr Rnilstments.


The Ashland Union, in noticing the
passage Of the ConhsoatiOn Bill, says;
aThe object Of the war is now plainly
ennunciated. Our soldiers are to fight for
niggers. Three hundred thousand more men
are wanted for this purpose. You that
desire it, you that are satisfied with the
purpose, should now enlist at once"
II the town Of Ashland or the State Of
Ohio were under martial law, would not
any paper be suppressed that published
such an article as that against enlist
ments2 Il is a direct attempt to prevent
any addition to the army, and is on par
with the Dayton Empires regrets that
Hon. H. J. Iewett, its last years candi-
date for Governor, should go upon the
stump with GOV. Dennissn to encourage
enlistmsnts But, fortunately, neither of
these papers represent the loyal sentiment
Of Ohio, The intelligent men and women
who make up the Buckeye State, do not
accept such traitorous counselors. They
know that il is base misrepresentation
to say that the object Of the war is to free
the negroes. II that should be one of the
results, all truly loyal citizens, and all
lovers of freedom and justice would rejoice
exceedingly that SO great a crime had been
wiped away from the account of the nation,
but to say that it was an object of the war
is to say what the utterers know to be false.
It is indisputable that the war has been
conducted for year and more with ten
der solicitude that slavery should not be
harmed or touched. The policy Of non-in-
terventiOn in the peculiar institutions Of
the South has been most thoroughly and
completely tried and under it the rebellion
was not put down. From the first we
opposed the tenderness that has
been shown for slavery, but diff
erent counsels have prevailed up
to this time, and so completely has been
the avoidance of any assaults upon slavery
by the powers in authority, that the cry
that the Federals were making war upon
slavery has died out Of even the Southern
press. A year ago and their papers were
full of charges of "abolitionism" against
President Lincoln and the Union army, but
of late ali these charges have been trans
ferred from Southern sources to Northern
from the papers Of Richmond, Charleston
and New Orleans to such Democratic jour
nails of the North as the N, Y. Herald, Ohio
Statesman, Cincinnati Enquirer, Chicago
Times, and others of that ilk The rebels
themselves have actually been shamed out
of such assertions; the proclamations and
orders of certain of our generals have shown
them that the day for such charges has
gone by. But the Northern Democratic
prints, even less honorable than some of
their Southern cOadjutOrs, still harp upon
the same string and grind out the same old
vail of an abolition war
Both the people and the army know how
to value such charges. They know that
this war was begun with the restoration of
the Union as its basis and object. They
know, too, that the rebels have constantly
and persistently thrust the negro question
into the war; that it has been forced upon
every General in the field, and placed be-
fore every private for an opinion and de-
cision. And it is because these officers and
soldiers, thus brought face to face with the
monster Of slavery, are daily becoming ab-
Olitionized, that we now hear such moan
ings by the apostles Of the sacradness of
Gov. Ted Requested 70 Oaer a Bounty 70
Volunteers.
The City Council Of Cincinnati on Fri
day adopted the following resolution, which
was tslsgraphed to Gov. Tod:
ResOEve9 By the CITY Of Cincinnati unaai-
HoHsly, That David Tod, Governor of the
State Of Ohio, be requested to offer bounty
Of $50 for each Of Ia forty thousand vol
unteers to be raised by the new levy, and
should he not like to take the responsible
ity, that in that event he communicate by
telegraph with each member of the Legis-
lature, asking to be sustained in doing so.