Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1862-02-14
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In The Congressional proceedingef the 81
ina. M apd the following:

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inst We End the following:
''Er Carlile presented petition numer-
o1aly signed By citizens Of B1stOu, asking
-es Congress to let the negro question slons and
attend 70 tie business Of the country"
TIE blindness and intense stupidity Of GER
ala ''eitiIeDs7 not only Of Boston, but Of the
eouaty at large, upon the negro question, is
anaEing. In their consunate Ignorance and
ovsrwsening PrO-slavery prOclivites they lose
ell sight Of common sense, and make Of
, fhemsslves fools. ''Let the dsgrO question
donsF Why not all the resolutions which
each Individual Member Of Congress cO7ld
make to himself from sunrise to sunrise to
Isuofe the negro question could suppress it
L VIl not sdoVn' At any mans bidding or
e. any body's command. This same insipid
protest agsins. the agitation Of the slavery
question has been made times without num-
Der within the past ten years, and yet where
& The instance Of convention, q Congress
@a political class meeting where it has not
made he appearance. The country debat-
ing society win pass resolution that slavery
aFiation is disastrous to the welfare Of the
esunsry, and ct the next meeting the ques-
Ion for discussion viii be the comparative
wrongs Of the negro and the Indian. The
county caucus Of Democrats or prOfessed Re
puhlicans who delight to call themselves
seonserTatiTes," viii resolve that they
have no part nor lot with the negro-sg-
itating Hradicals," and in the next breath
thsy declare that they will defend the South
in her efforts to fasten slavery upon the Ter
a- rltories. And the Gubernatorial or Presi-
dental Convention which has just pat nom
agitation plank in its platform, win listen
with uproarious delight to the stump orator
who burlesques the peculiarities Of the col
ored race. No bstter success is had in Con-
gress, for the very ones who shisk the loudest
Na for letting slavery alone, viii be the first to
compliment the tyraDiEing officer who first
AoRs and then sends to his master the painting
Rugiti7s.
aLst the negro question sloner' L can't
be done, and will not be done until the doom
Of slavery is sealed with that of the rebellion.
Slavery is the cause of this war, and while
the war lasts the cause til come up Where
there is no slavery, there is no rebellion, and
wherever our srmies march to crush out trea-
sOn they 6nd the question Of slavery forcing
itself upon them. NO more seuselesg demand
was ever made from man to man, than this
ons to let the negro and slavery alone. As
well tell the storm. tossed sailor, who is
Struggling for a safe harbor for his weather
beaten ship, to LtpatsT al0As, and to conquer
81 The wind and make the haven without the
iliehtesf reference to the waves which are
under and around and about him. Congress
misht insanely legislats to-day to have no
more to do with the negro question hence
10 firth and forever more 90 might eonclave
Of doctors sOlemnly resolve to say no more,
Do no more, think no more Of scarlet fever,
o. the sma1-pOx but the tsbood subject would
no more surely be ierced upon the medical
congress, than It would be upon the nstional
legislature and # the members should viii
fully refuse to treat the case thus thrust upon
hsm, the people would put their cases into
The bands Of new practitioners as certainly
IN the one aase as in the other.
MOL We have had no policy long enough
Let our national representatives meet the
issus fearlessly and prescribe for it boldly
Let them apply the remedy of emancipation
Of the slaves Of rebels, and Of enrolment Of
blacks into the service Of the United States
tor bssnsured, the negro question can never
.s- be ist alene while rebel masters can clank
The chains Of their bOndaged victims and
While Federal generals exercise their own
discretion as to how many lashss the fugitive
who comes 70 their lines shall receive.
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