Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1862-12-10


English papers and functionaries, in pour
ing out, with such lavish hand, their relief
for the starving operatives who have been
aided grudgingly, if at all, by the caPi-
talists Of their own country. Alta smeeting
of the Produce Exchange of New York on
Saturday, the contributions poured in with
generous abundance. &. P. Buck 8 Co.
offered to carry one thousand barrels of
-four to Liverpool free of fexpense. Thur
low Weed contributed one thousand dol
lars. All classes were interested. A
oaulker offered TO seal the ship free Of
charge. A lighterman offered to lighter
one hundred barrels Of -four, and SO the
contributions flowed in from the poor as
well as the rich.
At late relief meeting in England, Mr..
Bailey, Member Of Parliament said, ait
was feared by those most competent to
form an opinion on the subject, that if The
present state of things were prOtraCted,
not less than 10000 people would be de-
pending on the poor rates and public
bounty. Two years ago the peo-
pie were making their investments in the
savings banks and paying their monthly
installments to building societies. From
the former their deposits had been drawn.
In the latter their little contributions had
been forfeited, owing to their not having
been able to pay up. NOtwithstand-
ing all that, the sufferers were to be found
in their humble homes offering up hymns
of thanksgiving and praise. They
did not want aims. What they wanted
was work"
At the meeting in New York, the follow
ing eloquent remarks were made by Rev.
Theodore L. Cuyler of Brooklyn:
aGEErLEurEx OF TIE PRODUCE ExcH4EGE:
shall be very brief, for the best buyers in
this room make the shortest speeches.
proposal has just been made by your Pres
ident to divide the big loaf, which our
Heavenly Father has this year given us,
with our starving brethren across the
water. This measure commends itself TO
us an act of simple justice to our friends.
The bleeding heart Of Lancashire is with
us. Whatever be the opinions of kings or
of emperors, of statesmen or aristocrats,
the laboring masses of Europe are with US
in our death-grapple for popular liberty.
Last Summer, when q meeting of the op-
eratiTes was held in a town Of Lancashire,
and q proposal was made to petition the
Government for intervention, the noble
fellows said No Americas battle is our
battle. We will suffer, and, if need be,
starve, rather than TO hinder a nation that
is fighting for the rights Of labor and for
universal freedom. Shall such men be al
lowed to suffer2 God forbid while our
granaries are full to bursting. Let this
gift 20 abroad among the tOiling masses Of
the Old World as a slight return for the
strong arms they have sent US to uphold
our national standard in our hour of strug-
gle for the Union and Liberty. Applause
"Again: 1 advocate this as a l0ar meas
ure. Yesterday a vast expedition left our
beautiful harbor under the command Of
that little iron man General Banks. Ap-
plause.1 whittier it is bound none of US
will know until we hear the echo of his
guns; but l pray God that he may not re-
uuNll u Nlt6E1luu1ClA6 arm HAS re
placed the blessed old flag on the ramparts
eff Fort Sumter. Applause. Now let us
fit out another expedition for peaceful con-
guest. Let us accept the new ship offered
by the splendid iberality Of the Griswolds
that vessel which viii yet float in his
tory beside the craft that Henry GrinneIl
sent on the search for Sir John Franklin.
Let US load her up with the produce of our
prairies, until there is not enough for
another sack of grain or even a red her
ring. Then run up the stars and stripes
and send her right over in the track Of the
accursed pirate Alabama Send her to
Liverpool, the hot-bed of secession sym
pathies-to the same city in which e40,-
600 were subscribed in one week to
help JEFF. Davis's atroeious conspiracy.
Lay her alongside those magnificent docks,
and let her open-not her batteries but
her butteries, discharging one hundred
bags of bacon every hourl Let her pour
broadside of -four barrels-each barrel
aimed at hungry mouths in the abode of
poverty. CApplause. And when Liver
pool has been thoroughly sacked with sacks
of grain, and bOmbarded with barrels Of
four-when the golden grain has been
poured out without money and without
price, then, if John Bull is not conquered,
1 shall have no faith in Gospel gunnery
loud applause. In the teeth Of our en-
emies and slanderers, let us hurl back
noble act ofchristian magnanimity.
"Mr. Cuyler then gave beautiful Jew
ish tradition Of two brothers who met one
night with sheaves of wheat in their
hands-each going to place his sheaf on
his brothers stack So, said he, let Young
America with her sheaf meet British phi
lanthropy with its sheaf; and as on the
place where those two Hebrew brothers
met it is related that Solomon's temple was
built; so let us on the spot Of our common
meeting build up temple of brotherhood
where Britons and Americans will swear
to be true 10 each other and to the sacred
rights Of freedom and humanity God
sPeed that ship r Applause.
An appeal was adopted to the American
people, setting forth the call that humanity
makes upon us, in behalf Of those suffer-
ing operatives who are compelled, without
fault of their own, to face an enemy more
fearful than war wequoJe Une TU1r0wing
from that appeal, which was signed by
such men as John C. Green, Geo. Opdyke,
H. B. ClaAin, Peter Cooper, R. B. Min
turn, George W. Blunt, and others Of equal
prominence
HLet us not be unmindful at this mo-
ment Of the responsibilities imposed upon
us by the munifcence of the Ruler of na-
tions, nor permit our sorrows and burdens
to lead us to forget, or to undervalue, the
peculiar duties that belong to our position.
Our agricultural efforts, extended over a
wide and fertile territory, as yet thinly
populated, have made our land one Of the
granaries to which the nations Of Europe