Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1862-10-01
UNlON STATE TIeKET.
The Downfall Of sInvery.


This withering curse, abhorred Of God
aad man, carrying with it load Of sin
sufficient to sink any nation and any peo-
pie, is, thanks to the sins of the traitors,
soon to be crushed out and the full grown
nan is now living who will see the time,
and that soon, when the footstep of slave
viii press no part of free America when
the flag Of the Union will be the fag.of the
free, and the United States, covering the
whole Of North America, viii be in truth,
as it is in song, the free hearts home.
Thus does heaven work out its own pur-
poses for good, and the sins of the traitors
will be the means of showing to the world
a Republic of freemen-the Great Republic
Of the West without a slave
Three years ago the man who dreamed
this would come to pass, or slavery be
wiped cut under the four years admins
tration Of Abraham Lincoln would have
been deemed fitted for a straight jacket or
lunatic asylum. Yet men there were
men Of sound mind and honesth hearts, who
not only dreamed but believed, and verify
they can now rejoice for they have seen their
country redeemed from its foulest disgrace
its deadliest curse, and the model Republic
Of the earth purified as if by fire, and the
shaekles burst from the limbs of FIVE
millions of human beings and they made
to assume their rightful station among the
freemen of the earth.
For this great blessing-fOr this change
which less than three years has brought
about, we may thank the frmness, the homes
ty, and the manly good sense Of Abraham
Lincoln, who, discarding the "pale cOun-
sellOrs to fear, has given vent to the out
gushing honesty and good sense Of his ma
ture, and thus rid the country of the
greatest curse that ever befel a nation by
proclaiming liberty throughout all the
land and to all the inhabitants thereof, by
a wise and fortunate recurrence to the
self-evident truth that all men, created in
the image of God, have endowed them and
theirs with the "inalienable rights to
life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness"
and this doctrine, which, incorporated in
the Declaration of Independence by the
patriots of 1776, is now for the first time
asserted and maintained in practical use
by deelarer Of independence, worthy as
the first, and scarce, if at all, inferior to it,
in the high hopes of freedom which it
brings with it-freedom 10 a race despised
and trampled upon, and their God given
rights Invested by a base, sOrdid, and
grasping slave oligarehy.
As the proclamation flies with lightning
speed to all parts Of the Union, it will show
that at last the Government is true to its
traditions, and true to its promises, and
soon will slavery live but in the remem-
brance of its enormities and Of the
hearthstones it has robbed and the
misery, rapine and other wrongs 1t
has caused Who that has a sense of
right-a heart to feel or a soul in which
the seeds Of right were planted, will not
giVepraise to the proclamation, and to the
noble, the generous, and the rightful mo-
tives that prompted it? In the Language
Of correspondent of the New York Tri-
bune, from one end of the country to the
Other-wherever honesty, truth, justice
or right has an abiding place, the people,
with heartfelt feelings, cry "GOD BLESS
ABRAHAM LINCOLN