Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1862-08-26

store the deposits before discovery, and
dreaded good deal Of i'll treatment from
her husband in case Of failure. She cor
reotly calculated that her husband would
not proceed to absolute murder. These men
worked upon the Rpprehensions of sus-
oeptible people, we'll knowing that their
stock Of knowledge was insufficient
either 10 moderate their rage or TO
detect the Imposition. They terri
fed their dupes with vain fears Of
On impossible evil, and wholesale mag
sacres have been the result, in countries as
much under-peOpled and in as much need Of
laborers as Spain was, when rufian bands
were let loose upon the Moors and Jews.
OF course they did not in direct catagori-
col terms incite their dupes 10 outrage.
Skillful abettOrs never do that They only
employed every means Of irritation, either
actual or fictitious; they only applied the
most potent stimulants to the malignant
passions, until the result became ineVita-
Bile Fact, fiction, prophecy, prediction,
so the work Of hate goes on; these men
seem laudably Indifferent to the agent and
agency, Oh if this world is ever to be
other than a great temple of MOloch, men
must refrain from doing evil that good may
come Of it, either in the election Of one
ticket or the rejection Of another. But
party hacks will not refrain. Then we
must teach them that if they choose to be
sedueers we do not choose TO be dupes. All
these partizan tactics were exemplifed at
the late meeting at indianapolis, by Wick
life, Richardson and Carlile. How ear
nestly were the people there exhorted TO be
.oIG n o1 Lo-I o-I poo1fna Wkak
earnest appeals were made TO all their low
animal passions. Now l venture to sug-
gest that these men were not pointing
the people of Indiana on the way to happi-
ness. In order to be happy, states and
communities must be brave, just, generous,
benevolent, and above all, compassionate
to the weak and helpless. The vices are oil
sociable-where one is found all the rest
may be expected.
Make a man rufian, selfish rufian,
and you do your utmost to accomplish his
earthly perdition. Having indulged his
cruelty on a weak competitor, his next
step will be to indulge his sensuality in
low debauchery. No bright prospects of
honor and opulence await such man.
Thousands of the present capitalists Of
Ohio were once laborers, working for
wages scanty indeed, if compared with the
present standard But in the period of
youth and hardship, they were not per-
suaded to join in rufian mobs, to WELD
bludgeons, and hurl boulders at the heads
of the weak and unfortunate and now in
the evening Of life, they enjoy a rich re-
ward
It is remark of Sydney Smyth, that
we can bear the calamities and miseries of
our neighbors, with remarkable degree
of philOsophic cOmposure. 1t is easy for
men of narrow minds and unfeeling
tempers, like the above mentioned orators
at indianapolis, to feign or fix up an in
compatibility of interest between two
races, and then decide the question in their
own favor, as the superior race, that is, the
race having the most brute force at com
mand. To such men history, with her
warning voice, speaks in vain. With the
slightest possible variation of circum-
stances, they are ready to recommend, to
their deluded followers, the same crimes,
which have proved pernicious to all
nations so unfortunate as to put them in
practice. The horrible cruelties inflicted
by the Spartans on the Helots, by the
Romans on their blue-eyed, fair haired
slaves, by the Spaniards on the Moors and
Jews, are now universally condemned.
No writer, in our language, speaks of them
at present, without q manifestation Of
horror and disgust. Yet the Sparatns,
the Romans and the Spaniards were gov
erned by motives of the most intense sell
fshness, and by feelings of the most inef-
fable contempt towards the races whom
they oppressed, But SStheir selfshness is
now discovered to have been unwise, for
it only paved the way for unspeakable,
national calamities; and their contempt
was ill-directed, for the miserable wretches,
so often lacerated by the Roman Seourge,
were of the self-same race with the highest
and haughtiest, modern nations Of Europe
and America. Imost freely and cheerfully
acquit Messierus Wicklife, Richardson and
Carlile, of all tincture of classical learning,
we might be tempted to suppose
them deeply read in ''anoient lore andthat
they had "conned by rote the whole vO-
of Greek and Roman and Spanish
arrogance and hate. But can
remind them Of some Anglo Saxon msxims,
tance they seem to have forgotten. "Resis-
tance to tyrants is always obedience to
God" Nothing morally wrong can ever
be truly expedient. GLENDALE.