Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1862-02-05

Words, 4 be has opportunity. He said;
When think Who caused this var
feol Ike hend. When ] think that the
men who have been the Cabinet Officers
the Senators, the Congressmen, the Gener.
als, the CcloRels; when think that the
very men who, for twenty years, have fat
tened on this Government, are ROW raising
their hands 10 strike 1t down. feel like
taking them ell By Che throat-like throt-
ding and strsngling them al.
For aquarter Of century have been
an sstor IN public affsirs, and during eli
that time have seen twenty millions ct
the North governed and controlled by six
millions ct the South. And no matter how
extravagant The demand made by any one
Of these lords Of the lash, he had only to
rise in his seat and 10 say; Mr.. Speaker,
unless this request Is granted We shall se-
code" and The Hotspur gained q submis.
sive aOquiesOenoe.
If any one should say to the South, C We
VIII acknowledge your independence"
Wodld it secure peace to as for day 2
Never. But viii tell you what it would
do. Il would write eoparF in burning
letters on The forshsad Of every free man,
ami hand over 70 our children q war which
Ws-ought to end ourselves. Ny children
may call me everything else, but they shall
never call ne coward. War, war, perpe-
tually, until the North is conquered by the
South. or the South is conquered BY the
North. There are class Of persons who
want 70 close this war, and permanently,
but they want 70 fight in such q way that
the slaves shal not be free. 10 carry out
this policy, you must fight without killing
anybody. For If you kill q master tho
slaves will escape, Until the last ten
days the policy has been to hght 50 as not
70 hurt Slavery.
The only way to close this var is to
fight, and to fght everything that stands
In the way CEuell / remember vel,
shortly sftsr the battle Of Bnena Vista,
report came into Che camp that a party Of
Mexican men, women and children had
Been butohered in the mountains. / Was
ordered out with detachment Of men, snd
brought in forty or fifty mutilated bodies,
and reported to Gen. Taylor that they were
butchered by the Csmsnches. No one ever
Questioned Gen. TayloF's goodness Of heart
or his skin aE soldier, but he replied
The Oamanehes seem 10 be lighting on the
Z same side Ne er6s We won't interfere
with them" Now, baTbsrism Of the most
terrible character has marked every step
Of this war as Waged By the rebels. l
don't say I would call in the OamAnches,
abut do ssy ihat il would not pain me to
see the negro handling the gun, and l
believe the negro may just as well became
1Good for powder es my SON. For twenty
years / wss q respectable member Of the
Democrats party.
A Voice-I' Not very respeotable.D
Well, I mean IS respectable as any mem-
ber Of that party can be. Even in 1852 |
vas still Democrat, when cur party 81
Baltimore declared that ell other subjects
might be agitated, but Slavery was sacred
We might q agitatep the Word Of God
Gagitste" His Law, "agitate' the COLDER
estreets Of the golden city-but before slay
cry we must bow our faces in silencs-i
wa too sacred to be talked about. hav'
lost that reverence, and 80 much progress
have made that would not give one drOl
Of the blood of the humblest soldier within
the sound Of my voice to save Slavery from
eternal perdition.
We have lost Just men enough for th
preservation Of Slavery, have made Wid
oWs enough, orphans enough.
Go yonder to that fierce fought battl
ground at Springfield. There out of tEel7
hundred, Eve hundred and seventy kille
and wounded Kansas has offered u
- b bleod to this Moloch, and 30 hi
every other State. And thank God OF
Government Is satisfied that the war hl
4 gone along far enough in that direotiol
Who feeds this rebellion Four milliS
slaves. Who clothes this rebellion2 Fol
million slaves. Tskethem from that side 81
put them on this side. Applauss]
they we're mules you would do it in mi
ate. And yet I think man is worth me
70 the enemy than mule.
Ths new Secretary of War has turnC
over q new leaf a healthy public sent
ment, created by God himself, compell
that statesman 70 publish to the army /:
ssHenoeforth your business is to sttaC
pursue and destroy the enemy Eomc
taking Of the oath; no more swearing in
the rattlesnake. Why, to my csrta
knoWledee, the rebels over here in MissoV
have been sworn over FIVE times, and tb
sre rattlesnakes yet The true Wsy.
close this rebellion Is to detaoh the Il
million slaves Amsn ssys, nLane, # }
do that won't yon make them free ~ Or
GodI Whist terrible calamity Evi
slsye within this Government is destlI
10 be free; God has SO determined. q
plsuse ana
So teFrlao is'the crime Of these traitor
care not who involves them in ruin {
death. Let us teach them that trea
against this Government is crime Rgai
God as vel es against man. care
whether the punishment is inflicted on
bsttle hsld, on the galloWs, or from
brush by negro. Deathi death
brushes out this terrible rebellion l.
our children remember that the punishm
of treason is DEATH d 1ar.
Why, see here, Il almost unmans ne
hear peorle talk about the constitute
RIGHTS" Of States in rebellion, Of States J
side Of the Constitution. The consi
tional rights's Of South Carolina aa
- Godl wonder how long 1t will be be
Kansas is called upon to return fugi
slave to South Carolina, or to lhisSoul
When the Kansas man Is called upo
return a sieve let him remember the
hundred and seventy dead and WOund'
Springfield, charged up to the aocou
the State Of Missouri DO you love
nas, love your wife and homef See
that Missouri is free. If you l5Vs
things see to Il that there is not
left there thirty days hsDces -r=al O.
believe it is-the business Of Re
srsIssigely, With the sSllant assistanI
Niaoonsin, Illinois Ohio, and -aiha5f53i
nlt0 be -TeprsGe seated here, to IRE
sIsvss west Of Aitairri. Oh, "
thTiIl Of delight would run through
oSantry, 70 hear Kansaa declare that
tier slavery nor involuntary serl
saslI exist within The Boundaries Of
en5. Laving made the declaration q
- tbrouEb. That httle ooleny pi
heFs IN '6a fEoed Kansas, thsn ohei