Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1862-01-27

The State and the Federal Government,
The resolutions on federal relations intro
duced into the Ohio Senate by Mr. Finck, being
cold and impassive in sentiment, q mere
modification of the Crittenden resoludons,-
the true feeling of Ohio towards the General
Government and its absorbing anxiety to
put down the rebellion, having this solely fO-
its object and not the feelings and wishes Of
the rebels and their Northern sympathizsrs,
were likely TO be misunderstood. It was to
neutralizs such effect as this that Mr.. Non
roe, of Lorsin, introduced the following res
olutions. There Is scarcely q doubt that
these resolutions reflect the true sentiment of
the majority in Ohio;
RelOgUed, 6y the General Assem6Iy o. ths
s ate Of Ohio, That this General Assembly,
anxious TO throw the whole weight of its
influence on the side of the Federal Govern
ment in the contest with rebellion in which
that Government is now engaged, agree up
on the following deliberate declaration Of
sentiment:
/. The reasonable warfare which is now
waged by the disloysl inhabitants of the
Southern States against the Union and the
Constitution, is waged against a beneseent
and indalgeut Government, and has .ts ORR
gin in a wicked and reckless ambition. TIE
cause of constitutional freedom for this coun-
| try, the cause of christian civilization for
this continent and the hope of Liberty for the
world, demand that this armed treason should
nV- Pa down; and to aid the Federal Gov
eminent in doing this the people of tie State
OF Ohio do now, as they have done heretofore
| pledge 10 that Governmeut, hv word and
deed, all their moral, financial and physical
resources.
Il. While we hold, as we have ALWAYS held
that the Constitution confers no power upon
the Federal Government, in times of peace
and general loyalty, to emancipsts slsTeE
within the States; yet we also hold that when
traitors have lifted up parricidal weapons
against the life of the country, no claim
which such men may put forth to property in
slaves, or any other property, should stand
in the way of the success of our armies and
the triumphant planting Of eur flag IN every
part of the land.
III. The bill relating TO the topics en-
brRced in the foregoing resolution, recently
reported to the Senate of the United States
from the Judiciary Committee of that body,
by Senator Trumbull, of Illinois, meets with
our cordial appreciation, as being wise, mod
crate, warranted by the exigeneies of the
contest and strictly conformable to the Con-
stitution.
". We regard with anxious alarm the
evidences which have reached Us o. waste
fulness, fraud and peculation among some of
the subordinate agents of the Federal Gov
eminent; we rejoice at the indications of q
determination on the part of the Legislative
and Executive Departments to discover and
| punish the perpetrators Of these crimes +;
and we trust that that determination will
never slacken until these grievous and
disbeartening abuses are thoroughly re-
formed.
V. The Governor Is srequeSted to forward
forthwith copies of the foregoing resolutions
to the President Of the nation, and to the
Senators and Representatives in Congress
from this State, to be By them presented to
each branch of the National Legislature,