Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1862-04-12

This Fsntleman, known throughout the
United States ns au abolitlonst, nAdei IN |
Cleveland On WsanaadAy evening, speech
upon the waf. TbOse Who were 90 fortunate
As 70 hear i we're ready 70 give to i'a author |
a galaxy Of sounding titles. BE who can hold
ussll.bsuud q large audience for nearly two
hours, while with the Plainest and diEeotesi
iaot he amuses and instruets
them, must be an orator, He who 81 this
time when brave men are lighting gallanuy |
for the hGg they love, csn talk Of them and |
Of their cause and enlist the sympathy and
cali down the applause Of an auditory COM
posed Of earnest and intellectual men, must
be 4 patriot He who can draw comParisons
between the doihss Of nations for ell Of e
century, and form opinions which are on.
deys6a By the leading men Of the age, and
urge claimsWhiCh, as civilization advances,
the sober sense Of the time acknowledges IS
praSieablS, must b . statesman. i
Now Mr. Phillips is furthermore scholar,
dnan van Faak, had bteauss oi travel and
culture, one Of ths best informed men in
America. It Is most true that be has given
his Life powers to the constant war upon
slavery, and that be has become most Obnox-
lOus to thsslavehOlaers of the South and tho
pssndO,D ,Demoorstio party, which is ssmi-Be-
ceaionistic, Of the North. The men who ever
held that slavery should GO where 1t pleased,
and refused 70 read OF 70 hear read in the
right manner the clause 10 the Constitution
giving to Congress the right to prohibit itin
the Territories, as matter Of cOurss must
very much dislike the man who would not
have It go there but whosWOuld dissolve the
Union rathef than that is should remain in.
trsnched where It is. Every man has right
to bis opinion. Mr.. Phillips thinks that it
was the intsntion Of the founders of this gov
eminent 10 keep slavery tor time, because
they could not, IS the5 thought, at once aP9l-
iSh it. he thlpks that they should have dene
50 at any cost. he also thinks they hoped
and believed that in few years it would be
entirely abolished AS the Constitution,
however, protected an evil and disgrace, he
has honestly fought against it. ROtO, he
thinks slavery must die, and be thanks
heaven that It made Beauregard, if It did,
because by the sid of the New York Herald,
and the Journal Of Commerce, and Albsny
Argus and other neiarious sheets, the ally
people Of the South have followed some am
bilious leaders to make war upon the Gag Of
freedom. As slavery must die, as the old
fossils who play poker, and drink whisky,
and sell negroes, and swear what they call
politics in cheap bsF-rooms ali over the
South, must also die; IS the poor white man
and the free black man must rejoice when the
Flag Of Liberty, meaning liberty, floats over
New Orleans; as Weiare to have Union
Of States, all OF which must of choice be
loyal, Mr.. Phillips reioices, and like All good
sensible men puts that Union hrst calls thSi
country great and true, and happy, and sayE
g il does justice 90 shall it reap reward.
There are men who from choice stay SWAY
when Mr., Phillips presents home truths
. which interfere sadly with their preiudiceE
and their party love- They say they are in fa
vOr Of free speech They don't like to bepre-
vented from talkiag. They don't object to
hear arYancey and Mason talk Southern DemOc-
racy. They would not exactly throw eggss 81
Mr. Phillips, but theydon't very much blame
the Democrats in Cincinnati who did. They
think perhaps that they love the Union, and
90 they dO-one kind Of UniOn-a Unior
ruled by James Z. Polk OF James Buchanan
or any sound Democrat; but not Union
struggling to Be Fl ee and to make free; no
t Union presided over BY Republican Pres
idenk because, they say, negro isn't an!
Z better than q white man-as if Mr.. Lincoln
, did not cay that too. Mr. Phillips think
the negro has 8 soul, and perhaps heethink
some Democrats have not We are SOFT
that the people who unwittingly upbraid th
, course Of Mr.. Phillips, not caring to hea
from him what that course Is, but only judg
; ing from hpsrsay, and perverting even tha
I gratuitous information BY prejudice, will no
t 60 and hear him talk, and then judge tn
motives Of the man. They would be told b,
him more truths Ia an hour than their favor
ite speakers have been in the habit Of givinI
: utterance to in thrice the time. They could
e if they would, see that it is the self sam
. country which the Puritan prayed for, an
the Revolutionary soldier died for, and th
> army of the North sre battling for, whic
: Mr.. Phillips halls in the future as
"-the land Of the Free"