Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1862-07-26

their own showing, had no plaintiff, and
therefore no defendant. Having disfran-
ohised Dred Scott and all his race, and rem
dered them forever incapable Of appearing
in any Court Of the Union, IL was a perfect
piece Of will-work TO 60 further and dis
franchise the mighty millions of white
freemen, by surrendering to slavery every
foot of the national domain. The subscriber
has no wish to say anything harsh concern
ing these men, yet it is impossible not To
see that they enveloped themselves in their
judicial robes the better TO deliver their
partizan harangues. Like the Priests of
Apollo at Delphos, they pretended TO deliv-
er the voice Of God, when no Divinity was
present superior to set Of cunning and
selfish men. The subscriber appears before
the public as an humble and unpretending
individual. To borrow an idea from sgd
ney Smith, "his broadcloth is not national
broadcloth." The tea and coffee which he
sips are not public tea and coffee. He
drinks no public wine or toddy He enjoys
no national salary. His labors shall cost
the public nothing. But if that same pub
| lie will be cOntented with undesigning can
dor, with open sincerity, with unconquer-
able zeal for their welfare and happiness,
they shall have the benefit of his labors
without fee or reward, or "any hope or
promise thereof" t#..Erl.H
Although have disclaimed in advance,
all responsibility for the opinions of the
numerous witnesses whom shall be COM
PEELED to call to the stand in the course of
this controversy, yet it is impossible not to
see that johnson has touched upon one
trait of the slaveholding character never
absent from the institution in any age, or
in any nation; that is, its intense selfish
ness, its sordid injustice. Yelping loudly
for liberty while driving gangs of slaves.
Look at the exhibition now going on before
our eyes. Our national enemies are ready
| to shed rivers of blood for fear Of some i'm
| aginary, pretended restriction upon the
| privileges of the scourge and the chain,
while they avow their fixed determination
to deny to three millions of men every
right, every attribute of humanity. But it
is not black or white slavery, but SLAVERY
that renders men sordid and selfish. The
industry Of Gibbons has furnished us with
the testimony Of an eye witness, as to the
operation Of this principle in old Rome,
just before it was besieged by Alaric and
his legiOns of Goths. He speaks in the
present tense; " In the exercise of domes-
tic jurisdiction the mobiles of Rome express
an exquisite sensibility for any personal
injury and cOntemptuous Indifference for
the rest of the human species. When they
have called for warm water, if slave has
been tardy in his obedience, he is instantly
chastised with three hundred lashes; but
should the same slave commit a willful
murder, the master will mildly observe that
he is worthless fellow, but that if he re-
peats the offence he shall not escape pun
ishment. See Gibbons Decline and Fall,
VOL 2, p. 247, HarPer's Edition Of 1912.
Old Rome and modern Barbary, and we
may add, modern Carolina, never learned
one elementary lesson in morality which
might have saved them from overwhelming
calamities. They never learned that
nothing morally wrong can ever be truly
expedient GLENDALE.