Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1862-07-04
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The disasters of the Richmond campaign
viii wake the people up to a spirit that
win demand no more concessions, no more
dallying. When all was going well, they
could bear, although impatiently, thecourse
which too many of our generals adopted Of
cOnciliatOry policy toward traitors who
utterly refused to be conciliated. But
now there has been enough of this. The
rebels VIII not abate one jot Of their i'm
placable hatred Of the Union and the Fed
eral Government, for all the protection
which the veriest prO-slaverite can afford
them. They viii not hang one Union man
the less, care one whit more for the rights
Of any person to life and liberty if he has
9 particle Of affection for the old Union
and the Constitution and Government
which his fathers loved. They will not
disband one guerilla band because the
houses and lands and negroes of those
composing it, are guarded by a file Of Fed
eral bayonets, nor win they discard one Of
their damnable atrocities through the be-
nign influence Of the tender solicitude Of
any Federal Conservative General When
the White House was kept inviolate from
the eprofane touch ola sick or wounded Fed
eral soldier, that fact did not blunt the edge
Of the sword which was raised to cleave the
scalp Of our teamsters who were encounter
ed in the recent rebel raid and all the or
ders against harboring fugitives within
the Union lines did not lessen the ferocity
withwhich the devils attacked our wound
ed. But all this has been passed by, al
though repeatedly protested against by
loyslists both North and South, in the hope
that the rebels were to receive such a
crushing defeat at Richmond that their
power Of evil would soon be gone.
But now the experiment has gone far
enough, and having been repulsed and
driven back upon the banks Of the Chick
ahOminy, We and the people have a right
to protest little more strongly and une-
quivOcslly against any further illustra-
tions Of the lenient policy.
And tits not alone in the field that we
ldemand that no more kindness and tole-
ration be shown to traitors. The North
to-day is literally sprinkled with coward
" semi-seesssionists, who glory in secret
OF in feilow-cougratulatiOns, one with an
other, 6t every rebel victory, and whose
faces are eorrespondingly long whenever
Federal victory brings joy to all the loyal
bsts. They are in our state,--in our very
midst. and it is time they were rooted out.
In this day Of mourning at the unfavorable
results which come to us, every man who
harss utter word Of exultation, or who
exclaims, aI told you SO, or who prOphe-
lies with an air that tells the wish to be
be father to the thought that more disas-
ers are to follow, should be spotted and
harked a great people, excited by dis
tster and filed with sorrow for the gallant
ksad that have strewn the Southern battle
ield upon which their comrades in arms
.pers forced to leave them to the mercies
{ demons whe show no mercy, are in no
lumor to tamely submit to taunts aad
neers The day for those has gone by,
nd no liberation need now be shown to
sossiVS1o- dare to show their iiil-eoncealed
Edpathy with treason and traitors e
Pss.-Later dispatches indicate better
ate Of afEairs before Richmond, but that
oes not alter the force Of what we hare
ia. 1T is good advice let itstsnd.