Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1862-06-20

Whenever any especially inhuman and
repulsiVe measure is proposed in Congress
and elsewhere, il receives the support of
people who call themselves, and are called
by their friends, the Conservative party" F"
I Whenever base and disgraceful interpre-
tation Is given TO any clause Of the National
Constitution, il Is called by the same per-
sons "the conservative view" Whenever
any rigorous and radical means of sup
pressing This cruel rebellion are suggested,
they are Indignantly resisted by the same
q conservative party and papers. The
persistent political allies Of the rebels, like
Vsllandigham, Powell Bayard, and Sauls-
bury, are leaders of this conservative
movement, while the newspapers which
openly supported the rebellion until the
Government took it in hand, orwhich from
their continued support of it received a.
very significant warming are the organs
Of the faction.
The same Conservatives during the
last Presidential canvass solemnly warned
the country that they could not allow any
body but their own candidates to be elect
ed and they brought eminent "Conserv-
ativesn from the Southern States to confirm
what they said. The same conservative
gentry at the South, when the new admin
istration was eonstiMionally chosen, took
up arms and have maintained desperate
and bloody warrior more than year, The
same conservative citizens at the North
are now most anxious to make compro-
misses with their friends who are red to the
-neok in the blood of the brave and hardy
youth Of the lOyalpart Of the land. Peace
at any price. whether Of civil order, Of
national existence, of. human rights, of in
dividuaI honor, or Of common decency, is
the hearts prayer Of this conservatism.
If man shows himself false 10 our com
mon humanity, or Indifferent to our IA
tional unity, they hail him as "Cohserv-
alive If any man aims to destroy or
abridge the equal rights which the Govern
ment was founded to protect, they rally to
It as q :, conservative" measure. If a man
is faithless TO the Democratic principle he
is sound If he sneers at justice and
manliness, and honor he is prudent
These gamblers are still busy, but their
game is played out. Il is transparent.
q Conservatism" has been used as con-
yenient and alluring name with which to
conceal the effort to sustain the predomi=
nance Of a single class in this country over
all other men or classes. James NJ. Ma
son, famous for fathering the Fugitive
Slave Bill of 1850, and for nothing else but
a futile endeaTOr to implicate his political
enemies with John Brown; John Slidell,
famous for the Plaquemine election frauds,
and for nothing else but the most unscrup-
ulous political intrigue; John B. Floyd
famous for stealing and running away
and for nothing else; Wigfall, famous for
whisky y-drinking; Pryor, famous for not
fighting with Potter; Cobb, famous for
emp tying the Treasury and imperiling the
credit Of the country TOombs. famous for
idi0tie Believing in the United States SEN
ate jefferson Davis-these, and an end
less string more, are the representative |
% CONSERVATIVES" of the present epoch in
our histery, and their conservatism con-
sisted and consists in the effort to destroy |
all the safeguards which our Constitution !
throws around the rights Of all men; and, |
bafled in that, in the fierce and furious
ton and ruin the S6dRtfyee 4 - e'1aaii An
This game Of Conservatism is up.
Meanwhile the great and true Conserya-
tive marty of the cOuntry-the party Of all
faithful citizens Who to whatever political
band they may have hitherto belonged, are
daily learning that national peace can be
preserved only by maintaining, by con-
serving the. cardinal and distinctive prin-
eiples OF our Government-is engaged in
the triumphant suppression Of therebellion
instigated by these pseudo CONSERVATIVES
nd.their abetters at the North in Con-
gress and the press, and having preserved
the country from the military blows which
rebel treason strikes at its heart, it will
equally save it from the political plots Of
rebel q Conservatism.3'- HarPer's Weekly.