Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1862-04-09
Agitation.

II the most devilish among the secession
spirits in this world or any other had wanted
to devise plan for defeating the object of
the war, and completing the destruction OF
the Union and the ruin of the country, he
could not have bit upon q better expedient to
Effect bis hellish purpose, than the agitation
Of the emancipation question ct this time in
the Northern and in the border slave States
Who begun this agitation and are urging It
fOrWardf The Republicans and Fusionists
IN Congress and out of L. And those who
By their votes and influences encourage these
sgitators, are equally guilty with them
Ohio StatesRm.
Divers and sundry Northern IOurnalR, deep
In the interests Of secession, and no less de.
voted to the perpstuatiOn Of slavery than the
Richmond Enquirer or the Memphis Appeal,
hsTe periodical attscks Of fear and trembling
at the agitation" of the negro question.
The writer of the above surely cannot claim
any originality for his sfusiOni 1t is but
copy of what the same paper, with others Of
Its stripe, has been crying for years past and
possibly their moral sense is 30 blunted by
long uttering q Lie that they believe 1t them
selves. But nothing Is easier disproved than
the charge that the "Republicans and Fu-
Sionists" began this agitation, and urged It
forward. The Congressional Globe and the
House and Senate journals at Columbus give
the lie to the statement, most indisputably.
The negro question has been agi'ased BY the
Shareholders who were not satisfied with the
present area Of that accursed system; By
the border rufRans who tried to fght their
way with their slaves into Kansas; by she
renegade NOrtherners, who, BY going to the
south, became the most rsbid Of ell slavery
worshipPsrs; by the Northern sllies OF
Southern desPots, who bend the supple hinges
ef the knee to receive the weight of the rod
which the latter are ready to lay upon them,
and BY the 'shiftless" whites at the North
who are afraid to put their labors in hoaest
competition to that Of the negroes and there
fore petition the Legislature to prevent i'm
migration Of oOlOrsd persons to the State
These are they who begin and keep up the
agitation, and having gained but little In
yearS pest By the agitation they have begun,
they have now gone TO war about 1t. And
now the South has an army Of HagitatorS'
IN the aeld, and every slave In the whole
south Is ''AgitAted' BY what be or she sees
or hears Of the results Of the conflict There
naS never been such . Tremendous and ire
sisdble "agitator" Of negro slavery, as this
war, whicn was opened By the very opposite |
Of Republicans and Fasionists."
The negro question was not touched in
the present session Of the Ohio Legislature
until it was brought up BY the prO-slavery-
ties and scarcely . day haS passed since
without the presentation, BY some Democrat
10 Senator Of Representative, Of 3 PeJitisn
against the negro. This Statesman can
not deny.
But We too, are tired Of slavery agitation.
We want to have It stopped and therefore
lie that We urge upon Congress the bill for
.he abolition Of slavery In the District, and
another bill for the immediate conhscation
If every slave of every rebel In the land
Therefore it Is that we believe in the prinoi-
pies Of FremOnfs proclamation, and in the
1rder By which Gen. Curtis declared three
slaves forever free because they had be-
lonsed 10 q rebel. This agitation never will
SOP until the cause Is removed There is
90 "irFePresaible conflict" between the two
systems Of frOsdon and slavery, and 90 long
g the last szintA agitation wiz not and
cannot stop Every day 1t + forced upon !