Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1862-11-07

those they have sowing the seeds Of despotism
rather than those of progressive Christianity.
Retrogrsssion has been the rule with them,
until despOtism has eliminated in rebellion.
Democrats say, "age we never to have
done with the etsrnal niger ?" answer
we're not to have done with him uutil Free
dom or Slavery Is universal in all the land.
The speaker in Illustrating the danger Of
ignoring certain laws with regard to the
equalization Of human benefits, drew pic
ture Of the proud aristOOrat Enjoying luxurious
ease in his marble palace, while in street
not far removed from his abode are the homes
Of sickness ana want. He is shocked at the
intrusion of one from among them, who comes
to til him Of their situat ton and ask him TO
relieve their misery. BE turns the man from
his doOr-it is nothing to him. But soon
disease follows squalid misery in the novels
Of the poor, and contagion is borne in the air
from the cottage to the palace. a pro
rata of benefits must be established in
the various relations Of life, to
avoid disaster. The laws of nature
cannot be ignored. We have been warned
and now after slavery has resulted in rebeu-
ion, viii We do nothing? We must meet the
question boldly and settle it FOR once and
forever. There can be no glorious national
ity, no permanent peace, until slavery ia
killed. For eighteen months we have been
tenporizing. We have struck down slavery
with one hand and held it up with the other.
Tho millions of non-slavehoIders in the
South we have never addressed, to them we
have never appealed. That portion of the
South whose interests are really our own, we
have ignored.
The great cause of the failure of the war
thus far Is, we didn't take common sense
and practical view of the question at issue.
a vigorous policy that strikes at the roots of
our trouble is what is needed. If you desire
fruit from this great OutpOuring of blood and
treasure you must do justice to the oppressed.
The speaker alluded to the difficulties
which surround the President. The diff
ferences of opinion which prevail among
loyal men, with regard to the way in which
the war should be carried on, have caused
him embarrassment. In trying to suit all.
he has placed at the head Of our armies Dem
ocrats-men who believe that slavery is right
AMI proper, and that and such as I,
who have denounced the accursed institu-
tion of slavery, are the cause Of all this
God forbid that 1 should call any of them
traitors, but they have no heart in fighting
to put down the rebellion. The Proclama-
tion Of the President, he said, was no usur-
patton of constitutional rights. It was the
mple AMI legitimate exercise of the war
power. It does not interfere with slavery in
loyal States-only in States that are in re-
belllon, and fighting against the Govern
ment. It says to them if, after the Ist Of
January, 1858, they persist in attempting to
destroy the Government, all slaves in States
in rebellion shall be free. [Cheers Why
should we be tender of their property? They
have no squeamishness with regard to taking
away the property of Union men and using
it as they see ht.
He said there never was genuine Union be-
Seward in his better days declare that there
was an {" irrepressibIe conflict" between free
dom and slavery. Either one or the other
must perish before VIC can have peace.
Shareholders know that their cherished in
stitution can not endure the test of discus
sion, and they propose to isolate it so that no
man who holds views contrary to their own,
can live among them. The basis on which
the Southern COnfederacy stands, is the prin-
oiple that the black man and his descendants
shall always live enslaved, principle which
is the death-bloE to all progress.
We are told that if the slave is emanci-
pated be will come North and crowd out and
depreciate white labor. It is slavery, said
he, that really crushes white labor. Educate
the slave, give him better capacities and
moro wants, let him choose where and how
he shall work, and as the slave is thus ele-
waited white labor will also be elevated. The
President recommends emigration. That
would do away with all danger of the COM
petition between white and black labor that
some predict. The speakers view was to
keep the negroes in the South. Make them
free, increase their capacities, and you will
increase their productive ability.
He denied that slave labor was indispen-
sable to the raising Of cotton, and cited the
success Of German colonies in Texas. The
cotton they raise is worth more by cents
per pound than cotton raised by slave labor.
Free the negro, and you make him better
citizen. Force is no longer necessary to con-
troll him. The true and only safety of any
community lies in the common interest of
that community.
He alluded to the demands which slave
holders make upon US. They want not only
to carry slavery wherever they please, but
they want US to acknowledge that slavery is
right. Are you ready to accept Union on
such grounds? If net, accept the proclama.
ton, which implies equal rights founded on
equal justice. It is upon such basis that
all Republics must stand, if at all. He
spoke of the late Democratic victories, and
asoribsd them to the absence Of Republicans
in the army. He was frequently interrupted
during the lecture by enthusiastic cheers.
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