Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1862-10-04
MORNING LEADER.
Prem the sonth--An Embryo Southern AR
isiOcraey.

istocraey.
The Richmond iHhig Of the 25th ult af-
Ter alluding to some Of the original leaders
Of rebellion, says'
Heretofore the golden maxim, Obsa PriH-
eipiis has been their favorite rule Of con-
duct now, they can see no danger in the
BEGINNINGS Of evil, and in the establish
ment Of precedents which, without some
such revolution as that which Jefferson and
his republican supporters effected in the
period from 1898 to 1903, must destroy the
confederate system Of Southern pOlity, and
plant q consolidated power on its ruins
II Is sVsR HolV l0hispsred that a scheme Of con
soliddtion Is on foot, and thrt views precise
y similar to those which Alexander Ham
ilton succeeded in disseminating so widely
and rendering so popular and potential in
the old Union, are extensively held in the
South: that our government Is assimilated to
that Of Great Britain; that an drisf0eracy Is
to be established and aDeaIth made IN the be-
ginning the passport to place and pOWeT.
THE ETAEKEE ARMY NEAR SUFFOLK.
From the Richmond Whig September 25.
The Petersburg Express learns from
man who reached that city on Tuesday
evening, from the vicinity Of Suffolk that
the Yankee army there has been heavily
reinforced, numbering now, it is supposed,
at least 25,000 men. The Express also
learns that they have sent 10000 men to
Windsor Station, on the Norfolk and Pc
tsrsburg railroad eleven miles this side of
Suffolk. They have narrowed the guage of
the railroad four inches from Norfolk to
Zion station, seven miles this side of Wind
sor, and eleven miles from the point to
which the track has been torn up by our
people, and from which it is more or less
Obstructed to Petersburg.
THE REBEL CONscRIPT LAW.
The Richmond Wing says;-Ju Judge Thom-
as, of the Ebert Superior GOurt, Georgia,
has recently, in a habeas corpus case, pro
Rouneed the conscript law unconstitutiOn-
al and void. What the effect viii be, re-
mains TO be seen. We should have a Su-
preme Court now, to settle the question
definitely.
CLOUD OF MYSTERY.
From the Richmond Wing, September 25te.
4 cloud Of mystery still envelopes affairs IN
Maryland We have neither new facts con-
Trajectory to the news already published,
nor yet a single confrmatory detail. That
our army is in Maryland, that it was vic
torious in the late battle at Sharpsburg,
and that Mcclellan is disabled from fur
ther operations for at least a month, are
statements which may be received with
considerable confidence, but on our future
prospects there is little or no light.
We are, however, cheered by the story of
Jackson's late signal victory near BOteler's
mill, yet otherwise nameless in history.
That hero dealt the enemy blow not Sc
cond to his late exploit at Harper's Ferry.
The fate Of the ten thousand sent over to
flank him was in fact a catastrophe, the
most terrible that has occurred during the
war. Events like those check the spirit Of
nation as a bullet does the animal economy
of single man. This event and the cap
ture of Harper's Ferry so add to the pres
tige Of General Jackson, already measure
less, that the presence of his single person
on any field or on any campaign, may
hereafter be fairly reckoned as equal to
fifty thousand men.