Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1862-08-23

hotter here than there, but the weather
has been very favorable to getting in the
harvest, and It has nearly all been "gath-
ed into barns, and stacks, and ricks. In
travelling through the State and looking
over the smiling landscape, the beautiful
green corn, the golden harvest, the YER
dant meadows 'sweet with hay" the ex-
Clamation Of the old Hebrew rises involun-
tarily to the lips, "Truly the lines
have fallen to us in pleasant places, and
we have a gOOdly heritage"
In the Vernon Gallery of Paintings, in
London, are two magnificent pictures, one
representing PEACE, the other WAR. Doubt
less your readers have seen engravings
from these works Of art. In the picture
of peace are groups Of happy children and
innocent lambs, cattle and smiling har-
vests, &C., Sc. War is the embodiment and
representation Of RUIN. Broken wagons,
cannons exploded and overturned, wounded
men and horses struggling in agony, and
mixed in inextricable confusion. Rider
and horse, friend and foe, in one red burial
blent.h
The North and the South aso Aot iAAPtly
symbolized by these pictures to-day. No
hostile traitor has yet set his foot in free
State.
In consequence of drought and the desc
lation Of war, fruits are scarce. Peaches,
although generally in this section abun-
dant, are small and the trees stripped by
our soldiers before they are ripe
Gen. Buell. feels it his religious obliga-
ton to satisfy the traitors that he is not
One of our earnest and energetic colonels
was sent from Tuscumbia to Town Greek,
to repair the bridge the rebel vandals had
burned at that point. Living adjacent is
one of the most unmitigsted rebels in all
the South, Isaac Winston, jr. He had over
1900 bushels of corn, together with cattle
and cotton; when asked to sell us some
corn, he replied, ''NO; before the ID
Lincoln Yankees should have one ear Ofmy
corn or anything else, l would burn it.
Whereupon the Colonel sent his quarter
master and took some corn, offering him a
Government voucher, which he indignant
ly spurned, but said "if the Southern ar
my we're here they should have my corn
and cattle. want yor to understand that
am your enemy to-day and will fight you
tomorrow" BE then wrote note back to
the Colonel commanding, asking how long
he would give him to burn and destroy his
property, whereupon the Col. wrote him
that he was id traitor and must be
insane or most wicked rebel. If the for
mer hehad his sympathy, if the latter, then
he ought to be hanged
He refused TO let our men have the
blaeksmith's tools at his shop, and when
they had gone and taken possession of the
shop, during the day, that night he sent
his slaves and took the tools of fifteen
miles. The Colonel then ordered his ar
rest. For these things, this same man,
Isaac Winston, jr, writes to Gen. Buell.,
at Huntsville, as to an old friend with ap-
parent perfect confidence, asking him
whether he approves such conduct in a
federal officer; in the letter acknowledg-
ing that he is rebel, and asks him wheth- !
er his sense Of honor would compel him to
sell his property to his enemies On a
letter so fagrsnt Gen. Buel asks an ex-
PLANTATION. Reluctantly the pro-slavery |
officers Of the army carry out the designs
Of the conhscation law. To build the for |
tifcaions at this place the commanding |
officer sent out parties to press the slaves
of rebel owners into the service. But the |
orders emensting from Headquarters
strictly enjOined that receipts should be
given for the indiscriminate return of
these persons pressed into service, thereby
assuming to decide the validity Of claims
to the slave, which is manifestly viola
tion Of the last clause Of the 10th section
Of the confscation bill, which reads {" and
no person engaged in the military or ma
val service Of the United States shall, un-
der any pretense whatever, assume to de-
eide on the validity Of the claim Of any
person to the service or labor Of any per.
son, OF surrender up any person to the
on pain Of being dismissed from
the service"
Four hundred "contrabands of all
colors are now employed upon the public
here, and happier, more
willing set of men, never welded spade or
AKA. It would be mereiless cruelty to send
these noble fellows back to whips and
chains. God grant that the administra-
lion may perceive the truth that loyal
Hack men are good enough to kill disloyal
Ohite rebel traitors, and suffer them to
ight for their own liberty and the saliva
lion of the Republic.
A sad picture of the internal slave sys-
-em was brought to view last evening
Among the acontrabands" was found one
Dhite man, sixty-three years old, Of pure
blood, without any African
.aint, who has been a slave for sizty-three
years. Reared in the slave pens
e U;,.s,:o Jo,,btIo.s 4ba kill of misfor-
une. but thought TO be more valuable for
he shambles" than to Hstrangle," he
has been herded with the negroes, COM
Icore years What q field Of anguish is
opened to the Imagination We i'm
dispatched him north, on the
,ver-ground railroad to Governor Morton
If Indiana, to show what are the speci-
nuns Of the system that now defes the
yoFernment.
A system that denies marriage, shuts out
chattelizes humanity, should be
IanetiOHSd by none and secuted by all.
In a Communication published in your
paper oath July, 1t was stated that an order
rom the Adjutant-Gen. of the 20th brigade
lad authorized the capture Of slave In
ustice TO the commanding-oficer, General
fairfield, let me say it was not by his order,
or he was absent on the court-martial Of
Colonel Turehin, the decision Of which
las not yet been made public
When the Colonel asked that the men,
before he would give them protection,
Ihould take the cath Of allegiance, or
Iign pledge to inform on the guerrilla
,H ige burners his judges said, my God
sI9you have these men turn ilf0rHsTs against
RSir owh sons, 5TothsTsdnd tdthers,p &c. And
eg refusing to protect these rascals, Gen.
su IL, on his way to Chattanooga, became
al lenly afflicted with the conciliates,"