Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1862-10-10

latiOn of the Constitution WneA INC AeOSlS
began to confscate the property OF the
loyal people, and to sacrifice life and lber-
tv The acute logioians of this school con-
tend that the clothes should be stripped
from the backs of the women and children
and men be put in prison, but slavery must
not be touched"
THE LABOR QUESTION.
With reference to the Democratic bug |
bear that emancipated black labor would
interfere with the white labor Of the North,
Mr.. CLAY said: Germans, lrishmen, |
Frenchmen, why are yon here at all? 1t
is because you here find Government |
based upon the broad principles Of liberty |
to all humanity. Applause.l Show me
the man who would to-day oppress a man
on account Of his color, and will show
YOU man who will, should it meet his
ends, oppress you tomorrow. lApplause.I
But ii is not true that this interference
with your labor will take place IN conse-
ouenoe of emancipation. Look at history.
Again and again the white races OF the
North have invaded the South, and have
been ultimately driven back by the inevi-
table laws of climate. Emancipation will,
in fact, but concentrate black labor in the
South. Applause.
THE DANGERS OF SLAVE RESURRECTION.
What is the next objection to the proc
lamation? That the South will possibly
stand in danger of a servile insurrection.
To that answer that the South has de-
based. degraded, kept in ignorance, op-
pressed and brutalized the slaves-done
all that it could do to extinguish every
spark of humanity, ignored the rights Of
liberty and property, disregarded the mar
riage tic, and in short, in every way done
all that it could to make savages Of the
slaves, and now shrinks from the conse-
ouences Of its own act at time when 1t
is undertaking 10 build up an empire in
rebellion to the best Government that ever
existed on earth. They must take the con-
sequences of their own crime. Great ap-
plause 1t is their fault if they find that
Slaverys strength is weakness, its joys
sorrows, and its end dissolution and death.
TApplause.7 Walters upon Providence
Men who ignore the instrumentalities of
the Deity in fulfilling his purpose on
earth, where are you nOw2 Are you still
waiting for the sign like the wise men of
Judea l tell you that lie, however we'll
bolstered up, shall die. Applause. JUS
tice must triumph in the land. Applause.
Men of the South, do you still refuse p
The President gives you ninety days
three mOnths-tO consider-to return from
your idols to the worship of the living
God. Is it true that the horrors of insur-
rection threaten you? So much the more
reason for you to avert them by laying
down your arms and returning to your al
legiance. Applause.] Do you refuse to
do that ? Then send your wives and chill
dren to England your ally, or to Canada,
and take the consequences of your own
act. Abraham Lincoln gives you ninety
days in which to do it. Is not that enough
| What say you friends of the Union as it
was? How much more time do you want?
Perhaps we will give it to you. Ap-
plause.
THE FOREIGN ASPECT OF THE CASE.
How will this proclamation affect US with
foreign nations2 l must confess that I
| have very little faith in England. I have
Leen an admirer of England, her poets and
| her statesmen; but after her declarations
against slavery, could not suppose that
when we declared against slavery and
made preparations to abolish it, she would
not cordially sympathize with US. What
] was my dsLOuAsuuenJ 70 uuu ludJ our Ap-
| peal met no response in the British heart.
| Before our Minister could be presented to
! the Queen, this proclamation of neutrality,
which was practically recognition Of the
! independence of the South, was issued.
Recently, Earl Russell had stated in Par
| lament that they had done all for the
South that they could, if they did not in
terfere with actual force. Mr.. Clay said
that the English aristocracy desired such a
state of things that they might open new
field for the production of cotton. En-
gland fears US as q rival. The English
aristocracy feared our great Republic as
proving that democracy was a superior
form of government to an aristocracy.
When Lord Palmerston suppressed the as
surance be had received from Mr. Seward
that the American Government would do
whatever was just in regard to the Trent
affair, he showed the true feelings of the
English Government. Such men would
not be more our friends for the proclama-
tion. But there was a class of men in
Great Britain who did sympathize with re-
publicanism in the United States. They
said, though we suffer, let the American
Union be preserved, because their battle is
our battle. Applause. In France the
people were thoroughly with US with a
monarch who thoroughly understood them.
He had always said, and he said STILL
that if ever the stars and stripes should be
arrayed against the Cross of st George,
the Tri-color Of France would be mingled
with them. All the time that the English
press had been saying that the French En-
peror was urging them on TO interference,
he was adhering to his avowal that the
American Government had given no cause
for interference Earl Russell had been
compelled to say that no nation had made
any proposition to interfere Some suspi-
cious persons had seen fit to interpret an
attempt to vindicate the rights of French
citizens in Mexico, as an intention TO in
terfere in the South. He did not believe
it, but if it were so, the receipt of this
proclamation would deprive the Emperor
Of the power of interference. In Russia,
country of 65,OOOOOO of people isolated
from the balance of the world, the Empe-
, ror, tempted, if ever a man was to eat
drink, and be merry, eleVating himself to
n moral grandeur which the world had
never seen, amid a powerful slaveholding
nobility, with a sublime courage without
parallel, had struck the bonds of slavery
from more than 100000 of men. Zap.
plause. Alexander had always been true
to US. Again and again he had said tC
him, with that frankness which character
lied him, speaking as man to man, "Bt
sure that you will always find me true t.
the United States of America" Ap
plause. Still more would it Strengthen
the ties that exist when twas known tina
the United States had made the same de
: cree, that where our Star Spangled Banner
loated there a slave could not exist
Great applause.
A SIavehOIding Woman Asking Aid Of hel
Former Slave.