Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1862-09-02

OamEeF AADa0s
In the midst Of the military fever, which
- sweeps over the country, there is danger
: Of forgetting or negleeting| our=Politicsl
duties, which at this time are Of equal
importance While We canvass the merits
q 81 Of ihis and that General, we must also
With careful Judgment and strict discrimi-
nation select eur Legislative leaders
I OQd Military laWis in the ascendency st this
time, but civil law viii have the settlement
OF hundreds Of Texed questions which will
be disturbed BY the relations Of the
"a '-7 array to the country which it occupies or
passes through. Our next Congress VIII
> - have a great work upon its hands, and
.s 8 to properly dispose of its trust, must be
composed Of men Of ability judgment and
@ experience. Z But more than all beside it
must be made up of men whose record is
right upon the great question of slavery
. This question win swallow up all others.
Mea may pirate as they please against
sl.sl-i ,. s'meddling with the slavery question:
- but it wiH be he browning question in
the coming Congress- and we wani men
Of the right stamp 10 meet it. And
this brings US to the point we had in
- q view at the CONNIE ncenent-that we must
not allow those members of the last Con-
gfsss who stand right upon the record, to
be over-slaughed in the coming conven-
tons and elections. As We predicted
weeks ago, an effort viii be made, by a
union between the Democrats, (who viii
- 20 into the Convention under the Union
policy and seek to control the nomina-
tons and the Conservative Repub-
-s,.l. hoans to throw overheard the "radi-
qq.s cal members who are candidates
for reelection. In some districts
they may succeed in doing this;
70 all Of them they viii, unless
This scheme is carefully guarded
against If this is done, the effect will
14 by no means be confined to the defeated
candidates. We're that the ease, it would
be matter -oflittle consequence, but those
members who have made for themselves
% e and for their districts a record upon the
slavery question, now go to their constit-
uents for approval or disappr0val. If the
men who. voted steadily in favor of free
dom and against the entertainments and
despotism Of slavery are to be thrown
Us u aside, the fact win he blazoned abroad
throughout all the land as q atriumph over
Abolitionism, and as a rebuke by their
constituents of the course Of theselnen.-
The people, not the rejected members,
must bear the responsibility of the verdict,
and upon them viii rest the sneers Of
such men as Vallqndigham Carlile, Rich
ardsOn and their followers In endorsing
these men, the principles they have advo-
Gated will be endorsed; in rejecting them,
their principles will be repudiated. In or
dinary times this would not be 50, for the
# principle Of rotation in Office is, generally
speaking, good but now whoever the new
man may be who supereedes the old and
well tried member it viii be used asan eE-
fr idence OfoppOsitiOn to the wise enactments
of the late Congress. And such an impu- |
tation should not rest upon the people of
the Reserve EtaT1
We have written this much to put the an
ti-slavery men of the Reserve on their |
guard, lest they are led into what viii |
prove to be false and injurious position.