Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1862-04-11

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We expected sOrroWfal tidings, Whils She
county, which 90 short time ago was fresh
and green, was resking with The blood Of
battle, he found Il difficult to say any thing.
It was hard hour TO speak Of war.
Both sides, North and South, were at war
for ideas. The Southron feels that the
idos which hO represents is the best for the
future, and We Of the North feel the same
conviction ofthe one which we adVocate.--
The war iS one Of those which can end only
whom one or the other is conquered. From
what did 1t sriHeS Some Hsy slavery, sOme
anti-alavery, and some q triumph Of the
Republican party. But the Republican
party is the natural OutgrOwth of the slave
~ agitation. Every new idea seeks an out
let In votes. Every new principle Gnds ex-
preston in the ballot box. The Republican
party then is but the second chapter of the
slavery agitation.
This year opens new srA,-the grandest,
the nOblsss since seventy-six, TheEublime
uprising Of the people is the great event Of
our generation. We should feel this and
appreciate eur duties.
What do We mean BY anti,slsvery agita-
tionl We can ask the question. It is our
privilege as Yankees to ask questions. It
Is the aim Of our institutions to educate our
citizens 70 do so. The frat business of the
Puritans, on landing ct Plymouth, was to
build q common school. Il is our desire to
make the man industrious, capable Of self
control TO better his condition, TO make him
able 70 carry on civilization. This is the
grest idea of the North. The prayer Of the
Austrian is "GOd grant may be no worse
of tomorrow than to-day" The desire Of
the YANKEES Is to be better of tomorrow than
to-day. Given Yankee education, Yankee
desires, Yankee curiosity, and agitation
must came. The Yankee can be pictured at
six months old in his cradle planning an
invention and arranging to get out patent.
he Is the same in politics. We must have
nation Of educated, self governing men,
We must have a nation of free tongues, and
in that case slavery must be the cause of
war.
It was not his purpose to make an anti
slavery speech. BE believed not that slave
~ was dead, but that it had hardly anything
else to do but to die. he thought We were
not to see is extinction perhaps, but that
we had entered upon the cha pter which
should chronicle its death. We do not in
tend to kill it, no man may intend it. He
who is in the rapids of Niagara may not in
tend 10 90 over, but his intentions will have
very small effect. He must go, This war,
though no man designs it, will shake every
negro in the land from his chains.
The first ground of Slavery, the money ba-
sis, is practically gone. The South thought
that the frst cry of the operatives in the En-
glish factories, would bring her aid; that
England could not live without cotton that
"COttOn was King" But England still
lives, and has gone to India for her supply.
British energy must be independent, and
though American cotton viii not be driven
from the market, the world will not be q
slave TO it.
The political power of slavery, too, has
lost afty psr cent. The power OF money is
great. Andrew jackson and the Democratic
party in one scale, hardly Outweighed the
National Bank with only fifty millions in
the other. Hatred of hace is another strong
defence of Slavery. The Constitution is
another. At the last Presidential election,
the people Of New England village labor
ed early and late in the expression of their
will. Their efforts, however, were overbsl-
anced by Governor Aiken of South Carolina,
who with three votes for every Eve Of his
slaves, rode lszily over to the polls aad de-
posted his single card.
The North has for years abased itself be-
fore these Shareholders. This war has taught
them self respect. The Eorthman who has
beaten the seuthrOn in dozen pitched bat
ties, win never again kneal before him.
The position of the North for years has
keen reason for the South to despise her.
Bnt the two sides made q trial of their
strsp, ,-th. The fight of to-day was done in
miniature. Missouri pledged herself against
Kansas. The Sorth sent her farmers. John
srovp,vspt to Kansas with farm stock, ag-
YioultursI implements, the best fruit trees,
the finest Englishcitae, his prizes received
at Agricultural FSirs, and not even bird
ing piece; but when the AissOnEianS de-
stroyed his orchards, NtOle his esttls, and
killed his sons, he bought musket. Kan
sas has since crushed Missouri, and Is Ma
2Oleon said Of Pussia, al taught her tOI
feSt," SO might Kansas speak of Missouri
Every Northern SOD, that comes home cot-
fined and bloody, is but portion Ofour les
son. and If We live another year Of this war,
We win all be Jayhswkers. In year the
whole NOr1h viii feel as Kansas did.
Slavery has pract. 'eally committed suicide,
South Carolina has sh 0rtensd the era of sla-
very hfty years. A Pr'Nsi4sRt has never
uRtn nov said a word again Il slavery. 9th
or men may have done 80, buE unt1 to-day
the Presidents lips have been sea la that
direction. Now he says, 4" Abraham Alil-
colin, At the Headquarters of Public Opinion,
and sa well acquainted Herewith IS most
men, tell you Border States, that you hsd
better release your slaves and viii pay
you for them, and you can never say
that didn't give you fair warning"
Where did he get the power to cay
this7 He hes no right to buy the
slaves. he has no right. to Interfere. He
says, "Gentlemen, We have turned over
q nsw leaf I Aavs the right 20 buy. an
trying cannon, and if can't buy them I
will take them.
The lecturer had talked With the Presi-
dent, who told him story. BE always tells
stories. An Irishman in Maine stepped in
to store for glass Of soda water; "and if