Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1862-03-14
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spoak seainst slavery in Eastern Virginia
wood have been lynched. A iew weeks
aso he Hutchinson family were expelled
from tie Camps upon the Potomac for sing
iRg EniislaFsgy songs. But the world and
he country moves, and on Sunday, March
2 the Rev Joan 8 G. Abbott delivered
disooa1ss In the Church near Fairfax, from
which Se make one or two extracts. The
oharch Was crowded to its utmost capacity
and she temptation to applaud the speaker
vas 10 irresistible that it could not be re-
pressed. A request was made BY the militia
y oIaoess present that the discourse be re-
psalsd. We quoie the following paragraphs;
EHz RsUEs OF THE war
What are the results which Providence is
educating from this strife 2 Beyond all ques-
ton Il must be the gradual if not the imne-
date extension OF freedom throughout the
United States. The command OF affairs is in
our hands Soon our flag viii wave from
every fort upon the Atlantic shore and the
Calf Then, as soon as we shall have taken
possession Of the Mississippi from Cairo TO
Ehs BsliEs sweeping before Us. in our msjes,
tisnoF5ment, every snag and sawyer aud
sand Ter with which foul rebellion has clog
Qsd It's channel, and shall have established
our rampsgis along the southern borders Of
North Carolina, Tennessee and Missouri our
work is done Secession i rendered impO-
teat and may be safely leff, It We wish, like
tie fsbled viper surrounded BY the IRE, 70
ainQ itself % death.
No man doubts that slavery has caused
the var, Where there is no slavery there iH
no rsbeili3n. The impression Is rapidly be-
coming universal that peace if slavery con-
tinuss, WI be but a truce. The cause Of
our troubles reuaining, the elect vii re-
main War i5 zoo terrible disaster for rs
b risk Its repetition. Every wise msn wiz
feel hat Wemust in some way free cur o0un-
t1g fr5u isPsril. rbe government, as the
organ Of popular viii, cannot consent 10
Patch up peace which viii only transfer
1his baItle 70 our children. lt begins to be
zdnittad that every man, whstever be bis
canditlon o. hue, Who Is ready 70 fight for the
Union, shall be welcomed beneath its flag.
General BraEten Bragg said bosstuliy last
April: q
sWs are sure 70 beat you Of the North
An our white men viii fights the negroes
relieve Them ifom labor while only part
cf your whites can fight, Tor the most Of you
nust work. .e
Nov, how long shall we send our fathers,
EFoshers aad sons to face the bullets Of the
foes, and yet inssnely cay to four millions
Of people eager 20 come 10 OR aid '"You
San not come. You must stay where you
are, 70 drag the artillery and throw up the
ramparts Of our envenoned enemies, before
which thosa dearer 70 rs than life itself are
70 perish" Almosl frantieallya q Union man
ct the South exclaims, in a private letter;
aWhsh, 10 Gods name, viii You awake at
the North7 1t seems to us here that you
are all asleep. You are cOntending with an
armed maniac; and yet you measure your
strength aa if you had only to manage bali
grown boy"
TEHoN OF THR REBE1s. --.aa11
At The North we have but little conception
q the intensity Of the venom Of this seces.
eion reptile. L seems 10 have turned even
8 Woma1's charity to gall I have il from
authority beyond all question thet south
iesn Wonan, church member, said geeent5
IL bsr pasler ~ hoRld, b esEteetlT Tillih
to5 AslI eoadlIi bat sH6ots Y6hk
frat" Z AID another, WHO'S womaniy nstuEs
has hssn poisoaed by The haEb9risn Of slave
y, says: u hope yetto sleep Under ,blank'
e msdsof the BoslpsUt norihernersaae