Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1862-01-07

commencing the work Of treason with an
act Of iRgratitude and per6dy that has nc
parallel. The General Of the army, given 10
protect her, was corrupted the army was
scattered in companies and betrayed into the
hands Of rebels and even the terms of the
treaty by which officers and men, Ia surren-
dering their arms, stipulated that they were
not to DO held as prisoners Of war, were vio-
lated. The next step was TO practice on the
Indians, against whom the United States had
made war, to protect the State, and they
have been seduced to take part in the rebel
lion. The result is that the whole frontier
of the Rio Grande which, In the judgment
of the advocates of the annexation OF Texas
10 the Union, rendered its acquisition so es-
sential to the safety Of the United States, is
laid open. England and France proposed to
the President OF Texas, to obtain the recog-
milton Of It's independence from Mexico, and
to guaranty it, provided the State stipulated
against annexation to the United States
Now the coveted boundary, which cost so
much blood and treasure, is q prey TO traitors,
inviting France, England and Mexico TO in
vsde our weak side, and command through It
the Mississippi and its great valley.
This justifies the Government Of the
United States in q reoonquest and parti-
lion of Texas, taking the western section,
yielded 10 that State on the conditions Il
has violated, and holding Il as the prop
erty Of the United States. For this pur-
pose 1t has been suggested by many able
and patriotic men il should be invaded by
armies from the north and south, and the
whole region from Missouri and Kansas to
the Gulf, including the Indian Territory,
where the tribes have Joined the rebels, be
subjected to an armed occupation by volun-
teers, who may be induced, by the division
Of the lands among them into gratuitous
freehold allOtments, to devote themselves
70 the purpose Of the Government in set
tling the country, with view to create
tier of free States along the western bor-
der of the Rio Grsnde. No portion Of the
national domain is better suited to emil
grants from the Northern States or from
Europe than this region. The rebels and
their Indian allies have driven many
thousand northern emigrants from the
scene OF improvement which they had
there created More than one hundred
thousand emigrants, armed at their own
expense, can be promptly raised in the
Northern States to restore those who have
been driven out, and to establish them
selves with them under the proposed armed
This would make the Rio Graude an iron
frontier, and forever prevent slavery from
being extended over Mexico and the States
of Central America. The safety OF our tree
to say nothing of the general
interests of humanity, demands such a bull
warB, against the spreading of slavery over
those regions.
| submit these remarks, not as furnishing
a solution of the question discussed, but as
suggestions which feel it my duty to COM
mnDicate to you, and through you to our
constituency, on the relations which
slavery bears TO the war, and what seems to
me proper policy for the Government to
pursue in relation to the subject to which I
have referred. would gladly persuade my
self were 1t possible, that it is not in the in
terests Of slavery that the rebellion has been
But this is denied me by the
history of the country for the last
thirty years. Is it not wiser and better
in every respect to recognize the fact and
assume it as the basis Of our legislation,
Federal and State, that the war is being
waged by the rebel States to give to slsv-
cry the mastery on this continent, and to
destroy, in its vandal march, the National
Government under whose protection we
have become one Of the leading powers Of
the world, the people prosperous and hap
py at home, and universally respected and
honored abrosdP
In closing this, my last general eommuni-
cation to the General Assembly, l discharge
a grateful duty in acknowledging the obli-
CATION Of the Executive authority OF the
State to the Senators and Representates in
Congress from Ohio, for their prompt com.
pliance with my request, in procuring the
passage of the Act providing for the pay of
the volunteers mustered into the service Of
the United States from the time Of their or
gsniz alton and acceptance as companies By
the Governor and for their successful
efforts in having the sanction of law given
to the Act directing the Secretary of the
Treasury, out Of any money not otherwise
appropriated TO pay to the Governor of any
State, or the duly authorized agents, the
costs, charges and expenses properly incur
red by such State for enrolling, subsisting
supplying, srming, squipping, pay
ing, and transporting the troops employed
in aiding to suppress the present insurrec-
tion against the United States.
By the first Act full compensation was se-
cured TO the volunteers from the period of
their enlistment; and under the second all
the expenses incurred by the State in aid Of
the United States in suppressing the rebel
lion, in whatever form, and by troops, wheth-
~ int fha earviaa nf thu TTnitad
States, or of the State only, will be reim-
bursed.
The accounts between the State and the
United States have not been fully settled,
because, chiefly, Of the want of authority in
the Auditor TO furnish the Secretary Of the
Treasury the original vouchers on hle In his
office, Of portion Of the sums paid by the
Stste for war purposes. l recommend that
proper legislation be promptly had to re-
move this difficulty, and that the necessary
be given to the Auditor to furnish
such original vouchers in compliance with
the rules Of the Treasury Department, for
the settlement Of the class of accounts to
which they refer.
The thanks Of this department are due
also to George W. McOook, Edward Ball,
Noah Il. SWayne, Joseph R. Swan, Aaron
+. Perry, Richard NJ. CorWine, Alfred P.
Stone, and William A. Plstt and to the
Military State and County Committees, for
the vslusble aid they have grstuitously
rendered the Executive in the various ON
ces they have performed in connection
with the organizing and providing for the
wants Of the Ohio Volunteers; and to the
Secretary Of the Treasury Of the United
States, for the interest he has uniformly
displayed for the promotion Of the efficiency
and the welfare Of our troops.
In retiring from the trust which re-
ceived from my fellow citizens, l would
evjnes singular insensibility not to &C.
knowledge my profound sense Of gratitude
10 them for the generous confidence they
have repcsed in me. In entering upon the
Executive Office, 1 unstfectedly declared my
distrust of my ability to discharge the du-
ties that would devolve upon me. Those
duties have been more responsible and