Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1863-11-28


| ity; they must have il to advance, to become
assimilatsd and harmouized. Without il
they must retrograde, and sink from . people
| into popuiace, formed into masses, mud
| silis, poor trash, and such like shadows and
shams of humanity. If masses requires q
nation to keep them in subsection, G people
need it to raise them to their rightful Bu-
premacy in self-government.
III. The American people are able to
achievs and are achieving a worthy and sta
ble nationality. There is virtue in this great
christianizsd people, and virtue seeks a coun-
Try and q Government. The organizing and
administrative faculties, so vigorous in the
American mind, have been held spell-bOund
for thirty years by the sOrcsry Of slavery,
but with the breaking ap of this spell they
will spring up into action, grasp the charter
ed sovereignty, and realize grand, national
unity.
The time for this has come. Rude war has
startled the slumbering Samson from the
Delilah-lap Of compromise, padded with
cotton into the softest Of pillows.
The giant has snapped his Withs. The hrst
American war was for Independence, that
there might be here people. This last war
is for nationality. It is war of opPugnant
ideas Of Government. 1t is a rebellion
against Federal supremacy and for State
rights. It is q bold, bloody assault upon na-
tiOnal unity, rather than upon U nion, which
means one thing at the South, and another At
the North. Hence the delusiOn and dupfiei-
ty of the cry The Union as it was" What
was it? No matter. We are concerned with
what it shall be. We are resolved that it
shall hereafter signify National Unity
For this prize the American people are con
tending. For its enjoyment they are being
hvyN he IS
They are achieving their nationality by
arms they are winning it by war they are
climbing to its height over the piled bodies
of slaughtered patriots and rebels.
u.-EHAT SHALL TBE NATION BET
Not merely Union, with the dubious sp-
peiIation-Un nited States. The Union has
always been in dread of its own dissolution.
The nation must have power to main ain the
Union, power to control the sections and
States in their relations to it, excluding Sc
eession in theory and in fact. Union apper-
tains to the States the nation to the pso-
pie. Hence it is more than the Uniun-that
is but one sf its conditions. The nation is q
compact organization of the people for Gov
ernmt mt, and for vital unity. I is their own
fabric, their fortress. It is to the people
what section, State, county, city, home, can
not be--their whole country, one and indi-
visible the same heritage to the New Eng
lander, to the Western pioneer, to the weller
on the Pacific coast, and to the citizen on the
Gulf. It must have full power Of self pro-
lection, and supreme authority.
III. WHAT SHALL Rs THH sExEFrTs OF THIS
NATIONALITY
L InealcuIable benefits will flow to the
sections, the States, the remotest territories,
the utmost Verges and minutest sub divisions.
UHiOH will be guaranteed ts these widely
scattered portions. They will be grsspsd by
the strong arms of nationality. The various
local isalOusIss will be harmonizsd. There
will be ono North, no South, no East, no
West; but one country, one nation"
II. There will be benefits to the people.
The sense Of nationality well defined will
snnOble every citizen, aud make every Amer
loan q sovereign. The sense of 7security re-
sulting from the stability Of the government
will yield certain repose which has been
wanting in American character. We have
been afraid our government would fail We
have mistrusted the Union. We have been
subject to periodical psroxy sms Of panic.
We have eDvied the stability of the British
Government What happy change when
We shall be brought to repOss in the superior
durability of our own loved nationality I
The strongest, as well as first, in the world
III. There will be signal benefits from the
regulation Of party in our political machinery.
Slavery has perverted Party. It is q salu-
tary element in a democratic nation, when
regulated, Old party organization are now
dlsintegrated, and can never be re- construct
ed. New ones must take their places, with
out the fierce antagonisms hitherto involved
| in the political struggles.
". There will be great benefits to foreign
people, whether as smigrants or contenders
for popular rights at home.
This magnificent nationality is within the
grasp of the American people, Let US then
offer to-day our thanksgiving, with those of
all the people, for the near prospect of so
glorious heritage. Let cur Annual Thanks
givings be no longer State usage, but s
| national observance. Let US learn on these
days of praise and gladness to be less and
less sectional, more and more national.
Let us teach our children round the festive
| board to be no more Buckeyes, but Aneri-
cans. Let us praise the God Of our fathers,
who hath given them and their children and
children's children both the material and
the mind, the land and tho life, which fore
token a mighty nationality. And let US
trust Him to conduct US, through civil war,
through carnage and destruction, to the
heights Of an impregnsble nation, against
WHICH no arm Of rebellion shall hereafter be
raised.
A collection, amounting to S54, was taken
up for the benefit of the Freedmen.