Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1863-01-12


will be dispelled on reading the facts upOr
which we base them. The sth Of January
lisa time honOred dayin the land for Dem.
ooratic reunions and class meetings. Al
Columbus a suppefwas given atthe Amer
ican, ct which the responses to the tOasts
were more than responses-they we're long
political speeches, full 10 the uttermosi
with the bitterest hostility to the Federal
Government. Judge BARLEY said that the
best way out of the sad condition Of the
country was-whst2 For the rebels to
lay down their arms for a vigorous
prosecution Of the war until the suprem-
asy Of the Constitution should be re-estab-
lishsd over the South No--hnt for Lincoln
and Hamlin 10 resign But there was
another way in which he yould settle it.
He would "cease the war" land thereby
proclaim ourselves towards and unworthy
Of the Government which we thus desert);
"declare an armistioe land let the arch
traitors go iree) sopen negotiations
with these monstrous criminals) tandem
deavor to bring back the Union by com
promise and oonoiliation This plan was
recsiEed with general applause. In clos
ing he submitted thirty-eight counts
against the Republican party, in which he
charged the Republican party with hav-
ing created q national debt of three
thousand millions Of dollars-with the
destruction Of five hundred thousand dol
lars worth perty-bringing into dead
ly conflict three millions of men-homes
desolated, wives widowed and children
fatherless-the dissolution Of the Ameri-
can Union; and SO on.
Hon. q. J. Jswett, late Democratic can
didats for Governor, said that had he
been Governor at that time, he would
have issued counter proclamation on the
morning after the Presidents Proclama-
ton OF September 22d.
Sam. Medary Of the Crisis, and the mis-
erable martyr" Dr., Edison B. Olds, made
speeches in accordance with their daily
reasonable utterancss, as did McGregor
Of the Stark County Democrat, who had
also been arrested for reasonable Ian
guage. A speech was then made by L. R.
Critcbfeld, the newly elected Democratic
Attorney General, who attacked the
Government savsgely and would have
been applauded in Richmond or Charles
ton. BE said if any Of the "minions Of
Government attempted to carry out their
unlawful measures in his sacred local
ity" he was ready for armed Tssi5tanes to
them. He slandered the people and dis
played his own rebellious symathies by
saying that he didn't believe One-half the
people cared whether Abe Lincoln or JEFF
Davis occupied the White House at Wash-
ington. Such was his vile and open treason !
that Judge Thurman made few remarks
deprecating such views, and W. J. Flagg, a !
leading Democrat of the House, left the
hall, shaking his head, and the next day in
the House resolution to appoint com
mittes to inform Critchfeld of his election,
was laid on the table.
A resolution in commemoration Of the
late J. F. Bollmyer of the Dayton Empire,
was responded to by stranger, who open
Iy avowed secession doctrines. Such are
the reasonable aspects under which the
leaders Of Ohio Democracy choose to pre-
sent themselves, and it is such speeches
as these which the Plain Dealer CORES
pondsnce speaks of as an old-fashioned
celebration" and also cOmplaOently Of the
Grounds Of applause which greeted Mr..
Jewstes proclamation speech.
This is Ohio Democracy That of Indi-
ana is no better. In the Legislature atm
dianapolis, the Democrats boldly proclaim
in the ssnste chamber that they have the
power in their own hands, and mean to
use it. Some Of them avOw their deter
minatiOn to oppose every military apPro-
priation, and use every effort to cripple
Governor Morton's Administration. The
Treasury is in their hands, and much
trouble is anticipated. In the Senate, the
war was denounced az an Abolition
scheme, and the Presidents Proclamation
as sn Infamous, unconstitutional and IA
naticsl measure.
Leading Democratic members said they
were Union men only upon con ditiOn that
the Union could be maintained by consti-
tutional means, and they did not think the
war policy Of the Government constitu-
tional.
Judge Eckels, in advocating the claims
of the traitor Bright to a reelection, said
he hoped Kentucky would repudiate Lin
coins proclamation, and instead of going
out Of the Union, call upon the North
west to fight against Lincoln in the Union.
He said Indiana was ripe for revolution
against Yankees, and that there are thOus-
ands of men in the State ready to organize
an army for the rights Of the grain-grow-
ing States against New England.
Prominent Democrats there have bOasted
that Bragg received 1000 recruits from In
diana in his Kentucky campaign. The
town Of 9resncsstle, Putnam County,
where Judge Eekels lives, furnished five
young men. j