Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1863-10-02

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for this reason, and for the additional one
Eg that ID is rumored he is to be appointed to
command st Baltimore in place of General
Sshsnsk, the tenor Of his reply will be
Of interest. The following is the letter of
3 inquiry:
srREETsBoRo, OmO, II
Sept. Is, 1863 !
GENERAL E. 3. TYLER :-srR: Many
Inquiries are being made ei me and others
as to the views you entertain IN relanon
to the present political issues OF the Gay.
E ~ Aware Of your many duties, l cannot
+. expe9t You to devote the time necessary to /
a thorough canvass Of tie whole subject, |
hut beg permission to request that you
give me, in general terms, such Of your |
views as time viii psImit, 20 crafty many |
Democratic friends.
Yours, respectfully
HARVEY BALDWIN.
General Tyler's reply is Scen, bold, man
Is. soldis7lI It is the unequivOcal ex-
pressions Of man, who, although known
all his life as a Democrat, is not yet will
ing to identity himself with the miserable
bastard faction that appropriate that naIAe
to-day. He has seen the course of the
war has participated in its dangers and
its varying fortunes, and has seen for him
~ self the utter futility Of tempOrising or
ie compromising policy. As he says, he was
81 q willing instrument of the mild policy
which prevailed for eighteen months Of
81 the war, and if he now acknowledges the
necessity for q more radical programme,
ID is because the war has forced such con-
viciion upon him. We quote few para
graphs, to show the spirit of this gallant
Ohio soldier.
The one great question for to-day he
thus states:
"Withme, ny dear sir, there is but one
issue. one question for our people to decide
At his time: Shall the Government be
preserved Shall the Union be restored?
be- A man in these days must be for the Union
or against 1t there is no middle ground,
The subject Of political policy, if you
4 please, is not in my opinion to be consid-
cred. The question is, shall we have
Government 70 administer2 That decided
afirmative1y by our people, and the re-
bellion wiped ous, We may then, with pro-
priety discuss political economy.
a or Democratic preoedeuts as guide to
present duty, he says:
q Here we are, the best government up
on which the sun ever shone, engaged in
civil war, our country divided by geograph-
ical lines On one side the people deter
mined to destroy the government; on the
other, try to save it By every means in
their power. What is your duty, and mine
in this conflict Can there be any ques-
IL, ss
let Us look back upon our own record, for
the past twenty years, and we shall have
no difficulty in finding a precedent to fol-
Low. Platforms and resolutions without
number, drawn by eur own hands, well
adapted TO this trying emergency, and uu-
less we are recreant to the principles thus
go often enunciated by Us, we shall be
found in the trent rank, giving our aid
and energies to crush out the most cursed
and unjustiiable rebellion the world has
ever known"
To The question as 70 Els support Ur ri1
present Administration he plainly says;
aIansWer unequiyocauyl Yes, with all
the energy Ipossess, and shall continue SC
70 do should L live to the end Of the war.
did not vote for Mr.. Lincoln, you are
well sware. and certainly he was not the
man Of my choice. Very far from it, but
he was elected by a constitutional majori-
ty, and became legally the President Of
the United States aDdis as much the Pres
ident Of every loyal man SIS if all had voted
for him.
OF South Carolina and the cause of tht
war, he says:
South Carolina came into the Union G
hereto and was the first TO lead off in tht
rebellion that she, through her Degenerate
sons, had been nesting for thirty lonl
years. Var was forced upon the Govern
ment-it certainly did not court it. Mr.
Lincoln, as the executive, was morally, lie
eally and consdtutionally bound to main
tain its honor and suppress the rebellion
at any and every sacrifice"
No charge here, that "tbe AbolitiOnist
began the war"
General Tyler thus disposes Of the mill
and cOnciliatory policy with which tn
President began the Wsr
flask, have not his efforts and ener
gies been given to do iC2 And if censur
able at all, It is for the mildness Of his pol
icy for the first eighteen months Of tn
war, Of which I was one of ths willing in
struments to carry cut. BY my order
many weary soldier paced his lionel.
beat TO protect the properly Ol men Wh
were in arms against US, and while giTini
that protection in many instances thei
families were casting bullets to shoe
down the very sentinel that stood guar
at their doors. For nearly two years ev
cry opportunity was offered these men. t
return to their loyalty, and save their un
", worthy necks and property"
That having failed, he has no ifs no
buts, no conditions to his lOyslty, bu
speaks words which should find an an
sseriDg echo in every loyal heart
@They refuse to do it, continue in opel
and defiant rebellion against the Govern
ment, with the certain knowledge Of tn
result Of their Obstinsoy, and for one an
decidedly in favor now of giving them til
results to their hearts content, even to sn
nihilation, if necessary to restore tn
Union. Iam in favor of vigorous pros
seution Of the war, to the end of a restC
ration Of the Government, even at the cos
of exinguishing every secessionist i
arms, and the entire dep0pulaticn Of th
African race south Of Mason aud Dixon
line, il the Government cannot be restol
ed without In other words, am in is
Eor of an unqualified support Of the ad
ministTation in the prosecution Of th
war, strike where II will, negro or no NJ
gro If the abolition Of slavery is s.
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