Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1863-10-21

The Issue that was Fought on the 18th.
Some Of the Eastern journals, in making
4 up their comments upon the results Of the
Ohio Election, make what we consider an
errOr in presenting she question.
~ The New York World says that ''the Re.
s.-4 publieans refused to let the issue be simply
the question Of an endorsement or repudia-
lion Of the military and political policy of
. : ! che Adninistration, end its removing of the
e Is safeguards Of civil and personal liberty"
The New York Tribune quotes this as
'lq. being substantially true; and at later
date, the Tribune sums up the elective issue
By stating what it was not. 1t says the
victory wss not Republican one; not an
,5.. Absliiion one; not an endorsement of arbi-
a5 tEhry arrests, and not general endorse
ment Of the Federal Administration, but
simply decision that the Rebellion must
- lse Be pat down and the unity Of the Republic
restored and maintained.
.I So far as the first two Of these negatives
80 are concerned, the Tribune is undoubtedly
.s. right was no party triumph; but we
= 4 hold that the result of the election was an
, endorsement, by the people, of all the radi-
s cal measures Of the Administration, in
.3 eluding emancipation, eOnfscatiOn, the
.si.sr. suspension Of the habess corpus, and the
arbitrary arrest Of Vallsndigham. We
state the question thus, because we know
tsas. that the leading speakers Of the Union side
thus stated it all through the campaign.
Mr. Brough himself, in the Marietta speech
which nominated him, took the strongest
ground in favor of the most radical policy
4gainet the rebels, and al their institu-
iaa tons which stood in the way of the Union
cause. In his response to the serensde in
this city, (his first speech after his nomi-
- nationl he tOoE, if possible, even stronger
$50. ground, snd in every public speseh
- -s since that time, he has spoken out unequivO-
eally in favor of sustaining the Admins
trstion Ia all its measures. he has given
the people to understand most distinctly
:. that there was no halfway about it; that
while the general platform Of the Union
party was the suppression Of the rebellion
- - and the restoration Of the Union, the par
-la ticulaF plRnks Of which it was composed
we're tne meaBure8 WHICH lne AahlnlsJEa-
l..5 tien sees ft to adopt to accomplish that
.s ss'H result So Mr. Brough has talked in pub
!. n fa. lie and private, and 30, too have all the
5ther prominent speakers for the Union
cause; and if the people did not understand
49, Il, that ignorance was the result Of mis-
i conception Of the plsinest terms Of the
= English language.
e This is still further proved by the fact
that ali VaIlandigkam speakers and papers
8 l' based their strongest appeals upon the
ies@ asrbitrAry arrest Of their champion, and
= 81 upon the exercise Of despOtic power" on
the part Of Abraham Lincoln. Ineessant
changes we're rung upon these themes,
.s and vivid pictures Of the slavery Of the
= people Of the North to c-ntraIaed Gov
srnmenf' were painted to influence the
gctes Of the State. A palmer issue was
never made. It Wss opposition to the Gov
srnment and the Administration upon the
one side, and sustaining Of both on the
3 other.
The people Of Ohio have not only sus-
O. sainsd the Government, but they have sus-
~ tanned Abrahsm Lincoln. And the stronger
doses Of radical measures he gives to the
( - rebels and all sympathiEers herewith, the
= nsrs heartily will he be sustained by the
- aitiEsns Of the Buekeye State.
=