Cleveland tri-weekly leader. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1854-1885, 1863-01-13
THE TRI-WEEKLY LEADER,
EURsDAY MORNING, JAN. Is, I1s65.
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COLUMBUS supper was given atthe Amel
lean, at which the responses to the toast
were more than responses-they were Ion
political speeches, full to the uttsrmol
with the bitterest hostility to the Federa
Government Judge Bartley said that tn
beat way out Of the sad condition Of th
country Was-what7 For the rebels I
lay down their armsl for a vigorou
prosecution of the war until the suprem
aey Of the Constitution should be re-estab
lished over the South No-but for Iincoll
and Hamlin to resign But there wa
smother way in which he would settle It
he would "cease the war" land thereby
proclaim ourselves towards and unworthy
Of the Government which we thus desert);
"deelare an srmistice land let the arcI
traitors 60 free) "Open negotiations "
with these monstrous criminals) q and en-
deevor to bring back the Union by com
promise and Cancellation" This plan was
received with general applause. In clos
ing he submitted thirty-eight counts
against the Republican party, in which he
charged the Republican party with hay
ing -areAtod ----sigzz4t isDI or fhrse
thousand millions Of dollars-With the
destruction Of i've hundred thousand dol
lars worth OfPrOPerty-bringing into dead
y conflict three millions Of men-homes
desolated, wives widowed and eh ildre
fstherless-the dissolution Of the Ameri-
can Union; and SO on.
Hen. B. J. Jewett, late Democrats b.
didate for Governor, said that had be
been Governor at that time, he would
have issueda counter proclamation on the
morning after the Presidents PrOclama-
ton of September 22d.
Sam. Medary Of the Crisis, and the mis-
cradle martyr" Dr.. Edison B. Olds, made
speeches in accordance with their daily
reasonable uttsrances, as did McGregor
Of the Stark County DemocraS, who had
also been arrested for reasonable Ian
guage. A speech was then made by L. R.
Critehheld, the newly elected Democratic
Attorney General, who attacked the
Government ssvagely and would have
been applauded in Richmond or Charles
ton. He said if any Of the "miniOns of
Government" attempted to carry out their
a Hunlawful measures in his sacred local
ity" be was ready for armed rssistanes 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 ". J. Flagg, a
leading Democrat Of the Rouse, left the
hall, shaking his head, and the next day in
the House q resolution to appoint COM
nittee to inform Critchfsld 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 a stranger, who open
ly 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
pOndenee speaks of gs an "Old-fashiOned
and also complaeently of the
arOunds Of applause which greeted Mr..
Jewetfs proclamation speech.
This is Ohio Democracy. That Of Indi-
ana is no better. In the Legislature attn
dianapOlis, the Democrats boldly proclaim
in the Senate chamber that they have the
power in their own hands, and mean to
use it. Some Of them avow their deter
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 as an Abolition
scheme, and the Presidents Proclamation
as an infsmOus, unconstitutional and ia
natical measure.
Leading Democratic members said they
were Union men only upon condition that
the Union could be maintained by cOnsti-
tu6Onal means, and they did not think the
war policy of the Government constitu-
tisnsl.
Judge Eckels, in advocating the claims
Of the traitor Bright to q reelection, said
he hoped Kentucky would repudiate Lin
coins proclamation, and instead Of going |
out Of the Union, call upon the North
west to fght 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 bossted
that Bragg received {, 200 recruits from In
diana in his Kentucky campaign The
town Of Greencastlsr Putnam County,
where Judge Rckels lives, furnished Eve
young men.
Such monstrous doctrines are most out |
rageOus and call for the interference Of
either the Government or the people and
that right speedily. But these are not all
the dsmnsble schemes proposed by the In
diana traitors. The Democratic lobby
members have been advising the passage of
q bill declaring The Var Tar uHeOnstitutiOA-
al, and maEiHg il a felony to attempt its col
lection in the State.
It is whispered among Democrats that
the State Arsenal and arms will be placed
unde. the control Of Butternut COmmis-