Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1863-04-22

was made for the people and the people for
the Constitution. There are some cases
in which ii is folly to talk Of law We
have not reached that point yet, but the
Copperbeads may bring 1t on 'em. rather
think they took a long step that way at
the last election 1 rather think that if
the legislatures Of Illinois and Indiana
had gone little further, if they had passed
a few more resolutions for peace and ar
mistice, if they had urged little further
their scheme for a Northwestern Conven-
ton, if they had blocked the wheels Of Gov
ernment little more, there would have
been two State Constitutions in ruins by
this time. I stood by rejoicing and saw
the Legislature Of Maryland broken up By
armed force, and wish the same thing
had been tried in two other States. What
right has any man to cover himself with a
Constitution which he has violated ~.
"Mr. Vallandighsm proposes to stop the
war now, for the sake Of Union. He is for
the Union. He has worn cut the knees Of
his breeehes praying fer it. Does he know
what peace means 1t means the Ohio
River for boundary line, and Ohio a bor-
der State"
That means standing still,-and l think,
we had enough Of that last summer. 1t
means paying out our money, wasting our
strength, exhausting our patience, the bur-
dens Of wal without its excitements, Civ
ing our adversary breathing-space, pay
ing our soldiers not to fight, saying to the
world that we cannot win without waiting.
Does not Mr.. Cox know this Does not his
people know it for 1 hold them RESPONSE
bic. You elect a man to ofice-he acts
damnably and you damn him. You are
H. .->a rphn ought to be damned"
"I am for peace; but on what terms 2
On none that leave the slightest tArnish on
the forehead of our national honor On
none that yield up foot of the old Union.
On none that admit that. the Government
has been wrong, and the South wronged.
On none that imply a libel on the loyal
people Of the North. The South are not
wronged. You, the people of the North
west, are the ones that have been wrong
ed. The South was actuated by an insane
ambition. They have had all and more
than all their rights"
al protest against the Crittenden Com
promise. A nation that cannot live with
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be kicked out Of existence"
1.-THE South appealed to the bayonet; let
'em get what the bayonet will give EN-"
"If subiugation means knocking the
sword out of the hands Of rebels and
bringing them back into the Union, I am
for subjugating the South"
"But they bawl about negro equality.
h. 41 hn o1rro1 Tf
strikes me that the man who is afraid Of
negro equality is pretty near even with
EN- already"
"They say that if we free the slaves we
shall be overrun with them. But what
drives them North2 Nothing but their
masters behind them. Take away their
masters and you can't kick them North.
Give them freedom at home and they'll
stay there"
What we want is, perseverance. We
must be like Rome, fighting Hannibal for
fifteen years. She won few battles, she
lost no wars. Let us initiate the Roman
doggedness."
"My quarrel with the President; for I'm
apt to have q quarrel all arOund-is not
that he has done too much, but that he has
done too little. He ought, by this time, to
have had hundred thousand black soldiers
in the middle of South Carolina. [Cheers. !
Fight? Yes, they'll fight. They are the
men whom Washington eulogized, whom
Jackson praised for bravery at New Or
leans. They were part of the only corps
who stood, at the battle of Bladensburg
The Marylanders ran-they could afford it,
for they have proved their bravery before
and since-but the men that stood were
corps Of marines, coming up too late, at a
jog-trot, and fighting sturdily, and in those
ranks were thirty or forty blacks, keeping
fully up with the rest and fighting as well
as any of them"
am well aware that these scattered ex-
cerpts do scanty justice to the fine effort
whose every word was electric. But nev-
ertheless, they give an idea of the magnif-
cent spirit of the speaker and the occasion.
During the day, Hamilton dispensed its
hospitalities most literally, and at about
four the meeting adjourned, and we all
went home, more earnest and devoted for
the words that we had heard.
~ LANcELoT.