Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1863-09-12


! veterans, and the result was truly lmposini
procession. In this procession there Wer
aseeTtained to be over fire thousand persons
Taking into account the portion Of the audi
encs who came by cars or singly, and the citi
zenB Of Ravenna present, we do not think
eztravagant to estimate the number of tn
audience at from twelve to fifteen thousand
The procession proceeded to the spaciou
Fair Grounds, Whero an attentive audience
had already been listening for half an hou
to one Of Judge Spalding's most ehsraetsris
tic efforts. The meeting was organized b!
the appointment Of the following officers:
PresideHt-Hon. Darius Lyman.
PicU PresideHts-DaVid L. Rockwell, Sell
HeWins.
AT THE FIRST STAND.
Owing to the illness Of the President, Judge
Day presided and introduced Colonel Ander-
son, who spoke for over an hour to an audi
ence whose perfect attention snd frequent
applause. testified to their pleasure. We had
prepared complete report of this speech,
but our space fOrbids Us more than a mere
abstract.
SPEECH OF COLONEL ANDERSON.
The speaker began, without preface, to
show our sacred and bOunden duty to sup
port the sO-callod Union Party-in reality nc
party at sll-but gathering Of true hearts
banded to save our country from peril such
as never meneced it before, and such as God
grant may never menace it again. What is this
peril? A nation OF unparalleled prosperity
and the highest civilization is now divided,
not merely by feeling the most raneOrous,
but by civil war assisted by every appliance
that venomOus battered can devise. What is
the cause? To answer this question We
must 60 back TO the record Of former
eOnspiraeies and conduct. These men are
Waging desperate war with our fathers,
brothers, sons. We must look back and re-
read their history.
They didn't revolt because Of any morbid
resentment against the vituperation Of pOr-
tion Of the North. Ths rebellion is no tu-
multuous popular excitement under any pre-
text. It was calmly and eOoiy plotted. We
must understand this and then when the
leader Of the British democracy comes to you
With peace propositions you will knew their
purpose and effect II was their deliberate
purpose to change our form of government,
to break down our popular government be-
cause it interferes with slavery, their all in
all, and establish a despotism at once moro
dark, deep and cruel than any any that the
pages Of history have unfolded. Such was
their frequent aVOWal to me. The L. G.
wanted monarchy, nobility and an estab
lished church, claiming that We must 90
back to the normal institution" of man
kind. The eOadj0tOrs Of Valandigham
wanted 70 preserve the form Of a republic but
to debsse our government into an Oligsrchy.
They were defeated by their own insane an
bitiOn and not content with the substance Of
power which they had held for eighty years,
they wanted its shadows and shows, and at
tempted, like Cataline, to gain by sword and
torch what the Wiles Of politics did not
afford them.
Their government is founded on Slavery.
So their greatest man, Vice President Ste
phens, frankly tells US. It is indeed an oil
gareby-the ruling Of the many by the few.
Itis an oligarchy founded on pTopsrty-the
most cruel, dark and faithless Of all Oligar-
chies, and, worst of all, it is founded on only
one kind of property, to the exclusion of all
others-the very dupitabIe property in the
blood, flesh, bone, siDeW, breath, soul, life of
fellow men-cslled slavery. -
The speaker here referred to his own per
sOnal experience and situation in the South,
where a breeder Of another kind of ami
mals-of horses he was forced to ield his
social and political claims to the slave oil
garchy, and see his State disfranchised ,or fly
North. -~1lEa
The rebels hold that our fathers were mis-
taken. This was the teaching of Brooks,
now gone to his long aud hot account
[Laugbterl with Floyd and Yaucey. i'm
agine Satan below there stirriuguP the Goals.
for them. Laughter. They think our fathers
and Washington and Jefferson very weak.
They know better down in Charleston-I
called it Sodom yesterday by mistake, but
the mistake WasL't great, for Charleston is
worse than any SOd0m. Applause Gil
more has it in his power now ApPlausel and l
hope soon to hear that be has razsd it. I
Esnt Charleston to be as sodom has been for
twenty-five hundred years. tOheers.
want each brick reduced to sand. I want the
city lsvelled and sOWn with salt so that thence
there shall never grow grass nor rise human
lily again. [Greet AppIause,l am an old
school Presbyterian now. / bslieYe in the
place of which Calvin talks. Lsughter
Ny only fear is that It will not be long
enough or not enough to do justice to these
traitors. [oheers and Laughter
The speaker then went into an able and
thorough historical review Of Calhoun's COM
plants against the ordinance Of 1887, show
ing their utter absurdity. He then reviewed
the clause in the Montgomery Constitution,
giving the slaves three-ifths Representation
in Congress, showing what = tremendous
power it gave to slaVeOWHers and large slave
holding States HeWent on to state that mo-
tions we're made, and we're certain Of pas
sage in the rebel Congress for amendment to
their Constitution, giving fun representa-
tions for all slaves, prohibiting the admission
Of any but slave States, and forbidding any
State to change its Constitution so as TO for
bid slavery. This is State Sovereignty with
vengesnce The speaker stated some sur
prising and startling facts in respect TO the
open bribery in elections at the South. He
showed the insaPerable obstacles in the
way Of peace, which would result in
continual Jealousy and vatchfulness
and in the maintenance Of standing armies
which would be fatal 10 our liberties. Rather
than that, let rs fight till there is no slave
left, nor any man. woman or child, to oppose
our GOvsfnment. lApplause M
The speaker then proceeded to demon
strate that If slavery we're abolished the
slaves would never come North, as they are
only driven here by slavery, and that, if we
separate, the whole tendency Of things will
drive the restless and freedom-lOving to the
North, thus showing the utter folly Of the
cry against emancipation because il will over
stock our market with negro labor. He de-
fined his position on the slavery question,
He had endured slavery and not loved it, and
now that it was out from under constitutional
projection he was willing to fight it to the
death He eclosed by declaring himself more
venomous Abolit0nist than any that eveI
came out Of the Western Reserve.
CoIDnsl Anderson having concluded hii
powerful effort, Ex-Governor Dennison was
introduced and was greeted with three heaE-
ty cheers. We are forced by pressure il
I our columns to give only brief cOndensa
tion Of his address.
SPEECH OF GOVERNOR DEEEIsON,
He commenced by the remark that our du-
/ ty here taking care Of traitors in the rea'
was hardly less important than that Of ouI
soldiers who face them in ths frsnt. In
1859 BE- bad addressed them from under &
i party hag, now be spoke only for the Gov.