Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1863-10-08

ans OF l1e WaEllk6 " est lue men On Waoa8
banners are inscribed Mill SPrinss-7rd
Donelson, Pea Ridge and Vicksburg, Sill
loh, Csrnifex and Stone River, viii make
no terms, accept no truce, indorss no treaty,
until the military power of the rebt llion is
crushed forever, and the supremacy of the
astional Government acknowledged from
the Potomac to the Rio Grande.
Am l told that Union restored by force
of arms is not worth haying2 Am told
hat if the States now in revolt are whip
oed in fair fght-beaten and humiliated-
they will be unworthy and degraded mem
1ers of the UniOn2 We must have peace
irst, says a certain school Of politicians,
aud then, if we can, we will argue the
South into a reconstruction. In other
words, these gentlemen would have the
Government and the loyal masses Of the
country drain to the dregs the bitter cup
which 1t would dash from the hands Of
srBitors and rebels. The territory you have
occupied is to be abandoned, the public
property, the dock yards and fortresses
you have recaptured after two years Of
war, are to be surrendered, the victorious
armies of the Mississippi, the Cumberland
and the Potomac, followed by the jeers and
SCOTS of the enemy, are TO sneak, with
arms, reversed and flags trsiled in the
dust across the Northern border; and
your Government - the Government of
Washington, and Jefferson, and jackson
is to cover, dishonored and disgrsced,
by-Word and Kissing among the nation. II
me rebel armies Il will not say the rebel
States, for it is not against the States nor
their Constitutional rights we WACO war
if the rebel armies, and the oligsrchs who
control them, have their pride broken, and
their prestige humbled, let them blame
themselves. They have sown the wind,
let them reap the whirlwind, till the bloody
problem is finally woik ked out, eye to eye,
foot to foot, sword to sword, bayonet to
bayonet; if need be, for ten years longer,
with iron hearts, and iron fleets, and iron
hail, this generation of loyal men will, by
Gods grace, indure its heavy cross, and
until the broad daylight Of peace and or
der and victory shall come, will stand to
arms.
And then for you, soldiers-soldiers,
freemen and armed citizens Of the Repub
lic-it will be for you to remember the
Roman saying, Vel pace, eel bellO, clarum
fsri Hest," or, as old Milton has para
phrased it, "Peace has her victories, no
less renowned than war" 1t will be for
you 10 look to it that those arbitrary war
measures, justined by the awful presence
of rebellion, whose like the world never
saw before; justified by the maxim that
-'the safety of the Republic is the supreme
law" die with the necessities which gave
them birth. It will be for you TO see that
the powers of the Government are restrict
ed to their lawful and appropriate chan
nels; that each State has its full and per-
ect rights, under the Constitution, award
ed to it; and, finally, through the instru-
mentality of the ballot box, it will be for
you to put the seal of eternal political
iamnstiOn on those subtle and designing
demagogues, whose dissfsction and dis
loyalty to the country have already pro-
loBged the war, and to day more than all
otber agencies feed the unholy fires Of
treason riot and instruction. Mark the
prediction, that, when the war is over, it
will be to the men Of this human army,
more than to any others, that the people
of the Southern States will look for wise,
generous, patriotic conservatism.
They will trust you because of your un-
aincbing and unwsvering loyalty to your
great cause they will respect you as one
brave man, even though overcome, respects
another with whom he has measured
swords. The Government Of Jefferson
Davis may fstter the political spoststes of
the North for military purposes, butt much
mistake the character OF Southern men,
if while they hug the treason, they do not
scorn the traitor.
1t will he for you, above all others, when
this rebellion has spent its strength, to
recall to the minds of the people the adno-
milton,
1T is well to have giants strength,
But o, it's tyranny to use it like giant -
To hezl up the sores and scars, ami cover
up the bloody footprints that ne'er will
leave, to bury in oblivion all animosities
against your former foe, and, chivslrous as
you are brave, standing on forever strick.
en- fields, memorable in history, side by
side with the Virginian, the Mississippian,
or Alsbamian, 10 carve on bronze or mar
ble the glowing epitaph that tel US Of
Southern as well as Northern vslor.
That the day of ultimate triumph for the
Union arms, sooner or later, will come,
do not doubt, for have faith in the cour-
age, the wisdom, and the justice of the peo-
pie. It may not be for all of US here to-
day to listen to the chants that greet the
victor, nor to hear the brazen bells ring
out the new nuptials of the States. But
those who do survive can tell, at least, to
the people how their old comrades, wheth-
er in the skirmish, or the charge before the
rife pit or the redan, died with their "har
nest! on in the great war for Union and
Liberty.#
"How striklnply appropriate to Lytle himself
are these touching snd beautiful words.