Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1863-10-15
MORNING HEADER
IURsD1Y 50KNTTG- OCT. IS, 1888,
speeeh ID seeretnry chase at OInelunaii

speech and did so in one of his happiest
efforts. We should be glad to give his
speech in full, but can only give the fol- i
loving extract regarding some Of the more l.
D Comment measures of the Government: :
"Now,my fslloB-eilizers,I I an not going I
TO make a speech but will 60 over some /
Of those heads that appear most promi- /
mont TO my own vision. have shown |
Won what kind OF man we have l have /
shown YOU where we stand in the war, |
allow me TO say another thing to you. 1t /
was one Of the most natural things in the /
world that, when the war began, we should |
want to get through it without disturbing |
the Institution Of slavery. l have often |
spoken in Cincinnati, and you all know
Whas my feelings are, for l am just the
came man was when spoke to you ten
ssHr wears ago. L very simple and very
plain tnat slavery depended for its exist
euee outside OF those States upon the na-
tional viii, which is simply saying your
wlll and my will-that slavery outside Of
those States should not exist antagonistic
70 free labor But with slavery in South
Carolina we in Ohio had nothing to do
and was just as much averse to any in
reference with anyth thing within the lin
It's of the States-Glthough dislike the
institution aad coudemn it-yet l was
lust as much averse 10 any interference
with it. as I should be with their inter-
ference with cur institutions here in Ohio.
That is my doctrine. And so, when this
rebellion commenced, II would nave Oeen
extremely agreeable 20 me if We could
have put cur foot upon The saake-I mean
- the rebellion-and crushed it without any
further trouble But while l greatly de-
sired that and had been General-in
- ChiefI should have attempted, in an awk
ward kind Of q way, to accomplish it
still we all know the rebellion went on,
% and assumed greater and greater proper
lions.
awe put greater and greater armies in
~ the field but the slave population in the
South was the heart Of the rebellion rails
ing provisions In the army, while the sr
my was fighting in the field so that they
could send almost their whole white Ia
boring population into the battle field,
sa snd they had another population behind
7 them to iced and support them. And,
so therefore, it appeared evident, especially
as We had to depend upon the blacks in
the South for information for our armies,
and that the whole population was 50 far
demoralzed that they the only
friends our armies could fnd when they
passed through it seemed, / say perfectly
clear that we had 10 strike at this under
-aas-- prop Of the rebellion, and so when Presi-
dent Lincoln thought fit to issue his pro-
clamstion, said amen, with all my heart.
TEnthusiastic cheers
HIt was erintended toinerfere with
States that were loyal. This proclamation
comes up as q great feature in this
In my judgment the proclamation was the
right thing in the right place, lcheers
and without it I am just sure as | am
of my own existence, that we could not
have made the progress We have made.
Loud cheers. And l hold that who de
nounces the proclamation, either speaks
ignorantly, speaks about that Of which he
knows little nothing, or else he really
desires that the rebellion should succeed.
FCheers1. There is alternative the
- rebellion would have succeeded but for the
proclamation. II, then, man opposes
il because he does not understand it, or
because he wishes the rebellion 10 succeed.
But then, say some, you are making war
.aGCi4li upon these people in the South, and you
will not let them come back into the Union
with their slaves. Well, nov gentlemen,
there sre two classes Of States in the
EF1 South, there is the class Of States that is
~ affected by the proclamation and olass
-st lr. Of States that Is not With this last class
Of States, which is not affected by the
proclamation, we have simply, nothing to
EE do except TO bid God speed toJhe Gncondi-
tional Union Of those States, that
- j V they will do their own work in their
own way, and in their own
time and all we have to do, is to
stand by them. TCheersl. But in the
Hz11ia States, which are affected by the prOcls-
nation, the case is different. Either the
sref8f= proclamation great, EoRstrous
sham, and an imposition in tho face Of the
world, else that proclamation was an
efectual thing, and there slaves to-
e. day in the rebel States. [Cheersl They
are all enfTanchised By the proclamation
la' % for what says it all the slaves of these
-la7 States are declared now, and forever fri e
- and the Executive power is pledged to tAs
- .aea maintenance Of their freedom If it were
not SO it would be a national impostUre,
and 1 would no more be guilty of that
piece Of infamy than l would steal into
81 a1 your house at light and rob your pantry.
- Laughter and oheersl But what have
80 we to do with this proclamation in the re-
bellieus slave States. Il is a very simple
thing. eimplV recognize the Union
men who remain in those States. Such
. men as Mr. Flanders and Mr.. May and
whole host Of others who were known IS
e. slsve-owneTs, are now satisfied that the
Union men Of the SOUTH must see to it that
slavery must never be pegmfttsd TO be re- !
-QAEa established in those States. Take such a |
man as the Hon. Charles Anderson, when |
he went home ead stood up for the Union, I
~ what did The slave sristooracy do for him ?
They drove him from the States and his |
wife and, little ones were obliged to take |
~ shelter in the bush. And so with multi |
tudes of Union men in Texas at the pres |
Ti1Fr entdsy, but all Of them wish 10 get back |
and establish free State in Texas be- |
cause, they say, other than fsee State |
can ever protect them from the enemies of
human freedom, and was going to say,
Of human nature. [ChaeFsE Again, ia
Florida there man 5 VINO we're driven
81 EEt away who are now anxious to return. Is
there herS who wants these noble
"a l. generous Union men of the South TO 90
s,- back to be trsmple1 under foot By restor-
ed rebels TCries of " No Hot''l Let
them 60 back, but let them 90 back under
tla the egis of the American Union, and the
protection Of the Government pledged to
them, [cheers1 and then they viii take
care TO settle this question of slavery
They will amend the Constitution 50 as to
put the slavery question where 1t ought to
I be. When tkat is done, who is going to
talk sbout the proclamation You have
% here, my fellOw-etizens, an intelligent
80 statement, as It seems TO me- Of the man
d s5s5- Her in which this thing be settled