Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1863-03-19

He has assiduously studied the teachings
Of this war; has learned its great lesson
and in full time he uttered its great word.
he commits errors. Who would have
committed fewer Think Of the fierce and
hungry demands that incessantly devour
him up Remember the repeated instances
in our own time when the ablest Of our
statesmen in that chair, with cabinets of
their choice, and sustained by msjorities
in Congress, in times of profound peace,
have gone down, and their administrs-
tions have perished under the bare weight
of the Government
And then contemplate, il you can, in
addition to the burdens that have crushed
so many strong men, the fearful RESPONSE
bilities imposed upon this man. Is it not
a marvel, q most living wonder, that he
sustains them so well2 Let not the dis
tant mother, who has given up loved one
to fearful death, think that the President
does not sympathize with her sorrow, and
would not have been glad, oh, how glad, to
have so shaped events as to have spared
the sacrifice. And let not fathers and
mothers and wives anywhere think that
as he. sees the long blue regiments Of brave
and beautiful ones marching away, step
ping to the drum-beat, that he does not con-
template and feel his responsibility as-he
thinks how many Of them shall 90 to name
less graves, unmarked, save by the down
looking eyes of Gods plying angels.
TIE POLICY OF THE WAR.
But these gentlemen now denounee the
Presidents policy of the war. Sir, I re-
member that others, too, used to complain
the same way, and just as if the President
was responsible for it, and could furnish a
policy for the war. The war is greater
than the President; greater than the two
Houses Of Congress- greater than the peo-
pie, with the new Democracy thrown in !;
greater than all together, and controls
them all, and dictates Its own policy; and
woe to the men or party that win not heed
its dictation. The House thought it could
control the war, and it good-naturedly re-
solved itself into a respectable convention
and passed with almost unanimity The
Crittenden resolution, and its getters-up
said to themselves, thafl fix 'emj" and
it hOated out on the popular breath like an
autumn leaf on the wind, and was lost in
some dell of fOrgetfulhess, no more to be
named, save here. You might as well at
tempt with packthreads to tie down The
pulses of the eternal forces Of nature, and
declare the objects and purpose Of a new
born earthquake, as thus to stay and con-
troll the forces that produced this revolu-
tion. !
These Democrats demand that the war
must be so conducted as least to aggravate
the feelings Of the rebels, and keen the
way open to a reconciliation. Well, sir.
for year and half we did conduct this
war on precisely these principles, for this
same purpose Of keeping the way OPEN
Never since the first battle on earth
was war so forbesringly and tenderly
carried on as is this on our mart
When the rebels smote us on one cheek
we turned to them the other also, got anoth-
er blow, and seemed rather to like it. We
guarded rebel property while the owners
were off numbering our people. The young
sons of northern mothers have stood
through the chill long night to guard the
dwelling with the wife and children of
one Of these "proud sensitive brothers"
who stale back in the cold gray Of the
coming dawn, and shot down on his own
doorstone the young guardian of his home
and hearth. Did not we turn our army of
noble and educated youths into slavehunt-
ers, and our officers into baying dogs, bail
ifs, and jailors, for their drivers? Have
we not placed lines Of sentinels around the
fields where they drove their chattels to
toll, and given up to lashes and death the
poor wretches who had served us with f.
deity Have we not guarded the whip
ping post and the auction-bIock Our
bayonets have forced the victims to beds of
lust and our soldiers were the sentinels
at the doors Of this hideous Prostitution
II there is any infamy that We did not
commit to keep "the way open," thank
God l am ignorant of it. Why, sir, the
venerable gentleman from Kentucky far
thest from me Mr.. WicklifFe1 did not
complain Of this mode of carving on
the war he whose notion of "the
Union as it was, and the Constitution
as it isl seems to be a restoration Of
the runaways to the patriarehal lash and
piOus sale Of the master. And during all
these months these Democrats have stood
holding out their arms and beseeching our
brothers to return, offering to compromise
and be compromised in any way, to any
extent, and on any terms; and they still
occupy that mendioant position, notwith-
standing they are spurned with SCOTS and
seOrn by the rebels.
And what were the results of thus car
rying on the war2 The wandering States
have united and sOlidifed, under the gen
tie pressure and opportunities of the war,
into the consistency Of a nation; and from
q few scattered, half organized regiments,
they confront as now with an army great
er than modern Europe has ever seen; an
army that would have walled Napoleon
out of Russia, and that could have driven
the Russians, French, English Turks and all
out Of the Crimea, or eat them, to their
cartridge-boxes, in a week And it was
through our mode Of conducting the war
only that the rebels have attained these
proportions. In how much longer time
would it have enabled them to achieve their
purposes, pray? Keep the way open Oh,
there are some fools so sublime, that the
maxim permitting them to profit by expe-
rience cannot reach theml Their folly
mounts up TO that awful crime that has no
name, and can have no forgiveness.
Concluded on Second Page.l
The Michigan State Fair is to be held at
Kalamazoo the present year. The citi-
zens of that place have raised $4,000 to
aid the exhibition upon the condition that
ii shall be held there and, with the usual
State appropriation Of $1,000, the Society
are confident Of making the Fair success,
notwithstanding adverse circumstances.
Extraordinary efforts have been made in
departments where nine months troops are
enlisted, especially that of General Banks,
to have them re-enlist for another year
Aside from the bounty offered in the Con-
scriptiOn Act additional offers have beer
promised from the State.