Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1863-09-15

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Coon WORDS AND TRUE.-The pressure
of matter in our yesterdays paper crowded
out reports Of the speeches of Judges
Spaulding and Day at the Akron meeting on
Saturday. But they are too good to be lost,
and we have therefore inserted brief abstracts
of them below:
SPEECH OF JUDGE DAY.
The speaker remarked, in commencing. on
the wonderful excitement and interest dis
played in this campaign, showing that the
people recognized the importance Of the is
sue. It is simply whether We shall preserve
or lose the institutions of our fathers. The
solution of the question devolves on the Joys
in the field and not less on us at home, Cor
voting is now as important as fighting. Our
fathers will tell US, if experience does not,
the value Of Union. Washington could not
leave the Presidential chair without issuing
farewell address and declaring that the
Union is the palladium Of our liberties.-
Yet in Ohio-in Ohio, not South CarOlina-a
party rises and nominates a man notoriously
allied to the opponents of Union. The speak
er went on to express his confidence in the
old Democratic party, and his belief that
II,
and would yet be enlightened. The princi-
Piles Of Democracy ever follow the fag and
the country. When the old flag trailed in
the dust all Democrats rushed to preserve and
restore it. That was consistent with the old
Democracy Of Jackson and the principles of
Washington ard Jefferson. When did a
Democrat ever oppose the Constitution, or act
the craven when we were threatened by a
foreign power, or attempt to yield to a foreign
mediation, or demand a new constitution, or
build up ssectiOnal party or desire to dissolve |
the Union? And yet you have placed your
standard in the hands of a man who has |
done all this. The speaker proceeded to Of |
fer proof for this, from the speeches of Valan- |
digham, asking his readers to listen with |
Jackson ears. The record of the Copperhead |
candidate was most conclusive and dsmning. |
In contrast the speaker rehesrsed Jackson's |
appeal to South Carolina and his oath BY |
the Eternal, the Union must and shall be pre- |
served, which was greeted with immense |
applause.
When you and I threw down cur party |
standard for the support of the old flag, these
men wished TO seize it, and are now using it |
as pirate uses a captured flag to decOy |
the unsuspecting workmanship. The cleo
ton of Valisndigham would undo all, and |
more than all, that our armies have accom-
plished.
We have a great duty resting upon us.
The eyes of the world are on us. The cause
is national one. The last hope of the re.
bells is in the Copperheads ofthe North. With |
you rests the final decision. We can have
but two parties, the friends and enemies of
the Union. The eyes of God and man are
On us, and we can't dodge the issue. As
for me, 1 care not what men call me, for
me and my house, it shall be said when Pm
1esd and gone that Luther Day recorded his
rote, if it were his last, for liberty against
gARIRGlsaHPESsh RIGsH most eioa---.-
uration to remember the boys in the field,
md give them greeting by the right kind of
lOte.
SPEECH OF JUDGE sPALDEe.
LAD1EE, GENTLEMEN AND FELLow CITIZENS:
Il have often appeared before you in old
times but never as do now. have ad-
dressed you as a partisan Democrat and as
q partisan Black Republican and when I
am partisan 1 60 as far as be who goes the
farthest. But I speak now as g devoted
friend of Union, for, for the nonce, we have
abdicated all party names and issues and are
simply Union. 0nly one man on our ticket
voted for Abraham Lincoln, and he, Colonel
has shown his devotion to the
Union in the field.
First bespeaking tho attention and conf
dence Of his old Democratic friends, the
Judge proceeded to give brief resume of the
form and divisions of our Government, where
eeach department acts as the agent Of the
people. It had been arranged that the ma
jority should rule. Bnt on the election Of
Lincoln the South refused to submit simply
because he was elected by men opposed to
slavery. I defy any man to show any act Of
mine inconsistent with my Democratic prin-
ciples, except my opposition to despotism,
and that's an absurdity. But I saw that
trucking to the South would not subserve
liberty. In all other matters I've worked
up to the swingletTee. [Laughter. I wish
TO plead the cause of those arrayed against
in the field. A year ago could no
more have believed that VBllandigham would |
be elected than that the stars would fall from |
their courses. have boys fighting in the |
field, and would rather see these boys |
borne home dead on their shields than see
Vallandigham Governor of Ohio. amen
and aPplause
What is the cause Of the rebellion? Not |
the Republican party, for it exercised only |
its constitutional rights. twas the increase
of the free states in wealth and population, |
begetting Jealousy in the South. And are |
we eithsr too ignorant to know our rights or |
too feeble TO defend themf The speaker |
then rehesrsed most fully aud admirably the |
correspondence between Lincoln and the |
Democratic committees of New York and |
Ohio, giving in popular and numerous style |
the history Of the Judge Hall and Jackson !
fine, familiar to all our readers, and asked if
Lincoln had done anything, in arresting
Vallsndighsm, worse than Jackson.
In reply to the stacks on Lincoln for en-
ploying negro troops, the Judge referred to
the record Of Washington and Jackson, who
both did the same.
And have they fought? Have you read of
Port Hudson and of Shaw's gallant charge
at Charleston. The speaker here read most
impressivsly Bakers poem, The Black
Regiment" which was received with cheers.
Did any Democrat ever turn his back on
the Administration or the people when they
are Waging war. II have any faith in his
tory or knowledge of Democracy this is the
surest test Of q Democrat. The speaker
went on in his peculiarly fascinating and yet
desultOry sty in q speech of interest which
We regret that want of space has crowded
from our columns.
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