Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1863-10-20

and he formed abolition societies. They
could only agitate the surface God did
see it, and he had his own way; which
was to come with tempest, and thunder and
storm-With fire, and earthquake and war
and grasp the the infidel races by The hat,
and shake them over the abyss Of utter Ma
tionsl destruction. Atlength, the Puritan,
with his civilization and industry, and the
cavalier, with his slavery and barbarism,
met on the plains of Kansas in conflict;
and so the war began. Its cause.-the ef-
fort of the cavalier to strengthen slavery,
and the Puritan to resist it. Then came
the great revolt, and resistance to it--snd
sll to loosen the great wrong of slavery
from its bed in the depths of the Nation.
Our rulers would not see this, but
thought TO crush the rebellion and save its
csufe; utfailed. And it was only as they
ventured timidly and hesitatingly into the
onsWeeping tide of Providence that the
thing that we call success, came to be ours.
And it is only by casting our all into and
upon this tide, that we shall ever be born
to the shores of peace, and safety.
The crime was National, and must be ex-
plated. 1t was useless to cry peace; use
| less to sprinkle the door-posts. The angel
| Of Death would make no Passover. These
youths, without spot or biemisb, were part
of the needed sacrifice. If more are de-
msnded, more are to be given up. But let
us feel that in our poor earthly way, that
we are with, and not against, the great
purposes of the great Ruler.
As the destinies of the races were blend
cd in the beginning, SO they cannot be
discovered. 10 permitting the African to
be planted here, he was to achieve some
Ling for himself and his race, as we'll as
ours; and was made and must be recog-
niEed as q so-worker with us aud for US,
and for himself, with us. Has he not
toiled long enough? has he not suffered
enough has be not accumulated enough
to begin to have something for himself, and
for his race? And now, as he has worked
for US two centuries, so now, he strikes for
us, and for himself, and for Africa. And
il is also part of the great scheme, that
we are to be indebted to him also, in this
great struggle; and the sooner our true
relations to him and his to US, and to this
great war, are understood and acted upon,
the better.
No man need fear the loss of our ma
tionality, nor of anything really good
Our Government does not, like those Of the
old world, dwell in external emblems of
power, that can be broken; it does not
dwell in the Constitution-that, in itself,
is powerless, and can find its support only
in the love and reverence Of the people
Destroy every possible copy of the Consti
tuition. and every record of it; uproot and
overturn every memorial Of our national
power; blet out our Government; Danish
the President; snnihilste Congress, and
exile the Supreme Court; sweep from the
earth every vestige of the State Govern
ments, and you have in no way endangered
the American Government The people
would assemble in convention tomorrow
and set it up anew improved by the hand
that would destroy it. Our government
resides in tie hearts of the people and he
who would annihilate it, must still thelas
American heart and when the last thrOb
expires under the war hoof, the American
Government and its hated institutions will
have porished.