Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1863-09-08
MORNINGLEADER.
TUFs1AY nloRNlee, sEPT. S, IL.


ult which contains an account Of the for
nation in England Of q Union and
Society" for giving express
sion tc sympathy with TIE cause of free
dom and fraternal regard towards the
loyal people Of the United States. They |
regard that the breaking up Of the Amer
icsn Union, into two separate Govern
msnts, would be worldwide disaster
and they snumerato calamities that would
ensue from such o result, among which is
named the re-openiBg of the African slave
trade with all its horrors and barbarities.
The Examiner publishes list of be-
tween fifteen and sixteen hundred names
already enrolled in this Society, scattered
throughout the United Kingdom, among
them names Of great prominence and
influence, and all Of the highest respecta-
bility. Among them we notice the names
Of Eve members Of Parliament, the names
OF the Mayor OF Birmingham and the
Mayor Of Rockdale, Of Lieutenant General
7. P. Thompson Professor J. E. Cairnes,
A. NJ. Dublin; Professor John Michel,
Dublin Professor GOldwin Smith, Oxford;
Professor F. ". Newman, London Pro-
fessor Beesly, London Bon. and Rev.
Baptist W. Noel, Lon iOn; Rev, T. Guthrie,
D. D. Edinburg Rev Newman Hall, LII
B. London Rev James Massie, D. D. Ii.
D. London, and numerous other Clergy
men, Councillors, BsrTisters at.Law, &C.,
Sc. We notice the names Of over four
hundred Clergymen enrolled in the list of
signatures which will convey to the
reader an idea Of the character of the
movement. Names are constantly being
enrolled in all the important towns in the
North Of England. There are already for
ty-three Branch Societies formed, and the
work is still progressing. All this is Of
great interest and first importance, as
showing the friendly and sympathetic in
terest entertained by the intelligent mass-
es Of England, outside Of the ruling class,
towards the loyal people Of the United
States.
Having promised so much, we cannot
refrain from giving entire the declaration
Of sentiment of this important Society and
its Branches. 1t is as follows;
HUE1os AND EMAEcIPATIoS SOCIETY
Offices 81 TieeddiIly, BGReIesteT.-The
Union and Emancipation Society of Man
chester has been formed to give expression
on behalf Of the population Of this district,
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Of freedom, and fraternal regard towards
their kinsmen of the United States and
to resist all recognition Of the slavehold-
ing ccnfederacy.
"The breaking up Of the American
Union into two OF more separate. Govern
ments would be a worldwide disaster, and
entail many grievoUs calamities. Such a
disruption would substitute for single
and cheap government, two or more Of
very expensive character would impose
upon each the necessity Of keeping up
large standing armies, which would ab-
sorb, as in Europe, third of the resources
of the State, imposing heavy taxes on the
people would provoke, sooner or later,
other wars as disastrous as the present, /;
would encourage the secession Of Ot'aer
states, and thus paraiyse ast msgnJ ficent
development Of human activity and con sti-
tutional liberty, which has been DE admi-
ration Of the civilized world; and would
reopen the African slave trade with all its
horrors S'ad barbariiies. We are, there
fore, Deeply convinced that the mainte-
D',nce of the Federal UnioR Of America is
an object Of uuspeakable Importance 10
the whole family, and that its disruption
would prove a calamity TO the cause OF
freedom and to the interests Of ciFiliza-
ton.
with every wish to uphold The principle
of non. intervention and strict Govern
ment neutrality, we are impelled to declare
that this nation is ny its feelings inclined,
IS by its anlecedents bound, to give its
Whote moral support to the cause Of order,
of civilized freedom, Of constitutional
government, and Of nancipatioD, all OF
which are represented by the North in its
struggle to maintain the Union.
The so-ealled Southern ehiTslry" i6
waging war against free, popular gov
ernment, with the intention, unblashingly
proclaimed, of forming a new Confedera'
tiOn, whose chief corner stone shall be the
execrsble system Of human bondage. The
men who initiated this wicked rebellion
did so by perjury, robbery, and fraud COM
mitted against the comm unity by whom
they were paid and whose constitution they
had sworn TO defend.
The Federal Government, on the other
hand, was elected on the policy Of restrict
ing slavery within existing State limits
and onsthe principle that the normal con-
dition Of all the territory of the United
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this that the shareholders rebelied.
since the commencement Of hostiliiies
President Lincoln has made many praoti-
cal advances towards q complete recogni-
tion Of the declaration Of independence
thst all men are created equal He has
procured the liberation Of the slaves in the
District Of Columbia, ard The Introduction
Of slavery in the territories he has en-
forced ths laws against the African Slave
trade, and FOR lis moro efRe0tual suppress
ion has concluded treaty with England
granting the right Of search; he has de.
cided to receive an bassadors from the ne.
gro republics Of Hayti and Liberia; and
following the good example of Great Brit.
ain, he has proposed to purchase the libeF
ty Of all slaves in the loyal States; an6
his Attorney General has pFonOaaeea fret
negroes to be citizens Of the Union.
which previous governments lad denied
To crown this series Of Just and human,
efforts Of freedom, President Lincoln, a
eonnander-in-chjs.ll Of the forces, has pro
claimed 0nrcn c5nditional freedom to 81
DonosD n Of the rebel States.
l.ss conduct Of those public men amongs
US, whose policy has been to retard tn
progress oflibsrty at home (pretending t
ignore the distinction between the aim
Of the constitutional government at Wash
ington and the slsveocraey headed by JET
ferson Davis may be understood: but 70