Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1864-09-15
Generals Grant and Sherman
Favor the Draft.
The Editor Of the New Nation
r and Gen. Fremont.
News from Rebel Papers
NEWS.
FROM BUFFALO.
Special Dispatch to the cleveland LEADER,I

Especial Dispatch to the Cleveland LEADEE-I
BUFFALO, Sept. a.
The fire is kindled. Buffalo was to-day
all ablaze with an enthusiasm from which
the beacon lights on every hilltop in New
York State shall catch their fame, and
whose kindling volume shall sweep across
the States of Ohio and Pennsylvania like
prairie fire.
In spite of chilling and constant del
uge of rain, commencing early in the
morning and continuing incessantly during
the day, the Union mass meeting to-day
has been one of the grandest political DEM
onstrations that ever assembled in Western
New York.
The discouraging circumstances we're
great. Vast numbers from the country
and from neighboring cities being kept at
home by the rain, and yet thirty thousand
freemen were to-day in council here.
The rain compelling the abandonment
of the stands upon the Terrace, all the
halls in town were chartered by the Union
men, and crowded to their utmost capacity
by Union voters.
The central meeting at st. James Hall
was presided over by Congressman Spaul-
ding, and stirring and statesmanlike ad-
dresses were made by Senator Sherman
and that eloquent Irishman from Syracuse
Patrick Corbett, ESQ.
Ex-Governor Randsll, of Wisconsin,
and Hon. Thomas G. Alvord, Union nom
inee for Lieutenant Governor in this State,
addressed most enthusiastic meeting in
the Metropolitan Theater, of which the
Hon. G. A. Scroggs was President
a third meeting, at the Opera House,
listened with unbounded delight to glOri-
Gus Union speeches from General Harnil-
ton, of Texas, and Colonel Gibbs, of Ten
nessee.
Besides this, several informal meetings
were held in various other halls, and were
addressed by prominent local speakers.
1t is especially noteworthy that there
was no lettingdown of Principles on the
part of single speaker, and that the most
Radical opinions received the loudest ap-
plause.
The Banners too, spoke with epigramat-
ic point and earnestness the popular con-
viction that slavery Is al the bottom of the
war
The most significant of the resolutions
declares that the experience of eighty
years has taught us' that human slavery
cannot be reconciled with republican
government; that it is the cause of the
war and of constant political and social
dangers, and we therefore desire that the
war NAV continue to be conducted so that
the blows which subdue the rebellion may
also liberate the slave.
The other resolutions declare fidelity to
the Union and constitution, and
a determination to suppress the
rebellion. They express the wish fOrpeace,
but the belief that it can never be made
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the Union nominees, and satisfaction
with the Platform; condemnation of the
Chicago Platform as reasonable and cow
ardly, and declare the sympathy and
thanks of the nation to the soldiers IN the
field. Isa.' II 80 I..umaa aa Ha
Tonight the skies having cleared, de-
monstratiOn of unparalleled grandeur and
brilliancy is gowihg forward.
An interminabie procession with bands,
cannon, flags transparencies, banners, mot
toes, music, and rnyrisds of people I'll all
Main street.
Many house4 and blocks are Illuminated
and flag floats on almost every ofhel
house top. ----..,
Elegant speakssFs, among whom ar,
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