Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1864-10-06

nation has been put upon it. The people
have been hoodwinked. They have been
iriven into party lines and to the support
)fparty measures, and now they are paying
he terrible penalty. There is one great
sson which you all must learn-and that
i: "Do your own thinking" Do
30 allow yourselves TO be the prey
Df party demagogues, or they
will lead you into irretrievable ruin. The
time meyer came when there was not enough
patriotism in the people to keep them all
under one government. But, as contested
questions must arise, it was necessary to
provide a supreme arbiter for them
and that arbiter is the ballot box
And it has become the cardinal prm-
ciple, the cornerstone, of the Govern
ment, that the will Of the majority is |
the supreme law, and that the minority |
must yield to will when expressed. With |
out this the government is at an end. It |
is rope of sand-it is anarchy, discerd, |
civil war.
But Lincoln was elected, and the defeat
ed party refused to submit TO the will OF
the msjority-not the whole Of the party,
but one wing of it. Where are the Demo-
cratic candidates who were before the
people in 1860? All the survivors
are in the rebel service. Douglas is dead
Douglas, the only patriot of them all.
And as for poor Joe. Lane, don't know
where he is, but if he isn't in the rebel
army it is only because JEFF. Davis won't
give him a Second Lieutenant's commits
sion, for ifhe could get that he would join
their army. Laughter.l
The question of popular sovereignty, OF
the right to govern ourselves, is thus in
volved IN this war. The war is waged against
the right ofthe peopleto govern themselves,
and it is indispensable to a perfect and
complete, indication afpopular sovereignty
that you elect Abraham Lincoln and no
body else. [Applause.l believe in elect
ing and re electing him until every rebel
| in arms, who survives the bullet and the
halter, shall recognize his authority. Re
newed applause.l
And more then this, don't believe that
| anv other man should be nominated Lin
/ coin is a man of more brains than any ofhis
| Cabinet, and better qualified TO exercise the
/ duties of his office than any man l know
of. The depreciation of Lincoln, tolerated
by Republicans and persisted in by Demo-
Gratis with no more brains than oyster shell,
/ has no foundation. He is q man OF more
honesty, talent, purity and integrity than
one in a thousand of ordinary politicians.
| He is my choice, first, last and all the time.
| [Applause.l
| DO you want any proof Of Lincoln's abil-
! tiles? You will remember that before he
became President, he was in the House Of
/ Representatives two years. This was his
| only ex erience. He was unacquainted
with our leading statesmen, from whom be
| must select a cabinet. He came into office
| March 4th, 1861. He found rebel gov
ernment, with President, Vice Presi-
dent, and all minor offices, regular
ly organized, recognized by seven states,
| and with standing army Of one hundred
| thousand men. The loyal men OF the
| North were utterly unprepared for war.
| They had had peace for three generations
/ military life and training were almost for
! gotten, and nothing was held in greater
| contemptthan epaulettes and peacock teath-
ers And it takes as long TO train nation
| to the arts of war as to those OF peace
! IN is as hard to make a man a
soldier as to make him a carpenter. Then,
too, our standing army, OF between thlr-
teen and fourteen thousand men, IN its
whole array, every organized regiment,
every organized company, was IN the
| extreme Weat, SO that the only available
force to protect our capital on inaugura-
| tion-day, against a standing army of l0O,-
900 rebels, was five or six hundred raw re-
cruits, collected in New York harbor, to be
disciplined before they were sent to their
regiments. And our army was in command
Of officers like Twiggs, who surrendered
them to the rebels as prisoners of war.
| And, too, within the previous year, John
B. Floyd, Buchanan's Secretary of War,
sent South, from Northern arsenals, 115,0O0
stand of arms, and on the 4th OF
March all of these were in the possession Of
the rebels. He ordered I25 pieces of
seige artillery sent South, from Pittsburg,
/ under pretence that they were needed on
fortifcations at Ship Island, on the mouth
of the Mississippi and at Galveston, when
! the foundations ofthe fortihcatiOns at Ship
Island had inst been laid, and it would be
| two years before they could receive the
| guns, and when not a spade had been
| used on the Galveston works, and it would
! take five years to preparsc them for artil
! lery Every body knews what that means.
| Ane this was done by meu you placed in
power. Voice Not II No, my friend,
! nor l either, thank God.
What has Lincoln done? In this emer-
gency he has placed an army in the field
He has made farmers and artisans into sol
diers. He has sent to the battle field a
million and a half of men. Is he fool p
This is not the work of an imbeeile or an
ordinary man. 1t is, on the contrary, the
most extraordinary deed of which history
| furnishes US an example.
Mr.. Stanton continued at some length to
defend Mr.. LincOln's course. He showed
how many things he had thought unWise
had since been proven the very wisest
course, referring in this connection to the
reten ton of Grant and Sherman, and the
issuing of the Emancipation Proclamation.
He uttered an eloquent eulogium on Sher-
mans recent campaign, and defended the
Emancipation Proclamation at length and
with ability.
He proceeded to show up the weakness
and absurdity of the Chicago platform, ex-
posing the planks declaring sympathy for
the soldiers and offering them protection
in mastery manner. He demonstrated
that the part of the war which was failure
was made SO by the incompeteney of their
leader Mcclellan. In reply to the charge
that this was "nigger" war he showed
that Lincoln had tried the rose water
theOry-with six soldiers to guard rebels
setting hen-untiI its folly was demon
strated, and that since the issuing of the
emancipation proclamation the whole tide
of war was changed in our favor, the food
producing of the South removed,
and all chance of foreign Intervention in
favor of the rebels annihilated.
We regret that the want of space pre-
vents fuller report of Mr.. stanton's re-
marks, to the power and force of the con
cluding portion of which our mesgre anal
ysis does great injustice. They were fire..
quently greeted with delighted applause,
and were productive of great good. But,st
this point, the rain, which had been driz-
zling ali the time, increased to a drenching
shower, and Mr.. Stanton was forced to con-
clude. The announcements for the eve
ming were made, and the crowd dispersed
in quicker time than if they had been fired
into by musketry. .-.-
THE ILLUMINATION.