Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1864-11-17
DAILY LEADER,
s THURsDAY. rNOvEMBER ~.



5F . Fren Frying Pan 10 Fire"
Governor Brown, Of Georgia, hnds him
self placed in very embarrassing circum-
stances jus nov, if one may judge from
the message he hss recently ssnL to the
Georgia Legislature. He Is between two
fires, and is in doubt how 20 escaPe. On
one side is Scylla, on the other CharybdiF.
Breakers are in the front and breakers in
the rear. He hates JEFF Davis and he
hstes Abraham Lincoln. Hesees the Con
federacy plunging into military desPOl-
ism, worse than that from which IN srf7eV'l
hour he thought to escape. He feels thst
Georgia would never have torn herself
q away from the old Union If she had not
hsd the Illusion of State sovereignty in her
eve. But yet he GEES State sovereignty,
under the reign of Davis, rapidly passing
away. BE insists upon the independence
Of the South, and yet he exhcrts Georgis
soldiers never to lay down their arns until
the despotism at Richmond has recognized
the individual sovereignty Of their own
State. He is thus in the midst Of many
conflicting doubts. Like the poor travel
er, beset on one side by the hungry lion
from the mountains, and on the other by
the ferocious crocodile from the river,
he knows not which wEy to fee. -,r
EiIn the midst of his dilemma Governor
Brown sees no mode of escape but one,
that is, to let each independent State de-
eide in a convention OF sovereign States TO
which contederacy she viii belong. But
unfortunately for Governor Brown, be
fesls much stronger than be thinks. This
remedy involves the very point N dispute,
whether the Republic Is yitslized unity
Of which each State is = living part, OF
whether it Is mere mechanical aggregs-
tion of independent powers thst esn with
draw whenever they shall see fit SO TO do
The remedy proposed By the troubled
Brown is one which the people of the free
North have Just decided to pc imPrsctica-
bic nd unwise.
N
when he hears inst four more years o.
war await his unfortunate people unless be
secs ht to give in his allegiance TO the gen
ersl Government War seems 20 be the
only remedy for curing the people of The
South of their infatuation. Asfast as they
are relieved Of the presence of the rebel
armies, SO fast shall they become loyal and
freedom-loving.
Maryland is Free and loyal, and other
border States will soon follow in her shin
ing path, and we have no doubt but thai
Georgia will in due time follow also,
whenonce it shall come under the dominion
ofthe army of the Union. Enlightened
selfinterest, # no other reasoIb will
prompt the people of North Carolina, Al
abama Georgia and Old Virginia to re-
turn totheir allegiance. They will see the
utter hepelessness Of the war they wage.
The men who edit newspapers at Rich
i mond, under the shadow of Dayiss tyran-
ny, may talk of war for the next geners-
tion, and may put on brsggArs airs, but
the people cannot be keyed up to the same
point of stubborn persistence IN actual
war. We look with confidence, therefore,
to the day when Governor Brown, and
men Of his stamp, Vice President Stevens,
and others, will no longer halt between
two alternatives, but will become active in
their efforts to restore the Union in more
than its original power-a Union cemented
forever by the blood of tens of thousands
of the young men of every Stste. The
duty Of the Government is to divide the
South, and thus hasten the day Of It's re-
demption from the darkest crimes thai
ever disgraced the annals of history. b