Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1864-11-04

terence can possibly De drawn Dut tnAJ Jne
rebellion was justifsble, and may justly be
continued and persisted in while this Ad-
ministration is in power, and pursues the
measures Of policy it has adopted. ....
There Is no word of disapprovsl either
in speech or platform Of numbering in cold
blood our soldiers st Fort Pillow or of
numbering. by the slow process of starya-
tion and exposures, prisoners of war, Ia
kan IN battle. =. -.
And now upon the heels of this reyolu-
tionary Convention st Chicago comes the
letter of acceptance of the Presidential
nominee Of that ConYention.
Having been long at the head of the
army, and engaged in fighting some of
the battles for the " life of the nation" it,
would naturally be expected that General
Mcclellan would have had some word of
comfort for the soldiers in the field, and
for the government, and some word of dis
approval of the rebellion and its sbettOrs.
But not one word Of the kind do we find.
He does say, however, The preservation
of our linton was the sole avowed object
for which the war was commenced. It
should have been conducted for that object
orly and in accordance with those princi-
pies which I took occasion to declare when
in active service.
Thus conducted, the work Of reconcilis-
ton would have been easv, and we might
have reaped the benefits Of our many vic
tories on land and sea-"
GENETAL n CLELLAN- A FAILURE. ..
General Mcclellan was substantially at
the hoad of the military affairs Of the
,.-r,,,oy+ nd III ,,ol;o-- ,,ro,-o ;lad for
sixteen months, and with every earthly
advantage in his favor he failed, retreating
from Richmond with the loss of half of his
army, and having arst set himself down at
Yorktown with loo 900 men for six weeks,
when at no time did the enemy confront
him with an army exceeding 10000,
In the language of Governor Brough,
q Again, he lost his second opportunity of
crushing the rebellion on the field of An
tietkm, when he could have ground it to
pieces as between the upper and neither
milestone. Fighting with but one-fourth
his army at n time, and holding his own
men thus, until the enemy exhausted their
ammunition, he still acjuslly-let the rebel
army get away from him.. He missed his
second opportunity, either because, as a
politician he did not want to suppress the
rebellion, or from such extraordinary tim
idity and vascillation as makes him unfit
| to be placed at the head Of a government"
Reference was next made TO the claim
by the Democracy of accessions from tho
Republican ranks Of many leading poll
| ticians, and as q set of to this the names
Dix, Dickinson, Brough, Andy johnson
and many others were referred TO by the
speaker, as among the supporters Of Abra-
ham Lincoln for President. The speaker
concluded thus:
Look now upon this picture and then on
that and say which you will choose. Viii
you 90 with Fillmore and Hunt, &c, and
associate with Cox, Reed, ValIandigham,
Rynders, Burr and Seymour, and do the
| bidding of the Southern autocrat Davis
Or will you go with the party of the
I Union and assOciste with the noble
heroes, Dix, Dickinson, Maynard, Butler
BrOugh, and an innumersble multitude of
WORTHLESS, led on by the most fitting chief,
Abraham Lincoln, supported by Grant,
| a Sheridan and Sherman? r.-.
Choose ye whom ye will serve, and do
| it openly. Choose, if you will "the
abomination of dissolution" Davis and his
Northern allies, and strike hands and en-
ter into q covenant with death and hell if
you will, but as for me and my house, we
will enter into the A5rahanlic covenant.
The policy of the Administration was
next examined as TO slavery.
I had occasion some time since, on this
subject, to use the following language:
If it will materially facilitate the sup
preston of the rebellion, or provide for the
common defence, Congress has the right TO
declare every slave free in the land, and TO
employ every one SO freed in the service of
the country, and moreover, it is its duty to
do 50. E1-sr
The right to save the nations life" is a
sovereign right and it is recognized
throughout the whole spirit of the Consti-
tuition; the nations life cannot now be
saved except by providing for suppressing
rebellion and for the common defence. So
long as the present condition of the slaves
remains they sre attached to the body of
the rebel masters, they viii be used as the
great support, the only foundation of the
rebellion, OF Of its continuance. The enc
my,s Notifications, subsistence, and other
material means of continuing disloyal, are
due almost exclusively to slave labor. The
rebellion would not, could not, endure in
any form three months, if the case were
reversed, ana the slaves were gained over
to our side. 1t could not on the start have
lasted three months, if they had been
gained over to our side and made free.
stand BY the same declaration now.
For Congress and the President to have
refused TO interfere with slavery, and to
have left it to be the great bulwark of the
rebellion, would have been moral treason
against the Nation and crime against
humanity. ga a-.a se....
ARBITRARY ARRESTS, SO. ais,.
In the fourth resolve Of the Democratic