Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1864-09-13
THE PEACE MEN IN TR1BULATIoN.


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THE PEACE MEN IN TRBULATIoN.
Go to one of the lower streets in your
city tonight, where the apostle of peace
from Dayton sits in great tribulation; go,
also, to where that apostle of peace Of /
your own city sits; there tonight you will !
find a little concIave of Democrats gather 1
ed together in great discomfort. They don't /
know what to do. That letter of McClel- |
lan's has Disconnected them. They had /
just been having q jubilee all over the
country, 1attering themselves with peace |
triumph. The peace men of Dayton had |
sail to themselves, we have driven the war
men of the party to the wall;' but now
they see that McClclellan has admitted
there may be a possibility, a necessity even,
to renew the fight for the Union, 1t Is
true that he don't say that he will ever
fight, or that he witt ever ask anybody else
to fight but he talks about restoring the
Union at all hazards, and they don't want
any hazards. Laughter. They don't
want to think of anything that looks dan
gerous. They don't like musketry; they
here this evening, and no doubt they are
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rel ices in them Laughter,
sHoULDERINe THE RESPONSIBILITY.
But after Mcclellan has talked about
"Federal basis and the Union, he says
they must exist by means of negotiation;
that We must resort to Craftsmanship to
settle, if possible this question of differ
erenee; and if it cannot be settled in that
! way, what then2 These men in trouble
down street accepted him on the principle
of negotiation, but what does he say2 He
says, if we cannot settle the question in
lhat way, ''the responsibility will rest upon
these men in arms against the Union" -
OF course it will. 1t has been resting
with them all the while. Cheers and
laughter 1t has rested upon JEFF. Davis
since he first fired upon Fort Sumpter, and
1t is resting upon him to-day. And if our
| armies should be ordered to turn their
backs, the responsibility would still
rest upon him. And he is ready and
anxious TO take the responsibility of giving
us constitution and law, which he will at
once attempt to do as soon as we withdraw
our armies. He will take the responsibili-
ty of taxing you to pay their public debt as
well as ours, and to pay for all the negroes
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run away during the war. He will take
the responsibility of giving you only 60
much freedom as he pleases, aud lust SO
much cursing and bitterness as ne pleases.
| All that their candidate, Mcclellan, saws
on that subject is, that :he rebels will be
responsible. propose to say that the
great American people have resolved TO
take this responsibility themselves. Great
and enthusiastic cheeringl That you and
your army, the President and his officers
have agreed to take on their own shoulders
the responsibility of putting down this re-
bellion, and ending the war, by settling the
question on the basis of a lasting peace.
And when your armies have gone a little
further, and you have filed them up
when Sherman has rested little, and
| Farragut has smoked his pipe, and climbed
TO the masthead, and looked over the river
and down into the city of Mobile then you
will 90 on to finish up the settlement of
this question, the responsibility of which
you have taken upon yourselves. [Cheers-
WHAT OF ARBITRARY ARRESTS
If these people talk to you of arbitrary
arrests, refer them 10 Gen. Mcclellan. who
not only recommended such arrests, but sc-
tually arrested whole Legislature of
traitors. l thank him for it. TChee1s.
Gov. Seymour stood up in the convention
and said he happened to know Mcclellan
met with change of heart since he had
made that arrest, and he is now sorry for
it. Laughter Where he arrested trait
orS, and put them in prison, where he
didn't let them throw little MARYLAND out
of the Union-little Maryland, then slave
State and full of treason, is now loyal and
free forever. GGreat applause.
WHAT OF THE UNION PARTY.
On the other side, the great Union party
have organized, and tell you they have
nailed the flag to the mast, and they viii |
go up or down with it. Great cheers. I !
Thay tell you that they will pledge every |
man and every dollar-every drop Of |
blood and every ounce Of treasure, if ne |
cessary, but they will defend, maintain and |
defend the Union and the Constitution of /
our county. Renewed cheers For that
purpose they tell you that thew
will make no terms of psaee with
armed rebels nowhere. The ytell YOU, for
that purpose, they will not only use the
draft, but every other necessary means 70
put down the rebellion. Mcclellan saws
the time was when the war was prosecuted
for the sole purpose of restoring the Union,
but that now some other ideas have got in
to the war, insinuating that it is for the
purpose of freeing the slaves. When 1
went into the war, did so, leaving all col
lateral issues alone. hated slavery, but
hated treason more. To the man who was
for slavery I said; If you love slavery, but
love the Union more, come with me, and
we will fight for the Union, and not talk
about slavery. To anti-slavery men I said.
If you hate slavery, but hate disunion more
come with me, and we will fight for the
Union, and by and by settle the slavery
question .., -...f...-.-
WHEN Is THE WAR TO END?