Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1864-04-29
POLITICAL.

A club has been formed at Washington
for the purpose ofsupplying Union speech
es and documents, for distribution in the
Ohio districts represented in Congress by
copperheads. A vast amount Of good can
be accomplished in this way, if the people
at home, not only in Ohio but in Miohi-
gan, and other States, will take hold Of
the matter with the energy which it de-
serves and the times demand.
Kansas and West Virginia have elected
LINCOLN delegates 10 the Baltimore Con-
venfion. The resolutions Of the ConVen-
tion Of the latter State endorse the present
National Administration in its faithful eff
forts to suppress the rebellion, and pledge |
the loyal people Of West Virginia to stand |
by it until every rebel within the United |
States shall be coereed into obedience to |
'the laws, or shall have fed the country or
ceased to live" The Convention also de
clared in favor of Andrew johnson, Of
Tennessee, for Vice President. 1t also
approved the proposed constitutional
amendment prohibiting slavery.
Simon Cameron is reported to be at Wash
in gioD, opposing the postpnementof the Bal
timore Convention, on the ground that the
postponement would insure the re-nomina
ton Of Mr.. Lincoln. This will relieve
some Of Mr. Lncoln's friends, who were
afraid Simon would declare on his side.
A Copperhead candidate for Office, in
DAYTON, VINO had been pretty hard pressed
for reasonable proclivities, was defended
by the Democratic paper, which claimed
for him that he had ''given two Of his gal
liant sons to the army, one Of whom now
pines in a rebel prisonP' When this was
announced, it was shown by the editor Of
the Journal that the sons had volunteered
in spite Of their fathers efforts to prevent
them from SO doing, even to the threat OF
disinheriting them"
Keokuk, Iowa, has elected q Republican
Mayor by 237 majority, and bloomington,
Ill, has elected the Union candidates BY
msjorities ranging from 30 to 1000.
Among the errstic political movements
Of the day is the declaration Of McMss-
ters, Of the Freemsn's Journal, Of his pref
erence for Gen. Fremont for President over
War Democrat.
The QUINCY, Ill, Whig states that the
., Copperbesds Of Wayne, Hancock county
in that State, ran negro at the April
election for Supervisor.
SIN the Congressional district lately va
Gated by the death of the lamented Love
, ioy, says the Chicago Tribune Of the 18th
the convention at Princeton, Bureau Co.
, nominsted yesterday Hon. E. c. Ingersol
, ss candidate for Congress. Mr.. Ingersol
|. will Of course be elected. He is Wal
Democrat Of the right stamp, who came
out and avowed his adhesion to the cause
of the Union and Liberty in the early
. dawn of the great awakening as to the
cause Of the rebellion. He is not one Of
those who wait to come round ''abou
lunch time" but has done his morning.
: work. and earned it. In the campaign il
1862, Mr.. Ingersol boldly bore the stan
dard as Congressional osndidste for the
State at large, and his eloquent hsranguei
proved powerful educators Of the public
! mind, and gave him popularity among
thousands Of men throughout Illinois, Wht
will be proud to see him in Congress.
, The Detroit Free Press is justifying III
, friends, the assassins of Fort Pillow, ant
? this is one Of the parallel "atrocities" up
! on the Union side which IL brings forward
in their defence:
ait is difficult to distinguish the spirit o.
the Fort Pillow slaughter from that Of thu
following official document:
WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON, I
Sept. Is, 1862-2:45 P. NJ.
"Your dispatch has been received. Goo
bless you and aIl with you Destroy tht
A. LINCOLN"
"Msior General Mcclellan"
We suppose it WAS the strocity Of th'
s'spirit' Of such kind of warfare which
deferred Mcclellan from destroying" tbs
-ai.al amy Hs generously preferred des
troying his own
, The contest for the deliverance of Ten
nessee promises to be sharp and bitter
The advocates Of slavery never have and
never will surrender without determined
fight The friends of emancipation there
will have to prepare for bold, courageous
work, and it will then prove successful
work.
1t turns out, according to the Philadel-
phis Press, that "Sweet Jenny Wade" the
heroine Of Gettysburg, shout whom con-
siderable elcquence and some poetry has
been expended, was rebel after all, and
on the Friday previous to the battle, she
might have been seen sporting out to the
rebels the horse of black abolitiouist and
good Union man.