Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1864-08-19
MORNING LEADER.

r MORNING LEADER
S GIeanine5 Tr0m Rebel PaDers-
rrom OouruerH PapeTs of the 18th inst.
: we extract the following:
The Richmond Sentinel declares itsel
''willing and anxious to make peace. provid
cd it be made on terms that shall not i'm.
pair, trammSl or leopard the thorough in
dependence, the honor, the rights, interest
and territorial integrity of theslaVeholding
State. "Those who find fault with this ps-
per, tread in the precise footsteps, and fol-
10y precisely tho example of Lincoln
They would have peace, 81 least they say
so,) bnt only on condition that before on
tering into the negotiations they be allowed
to prescribe all the terms. They and Lin
coin each know that there never
can be peace on such conditions
They knoW that freedom of discuss
Ion ~ essential to reace nego-
tiations, to bring about pelee. But the
whole sole object appears to be to tram
mel the administration 20 10 tramrn5l il
that it will be utterly impossible, in any
contingency, or on any terms whatever
to open CT assent to peace negotiations
1t is impossible 10 conceive that they are
actuated butby a single motive, and that is
their wish TO embarrass the administration.
and 70 bring it into disrepute wholly reck-
less Of the consequences resulting to the
country. 1t matteFs net how long the war
shall continue, provided they can glut
their hatreds and see their predictions OF
evil fulfilled.
NO II ORE FIGHTINa.
The Richmshd Examiner declares the
campaign in Virginia abandoned. aNow
to put aside for the present, the total los.
of what Yankees fondlv believed To he
their c0n4pests in the Nississippi
pretermitting, also, the dead lock to which
SHERNAN's army has been brought, with
all Kentucky, Tennessee and half of
Georgia lying between him and his own
country, and looking only to this most
colossal invasion of Virginia with three
huge armies, all bound at once for Rich
mond-the thing is over; GRANTS army +
Is rapidly going away from our front at
Petersburg and returningto Washington or
elsewhere. OF course Grant will not put
up notice on the shore of the Appomat-
tox that he hereby abandones the enter
prise neither will Stanton officially notify
that the armies of the Union, are found
wholly unHble to advance one yard out of
the protection of their ships, and therefore
OF 6ne h1ndred and fifty thousand killed,
wounded and missing. This would be un
reasonable to expect; nevertheless the en-
ferprise is abandoned and this is, neces-
sarily so far as Lincoln is concerned, a
final abandonment. Richmond is no more
to hear the roar of Yankee siege guns
under that potentate's reign"
HOW TO BEGIE NEGOTIATIONS.
The Richmond Examiner taking its cue
from a Northern secession journal, says that
the Peace Democrats indicate the only
chance of restoration of the Uaion Let
there be not only an 'armistiee,' but for
NAL remuneration of all right and pretence
to eoerce these States, and, of course, an
entire withdrawalof all land and sea forces
which occupy any portion of our soil or
blockade any of our ports, and then the
Northern States will for the first time be
in position to propose tOus reconstruction
Of the Union, or Convention of States for |
the purpose of negotiating that. 1t may
safely be promised that such proposals |
would then be at least considered at pres
ent one cannot say what would be the re-
suit of that consideration but, in short, |
let our Northern brethren try us. With |
such change in the existing relations, no
doubt there may come also a great change |
over mems minds"
THE POLITICAL SITUATION.
The Richmond Examiner predicts the |
overthrow of Mr.. Lincoln. 1t says: What |
ever may turn out to be the meaning of |
the fact the fact itself begins to shine out !
clear-that Abraham Lincoln is lost; that |
he will never be President again; not
even President of the Yankee remnant
Of States, to say nothing of the whole six
and thirty-Or, how many are there, |
counting Colorado and Idaho and other
Yahoo commonwealth lately inVented2
The obscene ape Of Illinois is about to
be deposed from the Washington purple, |
and the White House will echo to his
little Jokes no more. 1t is in no spirit
of eXultatiOn We contemplate this coming
event; for Abraham has been good En-
peror for US; he has served our turn his
policy has settled, established, and made
! irrevocable, the separation of the old
| Union into Nations that are essentially
foreign; and we may be almost sorry to
part with him. He was, in the eyes of all
men living, an unansweTable argument in
favor of secession; he stood there, a living
justification, seven feet high, of the stead
| fast resolution of these states to hold no
more political communion with race ca
pable, not only of ploducing such being,
butof making it a ruler or king"
GENERAL GRANTS CAMPAIGN.
The Richmond Whig also re-echoes the
words of its northern friends in relation to
the campaign of General Grant 1.-THE
northern mind has reached the conclusion
that Grants campaign is failure, and
that Richmond cannot be taken; and we
are content to put that weighty fact in the
scales against Grant S self-exeusing and un-
sustained declaration. : Nor will the
desponding Yankees fail to remember
that Grants predecessors in failure have
been Just as reluctant as he to admit
their lailqSe, and just as eager TO persuade
the authorities at Washington and the
country at large that they would yet sue
ceed. Mcclellan was never so vehement
in his asseyerations that Richmond was
doomed as when his army lay painting and
bruised and torn at Harrisonss Landing
nor did Hooker ever wager more loudly
, than after his terrible seourgingat Chancel-
lorsville. Grant more temperate brag-
gartism means no more than the raving
, which, with them, indicated delirium and
: preceded dissolution. Looking to our own
interests, we fear that Grant is moribund." "
t GRANT ABOUT TO LEAVE THE PENINSULA