Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1864-09-30

conquer and not to settle an old clain-f
Seward had said, If you go there will
send column of fifty or q hundred thou
sand volunteers, and help Mexico, ne {
would have done that which would have y
covered us with glory and given him honer
as long as the nation endures. Cheers;l
But it will come around in another way; /
1 venture this prophesy, that this war WIN X
be fought out in Mexico. We will whip {
these people, and q hundred thousand OF
the most desperate of them will go there,
expecting lands and money. Then hum
dred or two thousand of our troops-per-
haps these black ones they hate so badly
will follow them there, and whip them
again in Mexico. [Great cheering,1
THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.
Grant personal character to McClellan,
such IS his best friend would give him, ana
| even then there would be stupendous
risk. do not know what character Nc
| Clellan may have as soldier, except
what learn from the papers, and trembie
when I speak of newspapers. There IS
nothing am so much afraid of as lamp
black and types. As far as understand !
the matter, however, the military charac7 |
ter of Mcclellan has been written up by |
norton of the American press for certain |
/ purpose. They say the war Is failure, |
and that was sufficient reason they should |
choose him. They wanted failing Cen
+, eral for fsiling war, to be President, l
will add, of failing party. Tremendous
cheering.]
But take the thing in honest criticism,
as far as calm men may Judge. The great
battles fought by Mcclellan, Antietami
{ the Seven Pines, and, above all the battles
f of Malvern Hill, I think posterity will
saw that he is not an able General. That
he is q man of high personal character,
have no reason todeny; but that he Is rot
2 a fit person to be made President of the
7 United States, with his antecedents, at the
: age of forty years, think the people OF
) | this nation will decide most emphatieally
= in November next. Great applause. .-
r On the other hand, l believe Mr.. Lin
' coln-and my opinion is not worth much
3 but nv solemn conviction IS, that + be
4 was the worst President that ever lived, it
b is the duty of the American people to re-
: elect him; because it is the duty of the
s American people to put final and crush
g ing termination upon this idea that there
l. Is to be fact on and insurrection every
II time q nan is elected that minority IN
/ the nation don't like. What is to hinder
/ another outbreak of the kind If Nc
l. Clellan should be elected, what is to hinder
is faction from repeating the same revolu-
d tionary scenes2 1t is the ruin of the
o country this doctrine of State
Rights, that 8 State can come
and 90 as it likes. They fslk about per
n manent cessation of arms, avowedly to
y make peace, with men who have had nc
% other object than that they would not
q have this President to be their President
ia Nv friend who has preceded me calls
as them amy Southern brethren. Well,
presume more of them cane nearer being
nv brethren than they do his; but am moi
h disposed to bother those who are determin
= ed on shooting me down or running my peo
q pie and country. speak that which L feel
% for have a heroic young son, who hsi
a. been fighting in this war, on our side To-
Il some time, and the rebels have him nov
in a cell in Charleston under the fire O
- onr batteries. And though could g
~ there cheerfully and exchange places witt
y him. or die for him, would not, to saw
~ his life, agree to make peace on the term
= y these men propose. TCheers and shoot
s. repeated over and over again.
n Mr.. Lincoln ought to be elected, in m!
: Judgment, for another reason-that he ha
70 succeeded by the valor of his troops, th'
10 skill of our generals, and the enthusiasts
M support of the people, in making this wa
Ia transcendantly successful war. w,
te have conquered In three years territory ex
~ tending from the Atlantic Ocean to thu
i Indian country west of Missouri, l,50t
n miles long, and 400 or 900 in width. WI
4 have conquered and keep hold of it. 1t il
II our country, and "the world, the flesh anC
n the devil" cannot take it from US. TGrea
70 cheers. If these men don't like our Gov
~ ernment, let them leave it, and go to tht
~ West India Islands, anywhere they like
4 but don't let them take our country witt
? them. Above all, don't let them take i
- when it is wet with the blood of our chill
.o dren, whose valor has won it back. No
every drop of American blood that hai
n fallen there has made sacred that soil; aRC
p he is nothing else than coward or traitol
u who would deliver it up to any other power
> on earth. ....,
o 1 never saw Gen. Grant, but if he dom
e take Richmond 1 will agree to go there
e and eat up the fortifcations. [Cheers.
Il Let every man consider what it is that j,
J. proposed to us to do. It's to acknowledge
IS ourselves poltroons and fools. And fol
At the blood of a million of our brethren
II and a reward for their devotion and patri
otism, as a means of proving free Govern.
,s q total failure, and that men are not able
/ to take care of themselves, and human
e. liberty is impossible and cannot exist we
le are expected to sue for peace. God O.
r heaven, forbid we should ever think of it
10 Applause The man who knowingly
could propose to do any such thing is &
/ traitor; and any Government officer who
,r attempts it should forfeit his live thereby
n APPEAL TO DUTY.
= And now, my friends, in the name o.
= God and in the name of your ancestry, and
as you would give glory and prosperity tc
those who are to come after you, acquit
Il yourselves like men. Arise and do your
7 duty. Give your money, give your labor
: and give yourselves for the cause. [Cleers.
!, And when walk your streets, and see SO
!, many hundreds and even thousands, who
: seem to have very little to do, 1 think
= many of you might go and fight for your
: country. Renewed cheers. And let US
bless and praise and thank God for what
he has done for us already, and in the
- meantime try to act and live so that He can
bless. us with purity and holiness like unto
3 is own blessed character. H ----.
h what a Rebel says of MeCIensn's