Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1864-11-10
THE GENERALS IN HOOPS ARMY
MAKE SPEECHES.
Glowing AntieipatiOns OF Vic
tory.
HOOPS DESTRUCTION.
4 Rebel Account Of the Destruction
Of the ilbemarIe.
Description OF Leading Rebel
Generals.

a'la earnest IN proposing such a step to be
takea Ig osr government Or were you
merely discussing the matter as some
thing which might be done"
In most excellent horror he continues
his queries;
"Can it be possible that Southern man
editor of Southern journal-reoogniz-
lug the right of property in alsves, admit
ting their inferiority in the scale of being
also their social infsriority, would recon-
mendtbe passage of law which at one blow
LeVeLs all distinction, dspriuss the master of
a right to his property, and eLe0atss the
negro to an equality aOjtk the a0htts mani
for disguise it as you may, those who
fight together in 8 common sense, and by
success win the same freedom, enjoy equal
rights and eqaal position, and, in this case
are distinguished only by color. Are
prepared for this2 Is it for this we are
contending2 Is it for this We would seek
the aid of our slaves? To win their free
dom with our own independence, to estab
lish in our midst half or quarter of q mil
lion of black freemen, familiar with the arts
and discipline of war, and with large mil
itsry experience"
He then proceeds to answer one chief ar
gument of the Enquirer, and in wild Ian
guage deprecates the arming of the slaves;
You say "the liberty and freedom of
ourselves and children, the nationality of
our county, Sc, are involved in this strug-
gle" Yes, and Of this nationality you
would deprive US; for instead of being as
we now are, a nation of freemen holding
slaves rs our property, you would make
| us nation of white men with free negroes
for our equals Messrs. Editors, if you had
sought in the political body of the confed
eracy for some spot at which to aim and
strike one blow which should at once de-
prive it Of life, you could not have found
one more vital, or struck with more deadly
certainty than you have done by the ad-
vOcscy ofsuch 3 scheme; and, If there is
any member of Congress so lost to his
sense Of the duty which he owes to his
country and the constitution which he has
sworn to defend if there is one who is
not tired of the scenes Of blood and ruin
and devastation which have stained and
desolated many portions of our beloved
land, but yet desires TO see more and yet
thousand fold more of the strife and woe
and misery begotten by civil revolution,
let him persuade Congress to pass such
law and attempt to carry out such sys-
tenn, and the things which have been viii
be nothing the things which shall be--the
resolution and war, born and nurtured
and raging in our midst shall be nothing
when compared to that struggle in which
me are now engaged, as the wild and des-
olating tornado, compared TO the mild sum
mer wind-as the angry fury of the ocean
waves, when lashed by fierce blasts, to the
smooth surface Of the mountain lake.
He then continues in similar strain:
Have you thought of the influence to be
exerted by these half or quarter millions
Of free IrOes In the midst of slaves as you
propose to leave them at the end Of the
war2 These mon constitute the bone asd
sineW of our slaves-the ablebodied be-
tween eighteen and forty-fve. They will
be men who know the value and power
Of combination; they will be we'll disci-
plined, trained 10 the use of arms, with the
power and ability of command; at the
same time they will be grossly and miser-
| ably ignorant, without any fixed principle
of life or the ability ofaequiring one. The
camp and the battle are not considered the
best school Of virtue. With habits Of idle
ness learned in camp, with no fixed calling
or business In which to engage, class by
color and circumstances prescribed and
unable to rise. Then, agsn, these men
must have their wives and children slaves,
subject to all the restrictions of slavery,
while they are to enjoy all the privileges
OF freedom. VIII not this necessarily make
them discontented2 or, If not you ought
in gratitude and perhaps in policy to free
their wives and children. This will give
you, instead Of half million, a million and
a half CT two millions of free negros in your
midst. That is more than one half oftbe
present slave population of the Confede-
rate States.
Finally he lashes the Enquirer, in con-
GLIDING paragraph, which expresses, un-
doubtedly, the real truth:
There are stout arms and brave hearts
enough among the white men of the Con-
federacy to win and secure its freedom,
and he who would call upon the poor ig-
norsnt slave TO fight his battles for the
boon of q worthless freedom, must not only
be deeply respondent but regardless of
the dulles he owes to his country, to his
negro and himself 1t is not for the slave
either to win freedom for the white man,
as you would have him, or to take the yoke
Of subjugation upon him, as would the Yam
kee. But it is for the Southern white man
to achieve his own independence, to secure
himself in the possession Of his slaves, and
to secure to the slave the secure possession
of good master.
REBEL GENERALS HAVE A JoLLIFIoATIoE
A correspondent of the Selma (Ala-,)
Reporter, writing from Gadsden, gives q
sketch of little jollihcation the rebels in
dulged in al that place before marching for
the Tennessee river:
SPEECH OF GENERAL HOOD.
A large crowd with band of music sp-
peared before General Hoods hesdquar-
ters (the Baptist church) and called him
cut. The General looked very well. He
said he congratulated Us on the prospects
before us; said our advantages are better
now than they were during the old cam
paign in Georgia; said there had been
great accessions TO the army from hospi-
tails, the convalescent camps aud men on
furlough; that they would all move of the
next morning for the Valley of the Ten
nessee
General Hood did not say he would cross
the Tennessee, but we all understand it.
He said Sherman could not hold Atlanta
and Nashville too; that in the next battle
he expec, ed to lesd his army 70 victory.
BIG BILL BATE OF TENNESSEE, THINKS
TuIK WILL GIVE THE REBELS POSSESSION
OF TENNESSEE AND KENTUCKY.
General Bate was next called for. He
is still upon his crutch, but gets along
very well He was very humorous. In
concluding, he said that it required time
only to put Tennessee and Kentucky in