Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1864-01-28

slave system against the free system OF |
government When the batteries ct
Charleston poured their hot shot into the
fortress built and armed and manned by
the nation to protect that city from for
eign invasion, under which il had twice
fallen, it signi6ed war Of fire and sword
against the nationality founded by our
forefathers to secure the liberties for which
our countrymen fought and conquered.
The Democracy Of the North rose as one
man with the Republicans, in whose hands
the elections had placed the Administra-
tion, to defend the cause Of freedom and
the Union. The Democracy then saw the
conflict in which this act involved the
country in It's true aspect. Every step in
its progress proves that it is war wsged
for militsry supremacy on the part Of the
assailants-for the liberty and nationality
it secures on the other. Foreign kings
and emperors are invoked to join with the
conspirators in making wreck Of the
Republic, and share in the sdvan-
tsge1 to be derived from ruin. Pi-
rates, bearing the flag of the rebellion,
and fitted out under the auspices OF
wealthy spectators, looking for re-
muneration in the plunder Of our COM
merce, disgrace the civilization Of the sge
by robberries and conhagration on the
high seas. In such 8 wsr-a war for Free.
dom on the one hand and Slavery on the
other-no permanent peace can be patched
/ up To endure there must be submission
70 the Government as constituted by our
fathers, or as it would be constituted by
Mr.. Davis and his military sdherents.
| Any compromise or partition treaty would
give but breathing spell for fresh prepar
atoms for renewed struggle.
May we not hope, as there is no escape
from an Issue 80 forced upon Us, that ths
Democracy Of the North will, as at the
threshold Of the wsr, be found with the
great majority Of the constituency Of the
loyal states, Eeslously battling for The
right, which every patriot Of whatever
party holds TO be with the government o
the Union2 1t has taken the stand tha
the extinction Of the slave institution Ii
essential to save the Union and perpetust'
the government which it has put in jeop
ardy. The armies of the Union fight t,
make prisoner this giant Of the war OF
the side of our sdverssries. Once with
drawn from them, he takes from them tn
motive and the means Of continuing tn
conflict.
The partizsn who may thWsrt the braV
men that risk their lives in battling for
consummstion alike patriotic and human
will, on the return Of the MANNED veteran
to their homes, covered with laurels an
honorable scsrs, hide his diminished hea
in obscurity forever.
In contests Of opinion between parties
the utmost virulence Of expression is 500
forgiven and forgotten. But when ws
strikes the country, the man who withhold
support 10 the soldiers who offer thei
lives in it's defence, or dissbles their effort
by words or acts favoring the cause Of th
enemy, never recovers its confidence
What was the fate Of the public men VIII
took sides with England in the war Of tn
Revolution or that Of 1922
The political convulsion Of 1889, end
, ing in the election of Jefferson, was char
acterized by more bitterness, with part
frenzy more intense than when bloc
flowed in battle on the field. Blu
the i'll spirit vanished like the spec
, tire of q mornings dream when MI
Jefferson rose TO the nations chic
honor, and the country was relieved of tn
, spprehensions Of the loss Of the election
made by the people. The struggle had bee
on ore side to consolidate the Federal pow
er, and by obstruction giveit the tone "a
tendency of the British Government; o.
the other, to assert State rights and popula
sovereignty by strict adherence to the re
publican model presented in the Constitu
ton. This, fairly construed, embraced tn
opinions of both contendiDg parties. The,
were reconciled in the admirable insugura
address, which sllsyed partisan fury in it
assertion of what was true Of the grea
body of the people; awe are sll Republi
cans-sll Federala." 1t may be truly SAT-
now, speaking the sense Of the masses Q
our countrymeD, We are all Republican
all Democrats" Exclude the conspirs
tors and the slave institution, which they
have shaped into q glut to Fplit the Union
exclude the conspirators and those whom
slavery has made their slaves, and oul
countrymen are at this moment Z" all Demo
crats-all Republicans ASSERTING popu
lar sovereignty, the right Of self-govern
ment, the rights of the States, the nation
slity Of the Union al Defined balanced
checked, and bound together in the repub
lican form of government inherited from
our fathers.