Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1864-09-09
where we are.-Mr. Greeley Defines

where We are.-Mr. Greeley Defines
his Position.
In Tuesdays Tribune Mr.. Greeley, after
reviewing the question of the nomination
in June thus emphatioally places himself
on the side of Abraham Lincoln.
But it is too take a new departure. We
must accept the situation with all its diff
culties Ifthe Administration wants vigor,
give it vigor; if it wants earnestness5 give
it earnestness if it wants understanding,
give it understanding. lntuse 1t with a
people's,Will; inYigorate it with peoples
courage, reinforce it with peoples con-
fidence; overWhelm it with peoples de-
termination that Treason and Slavery shall
never prevail against them, but that both
shall be trampled under their feet. But
never desert it. Never let its short-com-
ings its weaknesses, It's short-sightedness,
and its delays, defeat us, God knows it
might have done better, God alone knows
how much worse it might have done. We
know, at least, that with it we have come
| well nigh to the overthrow of the Rebell-
ion; we know that with little more patti
ence, littlesmore energy, a little more
courage, we shall soon come to its utter
overthrow The end is near; the good
and the true end is certain if we and faithful
to ourselves even with such tools as we
have.The choice is no longer ours, whether
we will throw them aside and try new ones.
We must do this work with such as we
| have or not do it at all.
If we throw them aside and abandon
work to other hands, where are WEI Alas
who does not know? The best that can
befall Us in a Copperhead triumph Is Dis
union-Disunion trst between the Moth
/ and the South to meet thereafter, as test
we NAV, the question of new boundaries
to be settled by new wars, the East and
the West: the Pacific and Atlantic coast
arrayed against each other. Or, if Union
shall. be maintained, st will be Union that
mean only annexation; the Norlh tied
tied hand and foot and delivered over-to
a slave-holding Confederaey, the append
age to an oligarchy Of ofslayeholderg Slavery
made legal all over the North and West
both States and territories the assumption
of the Confederate debt By the Fedora
Government the unquestional Natsona
Debt to be hquidated solely by Northern
/ taxation; the light of suffrage denied Il
Northern laboring men: extension ofrepre
sentaiton 10 the owners of slaves;-in shor
anything that JEFF Davis and his fellow
conspirators may choose to demand as tht
price ofour submission, as the terms OF
which they will agree to grant us peac'
and pardon They may have ms on thei
own terms; for these are none so exacting
none so degracing, none so base, but thei
Northern allies will not grant on a pro
mise of being admitted to be fed once
more with the crumbs that fall from thei
masters table.
Choose ye For our part we hav,
chosen. Better a perpetual dinner 0
herbs, than the stalled OK in such COMPANY
| though, for that matter, but little Of thi
stalled OK would fall to the share of th5sl
who are fighting for the Union, Hence
forth, we fly the banner of ABAHAM LIN
COLIN for the next Presidency, choosing
that far rather than the Disunion and
quarter of century of wars, or the Unl0i
and political servitude which our Oppo
nents would give us. Let the countr,
shake off its apathy; let it realize what il
the price of defeat-a price neither we mol
the world can afford; let it be understood
how near we are to the end of the Rebel
lion, and that no choice is left us now but th'
instruments put into our hand and that will
that we can and must finish it. We grant
from our own convictions, much that csT
be said in criticism ofthe present Admin
istration for the sake of argument w
will grant anything that any honest anC
loyal man may say And then this Is on
reioinder-Mr. Lincoln has done seven
eighths of the work after his fashion; thert
must be vigor and virtue enough left il
him to do the other fraction The worl
is in his hands; if it passes out of them
it will be, as there are no better, but fal
worse, to receive it to our utter ruin. W.
MUST re-elect him, and, God helping III
we WILL.