Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1864-09-16


Still Democrats may say that they only seized
and appropriated property within their own hmlta.
According the secession doctrine crushed out In
JacksOn's time and revived now, this property was
theirs. The speaker proceeded to demonstrate the
fallacy Of this reasoning by applying It 10 a CO.
partnership Of individuals.
wont insult these ladies present by calling him an
old woman What did he do He stood trembling
in his boots, saying that it was bad thing but ne
didn't know how he could help IT, and he was AFRAID
Of doing his duty lest he shonld be sssassinatsd
Well, passed the first six month OF War-ano II
a failure. lChee1s.
WE'LL we went to work in terrible earnest, and
/ looking arounG for leader, we found MeCleilan-
| good engineer, a tolsrable railroad superinten-
dent--and he took charge Of matters for eighteen
months more; and in the fall of 1852, when he was
removed, we had been driven back to the FotomsS |
| OhiO,-and the hrst two years OF war under me-
| Clellan and Buchanan, we're failures. Inc demo- i
/ Gratis for wonder, were more than half right
But how about these last two yesrs-under Grant'
sherman and Farragut2 ftireat applause.) The |
/ speaker proceeded in splendid paragraph con
tinually interrupted by applause to demonstrate
the splendid successes OF the Union armies along the
whole line of the rebellion, in the last two years,
| until now our armies hold every State and half the
rebel Capitals aud the rebellion is grt about as with
| a sea OF fire, Gordon drawn smaller and smaller
| until the life of the rebellion is crushed out
| EBut If the war had been failure, is 1t not most
singular that these men nominate the very man IN
der whom it failed2 lApplausel Why didn't they
| nominate Buchanan? Applause But suppose
they measured by the length Of time each had been
in once since the war, and so chose Mcclellan
But they attack the government on other reasons
Let Us look at one or two Of them.
| They claim that the warts bloody that II has
caused fearful suffering, that it has brought gloom
upon the country, and that therefore It ought not
| TO be continued. No man loves peace more thAh l.
sighs for it more earnestly, wOnld rejoice IN II
more ardentiy. All our land has felt the bitterness
and anguish Of the war But who complains Si
| this Not our soldiers. If you 60 down TO thO
front and talk with them they ask only for re-en-
fOrcements and supplies. They tell you that II
| clothed and fed and armed and backed up by the
people of the North, they sure TO put down the
armed rebels and restore the government 60 10
the wounded soldier, struggling in the agonies
| of death. look into his glazed eyes and
I upon his limbs, stretched in the hard rigor
Of approaching dissolution, and whisper IN his ear
| the query, If he can st ii hear IT, NhetneI ne u
| wiling to let the flag trail in tue dust nov
that he has fallen il its defense, and he will tell
you with his Isst breath -thVt he is never willing
that it should fall. So it is with the boys in hosp-
tai, and with the women in the sewing circles
at home.
the losses Mhen others willing to endure. 1t
i Is because they are really in sympathy with ttea-
son. They are dislOyal at heart. The speaker re
errsd TO the probable effect Of the news OF the ia
ring Of Richmond on the Unionists and Copper
heads, declaring that he COULD in that event, tell
the latter from the length Of their faces In this
| connection he read letter IRON lady in " ash
ington has herself lost heavily BY the war, to
: hIs own daughter, exclaiming: :" This is the way
little, loyal, brave woman talEs. shame on yog
Is | who talk otherwise"
They object again that the war costs too much.
= 1t Is very costly But you would do something to
= save u.s. would yoJ not Sit down and cipher how
much you would do and what you would give
Where do you stop in your ealeuation---at thou
sands or millions, or thousands OF millions Shame
on You 10 think OF dollars and cents In comparison
d | with your country
b The speaker proceeded to illustrate the supreme
j. worth Of Union and the supreme duty OF defending
/ IT, at considerable length. He proceeded IN IN,
same connection to demonstrate the terrible guilt o.
- treason and the danger and contamination which
| lay IN sympathy with IT,
who iuvsigh loudly against the draft, arbitrary ar
rests and the suspension Of the hdbeus corpus, wheI
the hrst man TO propose all these was Mcclellan,
i their nominee for President And that brings u
g. back to the old point that the whole thing from
Id beginning toend is based in deception, fraud 0nt
g hypocrisy, sounding brass and tinklidg eymbais
= like the tin ian which the old lady beats to hiy
e the bees, and for much the same purpose-to hive
III the Democracy. Laughter and applause.
p But there Is one thing IN the Democratic plat
ed form which wish 70 call especial attention, a
4 have perhaps, some little personal knowledge OF
= that point. The Chicago Convention took pain
BY special resolution to condemn the interference
10 with elections by military powsI, and they expires
a the determination to have free ballot or ire
re night. In this connection General schenek refer
red 10 his own order in Maryland and Delaware
reading it, and justifying it BY the circumstance
he OF the cases. His position was that the rebel
"A should have no part il the election. Those who d
az not owe allegiance TO a government ought not L
he share its protection, or to vote to carry 1t on
In the same connection General Schenek read IN
lS famous Banks letter of General Mcclellan, whic
vas received with great laughter and applause.
repeat, but two officers ever issued orders in re
gard to elections in Maryland, George b. MeClel
| Ian and myself The only difersnce was that b
na went ten boW-shots further than did What by
TO pocrisy then Eis this OF the Democratic party
we hold that Mcclellan in his letter either intended
Us deceive the people of this country that he ha
ne been a rascal toward his own party. But in th
we orders that he issued in Maryland he was righ
~ and was right. Traitors should take no part
Ks determining the policy Of government. And
| ] could not manfully have accepted the platfcrr
made at Chicago, Iwould not have lodged or sHeake
10 in.
Of have been through Ohio and find that tn
en- apathy which existed few veaks ago does nc
n exist now. But It is all gone. Ohio viii do be
le duty as did Vermont and Maine. Immense cheer
He ingl The people of Ohio will roll up such a ma
ny jorfty as never has been IN Ohio. VallandfghaI
"a did not suffer more humiliating defeat than wi
et Mcclellan The people Of Ohio will stand By til
ie- Union. [Cheers prolonged They will never COZ
re sent to have star erased. With heart an
or one voice they will rally round the dsg and carry
e;J to glorious victory. Loud and long ehesrs
no The speech of General sehenck, of whic
eli this report gives no just idea, was receive
he throughout with the widest enthusiasm.