Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1864-10-04


Senator Wade and Henry Winter Davis
have both taken the stump for the re-elee-
ton of President Lincoln, and are throw
ing into the canvass all the vigor and pow
er which has always characterized all
their efforts. We are rejoiced to see them
both conquering personal preferences and
entering thus heartily into the great work
to which their duty to the countrysscalls..
them.
Upon this subject the Washington
Chronicle remarks:
No one who knew thoroughly glorious
old Ben. Wade" believed that when the
hour of trial came he would falter in his
duty. However sharp might be the critl-
cisn of the Government this habit Of blunt
speech is proyerbial), when the issue was
narrowed down between the friends of the
Usion and of the rebels, he could not hes
itate. No censure of the Executive would
swerve him from IN outspoken advocacy
! of the GREAT cause to which he is pledged
eouslly with the Chief Magistrate. He
| defined his position in one Of his charae-
teristic and most effective speeches at
| Mesdville; and Winter Davis-the gal
liant champion of emancipation in Mary
land, who has done so much to save hs
State from Secession misrule-cOuld not
hesitate to give the Administration his
efficient support when called on TO decide
between tn e friends and the enemies oi
rebellion. As will be seen by the an
nouncement made elsewhere, he speaks al
the grand Union demonstration which L
to take place in Elkton next Tue sday
Small comfort, in our opinion, will the
Copperheads gather from anything that
comes from the lips Of this able and elo'
quent advocate of the Union.
On this same topic Agate " of Ghe GIN
cinnsti Gazette writes as follows:
Meanwhile the ranks close up. Glorious
old Ben Wade, zoo frank ever to conceal {
dissatisfaction, mounts the stump and give:
all the more weight TO his denuncis Ions
| of Mcclellan by the unconcealed dislike Il
| his own candidate ne is conquering forthC
good of the country. Winter Davis leadi
| the radical elnancipationists Of Maryland
| in the same direction. Fremont with
draws. Horace Greeley goes heartily int
the contest, the man who has more per
sousl reasons for disliking Mr.. Lincoln
than any other Union leader msgnani
mously overlooks gross personal afronts
and sinks all personal considerations, that
he may give the weighkof his great fame
and influence to the country in promoting
the Union cause.
It is only what all who knew these :mer
knew beforehand to be certain; and yet Il
ought to bring the blush to the cheeks o
the parasites who from the hight Of then
devotion to anti-slavery and the war fol
the Union, could afford to sneer at such mel
as Ben. Wade and Winter Davis and JOIN
G. Fremont.
Miserable creatures, who, after the battl,
was fought and the victory won, made hast
to Join the organization that was now abl'
to divide the spoils, undertook to read Ben
Wade out of the party Of which he was on
of the fathers Men who in the safe sdis'
tance of their Northern homes, at lastfount
courage TO become an i slavery when the.
found it to pay, presume to doubt the faith
fulIness of Winter Davis, who fought tn
fght in Baltimore, de6ed the slave powe
in its most aristocrstic citadel, was pre-
scribed, banished from place and suspects
in society, hated by the first families, an
hoJted for Abolitionism by the Plug Ug
lies, who through it all, held on his way
TIL the contest is won, and Msrylsn
leads the van in the emancipation move
ment. t-. q