Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1864-10-18
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FROM SHERIDAN'S ARMY.
NEWS.
FROM WASHINGTON.
Especial to Cleveland LEADEaI
WASHINGTON, Oct. II.

WASHINGTON, Oct. II.
For some time past the Government has
been paying out threo-fourths greenbacks
and one-fouth certificates Of Indebtedness,
the Treasury having worked past the light
point caused by the quarterly payment OF
our armies
Tomorrow suspends the fu ther pay
ment OF debt certificates. This and the de-
mand for certificates to make payments on
the forty million loan, just taken, will
speedily bring them up the market.
John Bright has written letter to
Horace Greely, wholly unsolicited by the
latter, onour Presidential contest.
The following paragraphs embody the
substance of this mighty testimony for the
right:
At this moment we turn our eyes. rather
to the political than to themilitary strug-
gle and there is with US the same
difference of opinion and of sympathy as
regards your coming Presidential election
that has been manifested in connection
with your contest in the field. All those
of my countrymen who have wished well
to the rebellion-who have hoped for the
breaking up of our Union-who have pre-
ferred to see a Southern Slave empire
rather than a restored and free Republic,
so far as can observe are now in favor of
tie election of General Mcclellan, All
those who have deplored the calamities
which the leaders of secession have brought
upon your country believe that
slavery weakens your power and furnishes
your good name throughout the world,
and who regard the restoration of the I'm
as thing to be desired and prayed for by
all good men, SO far as can judge are
heartily longing fer the reelection Of Mr..
Lincoln. Every friend of your Union,
probably, in Europe-every speaker
and writer who has sought to
do justice to your cause since
the war began, is now hoping
with an intense anxiety that Mr..
Lincoln may again be placed at the head
of the Executive Department for another
term. 1t is not because they believe him
10 be wiser or better than all other men
on your continent but they think they
have observed in his case grand simplici-
ty of purpose, aud patriotism which
knows no change, and which does not fall
ter TO some of his Oountrymen. There
may appear to have been errors in his
course, and it would be strange indeed if in
the midst of difficulties so stupendous and,
so unexpected, any Administration or any
ruler should wholly avoid mistakes. To
US, looking on from this distance, and un-
moved by the passions from which many
Of your people can hardly be free, regard
ing his Presidential position with the calm
Judgment which belongs rather to history
than the present, Sc our outside position
enables us, n some degree, 70 regard it, we
sec in it an honest endesvor faithfully to
do the work of his great Office, and in the
doing of It a bright loss of personal honor,
on which no adversary hat yet been able
70 fix 8 stain.
1 believe that the effects of Mr.. Lincoin'g
re.election in England, and in Europe,
and indeed throughout the world, will be
this, it will cOnvineS all men that the in
tegrity Of your great country viii be pre-
served, snd It will show that the Eepubli-
can institdtion, with an instructed and
patriotic people, can be carried safely and
steadily through most despotic peri 5