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

the people to render every aid IN tneir
power 10 the constituted authorities OF the
sioyernment in the crushing out OF tine re-
belhon, and in bringing the leaders thereof
70 condign punishment
1his resolution was adopted by vote OF
yeas 163, nays l. The nay was Mr.: zen
qIeton's particular friend, BeulsmmIi n -, "
Harris of Maryland. Mr.. Pe'd'e'O''
dodgsd
December 21st, 1853, Mr.. Pendieeon
voted against arming, equipping or paying
negro soldiers. The negro troops were
then in actual service, so that the object oil
the vote was to cheat them cut of their
pay. Fernando Wood would not vote
with Pendleton. January 7th, 1864, Pen
dletop lodged voted against preamble
to the effect that the rebellion existed con
traryI TO the Constitution January llth'
1884, he votes for laying upon the table a
resolution declaring it to be the duty OF
tbegoYernment to enlist slaves in rebel
territory in order that the overbvrdenea
North may be exempt from draft. On the
18th of January, 1864, Green Clay Smith,
Of Kentucky, offered the following resoiu-
ton:
Resolved, That it is the political, civil,
moral, and sacred duty of the people to
meet the. rebellion, fight it, crush 1t, and
forever destroy it. T7-
Pendleton voted to lay it on the table
That failing, he voted with fifteen
others against it, the yea vote be-
ingfII2.
February 18th, 1864, Mr. Arnold sub
mitted the following resolution:
ResoIved. That the Constitution should
be 50 amended as to abolish slavery IN the
United States wherever it now exists, ana
70 prohibit its existence in every part
thereof forever. r -
It was adopted by yeas, 70; nays e2j
Mr. Pendleton voting in the negative.
But Mr. Pendleton's pro-slavery char
acter is seen from the following. March
2sth, 1864, Mr.. Stevens introduced joint
resolution submitting two amendments to
the Constitution of the United States, to be
acted upon by the States The proposed
amendments are as follows;
ART. l. Slavery and involuntary servi-
tude, except for the punishment OF crimes,
whereof the party shall have been o.lly
convicted, is forever prohibited IN the
United States and all its territories
ART. ?. So much of article four, section
two, as refers to the delivery up of persons
held to service or labor escaping into
another State, is annulled.
Mr.. Pendleton first voted to lay on the
table and afterwards voted against the
resolutions. On the 9th of April motion
was made to expel Harris, of Maryland,
for using the following reasonable Ian
guage;
'Ths south asked you to let them live in
peace. But no. you said You would bring
them into subiugation. This Is not done
yet; and God Almighty grant that it may
never be. I hope that you will never sub
iugate the South y
On the vote to expel, the yeas were "a,
nays So, Mr. Pendleton voting in the ne
gstive.
June 18th, 1854, Pendleton voted sgain,t t
the Army Appropriation Bill. On the
same day he voted against the repeal Of
the Fugitive Slave Acts. On the 18th, he
voted against the joint resolutions of the
Senate proposing to the States changes to
the Constitution so as to further prohibit
Slavery.
Such is the record of the Democratic
candidate for the Vice Presidency, show
ing him to be opposed to coercion, IN
sympathy with the South, violent slavery
pFopsgsndist, and far more in sympathy
with JEFF Davis and his government than
with the North in its efforts to suppress
the rebellion. Suppose he should get to be
President. His record will show what
may be expected from him. Let the peo-
pie Judge between him and Abraham Lin
eOln