Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1864-01-28

After rehearsing the historic results Of
slavery and the agency Of the last Ad-
ministratiOn in sustaining it, he proceeds
to discuss more directly the issue of tie
day. As this probably gives expression
TO the policy of Mr.. Lincoln, it will be
read with interest, and found by no means
Conservative The COpperheads have
begun to howl about it already, and this is
an eIoellent recommendation.
Slavery was thus to become the sure
foundation of their Republic, and it is, we
see, the basis Of the deepotic military rule
which subjects the South under dictator,
and sheds the blood Of the North in tor
rents to defend itself and the whole Union
against the frenzied ambition of the
ehivalry that hoped to make cotton king
over the Cabinets of Europe, and the
negro institution the throne Of s king over
this continent. It was in this spirit that
it sent out its hllibusters into Cuba, in
/ Central America, and sought an alliance
with revolutionary party in Mexico to
restore the reign Of slavery in that Re-
/ oublio. It was in this view that Toombs,
Who apes the Oratory Of Mirsbesu, in con-
vulsing the. South, announced that it
would make the Gulf Of Mexico its mare
clausum," and "oall the roll Of its slaves
on Bunker Hill" The maniac is now fet-
tered, but If he had broken our army at
Autietsm or Gettysburg, cnuld cur un-
armed farmers and citizens have arrested
aim on his way to Philadelphia, Bslti-
more, and New York, with an army flush
ID with victory and bearing the arms and
spoils Of oursS Might he not have bribed
mobs like that which held our emporium
for three days in terror, to take the arms
son from us in the fields of battle and
iain bin in the plumber and conhagrstion
Of our cities
have not made this recspitulation Of
the causes originating and the conse-
| quenees flowing from the bloody rebellion
hist shakes our country, to imbitter ami
mosities on either side. My effort is tc
expose to view that rooted evil which must
be extracted If we would relieve the ns-
ton from its convulsioas. Slavery, as q
great clemens of society, makes slaves Of
sll associated with it by the passions il
infames; the masters by the ambition il
inspires, the masses Aith which it mingles
| by the deadly contagion 1t spreads in q
thousand forms. Il Is marked in the Dec
larstion Of Independence as the most viru-
lent poison instilled by the King to enfeeblC
for suhjugatien the people on whom he
made war, and it has proved the most po
tent ingredient hat could be employed fol
the dissolution of The fabric of free govern.
Msnt which withstood the Kings attempt
IL the virus he infused, which was strong
enough amid the enthusiasm for newborn
freedom to stife the voice Of the Deelsra-
ton Of Independence denouncing slavery,
snd has, kept the free Government-thG
hard-earned prize Of the revolutionary
: wsr-in tremor ever since, is it now, wher
. it has been poured out with the nations
blood in the fratricidsl war it forced OF
the country, sgain to be admitted into th'
systemf
} What patriotic party will sanction such
8 suggestion? The people f the 5lsvC
States will repuiiate slavery when the du-
ress of the rebellion is removed. Nilsson
ri and Western Virginia have already for
mslly renounced it, aud the recent votet
Of Delaware and our own dear Maryland
manifest their purpose to renounce it al
once. In Kentucky, Tennessee, and Ar
kansas, the indications are also faVora-
favorable. The Proclamation Ct the Pres
ident 10 deprive the enemy of this grest
element Of power, this sinew Of war exert
ed at all points, has announced the extino-
ton Of Slavery as essential to the success
Of the measures be has been compelled tc
adopt to conquer peace for the Union
The armies OF the Republic are on the
march TO accomplish the aims which have
been submitted without reserve to the de-
cision Of public opinion, and they have
the support Of the peoples suffrage. What,
then, is the duty Of all who are sensible
that the war is sn inevitable evil, from
which there is no safe or honorable deliv-
eranoe but by supporting with united
strength and counsels the Chief Magistrate,
10 whose conduct the issue is committed,
and in whose svowed designs the nation
has voted its confidence Are there any
who would rescind the votes of the Border
States and re-establish Slavery therein
Are there any who would snnul the proc
| lamation to reinvigorate the institution 80
skillfully piled to instigate the war, and
SO essential to provide the means for its
proseoutionH
The Democratic party of the North was
sednced to countensnce the measures of
the Southern oligsrcbs preparatory to the
war against the Union, under ths ides
that they we're designed as mere menace,
and we're really Conservative. The event
has shown that the whole policy Of the
dominant class in the South has been war
for absolute dominion in the Slave States
war to extend the despotio system on
which it built at home and abroad. In this
the conversation to which Democracy any
where should lend itself2 Bulwer, though
Tory, has this sphorism In one Of his late
papers "a true conservative policy for
nation is the policy Of progres !" and he
gives his conservative friends the admoni-
ton that resistance to progress is de-
structive to conservatism" The Democra.
cy was in its better day q progressive
party. Would it not be an advance back
ward TO restore the slave institution to the
position il has lost in being used during
the greater part Of the century, coVertly at
irst, but now in open rebellion, TO destroy
the free Government by which it has been
tolerated only in the hope it would
have been gradually thrown off
under the influences Of public sentiment?
When the masters Of millions Of slaves
have boldly proclaimed slavery the best
bssis Of government, and founded on it the
military despotism they have set up with
in the jurisdiction Of the United States,
with the a7owed purpose of superseding
it's authority, what friend Of the Union,
what friend Of free government, can hes
itste to strike down that system, which en-
dangers both The plea that slavery is q
local institution, not to be dealt with by
federal authority, was universally admit
ted to be true till that institution engen-
dered rebellion which, by an admission,
equally universal, seriously imperils the
existence of the National Gnvernment II