Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1864-09-30

els does not fall within the treaty-maklng |
mower Of the United States. A treaty
made by the President makes 1t the su-
preme law of the land. There may be
hundred laws of Congress there Is GER
tainly a multitude, making provisions for
the carving on of this war; suppose they
would make treaty that would put Ono
into some new Confederacy. Does not
every man know that we have ne such
power In one word, has the treaty-msk-
ing power any more right than State has
to break up the Union and repudiate the
Government2 The duties of the Govern
ment are co-relaiive. They have no power
to do any such thing. The greatest Con-
vention put the provision in our Constltu-
tion that it may be altered by an amend
ment You may alter it, but the way Is
pointed out; but there is no way pointed
out to make the American people cease to
be nation ---s.a-
~ THE WAY 10 PEACE.
There is no power in the Government
of the United States to make treaty
whereby anything shall be done with these
seeded States, much less to make peace.
The way to peace is that Constitution Is
made very narrow to anybody who ehoses
to force war upon US. 1r.-e
You cannot get up wsr up that Con
stitution without 3 declaration Of both
Houses of Congress; that is, by declara-
ton of majority of Congress. When a
war is begun against you, it requires tie
majority of the representatives OF the ma
ton and the representatives of two-thirds
of the States to make a peace with for
eion enemy. So that, if anybody wants to
ieht US, they must understand that they
m1st give satisfaction to two-thirds of the
state, through their Senators, before they
can have peace. 1t is but narrow way
to give that satisfaction. 1t is utterly i'm
possible, by the very nature of our Govern
ment, to get peace in any other way. Mr..
Davis said truly, ''thst he had no power to
make peace; and he said sincerely, that he
copld not do it upon any other ground, but
bv a recognition by the American people
of the independence Of the Confederate
States. If our Government has no power
mis- Government has not; because ours is
ssFederal Government and theirs is Con-
federation. Ours is q real Government,
theirs is avowedly a confederation Of
sovereign States, and he has no power to
make a treaty that shall dissolve the
confederation. Their boundry line is the
Ohio River and the Missouri River. They
claim the lower half off the Missouri; but
the whole thing is an inter impossibiG.yj
and any man who has any sense knows
perfectly well that it is DECEIT, fraud to
draw MP such platform as that.
The Commander-in-Chief cannot say to
Grant, You quit the wal" with set pur-
pose never to renew it again. Now you
will observe that after that armistlce is de-
clared there is no possibility of renewing
the war, except by proclamation of the
Commander -in-Chief, throughout the
Union. Now you put that little Mac, as
you call him, there as Commander-in-
Chief, and carried by the menaces of his
party and the gold of his friend, August
Belmont, and he undertakes to make that
srmistice permanent as his own will and
power, who Is to stop it? How it it to be
prevented The first of his acts of ad-
ministration they have ordered; the sec
ond is an armistice, which he has the
power to make lawful without any author
ity Of Congress, or any Intervention Of the.
army.
Ifany man will tell me what is to him
der him from doing it, what is to hinder
him from doing an act which will stop an
actual and the most tremendous revolu-
ton which ever existed since the world be-
gan, 1 do not know whether he has the
heart to do it or not but there is not any
thing tohinder him.
You then call this Convention of States.
Well, the Constitution provides for con-
vention of States, but if you look at the
enormous difficulties that surround us, you
see their powers when they meet. You
mus first have a call or two of the S ates,
and all you can do when they meet it to
propose amendments to the Constitution
and they must be ratified by three-fourths
of the States.
What can they do toward making
peace2 They have no treaty making
power They have no power under the
sun. l say, therefore, take up arms and
fight every man that is in favor of such
men as will proclaim an arnlistice and call
a convention of States for the purpose of
effecting peace with those who are de-
termined to destroy the best Government
that ever existed on the face Of the earth.
Don't mind about changing your opin-
ions make them up slowly aud delibe-
rately, and stand by them, and die for
them, if necessary, rather than your coun-
try should be destroyed, and the glory of
your ancestors depart from you. Cheers
The plat form is the same old issue pre-
sented in new guiss. They know peace
never-can be obtained in that way-that it
can only be gotten by triumphant fighting.
They know that in reality-every one
knows who will refect-that there is
legal impossibility, moral oimpossibilit
in the wav, either for the President of the
United States to make permanent arm
istice, which dissolves the Union never to
be restored. They stand dissolved as soon
as you make an armistice, and will stand
dissolved during the whole of the adminis-
tration of your armistice President. In
the meantime, they strengthen themselves,
and we are weakened by party broils in
every way. 1t is proposed to do by treaty
what could not be done by war. They be-
gan at first hoping for help from foreign
nstions; and now they are sustained BY
the hope of help from traitors in the
North.
INTERVENTION OF EURoPEAN PoHTRs.
By the intervention Of foreign States
you know what we have suffered, what
menaces we have suffered from France and
England. You know how they have been
threatening to interfere. It is not well, as
Mr.. Lincoln says, to have two wars on our
hands at once; but 1 have always thought
that if Seward had told Louis Napoleon
when he broke up with Spain and England
in their proposed recognition-knowing
e h---a S-,-'n .-roPa thon can he