Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1864-09-20
AN Ala.--Iserosl. OF nst Lusit.'.

tains an article which admits that from
wear to vear the rebels have had a streak
of bad luck, which has gradually narrowed
theterritory until it says ''weunhesitahngly
declare that t5,s f,,a brisfsst and tbot
the poignant cry for peace Of 50 many hun
dreds Of Thousands of sorely tried men, lro-
men and children s0ilI be heard and anss0e7-
ed according to general expectation aOitiin
the ezgTest yeagp
This is a remarkable statement, and is
SO much In contrast with the declaration Of
the Chicago Platform that the war has
proved q failure that It should put to
ahame the men who have the braEen su.
daeity 70 assert that-the war has been
unsuccessful Considering the work that
had 10 he done in order to crush out the
rebellion, no war has ever proved less
failure. 1t Is the men who collected
at Chicago who make this assertion, and
not the brave men who constitute the ar
mics Of the Republic. For the sake of
party cry they try to bring disgrace upon
the lsbOrs Of men who have never known
what failure meant, and who, for three
years have steadily pressed the enemy into
narrower boundaries, until the WHO itself
admits shat the present streak of bad luck
will be the briefest"
II the Copperheads are honest in their
platform, let them take it to the gallant
men who have just captured Atlanta; or
to the Old Guard of Grant that have hewn |
their victorious way from Culpepper to |
Petersburg, and who will soon close their
struggles and marches by victory more.
glorious than any which has yet been won '
or to the sun-browned Tars, under Farrs $
gut, and see what response they will &c. J
With one voice, the army will responI. =
We have not failed. We have don1s
work never before equslled in the hissry
Of the world. We have defended two =
thousand miles Of frontier. We lave
Tetaken two-thirds of the territory pos
sessed by the rebellion in the beginning of .
the war. We hold four thousand niles of
nsvigsble river courses that have ben ta-
ken from ths rebels. We have taker thirty A
furnished fortresses. We have v
,sptursd over hundred thousand prison n
rs and now hold nearly that number. We y
ave driven our armies in the West three i
hundred miles into the central strong v
Iolds Of the rebellion. We have cut IN Y
heir territory into strips dividing
It lOngitudinslly and latsrally. We
Iold every seaport but one in
coast range of six thousand miles. We
ave maintained a 7aster and more perfect ~
lockade than has ever been known; we p
old all the chief cities of the rebellion
e have exhausted their arms bearing pop- On
ation until ''they have robbed both the be
adis and the grave" We have cut his Sc
mics of from effectasl communication re
ith each other. We have held whatever + vo
E have taken and have never turned back wi
hen once we have securely advanced. We If
we Transferred the war from the vicinity ca
Louisville and St. Louis and Washing g- ",
D and Cincinnati to the Gulf States. In an.
ply to your assertions that we have cor
Led, we answer you by pointing to what The
have already achieved and what we
D yet accomplish before the close of the
III 1854. ina
Foe Rhig Is right and the pesce-sneaks
Chicago wrong. The @streak Of bad Ia Ia
X" has not only bsen annual in its re- sbo
renee, but it has been fearfully disss- ma
US and threatens in few months to be tau
Il and overwhelming. The gallant !oSe Peo
ly that has been 50 DETAINED by the Cop rec
heads viii have an opportunity in No the
aber to denOuncs these ISLANDERS by re- stat
iating both candidate and platform Pes' -