Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1864-08-08

The "0pinion Rationale, after stating .
that the doctrine Of peace-at-any- price"
is selfish, immoral, and absurd, reads the
lesson to John Bull:
H You declare you wont light and stick
that declaration in your hat by way Of 8
cockade. See what happens, You sigma q
treaty-it Is torn up; you intercede in be-
half of P0land-it is exterminated; you
protect Denmark-it is crushedi your an
ger produces a smiles year threats deri-
sion;' John Bull, mon aPah why do you,
who are perfectly at home with figures,
keep up a feet and an army if you don't
mean to use them2 Suppress your feet p.
and army honest JOhn-your credit can. b
not possibly fall lower in Europe than it
is now-and you will have eeonomized
from seven to eight millions. With that
comfortable sum YOU viii be able to weave
cotton night-caps for all the long ears in.
the universe; and if the barbarians at
tack you you can always put of their at
tacka by paying tribute
Mr.. Ruslsin thus hits out Indignantly
against his own countrymen:
I'VE English as nation, know not
and care not to know, a single broad or
basic principle of human justice. We have
/ only our instincts to guide US. We will
hit anybody again who hits US. We will
take care of our own families and our own
poekcts and we are characterized IN our
present phase Of enlightenment. mainly
by rage in speculation, generosity where
I in generosity IS useless, anxiety for the
souls of sSvages, regardless Of those Of
civilized nations, enthusiasm for liberation
ofblacks. apathy to enslavement ofwhitess
10 r1oIifa raanont
| for populicide, sympathy for those whom p
we can no longer serve, and reverence
for the dead whom we have ourselves de-
livered to death"
This IS tho honorable nation that IS try
ing indirectly to destroy our Union, and
( + is sfFording every assistance it dare to the
cause of rebellion and slavery IS .,
A. late work on Norway it IS stated
In a - illustrated papers, such as
that America. "a found in the cha
Harper's Weekly, "a. are constantly
lets Of the inhabitants, anu -uthor of
studied by them. Indeed, the h., "a
the work, Mr. c. Elton, adds: The rAs-
felt here for information about Amerieafs
surprising; and I have often been puz-
zled in my geography before some Morse
man diseorrsing glibly of some Of the
most Out-of-the-world states and terri
tories
Devonshire strawberries attain great
size At Loxbere they were recently
picked six inches in diameter and three
and a-half inches in length. This beats
our best specimens.
Mr.. Goddard, a stauneh friend of our
country, residing at Manchester, is getting
up subscriptions for the purpose of aiding =
the slaves liberated by our armies. It is
proposed to send them clothing on which
our government viii not charge any du-
ties.
In the times of hard living and hard
fighting, men sank into their graves at an
age when they would now be rising into
celebrity. Says the Athen@um; "Our
rising men. our poets, our Judges, our pol
eticians, our generals and admirals, are Of
sixty or seventy years ripeness."
The Queen of England proposes to re-
pair the ruins of the Church of St Mary
Of Savoy, the interior of which was re-
Gently destroyed by fire, and to do so at
her own expense.