Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1864-08-31

The great anxiety of the rebel leaders
and the rebel press, at Richmond, as 70 the
fesalts Of the Chicago Convention,
Is amusing and yet extremely natu-
RAJ and extremely significant. 1t con-
firms the truth Of the proposition SO often
reiterated and SO clearly demonstrated
within the last year, that it now sounds
Ike q truisrn, that the last hope of the
rebels rests with the success of the Peace
party at tire impending elections. Their
desperate c,,use grows daily more desperate
as Grnnt tightens his grasp on Richmond
and Sherman on Atlanta. Their resources
are exhausted, theirtressury depleted: they
have no reserve force on which to draw for
money, food or men. They cannot keep
up a show Of resistance for another twelve
month. In this crisis Of their exigency
they cling to the hope Of Reorganization
at the North as the drowning cast-away
clings to a,aoating spar. They look 10 the
victory of Peace party at the North as
their last and desperate resource, and to
encourage its growth they keep a stiff
upper lip and talk 5lusteringly and bold
". This state Of facts eTpaiHs the in
tense interest which they feel in the action
ot the Chicago Convention, and the way
in which the Richmond press at
tempt to dictate its proceedings. The
,ld plantation manner, the usual calm air
of -insolest superiority, which Southern
leaders were wont to use ia former Demo
cratic Conventions, is still visible in the
way in which the Richmond Wing cracks
its whip about tho heads Of the
members of the Chicago Convention. 1t
lectures the body on its ''mighty responsi-
bility styling it "thearbiter Of peace or
rwsr'' It declares that "the Fremont fac
-tion must he j1diciously manipulated -
that the convention shonld adopt no plat
forn-that common hostility TO Lincoln
IS all that is wanted The Sentinel con-
graduates itself that @the Chicago Con-
vention will throw its apple of discord into
the already distracted and dicordant ranks
Of the North = looks to see it impede,
thwart or embarrass the plans and pur-
poses of the War party of the North and
exults in the beliefthat Sc at no time during
the war have we stood on such high van
tage ground at no time have We had so
good reason to insist on all We have ever
asked-untratnmeled, unconditional indie
pendenee" The Examiner ma kes free to
say that if Early can only whip Sheridan
In the valley, We shall probably sec a
thorough Peace President nominated at
Chicago. The Dispatch is not hopeful,
and thinks that nothing will come Of what
IS done at Chicago except there be re
verses to the Yankees within the next two
months "These alone" it says, "ean
checkmate Lincoln, and weaken his hand,
which is quite strong in comparison with
the frantic organization led by the ridicu-
lOus Fremont, and the Democratic party,
broken in two by the peace and the war
divisions.
It must be mortifying to our Democrat
&c brethren at Chicago, TO hear such Ian
guage as this, to be coolly dictated to by
rebels and traitors in arms-and to follow
that dictation But the sense Of shame is
a forgotten one with Copperhead leaders
like Vallandigham, Seymour and Fernan-
do Wood, and we have no doubt that they
viii eat their humble pie without blush,
and meekly submit to the mastersbip Of
their chivalric Virginian owners