Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1864-04-13
POLTEIOAL.

The Revolutionary agitation in the
South eastern Europe is on the increase.
If the Congress, soon to assemble, adjusts
the Danish difficulty, they will have other
troubles on their hands in Hungary, We
netiH and Turkey.
The bill for an underground railroad in |
New York city has been defeated. The
New York Herald remarks of the under
taking:
The very proposal to undertake such an
affair goes 10 prove that the spirit Of en-
terprise which is at present rife in Europe
has reached us. The Old World is more
familiar with these gigantic schemes. The
tunnel through the Alps is half completed.
Paris and London are honey-ccmbed with
underground railways. There is tunnel
under the Thames river and for years
past, in Paris and London, tunnel under
the British Channel, from Dover to Calais,
has been subject under earnest consider
alton.
The proposed legislation of the New York
Legislature to regulate the working men
Of New York city, receives but little en-
coursgement from the Press.
The New York News is ashamed of the
War Democracy in Congress for their pO-
sition on Saturday last on the motion CEN
suring Harris Of Maryland. The, News
says of them;
The War Democrats who helped to
pass that vote will live to be ashamed of
| If they survive till the people once more
appreciate the form Of government that Is
their birth-right.
Mr.. Ben. Wood said in February, 1868,
in the House Of Representatives, slluding
to the war; .a
"Rsther than prolong ii, 1 would con-
cede separation as the only means OF an
| ultimate fe=uuIUu UpOn sueh Frinninlaa as
true Republican should entertain.
When the purpose Of the Southern people
to sbstain from political compsnionship
with US shall have been demonstrated IS
fixed and irrevocsble, then as necessity
unless to struggle against, 1 shall not only
counsel, shall urge, separation"
The New York World, being sort of a
War Democrat, does not like Mr.. Longs
speech. 1t "repudiates Mr.. Longs senti-
ments and deplOres his political folly" It
says:
Thhee days ago, not one citizen Of
Thousand, if asked who Mr.. Long is, could
have told. The rays Of congressional in
dignstion concentrated upon him as TO-
cus. have aarvad tn illuminate and render
/ ,;o;bIe an obscure member, WnO--tLA-uzise
---II---vt irsVe commanded public stten-
ton to anything he could say"
On Saturday last Sam Cox Of Ohio, ask
ed why Mr.. Conway of Kansas, was not
expelled in the last Congress for offering
resolutions fsvoriug the recognition of the
Southern Confedersoy. In note in Mon
days New York Times, Mr. Conway says
in reply;
offered no such resolution as the gen.
tlemsa states but 1 did express in a
speech my preference for such recognition
to prosecution Of the war for q restora-
tinA nf the Union on tho cid slav0hnldinR
expressed 8 desire that the South
should be limited to its own section, if the
alternative were its supremacy in the
nation and over the continent.
That was not only my position then, but
it is my position now, and 1 am ready to
stand by it for all time.
The New York Times says of taxation in
New York city:
The taxation has reached a point
which threatens the whole property Of the
city with depreciation, and seems not un-
likely before very long TO drive business
away to other parts /; the poor are suffer-
ing severely from the consequent high
rents and high prices Of clothing and pro-
visions, and yet it is impossible to secure
the sanction Of the Albany Legislators to
a measure 30 eminently just and eX-
pedient as the levy Of tax Of ten per cent.
upon the receipts of the companies who
have obtained the monopoly Of our streets,
ami are reaping enormous gains from car
rying us up and down on then in cattle
boxes"
The defeat Of the Underground Railroad
bill in the New York Legislature, shows,
says the New York Times, what enor-
nous power over cur property and comfort
is now welded by the omnibus pro-
prietOrs, railroad corporations and politi-
cal jObbers. The Legislature on which we
have been in the habit Of relying, seems
to have surrendered itself completely to
their hands. No oremOnstrance, or protest,
or expression of opinion from the public
seeems to have che slightes influence in
preventing the sanction of every fraud or
imposition which any board of speculators
in the city may take it into their heads to
attempt.
Mr.. Vsllsndigham in q late letter says
that the use Of his name as q Senatorial
delegate, by the Ohio Democratic Conven-
ton, has done him much temporary in
jury. If he had said the act had done
the Convention or the Democratic party
much injury we could understand him.
But we can not see how a man Of his rep
utstion can be injured bysany political
event whatever. He seems to be about as
much past such injury as a bad egg is
past being added.
The radical brethren are to be commiser-
sted7 McClellanism confronts them ev-
erywherel 1t will be the death Of them.
-ROehester Union.
McClellanism having been the death Of
the COpperhesds, it is natural the Union
should think it has vitality Of evil enough |
left in it to kill the radicals also, and thus
complete the destruction Of the country.