Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1865-11-20

Second, The amendments of their Stat
constitutions, which have been adopted b
many of their State conventions so reluct
aatly under pressure of dispatches from tn
Pr s'dent and Secretary of State should b
ratified by maio y of their people w
all know that but a very small portion o
their voters partioi 2ated in the election
OF the delegates TO these conventions
and nearly if not all of the convention.
have declared them in force, without any
ratification by the people. When this crisi:
has passed can they not turn around and
say that these were adopted under durest
by delegates elected by meagre vote under
provisional Governors and military author
tiles, and never ratified by popular vote
and could they not turn over the anti-Le-
compton argument against us, and insist, as
we did, that Convention not ratified by
the people may have efIec, but no moral
effect whatever. GE
Third. The President can on all ocea-
ions insist tn at they should elect Congress
men who could take the oath prescribed by
an act of 1862. But in defiance of this, and
insulting the President and country, they
have in a large majority OF instances voted
down Union men who could take
who boasted that they could not
and would feel disgraced if they could.
The gentleman elected in Alabama
by a large majority, declared in
his address to the people before
election that the iron pen of history would
record the Emancipation act as the most
monstrous deed of cruelty that ever dark
ened the annals of any nation, and another
one who avowed that he gave all possible
aid and comfort to the rebellion, and de-
nouneed the Congress of 1862 as guilty in
eXacting such an oath. A voice-Put them
on probation.l The South is filed with
men who cannot take the oath, which de-
elares have not voluntarily taken part
in the rebellion. Every conscript in Che
Southern army can take that oath, because
he was forced into the ranks by their con
scription act, and every man who staid at
home and refused to accept a civil or mill
tary office, could take that oath, but these
men were not the choice of the States lately
in rebellion.
Fourth, While it must bo expected that q
of the people Of these States will
cherish for years, perhaps, their feelings of
the country has right to expect
that before their members are admitted TO a
share in the government of this country, a
clean majority of the people of each of these
States should give evidence of earnest and
cheerful loyalty, not by such speeches as are
80 common, that they submitted the issue
to arbritrament of war, but that they are
willing to stand and fight for the flag of
their country against all its enemies, at
home or abroad. The danger now is in too
much precipitation. Let us rather make
haste slowly, and we can then hope that the
foundations of our government, when thus
on basis ofindisputable of 10y
atty will be as eternal as the stars. ZAP
planse.) ---'.- .i
In President johnson l have unshaken
confidence. | cannot forget that in the Sen
Ite at the opening of the rebellion, he was
he only Southern member who denounced
t and its originators, and that he was faith
ul among the faithless. (Applause.l Nor
10 forget when, on his way from the Capt.
ol to his home he was insulted. He never
altered in his devotion to the Union. Nor
AN forget when he was military Governor
If Tennessee, his speech at a mass meeting
o the colOred men at Nashville, in which
he declared that all men should have fair
tart and an equal chance in the race of life
md let him succeed who has the most mer-
t. You all remember his speech to the col
rel regiment of the District of Columbia,
where he repudiated that stereotyped dec
amation tllat this is a white mans country
lone, and insisted that it was theirs also.
You will remember also his re-
marks to the South Carolina delegation,
hat the only right principle was to protect
IL men, both white and black, and that if
hey got the general principle right the de
ails and collaterals would follow. We all
emember, too, his earnest dispatches to
hose Southern conventions, and that he has
igned the death warrant Of everyone who
las been convicted of conspiracy. The
.roat Union Organization of the country
l. 10 -,
defenders through the perilous crisis of the
,ast four years; our beloved Martyr Presi
lent leaned on it in his darkest hour it
TODD by the National causeEunfalteringly
t voted down the Chicago platform, which
declared the war to be a failure, and
which demanded n cessation of hostilities;
he people have placed the whole power of
he Government in its hands, executive, leg
slative and judiciary, and reassured it by
he brilliant victories of this fall. Let us
mulate the example of its friends in all the
states, let us study unity in the light Of
Lutv, and believe the executive and legis-
ative departments of the Government when
hey compare views together will cordially
in this great work before US all,
nd so act that the foundations of our Union,
wisely and patriotically reconstructed, shall
'e as eternal as ages. With a hearty accept
nee by the South of the new situation, ]
eioice to believe that under system of
,aid free labor, and by respecting the rights
# freedmen it will go forward in its career
# prosperity, wealth and progress, unpar
He'd in its previous history. 1t has
more genial cline than we have in the
Older North wider range of productions,
or it has cotton, tobacco, rice and sugar,
which command such high prices now i'll
he markets Of the world, and it has bound
ess ater-power, almost unimproved. Rid
low of shiftlcss system of slave labor, 1t
Will, with its loins girded anew, rival us in
he race of prosperity.
In conclusion, can but echo the words of
,ur departed President in his last inaugural
N the steps of the Capitol: with malice
owards none, with charity for all, but with /
irmness to do right as God gives US to see
light, all will be we'll"
The address was cheered throughout, and
1t its conclusion many in the crowd rushed
orward to congratulate the speaker, while
.he band played patriotic airs.
FraHcO-American Affairs. -
WASHINGTON, November l9.-As much inn
Dortanee is attached to the statement Of the
Beige that the evacuation of
Mexico, by the French troops, may be look
I'd upon as a thing decided on in principle,
It will not be uninteresting to recur to the
fact that about two years ago NJ. DrOuyn de
L'Huys said to Minister Dayton that the
hangers of the government of Maximilian
would come principally from the United
States, and the sooner we showed ourselves
satisfied aud manifested willingess TO en-
ter into peaceful relations with that govern
ment the sooner would France be ready to
leave Mexico and the new government to
take care of themselves, which France
would do as sorn as it with propriety could,
but that it would not leave or tempt the
Arch Duke into difficulty and then desert
him before his government wat settled. lE
Mr.. Seward, in reply to this narration OF
Mr.. DAYTON, Instructed him to inform the
French government that in the opinion of
the United States the permanent establish
ment of foreign and monarchial govern
ment in Mexico would be found neither easy
n desirable. The United States consis-
tently with their principles can do mother
wise than to leave the destiRies of Mexico
in the keeping of her own people, and re
cognize their sovereignty and Independence
in whatever form that they themselves shall
choose, that this sovereignty and -indepen-
dence shall be manifested. ~ .aE.l
It was previously declared by NJ. Drouyn
de LHuys that as to Mexico, the purpose Of
the French government was to give order
TO the eonditizn of things there, to repay
themselves for debts, expenses, &C., and then
leave the country. ... r....,f -,--...... -.
The text of the convention concluded be-
tween France and Mexico to regulate the
conditions of the stay of the French troops
in Mexico for the purpose of establishing
,-,Jar and 10 consolidate the new empire,