Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1865-11-15
The Herald Turns Another summer

The Herald Turns Another Summer
set.
The Herald, long before the LEADER
dare take q stand upon the negro suffrage
question, declared in favor of striking the.
word "white" out of the Old Constitution
Herald.
The impudence of the Herald is unpar-
aIleled. AS far back as 1850, when the
Herald was an IN blushing advocate of the
enforcement of the Fugitive Slave law,
and in favor of the rendition TO hopeless
slavery Of the hapless black man and
woman, for no other crime than that they
loved freedom, the LEADER was an ear
nest advocate for the abolition of the word
" white IN u constitution. And for the
Herald to claim priority in its advocacy
of negro suffrage is about the coolest piece
of ~effrontery we ever heard of.
1t is a matter of notoriety with the
rerders of that sheet, that its editors turn
about as many political summersets in the
course of a season, as any circus clown can
possibly dc. we Uan rvnaonabar when II
was a most earnest advocate of Southern
rights" till it was forced to follow public
sentiment and advocate the northern side
of the question. We well ~recollect when
John Brown was being tried, the Herald
declared that he was a murderer and de-
served hanging. The very next day, as soon
as its conductorsfound that the cause of pub
lie sympathy was strongly in favor of the
hero of Ossawatomie, the Herald imme-
diately changed tack and commenced
shedding about a gallon of crocodile tears
over the impending fate of that gallant
old man.
Latterly, during the dark days of 1860
81, when it was generally believed that
the then newly elected President, Mr..
Lincoln, was about to come out in favor
Of compromising with the rebels in arms,
the conductors of the Herald announced
its determination to support the policy Of
the new administration whatever it might
be. Happily the opinions as to the course
that great man would pursue, proved er-
roneous, and the Herald, no thanks to the
inert principles of its editors, followed in
the right path.
Recently, when the question of negro
suffrage had not been put to the test of an
election, the Herald gave a sort
of m~ilk-and-water support in favor
of that doctrine. But as soon as
Governor Cox published his well known
letter wherin he stated his position ON tia
question, the Herald suddenly became
dumb. When the result of the election in
Connecticut and Wisconsin was announc-
ed, it veered around and expressed its
qualification that n~egro-suffrage was not
made Il test, as the following article which
we extract from its columns will prove:
"The Union Convention of Wisconsin
refused to make negro suffrage an issue in
the November election in that State.
Thereupon the dissatisfied called another
Convention, and the naked issue of negro
suffrage was put before the people for
their acceptance or rejection. The result
was decisive. The Union, or Republican
ticket was elected by over seven thousand
majority, and negro suffrage was defeated
by over ten thousand. Fortunately for
the success of four ticket the friends Of ne
gro suffrage did not run a separate ticket,
tut adopted ~ Pl~nhAuhio an expression
of opinion was gained without affecting
the general vote.
And now to cap the climax the Herald
%endeavors to show by whimpering out that
in the Constitution before the LEADER
did, that it did not mean what it said in the
above extract.
That is most admirably characteristic of
our weather cock contemporary. The best
thing it can do, is to advertise in its ouack
medicine columns for a se..tof principles to
sail by, and pay a liberal price for the same.