The Cleveland leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1865-1865, 1865-05-01

MEETING AT MADIsON-STIRRIEG REsoLU-
TIoNs.-A mass meeting having been called
for public expression of sympathy and
sentiment in the present national crisis, the
people of Madison, Lake county, met at
O'Clock P. N. on tho 26th inst, and organ
lied by appointing Mr.. E. L. PlymptOn, ,
Chairman, Geo.W. Lyman, Secretary, E. F.
Ensign, N. Wilson and L. Kimball Com
mittee on Resolutions.
After prayer oferedby Rev. Mr.. White,
L. s. Sherman, Esq, OF Ashtsbula, ad-
dressed crowded house for one and a half
hours, in a very able, appropriate and
touching speech.
On the conclusion of Mr.. Sherman's
speech, series of stirring resolutions, pre-
sented by Mr.. E. F. Ensign, were unani-
mously adopted.
After a vote of thanks had been rendered
the speaker, and it had been voted to send
copy of the resolutions to the Cleveland
LEADER for publication the people dispersed,
evidently resolved to "do or die" in sustain
ing our good Government.
We give the resolutions below:
ResoEued, That we look upon the assassi-
nation of our beloved President and the
attempted assassination of the Secretary of
State IS not simply the acts of the misera-
BILE Wretches who welded the murderous
weapons, but chiefly as the acts of the
Slaveholders' Rebellion, who, having been
beaten in honorable warfare, sought this
brutal and cowardly revenge; and that
horrible as were the acts, they were a
natural development of their barbarism
and entirely consistent with their past his
tory, as evidenced in the cold blooded
murder of their own Union citizens, in their
inhuman treatment of our prisoners, in the
gross indignities offered to the dead bodies
Of our soldiers, in the massacres at Law
renee and Fort Pillow and in the plot to
burn New York and other Northern cities.
Resolved, That We stigmatize as both cow
ards ard traitors, and unworthy to associate
with loyal men, those at the North who ex-
ult over the assassination.
Resolued, That We regard the attempt to
destroy the Union and overthrow the gov
erement not as a mere difference of polite
al opinion to be overlooked and forgotten
under the plausible plea of magnamimity
to fallen foe, but as rank and arrant trea-
son, and that if the leaders Of the rebellion
are not to receive the punishment which
the whole world has adjudged due to that
infamous crew, then our Constitution should
be amended and treason declared no Of
fense-
ResoEued, That we have viewed with deep
regret the extreme lenity which has re-
Gently been shown to rebel generals cap
tured by the vslor of our troops. Generals
in whose military departments our prison
ers have been tortured and starved to death
by the thousand, are allowed the liberty of
our northern cities and treated more as
distinguished guests than as sssassins
against the life of the Government and the
liberties Of the people; and we demand, in
the name Of an outraged and bleeding ma
ton, that this lenity shall be withdrawn.
Resolued, That the Government should
carefully avoid any recognition, implied or
otherwise, of the Confederate Government,
so called, either by treating with its officers |
or its generals; that they should be re-
garded as traitors in arms, not as agents of |
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