The Cleveland leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1865-1865, 1865-07-06

pie In the interests ofG frse and stable gov
ernmenE II our people. had been
like the masses Of Europe-Wielded
by sinister purposes and Influences
we should have been destroyed long ago.
And this education is the salvation of our
country. Still It has not been complete. If
it had boon complete we should have had
no COpperhesds- One more lesson must be
taught to our youth-in our colleges, com
mon schools and pulpits: a lOue Of country.
It has heretofore been q blank page in our
education, because it was 3 political sub
ject. Ii should be taught from the cradle
up.
A nation to be Independent must either
be 80 powerful as TO command the respect
of the nations Of the earth, or so weak as to
command their commiserEtion. We have
examples of both: Little Switzerland sits
among her mountains, surrounded by absO-
lutte governments and she sits there the
Goodies of weakness-let alone because she
is too weak to make q fight We should
rather have q nation safe on account Of her
strength. Is our nation thus safe as re-
cards other nations If not she would be
in ruins to-day. France and England have
not kept their hands of out Of love to Us.
There has been no time since the rebellion
opened, when France and England would
not have combined for our overthrow ifthey
thought they could have done it. Those
countries have boon the moral, money and
material power of the rebellion. And they
have given their aid to the rebels with de-
liberats and mathematical calculation as to
the result. But they thought that, to fight
US openly, would ruin their commerce, and
incite the masses of Europe to freedom.
They knew that q war with this country
would let loose upon their commerce
swarms of privateors, like tho Alabama.
That was what kept them back. Am I not
right in saying that they would overthrow
US if they could2
These oceans are convenient things for
us. IfhelI broke loose andthe devil should
make an attack with all his legions, he
couldn't Bubdue us, if he had TO CROSS the
water-an element hat he isn't supposed to
have much to do With There is no Amer
lean now but what possesses a thorough
contempt for the opinion Of other nations.
1 will make q prophecy: We will have to
stand between England and the destruction
of her power in lesSthan twenty-five years
She hasn't a colony that doesn't hold her in
defiance; and England, to-day, is a child in
the hands of her people.
Thus, if they are pOKarlSss to inJure uf
abroad. are We not Independent of the ma
lions of the earth? The question is moi
whether we'll stand here in independence
but whether well go abroad for conquest
That's She danger. L believer the Monroe
doctrine. What do we want Of Europe but
her best men, who come here to be bone o
our bono and flesh of our lesh2
Another question engrOsses the attention
OF political aspTrHHt~- The revolution is no
completed yet. The fight is over; the enc
my are beaten the armies are dissolved anC
the boys are returning; and there is D,
more sound of conflict. But the contest il
not over yet. The talk now is about recon
struction. Ihsve a suggestion or two oil
that subject. In The first place negro su.
frage is 8 question which vexes the nation
/ consider that the National Government
has nothing to do with that. The qualifcatiol
of electors resides with the States, and i
was an assumption of power that reduces
the States to mere dependencies on the Ma
tional Government. Don't misunderstant
me-. 1 do not believe in the pernicious doe
trine Of Estate Rights. Madison and Jeffer
son tried all their lives to got away from
the Resolutions of '9s. I don't thinl
that the States are sovereignj tn
whole doctrine is an idiOsyncrasy
The Supreme court settles all questions be
tween States and the National Government
Nevertheless, these States must be main
tanned in their integrity. If We shout,
obliterats the geographical distinction Q
the South, and resolve all into one mass
/, with the centre at Washington, with it
C eruption, the nation E5uld rot in les
, than ton years. The Federal Govsrnmen
has the supreme power now, and it's he
duty 10 maintain that power now, and IT,
her duty to maintain that power till tn
last fang of treason is extracted, an
anarchy is at an end, Then every State
entitled to her integrity as a State. Fh
Rebellion e~xtinguished no State. It ws
a an enactment of malice with no constitu
tiOnal authority, and in fragrant oppositio
2 thereto. The original State laws and con
stitutyons were paralyzsd only so far as tn
Z rebel armies held sway. When rebellio
: and anarchy cease, the laws and COnstitu
;. lions of the rebel States revert to the orig
f naIState laws and constitutions. But sli
: very was at an end. While rebellion lastec
the slaves, as well as other rebel propert!
: were amenable TO the Union. Thus Il
Q latter could burn their bans, and the
= did it.
Thanking the crowd for their kind after
: ton, the Judge nnnounced his belief thu
t he had no more to say, ana took hia sci
: amid tumultuOus applause and cries of "6
j on ] go on !"
DINNERS.
The ladies of the Soldiers Aid Society il
Vited all the soldiers who participated
!. the celebration, together with the Cit