Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1865-02-28
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solutely frantic over the question Of arm
ing the slaves. The rebel Senate, in q Sc
cret session, defeated the bill but only to
revive still more frantic agitation Of the
subject Notwithstanding the letter Of
General Lee, published this morning, the
rebel Senate, through the Senators from
the Gulf states, defeated the measure. This
action on their part brought out singu-
lar editorial from the Enquirer, alleging
that neither Virginia nor Tennessee nor
Kentucky nor Maryland began the war;
that they entered into it with reluctance
and only through the,uFgent pleadings of
the gulf states. Il declares that in enter
ing uponthe rebellion
"Amid all the ceremonies of national
birth, the States stood shoulder to shoulder
for the cause, and by sacred osths pledged
all their lives, all their interests, all their
property in material support, and for
relief from the motives of war, and by the
bond which united those who were strug-
Cling to save all that is prizsd among men.
There was nothing too sacred to appropri-
ate or abandon except the plighted faith
to be true to each other. These both, Vir-
ginis and her frontier children have not
broken. Thousands of their people sre
iu the trenches, with daily sacrifice equal
to the necessities of defense. Nearly al
their property has been yielded to the en-
envy"
But, notwithstanding all this, the Gulf
States seem recreant, unwilling to make the
sacrifice. The Enquirer Justify bawls out
its despair in this wise
sPerhsps it would be well for the Gulf
State, to recodsider their vote. Virginia,
Tennessee, Missouri and Kentucky will
yet see their people will not be slaves, in
order that the Inconvenience of war may
not be felt on the Oongsree and Tombig-
bee
The Sentinel, of the 24Eh, JeF's organ I,
fosms at the mouth, and thus lsshes the
reereant Gulf ssste Secretary;
We doubt if the world has ever before
known an example such as is presented in
the Confederate capital this day. Our
armies are outnumbered and pressed by the
enemy that seeks nothing else than our
utter and eternal destruction. In this ex-
tremity q number Of citizens ere desirous
of profering their servants, with the con-
sent of the latter, TO assist in the public de-
fense. The GenerAl-in- Chief Of our armies
warmly advises the policy of securing this
aid, and pleads that it would be of great
and essential value. The President and
the House of Representatives unite in his
views. The Governor of Virginia warmly
advocates the policy. The Legislature of
the State concurs. The Confederate Sem
ate alone, and the Senate by one majority,
assumes the responsibility Of battling and
dissp pointing everdict of all the rest; of
vetoing the universal will and prohibiting
to the people and the army an sid which
the highest professional and the most uni
versal popular opinion pronounces to be of
extreme consequence The Senators decide
that however important their countrymen
and their generals and soldiers may deem
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aid, which either we or the enemy are to
have, they say shall not be received on our
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The Sentinel calls for mass meeting in
the African Church to Overswe the Senate.
1t says the public life is in danger and can
not die in compliment to two or three pub
lie servants who are afraid Of losing their
property and concludes thus: at does seem
wonderful that people who have been
waited upon and watched over by negro
servants, are to be told that rather than be
defended by them, they mustrun the peril
of q Yankee yoke" E
All these rawlings and frantic appeals,
added to the voice Of General Lee and the
Virginia Legislature, may be successful in
passing some bill. But what then2 From
what region ARE the black warriors who
love slavery to be conscripted2 If con-
scripted, what then2 Wecenfdently abide
the result. Nothing will suit US better.