Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-07-24
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magazine. They have no virtue or wis
dom in their minds, to which, in a disap-
pointment concerning the profitable effects
4 M and cunning, they can retreat;
nut tbem 1pon the invention of a new de-
fusion. Uniuekily, too, the creduity-ei
dupcs is as iuexHaustible as the invention
of knaves."
The above extract from the writings of
an eminent statesman and politician was
forcibly called to mind on reading the
editorial columns of the New York Times
Of the 18th inst. The Editor Congress
man himself favors his readers with the
invention of a new delusion, and as the
fraudulent have no resource but in fraud,
endeavors to impose upon the eredulity of
his readers by an invention wherein cum
ming and fraud are so blended as to excite
but feelings of indignant disgust in any
one not wholly given yer to the enemy
of truth and honesty.
In this case the fraud attempted is so
palpable that we may hope few, if any,
will be deceived, and that the many will
be induced to reprobate the demagoguism
of aj%ournal hat once welded a fair infu-
ence upon the destinies of the Union
party and the cause which it sustains.
A column is devoted to a cunning and
fraudulent attempt upon the credulity of
Ihe uninfOrmed, to prove that the Radi-
Gals are preparing for another civil war.
He asserts that most of the leading and re-
Elective Radicals in Congress take the fol-
lowing view of the political future:
HShould enough Northern Democrats
be elected, in the fall, % ennstitnta-with
tEs disloyaI members returned from the
unreconstructed States majority of the
House, tbsn they will be recognized by the
President as the body to which he will
send his message, and whose session he
viii, if the necessity should arise, protect
By military oresl'
Does he class himself among "the lead
ing and reflective Radicals ," For, in an
adjoining column of the same issue, his
organ asserts that this is the entertain
"ment that the party have prepared for
themselves; this the storm they have
"sown, that they may reap the whirl-
"wind.n
This wonderful revelation does the Ed
itor Congressman favor us with As if
he presumed our eyes had been blind, and
our ears deaf, to this scheme, oft-asserted
and iHsisted-upon by every Copperhead
Senator, member and journal for the
past six months As if President John
son had not been loudly and persistently
urged by the Copperhead and rebel press,
20 resort to this only means of crushing
The Radical Rump " faction, and restor-
ing the "Union as it was" in the palmy
days of Buchanan, Floyd, Cobb, Toombs
Bully Brooks, fancy, and a host of less
or lights of the Democratic patriots
We are further told that the " refec-
Radicals do not conceal their pur-
pose, in the event of such a collision, to ap-
peal to force, and TO drive the rival Con-
gress, with the President and his Cabinet,
and supporters, into the Potomac - Did
not one of the ablest of the reflective
ones" say so?
Again, these wicked Unionists and I
Radicals, u case of their being a majority
of the nations loyal and legal representa-
tives, will claim to be the only legal Con-
gress, and invoke an resurrection of the
and governing classes to sus-
lain them in their legal power
But fortunately, as a set off TO this
earfal bugaboo, all depends upon the
whether or not the President
.hooses TO resort to the unlawful exercise
II power, in recognizing as the Congress,
/ set of men who have not been so recog-
lized by the only loyal and constitutional
bower to do do so-the present Congress.
the desperate, terrible Radicals after
u are in the hands of the President of
he United States just 10 this extent if
lie does not exceed his Executive func-
ions and originate a coup detaE that is
nsugurate revolution in the land, the
Radicals will not cannot resort TO
another civil war" In other words the
ivil war must Be forced upon them by
'opperheads, rebels, and the one thew
lain as their chief.
Now comes the fraud. AcciGentalu
) it were, the forthcoming Phils-
convention is here logged in.
nd another column devoted to prove :
lat it is the only panacea for all the ao-
Imulated evils about to be let loose upon I
lie land by some one or some party.
it be possible thst our Con- !
ressman has been exciting our :
srs for the future peace of the land, :
I'd by such fraudulent and puerile means. :
llyto give an'additional recommendation :
his favOrite scheme o. disrupting the {
MON Party2 Were not the inference :
dubitable we would be 10th to suspect Il
m of SO feeble a scheme. His artfulness S
too proverbisl to allow US to suspect him
so transparent a piece of folly. But the r
nth must be that he took pen inland after 6
at fearful caucus in which he figured as u
juy fswkes, and, conscience stricken, his
'wers failed him in his very malignancy .
purpose. d
He endeavors graciously to assure the =
untry that it may yet save itself by fol-
wing in his train to this new Chicago ;;
invention, though at the same time he !,
US that the leopard must change its al
'ts, and the q~uadruped get q better roar er
the full benefit hoped for will be
uchssfed the land. to
In conclusion our Guy means over NJ
; folly and unsophisticatedness of a na- IN
n "thst trusts to the goodness of its
Use, and butts its head against a gath II
ng of men mainly composed of its enc Y
les and lukewsrm friends. We must In
iclade with the belief that cheats and
'eivers never can repent. me
- HIS
General j. NJ Tuttle is the Democratic .Jor
ldldate for Congress In the Fifth Iowa mn.