Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-02-27

Inc EXCflfIIeIl ~
Exhibition at Growers and abe
White House Copperheadst and
Traitors in Council with the Presi-
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. DeIeea-
tiOn-COPPerhead Papers here Tx
uItant.
Especial Correspondence of the Cleveland LEADER
WAsHINGToN, February %.
Tho excitement consequent upon the
veto message of the President has in no
wise abated and the exhibition of the
Rebels and Copperheads at Growers Thea
ire and at the Presidents mansion to-day
has served only to add fuel to the flames.
Every truly loyal man here feels humilia-
ted that the Chief Magistrate of this great
nation-the man whom a generous and
loyal people have so unanimously placed
in power-should wickedly disappo Mt
their expectations and become the willing
instrument Of those who all through the
wal have been his most implacable enc
mics and the aiders and abettors of rebels
in arms. The speech Of the President to
these Copperheads and disarmed traitors
will be read with feelings of profound
sorrow and disgust. Such an exhibition
of political degeneracy and I may say
demagogueism 1 never before witnessed,
and 1 pray Heaven that 1 may never wit
ness the like again. The men 4Oho got up
this demonstration are ktOl0n here as
among the most jealous friends ofthe Con-
tederate cause. Some Of t7ens are fresh
from the rebel armies and hare boasted of
their bloody deeds in aTDs to destroy the
nation; others haze occupied quarters in
the Old CdSitaL for their secret services in
aid Of the rebellion, and others haze been
teady NTH open arm and open AonSss at all
times during the oar to weLconse tie guer-
rilLas and spies of Lee and MoSby, and
to gire them all tie aid and comfort re-
CURED in their Vork Of blood and piunder.
Others still are among the acknowledged
leaders of the copperhead party of the
North. These are the men whom the
President to-day was delighted to honor
and to whom he uttered the foul SANDER
of assassination. The intimation or insin-
uation that Charles Sumner or Thad.
Stevens desired his death could eminate
from the brain of no sober or honest man.
When Abraham Lincoln was as~sassinated
Mason of Virginia and many of his satel-
ties here intimated that Andrew johnson
was in the plot and was one of the coli
s%pirators. This foul SANDER reeoiled upon
the neads Of those who uttered it. 1t wal
too apparent to be entertained by any sane
man. And this insinuation of the Presi-
dent ofthe United States against men who
have heretofore generously sustained and
supported him is equally apparent and
wicked. I will not speak of the humilia-
ting utterances of the President in other
respects. Suffice it to say that the great
Union party has more cause than ever for
humiliation by reason of this exhibition
at the nations capitol in which the Chief
Magistrate bore SO conspicuous a part.
The speech of Sam Cox was character
istic Of the man. He gave his hearers to
understand that the spoils of Office were
now to belong to the victors. In other
words that Copperheads and pardoned
rebels are to walk in and take possession.
They haze GLreGay selected their candidates
for prominent positions here.
The action of the President has only
tended to prolong the day of reconstruc-
and make rebels more defiant aud rebel
lious. The House was about to admit
Tennessee, but the members are in no
haste now TO consummate this event.
Among all except two of our own delega-
ton there is a noble firmness and a deter
mination not to disappoint the expecta-
ton of the people IN the trust which they
have contided to them. Mr.. Delano and
Lawrence are said to be on the Presiden-
tial anxious seat, and not disposed to go
with the majority.
For months past it has been known
here to a few that the President has been
in the habit of consulting with and taking
council of the prominent editors of the
bitetiigencer and other Copperhead papers
to the exclusion of those editors who have
supported and defended him all through
the war. He ordered the notorious Cop
perhead sheet of Tom Florence to be
nlaaAA on Tho LIT
Of the government that he had labored SO
hard to destroy, and it to-day assumes to
speak by executive authority in uttering
its foul maledictions against the Repre-
of thereople. The Mteiligencer
under the management of Coyle & Co,
men known for years past as rebel sympa-
is no less defiant in tone and spirit
toward the Union majority in Congress,
and is exultant over the prospect of a new
organization, embracing the Copper
heads of the North and the traitors of the
Sonth, with Andrew johnson as a leader.
But enough of this AT present. There is
/ Power above who has guided US as a
people through all the trials and tribula-
of the past. He will establish truth
md justice and overwhelm those who have
openly defed His power and betrayed
he trust confded to them.
FRANKLIN.