Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-04-05
rae Lesssa oT the city Election.
The City Union Convention on Thurs

The City Union Convention on Thurs
day lsst ~sarsssOaasly sdOptsd the follow
ing resolution;
RSotpeL That in the Judgment o. this
convention, the method of reeonstructior
proposed by the majority IN both houses OF
Congress, meets oar most earnest sPprsba-
ton, and deserves the active and emphatic
support Of every perssn who desires the sue
eess Of the Union party.
The Democratic Convention the next
day adopted the following resolution:
ResolySd, That We heartily approve ofthe
veto Of the Tresdmen's Bureau Bill, and re-
joice that the President in his 22nd of Feb
ruary speech announced his intention to
again unroll the Constitution Of the United
States, and treat it a. q living and vital in
strunent Of government; 10 regard it Is the
great Charter Of our liberties; and that in
Vetoing the odious so-called Civil Rights
Bill, he has but reflected the sentiments Of
the great mass or the American people who
desire an early restoration of the Union and
the establishment # fraternsl relations be-
tween all the States,
Upon these conflicting declarations the
two parties Joined issue. TAs party which
endorsed Congress is triumphantly sue
e~essful; the party which endorsed john
son and denounced Congress is vero-
whslmingly defeated. In announcing
therefore that the result of the election
was an endorsement Of Congress we only
gave each convention the credit of having
meant what it said. The Herald denies
thatthis question was in issus. In thus
denying, Il charges the Union convention
with deliberate falsehood.
The Herald bitterly denounces what it
terms an attempt to abstract and divide"
the Union party. In this direct and ma
hgnant onslaught upon the unanimous
action Of the last Union convention held
in this city, we read the predetermined in
tention Of the Herald to desert the very
party Of which it processes to be the spec
ial guardian. If it, condemnation of
those who attempted to introduce Hextra-
neous issues into the late canvass, means
anything, il falls heaviest upon the con-
vention which unanimously endorsed the
Congressional, and, by implication, con-
demned the Presidential policy. This at
tack by 6 profsssedly Union journal upon
the unanimous action of 4 Union conYen-
ton presAges treaehery.
The HeGLds talk about dividing the
party would be ridiculous if it were not SO
mischievouL The men who boldly declare
their principles upon the most vital ques- !
ton ofpolitics do not thereby divide their
party. A party with 8 principle cannot
be divided 1t may be betrayed by The
man whom It has made President; it may
DO deserted by the man whom this Presi-
dent has made Postmaster-bHt the de-
hction is only the sloughing of of foul
and gangrensus matter, and it leaves the
great body Of the party healthier and
stronger for it. Yet We venture to predict
that, whether it finally determines to take
the final plunge after the President into
Copperheadism, or whether it at the last
moment, Shrinks back affrighted into the
Union party, the Herald will keep up a
eeaseless clamor against ninety-nine hun
dredths of the Union organization, charg-
ing them that by announcing and defend
ing the principles the party they are di-
Yiding it.