Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-12-01
Whcrc The Respon.ibility BoIonrs.

as the North Carolina Standard terms them,
"Demagogues lusting for power and for
new places in Southern Union,n and are
only trying to put in operation project
which they have cherished for many years,
and which in the extreme South was always
looked upon as the resort for deeayed and
disappointed politicians aud for which the
Presidential election only furnishes an op-
portunity, and is no part of the cause; yet
this class would have but little power, and
would soon be suppressed by the substantial
men of their own section, if it were not for
the general belief of the slave-holding inter-
est that their property is to be made unsafe
by Northern aggression upon it. Property
is proverbially timid. That in slaves is,
above all others, the most subject to alarm,
as it is attended with real dangers to the
owner.
The Disunionists seize upon this idea, and
use it to serve their present purpose, but
they are not responsible for it. The source
of all the real alarm of the South is in the
North. For years our partisan contests have
been nothing but an attempt of the leaders,
orators and journals of one party TO fasten
upon majority of the people of the North
comprising at least the same proportion of
intelligence, property and business interests,
the charge of an intention to invade the
rights of the South, rob them of their slaves,
and incite them to insurrection and murder,
and to all the horrors of servile war.
To carry on this elimination, the official
acts and declarations of q great party are
ignored or discredited. A party is not per-
mitted to declare its own principles and
purposes, nor to be judged by its acts; but
its opponents assume to fix upon it such a
character as they imagine will best enable
them to defeat it; and the most criminal
character is regarded by the party leaders
and organs as the one that will best answer
its purpose. This reckless party policy has
brought the country to its present condition.
In the minority section are property rights
and the personal safety of the owners
and their families, which would all be
put in jeopardy by outside interference.
In the majority section the organs and
orators of party, comprising nearly one
half Of the people, are constantly charg-
ing the other half with intentions to invade
the South, and light the torch of servile in
surrection. Every excitement in the South,
and every alarm, whether true or false, is
seized with avidity by these journals, ex-
aggerated, and charged to the .instigations
of the opposite political party. Every
stranger who is sacrificed by insane mob
fanaticism in the South, is assumed by these
journals to be an emisary from the North,
and the Northern Na0ple are accused
as accomplices. An Insane old man
with a score of followers, whom border war
fare and frequent border invasions had un-
settled in their notions of right and wrong,
and whom the force of his personal charac-
ter had blinded to the insanity of his under
taking until it was too late to escape the
consequences, invades a slave State; and at
once these journals proclaim to the South
that the majority Of the Northern people are
implicated in the act. Every prominent
statesman of the North is accused of being
accessory to the raid; and the charge be-
comes principal share of the party capital,
and is persisted in as if it were an eternal
principle, after an investigation, which this
accusation forced upon Southern Senators,
has declared that there is no cause for sus-
pecting that the raid implicated any but the
band which undertook it.
An insurTection panic in Texas, which wal
created for the criminal purpose which il
accomplished, and which resulted in the
murder of innocent men, as well as in great
terror and damage to innocent Shareholders,
has been charged upon the instigations and
sentiments of the people of the North by a
journal of this city, and it accused them Of
supplying the slaves with incredible quanti-
ties of strychnine to poison their masters,
long after the Governor of Texas had pub
licly declared that the panic was groundless,
and after the New Orleans papers had pub
hshed that the impossible amount of strych-
nine was only so much wheat -four, which
had been put up in parcels to simulate poison
by those who were creating the alarm.
These are instances OF this whole party
policy. Its whole aim has been to criminate
its own section in order to excite the
South against it, and to frighten
the ignorant and timid of the North
1t constantly reiterates the charge of trea-
sOnable and incendiary intentions against
the controlling party in the North, for the
sole and deliberate purpose of running it po-
itically. This course has brought the coun.
try 10 the brink Of ruin. How could it be
otherwise2 If a majority Of the people o.
the North entertain the sentiments and pur.
poses charged by these journals, contin'
uaDee Of the Union is impossible. Any al
Tentative would be preferable to the South
even q division to be followed by war, tC
continuing in Union with such people
The most incorporate movements and de
clarations Of the secession leaders are justi
fed by the evidence of these false witnesse
against their own section.
The disunion agitators of the South seiz
upon this testimony of Northern journal
and politicians sgainst their own peoplS an
spread it before the South as undeniabl
proof that their property and lives are il
danger from a constitutional election Q
President, and TO arouse them TO resistance
Treachery to their own section is not know
at the South, and is not suspected by then
in the North. Therefore they accept this a