Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-11-28

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that their ears have been abused and their
generous natures misled by the devices Of
mean men, acting under the influence ofun-
worthy motives; and that he who is at once
the type of these incendiaries, and the lead
ing spirit in their inventions, has Just gone
to his political account, unwept, unhonored
and unsung: that the North has rejected the
slanderer in the same spirit that the South
has refused to receive him. Tell them that
to be Black Republican is not necessarily
to be an Abolitionist and that taken as a
whole, no body ofmen upon whom the sun
shines are more truly loyal to their country,
or considerate Of the rights, interests and
wishes Of their fellow-citizens, than they
who voted for Mr.. Lincoln. Such assurances,
coming from such source, will have weight
and they who make them will gain the
proud consciousness of having, in trying
times, performed an act of substantial service
| to their country.
What will they do2 Upon this point, we
are not left in doubt. The address, although
not adopted, has found its way into the col
umns of the organ of the party, and probably
will have become the formal voice of the
Democratic Club of Hamilton County before
this article sees the light. In its periods we
discover an exempli6cation of the truth of
the remarks with which this article COM
mences-on the incapscity of politicians
either to learn or to forget. In respect to
personal authorship, the address claims
lofty paternity; gentleman not unknown to
fame has evidently exhausted upon it the
resources Of his invention and his rhetoric.
1t is pregnant in happy illusions and potent
in attractive dialectics, and had it been an
academical essay, with no application to hu-
man things, it wouldb be easy to pronounce
it admirable. .r... tiH!'5 'r
But as an address from the Democratic
Club of Hamilton County to the States-Rights
Democracy of the Unions it becomes subject
Hto another and very different standard of
criticism. We will not remark at any length
upon the strange policy, in a National Demo-
cratic Address, of making a bitter attack
upon Mr.. Douglas and his friends, especially
at the commencement of a quadrennial
period--the time belonging to the forgetting
ofgrudges and the healing of breaches in
the party. This is a minor affair, and would
have been unworthy of notice in this con-
nection, had it not been characteristic of
the address and strongly indicative of the
spirit that pervades the whole.
The abuse of Mr.. Douglas is with view
to cover up the appropriation of his ward
robe. The ambition of the National Democ-
racy of the Democratic Club of Hamilton
County, is tGlamuse the South with the same
old harlequinade on the North side of the
Ohio that has been played off for many years
under the dictatorship. of the Senator of |
Illinois. They ask nothing more than to
inherit his properties and license to exhibit,
with not the slightest change in the pro-
gramme.
But there is no manhood in the thing, no
truth, no courage to face the actualities.
Amid f1ourishes of trumpets and spasms of
fine writing, full of brave words and appeals
to stirring recollections the old nose of wax
of the mere politician-bold TO do wrong and
utter untrutb, timid and conservative when
Justice and verify are in order-makos its
appearance. We scarcely dare say what
we think of the manner in which the
steady, sound and truly conservative masses
of this great Northernpeople are holden up to
the gaze of the South. Who are the men that J
in these times of disturbance, growing out |
of falsehood alre dy uttered, dare stand up,
and, with every aspect of the community in |
which they are permitted to live giving the |
lie to their affirmations, tell the people of |
the South that the masses of the North are a |
body of fanatics with but one idea in their |
political systematic invasion of the homes |
of one-half the States of the Union, and the |
violent severance of their domestic relations.
These are times when they who say such
things should be required to prove them. 1t |
is one thing to be holiday incendiary, and
fire off squibs and crackers to amuse the |
boys and frighten the babies; but very diff |
fering thing to swing the torch at a time and |
in a locality where touch may be the pre-
cursor of confagration. In these times |
there is a demand for craftsmanship. 1t Will |
pay. Honesty and truth are wanted; and |
the public should learn to look down those
gentlemen, who, in the face of experiences
like the present, will still persist in a repe-
tition ofpractices that have been so fruitful
of fears and misfertunes.
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