Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-12-31
Mr.. Push and his Coming Address,

The Hon. George E. Pugh has consented
70 address the people of this city upon the
present condition Of affairs, at Smith & Nixon's
Hall, this evening. That Mr.. Pugh will
present any other than a party view of the
case is not probable, Il any one may judge
by his late speech in the Senate. His legis-
Iative course, thus far, does not indicate that
his mind has penetrated beyond party ex-
igencies, or contemplated any thing more
than party results. To raise the temperature
throughout the nen.slaveholding States
high enough to burn out the Republican
Party, is the policy indicated by those with
whom he co-Operated; and it is not prob
able that his exertions will be directed to-
ward a more rational enterprise. He will,
therefore, seek to give an aspect of dignity
and importance to the doings in South Car
olina; and while he processes great love of
the Union, and cRlarges upon the necessity
for its preservation, will insist that its con-
tinuance depends upon some concession or
other to be made by the North" to the
'South" as an inducement to the latter to
refrain from going out any further than it
has already.
If the nation were really in danger, such
a course would be trihing with the public
interest and the public mind, and would
deserve serious and severe condemnation
If Mr.. Pugh believed that the nation was in
danger, we have respect for his character to
lead us to think that be would not trihe at
so important an exigency. But the nation
is not in danger; the peril is to party, not to
national bonds of union there is no especial
demand for self sacrificing patriotism; and
therefore it will be in order to permit Mr..
Pugh to go on in the old party path, to pur-
sue the old party ends, and revel in that
vocabulary of phrases of terrible sound with
which it is proposed to frighten the people of
the Union into doing some thing very des-
perate, though what exactly it is. to be does
not appear.
We sincerely hope that Mn. Pugh will
have no prescription to present for the i'm
provement of the health of the Union; and
this first, because the Union is not an in
valid secondly, because that however dras-
tically the North may be pbysiced, there are
no indications that it will thereby be rem
dered more acceptable to the South; and
thirdly, because every plan that has been
put forth has been but a combination of the
ridiculous and the impracticable seeming
only to exhibit the emptiness of its author
for service in any real exigency, his want
of knowledge of mankind and his utter
destitution of all just ideas of the nature
and limits Of Government in general, and of
our form of national polity in particular.
Than in them political quackery certainly
never had a more perfect exemplifcation,
The political career of Mr.. Pugh is now
for the present-drawing to close; and it
is probable that this is the last opportunity
he will enjoy to address his constituents at
home, before the close of his official term.
On such an occasion it will be happy for him
if he shall be able to leave upon the minds
of his fellow-citizens the impression that he
has raised himself above the level of the
mere partisan, and has become, if not
statesman, at least q sound and sagacious
politician. Important party changes are
imminent. They will follow closely upon
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which they are foreshadowed. Before the
time when he will be able to gather for q
new ascent, his party antecedents will have
become unavailable. Just views of the
Constitution, of the powers of the Govern
ment of the duties of the Executive, of the
dement's of the authors of this agitation,
and rational prognOstics as to its fnality,
will be as creditable to him as it will be ac-
ceptable TO the community.