Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-12-29


ions on the North and South.
The London Herald Of the 10th inst. has
the following: .-s-..... ...
Notwithstanding the accumulating evi-
denCes of an approaching crisis certain par
tiesin the country are obstinately ignoring
all danger, and the liberal press is remark
ably unanimous in hushing up matters, so as
to make il appear there is no cause for anx-
iety. The self-styled leading journal, much
against the grain Of the stock, ,jobbing fra
ternity, has mystifed its readers latterly by
rehashing its correspondence, and proving
conclusively its utter ignorance Of the prin-
eiples at work and the questions at issue in
the American Republic. This has given
rise to pot-and-kettle controversy between
it and a radical cotemporary, the latter
seeking to vamp up the Transatlantic Com
monwealth as a model Government, and as
serting that the American Constitution JUS
titles the Southern States in their attempts
at secession. fi...--.. ..a...
We are coolly informed, in er-cathedrd
terms rivaling the assumption of its oppo-
nent that commercial pressure aggravates
the political relapse, whereas the fact is
patent to all that the former is solely conse-
quent upon the latter. The journal in ques-
ton is so little acquainted with American
affairs that the telegraphic dispatch convey
ing intelligence of the stoppage of the banks
/ Norfolk, is denominated suspension Of four
banks" while it really means q number
verging on q hundred. One of the two
sheets referred to, increases the slaves in the
Southern States by small matter of fifty
per cent, the other reduces them by twenty
five per cent, and this is but moderate ex-
ample of the kind of information to be
gathered from their columns. What reli-
ance can be placed on their representations
when their assertions are so little consonant
with fact?
The business community, however, more
especially that portion of il Immediately in
terested in American commerce, buoys itself
up with the hope that the politicians of the
South will shortly see the disastrous effect of
their agitations and desist from their oppo-
sition, or that compromise will be brought
about between the two sections, and peace
be restored TO the Confederation. The former
is Improbable the latter impossible; and the
very expectation proves their ignorance. of
the Republic, its history, and the issues at
stake.
The Constitution of the United States was
itself a compromise, and the conflicting ele-
ments of slave and free labor have from time
to time necessitated further compromises.
In these compromises, however, the South
has invariably gained and the North invaria--
bly, lost; further concessions are now i'm
possible, and the first statesman in the Re.
publican party, Senator Seward, has de-
clared that the day of compromises is past.
Were it otherwise, Mr.. Lincoln would not
now be the President-elect, and Mr.. Bell,
who failed to carry q single Electoral vote in
the North, would be Mr.. Buchanan's sue
cessor. The free States have elected Mr..
Lincoln as the representative of one grand
| principle--the exclusion of slavery forever
| from the Territories-and the victorious
champion of that principle has pledged him
| self to carry it out in spirit and in letter.
Intimidation, threats Of secession ITSELF
will have no influence upon the new Presi-
dent; Senator Trumbull, the friend of Mr..
| Lincoln, and the accredited exponent of his
| views, lately declared at Springfield that
freedom henceforth will be the law of the
| Territories" II is simply because the South
ern States know the North will back him in
carrying out this policy, so that for the fl-
ture "neither Courts nor Congresses will be
able to thwart its WILL" that they are pre-
pairing to secede; for if they remain in the
Union without participating in the Terrific
ries, slavery must ere long become impossi-
BILE. In most of the Southern States the
| natural ratio of increase of the slaves is
| greater than that of the whites, more espe-
cially in the cotton districts, and the time
must eventually arrive when the colored
population will become too numerous for
their masters to control.
| IL W thloi lhO uOuOohAO lhotllu'
tom must soon prove terrible burden to
its supporters, since the planters will be pre-,
vented moving with their "chattels" into
new territory, after having exhausted the
soil in the old. But there are other con.
siderations than this life and death question
of the Territories, which are now madden.
ing the South. Senator Trumbun declare;
the late election will bring about Northern
"Paeifc Railroad, a judieious tariff, the ad.
mission of Kansas into the Union as free
State, a reform in the financial departments
OF the Government and, more than all, the
verdict of the people that the Constitution is
not a slavery extending instrument" These
propositions mean the acquisition of the
commeTce-of the continent by the Northern
States the substitution of protection for free
trade, two more votes in the Senate against
the South, the annihilation of democratic
finance, and prospective emancipation of the
slaves by the force of circumstances The
South sees absolute ruin staring it in the
face from such measures; and, whether il
seeedes Immediately or not, attempt to secedt
it must shortly in defense of its very ex
istence.