Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-10-05
The Revival Of Patriotism.

1t is astonishing to see how many patriots
there are anxious TO throw themselves into
the breach to save the Union. Douglas pro-
poses to take the Office of Jack Ketch, under
Lincoln, in case the South try to secede. In
the South, men ore as plenty as blackberries,
who declare that the only way to disunion
shallbe in transverse direction through
their inteshnes. The whole people have
borrowed the expletive of cooley Cibber,"
in the play, and are crying "Stab my vitals."
Parson Brownlow desires to have the un-
wholesome odors let out of his corpus, by
the bayonet of Yancey, when he goes to re-
sist the Inauguration of Lincoln. II would
be "a brute part" in Yancey "to kill so great
n calf" In recent speech at Richmond,
John Minor Bolts declared that, in case Of
any attempt at secession on the election of
Lincoln, "in ten days 100000 volunteers
could be raised to protect the Union without
going into free State;" and his announce
ment that if, in the event of Lincoln's cleo
ton, "South Carolina should declare herself
out of the Union, she would assume the
position of foreign enemy" and that he
himself "would shoulder his musket and aid
in subduing her" brought out loud and pro-
longed cheering
1t would seem as if the election of a Re-
publican President was just the dose that the
country needed to throw it into profuse
perspiration of patriotism We must say
that we don't like the turn things have
taken. Our Union-savers' occupations
L. Al ~
out of our hands; and that, too, just as we
had organized at an incredible expense a
band Of Defenders of the Union," and had
armed them with eagle-fronted caps, and
torch-lights and miniature bells. After ex-
pending our midnight coal-oil on the Union,
and on our own clothes, and filling the air
with the pungent incense which we have
burned to the Union, it is too bad to have it
taken out of our hands by set of robust
ious fellows in the South, who tear the
Union passion to tatters, and who are de-
termined to be miserable unless they can
bare their stomachs and march up to the
disunion cannon's mouth, OF have disun-
ion bayonet thrust athwart the natural
course of digestion. The South are always
seiziDg the lions share of the good things of
this Government and now they have gone
and claimed the Union-saving business as a
Southern right and they seem really anx-
ious for the opportunity to take up arms to
inaugurate Black-Republican President.
We are not content with this thing at all;
nor do we like the general disposition that
the South have to commit hari-kari on
themselves, to save the Union. We fear
that the Japanese visit has brought this pro-
pensity here. The Greeks and Romans
people always referred to by the learned
used to lay the entrails of sacrificed beasts
and birds on their affairs, and they also di-
vined future events from them. But why
should the South disembowel themselves
Certainly, it will not make pleasing nor
wholesome sacrifice on the altar of the
Union; and whatsintelligence could be de-
rived from the intestine arrangement of
Parson Brownlow?
Nor can we admire the anxiety of Mr..
Douglas to hang the disunionists. We fear
that his taste for hanging has grown out of
an idea that such an operation would inn
prove his figure. If this thing goes on, our
Capitol will be, like the Palace of Dahomey,
garnished with human skulls, and Pennsyl-
vania-avenue win be, as the editor of the
Atdlaata COlfeder0ey proposed to make it
"paved ten fathoms deep with dead bodies"
This patriotism is like the religion of Solo
mon-too bloody. Itwould be much better
to leave the saving of the Union to our coal
oil. Besides, how are we going to carry on
our campaigns in the free States without the
raw-head and bloody bones of disunion?
Furthermore, if we are going to have the
Union-saying business taken out of our
hands, we are entitled to be paid for the
stock and material in which we have in
vested our capital.