Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-09-22


straight into the Republican camp; yet he is
very careful TO inform them that Douglas is
not so bad as Republicanism. Asslavery is the
great tribulation, let us see what position it is
that the Administration Democracy consider
the least of the two evils. The Republicans
believe in the power of Congress to exclude
slavery from the Territories. There has not
been time in the last ten years. nor is there
a probability of any in the next ten, when
Congressional prohibition could pass both
houses of Congress. So, as far as the right
TO take their slaves into the Territories is
concerned, the South are tolerably save under
the Republican doctrine.
They who suppose that Mr.. Douglas has
any principle in this matter, believe that he
holds that the people Of the Territories may
exclude slavery. There has not been a
Territory formed since the invention of this
doctrine, that has not excluded slavery by a
vote of the people; nor is there any prob
ability that any will be formed in the future
that will not So, under the Douglas plan,
the South will have no chance for extending
slavery in the Territories. Yet Senator
Bright sa Douglasism is less bad than Re-
publicanism; and while Douglassm is cher
ished in the South, the Breckenridge organs
call RepublicaDism incendiary.
Why this contradiction 1t is evident
that the interests of slavery in the Terri
tories are not regarded in the matter at all.
They are freely offered to be sacrificed. The
reason is so plain that the wayfaring man,
though fool, need not err therein. If Mr.
Douglas should be elected, the Offices would
still remain in quasi Democratic hands. and
the Southern majority in all the Executive
patronage would be preserved. Probably it
would he increased, in the natural desire OF
Mr.. Douglas to strengthen himself where he
is weakest. If Mr.. Lincoln should be elected,
all this patronage and power, which Democ-
racy has enjoyed SO long that it regards its
union with it as the only Union worth pre-
serving, will pass into other hands, and the
South will have to 10y down the lions share,
which it has come to regard as a Southern
right, and will have to share on equal
terms.
Think of the terrible pangs of dissolution,
when all the executive, postal, customs and
diplomatic Offices are torn from the dying
grasp of the Democracy, and pass into the
hands of Republicans, with the same chance
to Northern men and Republicans in the Ju-
dietary and in the army and navy, that the
South and Democracy have so long enjoyed
Think of the agonies of such dissolutionl
Is it any wonder that in contemplating this
they talk of 'trending the Union from turret
to foundation-stone," as only mild remedy?
Boabdil and his Moors never turned such
sad, lingering, longing looks on the fair
scenes of Grenada, which they were leaving
official seats which they fear are about to
slide from under them. This is the danger
to Southern institutions. This is the in
cendiarism-the Republican fire in the rear
Of tho of6oe-holdeIs, more incendiary to De-
mocracy than SIMPSONS foxes with fire.
brands in their tails among the corn-shocks
of the Philistines.
This is the dissolution of the Union that
we hear so much about. The interests of
slavery are entirely lost sight of. What has
a man to do with patriotism when his bread
aud butter is about to be taken from him
To retain even Douglas-control of the
Executive patronage, Democracy offers to
abandon slavery in the Territories to popu-
lar sovereignty. What reason have we to
suppose that it would not abandon slavery
:, 20 aHoI;fsn,, fNr
sideration2 "Doth the wild ass bray when
he hath fodder" Nor the tame one either.
Take away our enormous and danger
Gus Executive patronage, and the dan
ger to Southern institutions would van
ish. Cut off the Postofice Department
which Government has no business with
and which would be vastly better in
private hands; our Customs Department
which is wholly indefensible a.
a means of supporting the Government and
which no party dare squarely defend on thC
principle of protection; our diplomatic es
tablishments which are useless and only mis-
chievous; and reduce our army, navy anC
dock-yards to their useful proportions; ther
we should hear no more of the threat of {
dissolution of the Union as an element in
Presidential election. Then our boasted self
government would cease to be the constan
threatening of pronunciamentos, secession
and civil war, which apparently have shame
the exhibitions of government of our Mex
can neighbors. Then the boasted capacit
for selfgovernmentof of the people ofthe great
est Republic, would cease to be a play
frighten old women by the Chinese war-tac
tics-by hideous contortions offace, unearthl
noises, terrific threats, and horrible rhetol
ical imagery, of pulling down the pillars
society, rending the Union from turret I
foundation-stone, and 'paying Pennsylvania
avenue ten fathoms deep with dead bodies
Then "Ancient Pistol would cease to be IL
model of statesmanship in the smartest nj
ton in the world. Then in course Of tin
he reign of common sense might begi
which now seems to have become unconst
tutional and dangerous to the Union.
The Steam Rire-RnEi Eines.
In letter published in the Times of ye
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