Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-12-03
WhnI the Country Needs

jority of the Northern people have no regard
for the constitutional rights of the South,
and are ready at any moment to invade the
slave States, and excite the negroes to insur-
recton and murder. It has acted on this
plan to the extent of its ability, seizing on
every thing, exaggerating every thing and
manufacturing every thing which could give
it circumstance.
We are feeling the results. The hostility
of the South for our people is mainly
founded on the statements of such journals
and such politicians among us. There is
nothing which even South Carolina has
done or threatened to do, which would not
be justified by the evidence which the Gin
cinnai Enquirer has borne against our own
people, if that evidence were true. And for
the Enquirer to call the course of South
Carolina reasonable, and to talk of coercion
and the penalty of treason, is to adjust the
halter around It's own neck, for it has fur
nished her the justification.
The result is a state of hostility on the part
of the South, growing out of their fear for
their property and the safety Of their fami-
Of the whole country; from which our city
is not exempt which, if well-fouudai, de-
mands separation between the North and
South, or any other remedy that would be
adequate; and which now threatens the in
tegrity of the nation.
Has any party advantage resulted from
this sacrifice of the interests ofthe country?
Look at the condition of the great Demo-
cratic party throughout the North, for an
answer. The North naturally tends to the
Democratic party. The great number of re-
cruits which it is constantly receiving from
emigrants, who fall into that party almost
without question, should always give it a
preponderancc. Nothing but the folly ofits
leaders has sunk it into what seems a hope
less minority. Certainly there has been no
party gain to compensate for the destruction
of the public welfare.
But the Democratic Bourbons learn moth
ing and forget nothing. What is the En-
qmre1's pauacea to quiet sectional alarm,
prevent its effects from falling on the trade
of our city, and save the Union? A false re-
port of an Abolition invasion of Missouri is
started by an insane or criminal Judge, and
the Enquirer seizes upon it and proclaims it
to the South as the consequence of Lincolns
election, and the result of Republican doc
trines. 1t quiets agitation by informing the
South that Montgomery and his men, as they
are reported by Judge Williams, are only
specimens and representatives of the major
ity Of the people in the free States
Then the Enquirer affects to deprecate the
consequences of this inceudary course upon
the trade of our city, by close cyphering to
show that in this city there was majority
of few hundred against the Republicans.
The South will be as much quieted by this
es timid landlord of numerous houses in
our city would be by informing him thai
$1,000 of our people have an irresistible pro-
clivity to throw firebrands into their neigh
bor's dwellings, but there is a small major
ity against them in the popular vote.
The Enquirer is free to pursue this policy.
We have our ideas about incendiarism, and
we have become recently convinced that the
worst is not yet defined by the statute. But
we see nothing in its effects either on that
journal, or on its party, or on the country, to
induce the PRESS to follow that policy. We
have stated the truth in regard to the senti-
ments Of our own people. They are not
hostile to the constitutional rights of the
South. We speak of the great mass of the
people of both parties. The sentiments ofone
are just as faithful to constitution and law
as the other. Neither has any intention of
trespassiDg upon the slave property of the
South. There is no cause for the fear and
hatred which the South now feels for the
Northern people, except the partisan misrep-
resentation of our own journals and politi-
clans. Nothing but the truth is required to
restore peace and harmony.
Because we say this, the Enquirer calls the
Press Abolition. On the other side of the
Ohio River they call the Enquirer Abolition.
In South Carolina they call all who are op-
posed to secession, Abolitionists. 1t is a
very senseless and fit term for journalism
whose force consists in epithets. But the |
proprietors Of the Enquirer believe Just as |
we have stated in regard to our own people. |
If there is any AbolitiOnism it is in the be- |
lief. They know that the constitutional
rights Of the South are just as safe in the |
hands OF Republicans as of Democrats. They
will not seriously pretend that every thing
which they have charged to the contrary, was
for any thing bat party effect. The Press,
not having any interest in any party to re.
quire it to sacrifice the interest of the people
among whom it lives, has stated the truth.
We are gratifed to indorse the Eaguirsr's
statementthat the Pass does circulate in ''the
homes Of the Union-loving and conservative
people 1t does that without any regard
for sectional lines. We are pleased to say
that the people of the South like a paper
which eonoedesall their property rights, with
out debasing itself OF the people Of its own
section. And while this subject is up we
will ask the Enquirer if its course toward
the people of Cincinnati and Ohio las made
il any friends in the South. We have an
idea that truth will prevail, even in journal |
ism, and without regard TO sectional lines; |
and that the opposite course inevitably brings |
a penalty.
A Pulpit SOckdoIoser.