Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-12-05
ouictinR the Southern Lambs by Crying


Quicting the Southern Lambs by Crying
Wolf!
The Enquirer insists that there is no help
for the crisis, and no way to protect and
foster the trade and industry Of this city,
than 10 60 on in the same policy which has
brought on the excitement, and howl against
our own citizens as incendieries, robbers
and murderers, who only wait favorable
opportunity, such as the election of Lincoln,
to carry seIvile war, rape and rapine into
the homes Of the South. The only recourse
it can see is to destroy the industry Of our
own city in order to change its politics. Let
it pursue its course. We prefer another.
There is nothing in its moral, political, or
financial results, to induce an untrammeled
newspaper to fellow it.
What beautiful system of popular gov
ernment we have in this country, and espe-
cially in this locality. We have a couple of
newspapers, published in this city, and liv-
ing off its people, one of which has just re-
ceived fat slice of the county patronage,
doing their utmost to- destroy the business
and industry Of this city, welcoming every re-
port of any Southern excitement against the
people of Cincinnati and of the loss of our
trade. and of the discharge of our laborers
from employment, and manufacturing such
reports and directing and urging the South
to the way to punish our people, all and
solely for the purpose of making some party
advantage out of their ruin.
What are the civil wars by which Mexico
carries on her partisan contests, COM
pared with this political guerilla warfare?
1t has this season destroyed more property
in the United States than the Mexican civil
wars have in the last ten years. And yet
we talk of the Mexican Government as an
arcby, and as justifying foreign Intervention,
and even our Intervention s.s
The glorious freedom of the press, which
is toasted and eulogized as 'the palladium of
our liberties" is now manufacturing fire.
brands and throwing them among the prop
erty and business of our citizens, shouting
/ over its destruction exulting over every la
| borer that is left without employment and
over every Northern man who is abused or
murdered hy Southern brutality, and excit-
| ing the South to woTse fanaticism, in the
/ hope that on the ruins of our business it may
| rebuild the fallen Democratic Party.
! What hope is there from the resurrection
/ of a party which has gone down to ruin
and disgrace by Just such leadership? Is
such hope worth selfdestruction2
We can safely leave to the Enquirer the
last wopd on such charges as that "abuse and
denunciation of our Southern neighbors is
in perfect character with it's (the PREss's)
whole policy" This is uncommonly scru-
pulous for the Enquirer. 1t does not say
that the PRESS "abpses and denounces our
Southern neighbors," but wishes to have it
understood so. When the Enquirer becomes
so scrupulous as this about making a charge
We may expect to find the devil among the
saints. 1t comes with n good grace from q
paper which has rung the changes on the
charge Of disunion against Mr.. Rrcoknridge
and the Southern Democracy through the
whole canvas, and which holds that major.
ity of squatter sovereigns in a Territory
may deprive the emigrants from the
South of their slave property. To ab.
olitionize Southern property, and accuse
the dominant party in the South of disuuor
and treason, and the dominant party in tht
North of an irrepressible desire to rob anC
murder their Southern neighbors, seems tc
the Enquirer the way to cultivate nationa
and fraternal sentiments. For our part WI
have seen that thing tried, and we wan
none of IT, Weregard all the hostile feeling
in the South against our city, as created b.
these journals and the politicians of til
same sort; and every Northern man who i
mdbbed and murdered in the South, g
murdered by the false witness of thes
journals against our own people.