Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-10-31
The Future Ofa Government Which is Car
ried ON by Threats OF Violence.


The Future of a Government which is Car I
d ried ON by Threats OF violence. \
Suppose the gambling politicians should
really succeed in frightening the people from
an election of President, by their threats
and sham terrors. Then we should have
violence completely inaugurated in our Gov
eminent. Then threatened rebellion would
become a regular means of carrying the
elections. Then the principle would be
fairly recognized that party in power has
aliqht TO break up the Government if it can
not keen the control of il. Then treason
would be the first qualification for office.
What kind of a road to peace would this be?
Is this a nation of towards and slaves, to be
ruled by threats2 Does any body expect en-
tire surrender on the part of the people
The next election would require a repetition
of the same farce, with such additions and
exaggerations as would be necessary to make
it effective. The case, then, would undoubt-
edly require some actual demonstrations.
With the entire control of the Admins
tration army and navy, these would be
adapted to the necessities of the case. We
should have a government of traitors, carry
rebellion and treason just as far as they
thought necessary to keep power.
Would not this be beautiful elimination
of the experiment of popular government in
the greatest Republic2 A government saved
from dissolution only by surrehdering it to
traitorsl This is the spectacle we present to
the world now. Members of the Cabinet are
vaunting threats which should be throttled
in their throats with halters And weak.
backed, maudlin President instead ofcrush.
ing out this treason, as General jackson
did, affects the attitude of alarm, and hold,
up his shaking hands beseeching the peopl,
not to drive these dreadful fellows to de5
perstion.
The farce has been played too long al
ready. The public safety has been tamperet
with by putting notorious dsunionists in
the leading offices in the government moi
only in this, but in the previous Admins
tration; men who perjured themselves when
they swore fidelity 10 tie Constitution
What government can be stable, in which
threatened rebellion Isl rewarded by tn,
highest offices in it2 An immediate ant
total revolution in the policy of the Gov
safety.
We now present. a most disgraceful spec
taele to the world. A popular Government
in which the people are expected to b.
governed by threats and violence. An Ad
ministration threatening rebellion agains
the nation, before it will give up power.
this is the kind of Government we have go
it should come to an end as soon as possible
No such anarchy and organized disturbanc
has a right to exist. 1t would justify an
foreign power Ia invading us, and takin
possession OF country which was unfit t
govern itself. The Government is in tn
hands Of its enemies, and treason is petite
by the Administration.
Z No nation can exist which is ruled Oh
such plan. A revolution is necessary
which shall put the friends of the Union il
Office, and consign traitors to the oblivion
into which they will sink as soon as the,
lose the counterance of the Administration
All party and sectional divisions shoult
vanish when treason and rebellion rails
their heads in the Government, and inso
lently dictate the terms on which it shall b.
permitted to exist. The South will taxi
care of the dsunionists at home. The,
need no Northern assistance for that. lie
the North see that it is driven from the Ad
ministration at Washington.
When the country is saved from tn
traitors in its own Government, then it wi
be time enough to revive sectional and pal
tizan divisions. The northern man who, i
this crisis, attempts to give reality an
seriousness to these threats, in order to COY
the people into submission to them, make
himself an accomplice of traitors, and is onl
betraying his country into the power of me
whose political platform should have halt
suspended over it, for very present use.
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