Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-11-19

4 stitutien, between which there is but shade
Of difference in effect.
Several politicians will go out Of Office,
and will be obliged to resort to other means
tO.obtain livelihood, whereat they will
undoubtedly make a very considerable
clamor. They will predict great tribulation
as the result of their Acknowledgement, but
in the course of time will learn that the
country is better able to do without them
than they are to do without the country.
Several institutions very costly and cum
brous will also become obsolete, and the
buildings where they are located will go into
a state of dilapidation; the result of which
will be quite a saving of cost to the people,
and proportionate increase in the reward
of labor and the stimulI to legitimate enter
prise. ....
The idea has been sedulously inculcated
that, in case Of dissolution or a secession,
it will be the duty, or the necessity, of the
divided members to pitch into each other for
a war Of determination; and this ridiculous
notion has been made to figure largely in
the performances of those whose political
capital consists in at once threatening and
deprecating such a terrible event. If the
people of the United States shed great deal
of blood over the results of the wranglings
of their party politicians, they are much
greater fools than we take them for. Neces-
sity for quarrel there will be none; good
to come out of one there will be as little;
and stomach for fight, when the time arrives
TO- begin, we suspect will be no more plenti-
full than the other motives.
1t has been zealously inculcated by several
influential gentlemen who have unfortu-
nately lived to the age of petri6cation, that
"our sacred Constitution" is the end of all
human wisdom-that it embodies sagarity
and public virtue such as no longer exist
among the degenerate sons of revolutionary
sires, and that, if once set aside and violated,
there is no hope of another, through the
want of the prudence and honesty necessary
for its fabrication. If the Constitution is
better than the people, that of itself is good
ground for its repeal for the institutions of
every community should be the true rehec-
tions of the popular character. The Mosaic
dispensation-so we are informed upon ex-
cellent authority-was the most perfect gov
ernment that ever was devised for man; and
yet, how could we live under it2 tits ogood
for us; it was too good for the people for
whose use it was framed, and, therefore, in
many respects, its symmetry was destroyed
out of indulgence to their wicked propensi-
ties. There is probably no people in the
world who are not perfectly competent to
devise and set in motion at any time, as good
a government as they are capable to enjoy;
and therefore all apprehensions on that head
in respect to the people of the United States,
are idle to the last degree.
Like the millennium to the disputants who
figure at the commencement of this article,
or like the deluge to tie gentlemen outside
the ark who sought shelter from the opening
shower, the "ruin of our country" does not
promise after all to be much Of an event. 1t
is questionable if it may not come and be
upon us, and not be discovered; if philo-
sophers may not debate whether it has ar
rived, or is yet to appear; and if future his
,torians may not--as in the case of the down
fall of the Roman Empire-differ by several
centuries as to the time when it occurred.
There is, therefore, not much occasion for
disturbance. We may sit at ease ON the top
of our volcano, and, without particle of
terror, permit Mr., Samson Keitt to tumble
about the pillars of the Constitution.