Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-11-13
M, Pe,cenhI. sec hs,lon,

Southern States, can secede at all, they can
do It peaeesbly. Her talk about calling out
her terrible volunteers ana coeroing the
Union, is merely the vaporing Of little
State thousand miles away from what she
calls the enemy, and while she really de- J
pends for her security on the frontier slave
States, which are not doing any of this
Observation-Disclosures. business. Nobody wants
to invade South Carolina, in any event. to
coerce her. Even if such a thing should
ever be resortcd to, it would not be neces-
sary to touch her shores and the army
which she talks of calling out to protect her
self would eat her out of substance, before
the Federal Government began to think
about force.
South Carolina is in no condition for war.
If, as she pretends, a Presidential election
excites insurrection among her slaves, what
will war do, which the negroes win be
taught by the current political harrangues
to believe to be between slavery and aboli-
tion2 She would have more than she could
do to take care of her own negroes, and
would need help for that from the other
States; and if the other States have got to
do the fighting, they may also think them
selves entitled to judge of the cause, or the
necessity for it.
But it is questionable whether State
should be forced to continue in Confedera-
tion to which shehas settled hostility.
South Carolina does not pretend any fresh
cause for secession now, but halls the cleo
ton of Lincoln as an opening for what she
has always desired. She has never been
satisfied in the Union, and the tone of
her public sentiment is one of relentless
hostility to the majority of the people in it.
In Congress the expression of her Rep
resentatiyes has always been that of
malignant hatred toward the people of
the Northern portion of the Confederacy,
and of unceasing insult and vituperation
toward their representatives. Their hatred
of the Northern people is more virulent than
that cf Italian or Magyar for Austrian, or
Celt for Saxon, or Christian for Turk. A
Government which binds such antagonistic
races is "a constant justification for reVo-
lutiop@ In Europe it is regarded as a justi-
fication for foreign intervention, to enforce
an adjustment of boundaries, according to
nationality or unity of sentiment. We
ought, at least to be as liberal in popular
government.
Sofar as the North is concerned, South Car
olina should be allowed to decide for herself
freely and without intimidation, whether
she will remain in the Union, with an init
nation that the Union will be much more
comfortable without her. Perhaps the Fed
eral Government should see that her citizens
have an opportunity to declare their voice
on the question, according to the forms of
law, so that the State shall not be put in the
attitude of secession by a few reckless poll
ticians, who are setting aside the forms of
government and acting through irregular
conventions, without any of the safeguards
of the elective franchise; but this is all the
interest that the Federal Government need
take in the matter, until the question shall
be decided by the State herself Then it
would be necessary to make the terms of an
amicable separation from an unamicable
member.
The terms would chiefly concern South
Carolina and her sister slave States; and the
duties of the Federal Government would
consist mostly in guarding the interest of the
other Southern States. The politicians of
South Carolina demand separation because
they declare the people of the North their
deadly enemies. As far as South Carolina
is concerned she will establish such a deadly
enmity between the sections. The separa.
tion is not intended to cure this hostility,
but to give itvent. But South Carolina does
not propose to be any where near the vent.
She proposes TO make, of the northern
boundary of Maryland, Virginia, Kentucky
and Missouri, a border between slavery and
a people against whom she, for the whole
South, declares war and deadly hatred.
Because she is uncomfortable and valiant,
with her slave property perfectly secure,
entirely beyond reach Of free border, or of
any excitement to insurrection except what
she herself furnishes to keep up her own
zeal, she proposes to deprive the northern
tier of slave States of the Fugitiye-slave
Law, with the Federal Government to en-
force 1t, and establish an asylum like that of
Canada, in immediate contact with a slave
boundary 1000 miles in length. Besides
this, she expects these very States to do
whatever fighting she brings on by her va
poring.
Whether the Northern slave States will be
willing to be used by such a diminutive
monkey, to pull such very hot chesnuts out
of the fire, may be question. And they
have rights at stake which the Federal Gov
eminent can not neglect. 1t is the duty of
the Federal Government TO protect the in
stitutions of the South from external dauger
in whatever shape il may come, if in SO doing
its whole power is required. This duty it
has always discharged faithfully, and this
sacred duty may compel it to- o'interfere to
protect the Northern slave States from this
sure destruction of their institution. And
if their preservation demands coercion of
other Southern States, it can not be refused.
The North, not having any interest in the
matter which is vital to her prosperity or
safety, is hardly entitled to a voice on the
question Of secession; much less to voice
favor of coercion. II is purely a Southern
question:, largely concerning the existence
ofsiayerY; and whqleYer disposition the
Southern States make Of it, the North
should aeauiesce ein--reluctantly and sorrow-
tpny, il is true, if the South shall decide
That the coercion of any of her section is
necessary 70 the existence of her peculiar
institution, but still true TO her national