Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-01-15
A southern Chapter on Ethlcs.
The Charleston Is. o. Mercury of lat
date, remarks:

The Charleston IS. o. Mercury of late
date, remarks:
Our beloved brethren of the North, the
men of ideas and philanthropy, and virtuous
abstraction, have but one great grief in this
Confederacy-that their consciences suffer
because Of the degree Of responsibility which
is theirs, as connected with confederacy in
which slavery exists. One would think that
a short process could be found by which to
relieve their consciences of this dreadful
moral responsibility simply by quitting the
connection. But the hypocrisy exposes itself
the moment the slave States propose to re-
heve them, by their own withdrawal from
the Union. And then they ignore their
own peace and philanthropy doctrines by
insisting upon carrying war and carnage
into the South, to compel the continuance of
that very Union which was their loathing
and horror. ..
Mr.. Lincoln and the Union-savers all
allege that they have no design against the
peace, the safety, or the institutions of the
South, and all they ask Of the South is, sim
ply that they should have trial, only to
prove how innocent they are. Excellent
Christiansi Admirable politicians! Vir-
tuous philanthropistsl They curse slavery,
threaten its destruction, and use all their
energies to acquire the power to destroy it.
And when they think they have got this
power, and are exulting in it, they suddenly
ALLURE it. The victim struggles. They did
not think that; for hypocrites are always fools
as well as knayes. He may free himself,
perhaps, before his throat is cut. If we now
can only persuade him to be quiet! There's
the rubl Who shall we look to Douglas
Crittenden, Winter Davis, Botts--ay, Bolts
These tender consciences should be re-
lieved from the moral hurt which they suf-
fer from connection with slave States.
We quit them, accordingly. We release
them.
These worldwide philanthropists, peace
men and innocents, repudiate war and strife
and all bad passions.
We propose TO quit them in peace, after a
fashion prescribed in the Scriptures" You
go your way: we go ours"
Why will these innocents, who loath the
Union with the STAKEHOLDER, still insist upon
it, even at the risk of war; Alas, brethren
| They wish themselves to become slavehold-
ers not of the negro, but the white race OF
the South They have long since cheated
brother Esau, who was a simple herdsman,
of his mess of pottage. They would now
| sell him into Egypt, and reduce him to
| brick-making, without straw, that they
| should build themselves mighty pyramids
Their weapons will not prevail. But what
fearful power have they in their cunRingl
How dexterously do they mask their faces
with Esaus hair, and approaching our pool
benighted brethren, the patriarchs Bell and
Crittenden, and others, persuaded the pool
blind men that they are the favorite broth
ers, the best friends, the true heirs; while
with cormorant appetites, they devour the
| pottage; and, with irreverent scorn they
mock the blessing. But the great God O
the world still governs it; and His eyes arr
not blind to the acts of the wicked. In Hi
own good time he will rebuke the cunning
| hypocrites the pottage shall be as poison
in their throsts and bowels and the blessing
| shall BECOME the curse.