Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-05-28
Kentueky View ofthe Present Troubles
The Blame Placed Where It Belongs,
The Louisyille (Ky.l DemOerat says:

The Louisville (Ky.) Democrat says:
The calamities of war are upon us, and all
the States are suffering. The evils inflicted
on the field of battle fall far below those in
ficted on the masses at home and we are
only at the beginning of it. The men guilty
of precipitating US into this condition, de-
serve the highest punishment known to
human laws. On their. souls rest load Of
enormities that are to be perpetrated. 1t is
no wonder one party. wants to shift the re /.
sponslbility on the other, fo- the reckoning
they have to abide in history, to say nothing
of another account where the guilty can't
escape the penalty of their crimes s1I
We do not excuse the North; its wrongs
can not be overlooked; but the North did
not make war. Whatever provocation the
North gave, it did not use force 10 inauEu-
rate this conflict. gJ.oE ..,.er
These Secessionists began to act on
theory which no party in this country ever
acknowledged. Its consequences involved
the breaking up of the Government. The
sacrifice of property, and arrangement of
business, and the tTampling of rights long
enjoyed under foot, followed action on this
vague, underlined theory. yea 51E1
The South at once assumed all the rights
5 of war against the Federal Government
seized armes, munitions OF war, captured
troops, and taxed and harrassed the commerce
OF States of the Union. Mob law superseded
all regular authority, and bodies unauthor-
lied, by the pretense Of regular authority,
reigned supreme in many localities The
hasty, violent action Of the States, and the
arbitrary assumption of power to form q
Confederacy, without appeal to the people,
will strike all men the world over as no
peaceable Secession, but revolutionary and
,WaIlike defiance of Government. :.
All this was done, the Federal Government
upresisting. For q long time it made no
effort to protect ITSELF its property on its
troops. We need not enumerate the out
RACES in detail. The reader is familiar with
them. They at last gathered their forces to
attack Fort Sumter-a fort built by the
| United States, and its property. There were
but sixty or seventy troops in it and they
were the friends of South Carolina, not her
enemies. 80 ." 'f'
The Tevolutionists could not wait. They
mustered their thousands, threw up their
batteries, and occupied themselves with hos
tile preparations; the fort remaining quiet
and unresisting. They fred into vessel
going into the hsrbor for the peaceable pur-
pose Of carrying provisions, They at last,
assuming all the rights Of war demanded q
surrender, and poured all the FIRE Of their
prepared batteries at the small, devoted band,
more like unresisting victims than soldiers
Il was not until all these violent and Waf.
ike demonstrations were made, that the
Federal Government Res reused up for its
own protection. At this point, its sin was
that It would not give. up the Government IA
this mobocratic crusade.
Who, then, began the war; We need moi
be told OF the wrongs OF Black Republicans
They have done wrongs enough, but they
did not begin this war, which Is now desc
lsting the country and running its people
This bloody remedy is all the work ofSeces
sionists. They have made II; theirs is th,
credit and the guilt. 49, i-lt
There never was Government In whicl
people suffered no wrongs There nevel
was one Ia which less was suffered than il
this, There Is not a people on the glob,
| that have not better reasons for revolution
against their Government than these Seees
sionists have TO day. They knew at the star
that their remedy was revolution; that 1
would be bloody and terrible. They knew
| II would involve States in the South thh
had never done them any harm, and did no
| approve II. But with reckless, ambitious
! ihtempeTate violence, they must have thei
4 way, ard coerce the whole country into tbi
untold ealamities Of civil war. A11 'eihauj
2 And how nov are they conducting them
tsstlSts2 They are daily driving from thei
bones huhdreds, for no reason But that the
Cdbh't spprove the conduct Of Secessienists
| The place oi q man birth Is now a. crime
aud no proofs needed with mobs ARMED h
\ the teeth, except suspicion. States are rul
over with armed troops, before the peopl
/ opportunity 10 give any verdict On ~
subject. o Ahrghts are at the discretion B
committees Of safety, committees of Wig
ilance, and leWiess, Unauthorized combinh
tions. in short under this Jaeo obinical reign
/ man has no right 10 life, liberty or prop
erty, unless he follows the mob.
All this Is a necessary result OF this Wal
and what wrongs are equal 20 those nos
suffered? Who can tell what rights will b
1 left when the war Is oyer 'l't
And who got up thig war Who began il
4 It'stands out BY itself, and oyershatiows 4
that went befDfe II. The wrongs looked |
/. to justify u win Be sunk under the giganti
wrongs Of the remedy itself, The f6rms
j will be forgotten undHr the tnountain ioad
grievances that will grow up ont Of th
remedy which time and skill VIII never 4
move. p 49, ~ N-.i A--' ."
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