Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-05-22
Candid slatsinents 20 she Rebsis -UaVai-

causes which have led the people of the
North 10 sink all party prejudiees and rally
to the support Of the Government.
This 10 . New Orleans paper 2-the reader
may ask /; but the explanation is easy.
A merchant in New York doing business
in Warren. streety addressed the letter ia
question to friend in New Orleans, for the
purpose of setting before him the exact state
of affairs in the free States. The person to
whom the letter was addressed, apparently
for the sake OF publishing a very elaborate
reply. which he evidently regards as con.
vinelng argument in defense Of the rebels,
sent the whole correspondence to the Pic
aytrne, and thus the South is put in possession
of the CleBrest statement of the feeling Of the
North that has yet appeared in any Southern
paper. tits SO rarely that the Southern peo-
pie obtain correct views Of the relations Of
the two sections, that the Picaytne deserves
great credit for placing this letter before its
readers.
We copy it because it tells some plain
truths that may be servieeable in other lat
itudes than that of New Orleans:
THB PEOPLE OF THE SOUTH MIsLBD.
l have not cast vote since the death of
the incompatible Henry Clay. have been
simply a 'looker. on in Verona" Owing
allegiance 20 no party organization, and ab-
solved from all political obligations, I am
and have been for many years in position
TO look at things as they are. have ar
rived at these conclusions. The people Of the
South haze been nI1dty, crinindIiy niSinf formed
in relation TO the true designs and feelings of
the people of the North. This has been done
By the Southern press and by Southern denla-
gogues, in withholding from the public mind
the things that are true, and substituting
therefor the things which are false. Through
their instrumentalities they have been led to
believe that the so-called Blsek-Republiean
party is an Abolition party, ard that they
sought power only that they might invade
the rights of the Southern States and inter-
feIe with the State institutions. TIE South
ern people also have been led to believe that
on the questions of Union and the Constitu-
tion as it is there was strong party at the
North who would aid and encourage the
people of the South in their endeayors to
break up the Union. The New York Herald
and the New York :EUentng Express have
done much toward disseminating this false
theory. All these suppositions, accusations
and theories are wholly untruthfuI.
REPUBLICANS NOT ABoLITIoNIsrs.
There is not in all the Northern, Eastern
and Western States FIVE thousand Aboli-
tiOnists, all told and this fanatical band,
small as it is, embraced all the way. visaged,
vinegar natured old maids, women's- rights
men and women, old, rickety, broken down,
savage philosophers and politicians there
are in a population of nineteen millions.
This faded, rotten, superannuated mass of
fossils never once, not even once, voted with
the BIack-Republicans. The Black Repub.
lcans come in always for their maledictions
with an emphasis. By "Abolitionists," |
mean those who would (if they could) sbol-
ish slavery in the District of Columbia, and
interfere with the institution in the several
States where it is authorized by law. No
Republican, no Democrat, no fair and hon.
est man at the North seeks any such thing,
or would tolerate it. No man who has any
respect for treaties, for promises, or written
obligations, could tolerate it.. We all at the
North admit that the Southern States have
all the rights they had when they came into
the Confederacy-- neither less nor more =
end we all say that the South shall be pro-
tected in the possession of these rights. In
striking proof of this, witness an instance in
Maryland only week ago. 'a sHi
While the Eighth Massachusetts, Regiment
weTe,marchiDg through Mary land to W Washing-
ton, under General Butler, word was brought
that the slaves in Anne Arundel County
bad risen. General Butler at once offered
his regiment to put them down. Aud this,
mind you, was Massachusetts regiment, q
State where Black. Republicanism is blacker
than it is elsewhere at the North. And all
this, too, after the Massachusetts, men had
been told by South Carolina that no quarter
would be given them. The entire mind and
heart OF the North are sound on all questions
of constitutional right to all the States,
whether North or South ,aand they are now,
so far as know them, determined that all
those rights shall be maintained the Union
must and shall be preserved, and that not
single letter of the present Constitution
shall be altered, unless by the act of the
whole people, as the Constitution itself pro-
vides, These are the doctrines of Jefferson,
Madison, Monroe, Clay and Jackson. The
people, of the North will now see that these
doctrines prevail, and that the glorious Re,
public that they formed shall go down to our
children perfect and uuimpaired. L. o. ,
.,a ALL PARTY OBLIGATIONS FORGOTTEN. L. I
V An impression has prevailed at the South
that in case of an appeal to arms, the seced-
ers would have strong party at the North,
which, if it did not furnish them troops,
would at least be strong enough to prevent
the Government from putting down the
revolutions thought so, too, until Fort
Sumter fell. But that affair was the signal
for q resurrection of patriotism at the North
as refreshing as it was unexpected. 1t united
us as one man. Allparty ties are severed
all party obligations are forRotten-we are
one. The universal sentiment is that the
Government is right and that it shall be
sustained. And it will be sustained trium-
pbantly. There can be but one isspe TO this
causeless, unholy, unrighteous,. vindiotive
war. Already one hundred thousand men
are under arms. Many of them have gone
forth to stain their hands with fraternal
blood4and all of them feeling that, their
cause is inst, and that 1t shall prevail In
less than four months the North will place
il, the field half a million of men-and al
for whatY sa .sas.5 ,.g--., rs.s 3. .a..t
CAUSES OF THE FEELING. -..lu
S The causes which have produced this unity
of feeling here are these: An Northern meI
know that the Republicans have no uncon.
stitutiOnAl designs on the rights of the South
nor. do they believe that the Benjamins, the
Yanesys, the RhsttS, ofthe South really think
All Northern men now believe that thil
rebellion would have broken ont if eithel
BTeckinridge, Bell or Douglas had beer
elected They believe that this- outbreak Il
the result Of q ToPnspirscg which has beer
fostering in the repuI sVer since 1882.
y They believe that the Southern leaders. arr
ambitious, dishonest and treacherous /; tina
this rebellion ais their work, and wholly
canseless. .-- .---- ~ - .-- .-
4 3 They believe that the Union is rea
blessing North and South They belieF,
ihat, the South have no grieFances which
ban DOi be legally redressed under the Con
,stitution .sla& 20" sfH9nlaai zee fi
they believe that the ostensible cause il
-aftugsther too slight tojpstjfy the overthrow
Of the finest model of goFernmsnteyergiyeI
10 mankind. 1Eln i1.diE seq 20 ~ ~ p
~ They believe there is poWeIfI1 bht ter
-roriZed- u niOn party at the South, who SO
cfetly invoke the arm Of the Federal author
ity TO restore law and order. 'rTl "a
2 FACTS TELLING THEIR OWN STORY. r..
ID proof OF this last idea are these facts;
4 All business men here are constantly IL
receipt of letters from every county in ever