Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-04-19
A Missouri Journal on President LIncoIn,s
Administrator.
The st. Louis Republican observes

The st. Louis Republican observes
Our dispatches-mostly of the sensation
order-tell us that Pennsylvania is ready tc
furnish 900 men to engage in this enter.
prise of shedding the blood of the people OF
the South; that New York is somewhat less
sanguinary, but still will furnish 25, 900 men;
that the Governor of Indiana will do as
well, and Ohio and Massachusetts even bet.
ter; and in this way such force is to be
put into the field as was never known in
this county. Mr. Lincoln may have relied
upon these computations of men to murder
and overIun the people of the South, but
never was man more deceived. We make
no doubt that there are fanatics and fools
and vagabonds in the North, who might, if
collected together, make a good. sized army
in point of nun bers, but now far they will
be ready to encounter the danger of a m arch
through any of the Border slave States of
the Union, is question which ad mts of
easy solution.
Not one OF these States, whether in or out
Of the Union, will ever permit an army mus
tered in the free States to pass over their
territory with the design OF invading either
OF the States now in rebellion against the
Federal Government
If Governor Curtin, of Pennsylvania,
wishes TO test it, let him put himself at the
head of his troops, and attempt a march
through virginia; and so, Mr.. Lincoln NAV
as well understand at once it will be with
all the boides be may send into the field for
this purpose. Their track will be marked
with blood, shed by the people of the slave
States in defense OF their own territory and
Of what they conceive to be the rights of
the South, and in anticipation that the same
fate is intended for them should this war be
successful,
We need not wait the answer of the
Governor of Missouri to this demand upou
the State for her quota of troops. The
people are ready TO respond now, that they
Will not contribute one regiment nor one
company for any such purpose. They will
not make war upon the South, nor aid in the
attt mpt 10 retake Fort Sumter, or any other
fort IN the possession Of any enc of the
States which have asserted their indepen-
9eIce. lhey nave IN every possible way,
declared their hostility TO coercion in a6y
form, and if their suggestions have NOT bee1
needed by Mr.. Lincoln and his advisers, the
fault is with him.
Ihey are not responsible for the civil war
when he, acting in opposition to their ad-
vice. mas Drought upon the country. Nor, il
may be safely assumed will any one of the
slave States yield to his demand for support.
IN men or money for such a purpose. So
lar, tnen, as this question of men is con-
ce1neu, MT. Lincoln may rely exclusively
NFSH 'AS iohaNANS VI Tue NOrLl 70 raise and
arm and equip them, aud If he can subiugate
the Southern States, or overrun them in
reaching tie forts 70 which he lays claim, it
Will oDly De after deluging the soil in blood.
II MT. Lincoln desires to preserve the
peace Of the country he should suspend the
Improbable military operations in which he
is Engaged. The fall of Fsrt Sumter, and
the miserable figure cut by his souadron of
armed vessels of Charleston, ought to sstisf1
him Of the futility of any effort to conouer
the seeding States. The only effect of bro.
tracing these operations will be still more
10 exasperate the opposing parties, and to
make reconstruction Of the Union unon
any terms possible. The ties by which The
Border States have been bound 70 the Union,
and which have been displayed ia many sac
rifces of feeling and interest for i,s nrassrss
ton, have been much weakened BY the de.
velopments of the last two weeks and nnlsss
MT Lincoln soon changes his course thew
will be forced TO take position for tbemsslves.
and when they quit the Uaion, what vii
MIR. Lincoln's Government be worth9