Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-05-25


The idea that Republican, Government iz q
failure, based upon the fact of wide
spread and dangerous rebellion in this coun
try, is one of the errors that seem Just now
to have taken possession of a portion of the
European mind. Whatever the result of
that rebellion may be, whether it shall be
crushed by the power Of the Government,
or be carried forward to successful reyolu.
ton, the folly of regarding it SIS an evidence
OF organic weakness of Republican institu-
tons is not the less conspicuous. There Is
not ian empire in the world that has not at
some period of its existence been conyulsed
by rebellion, not a throne has been erected
that has not been threatened by revolution.
England has not escaped. Dynasty after
dynasty has been expelled from her realm /;
and on the Continent of Europe the Bour-
bon family has been driven from all their
inheritances. The Kingdoms of the old
world are but fragments of former empires,
or the a~ggregations of principaIities at some
former time Independent of each other, and
of the power that now rules them. And
yet it docs not seem to have occurred to the
statesmen of Europe that these changes are
an evidence that monarchy itself is a fail
ure.
The causes which have produced the
alarming condition of things in this country,
would have produced a like condition of
N6AA6 ~ uhJ bhO hoNAOA UZtn hn Tx
ecutiYe blind to all the conspiracies forming
all around him consenting to the schemes
OF traitors, or taking no steps TO crush or
thwart them; permitting the Government
arms to be placed at the disposal of the dis
affected, and seeing a rebellious force gather
ing by thousands, without one word of re-
monstrance, or one effort to dispense it.
what Government in the world would have
stood, as ours has done, against these gigan-
flp combinations N hranfnn n uphOIn Gakf,.k
ten States, and six or seven millions Of
people2
If it is asked, why permit an Executive
thus imbecile, or traitorous to continue in
power until the Union was in such imminent
peril, the answer will be found in the very
fact that gives ultimate stability to any Gov
eminent. We have a Constitution, COM
posed not OF vague traditions or uncertain
usuages, but thoroughly considered by wise
and patriotic men, written in legible char
acters, and familiar to all our people, Con-
stitution defining the powers of the Govern
ment, and guaranteeing the rights and pre-
scribing the duties of the States, and the
citizens Of the States. II was love and
veneration for that instrument, and a re-
spect for the laws enacted under il, that
withheld the loyal people of the Union from
hurting with a strong hand from its position,
an Administration that was thus recreant to
the high trusts confded TO its keeping. They
saw treason arraying itself against the in
situations of the country, and knew that it
was composing their overthrow. They felt
all the indignation natural TO loyal men at
the inertia or criminal sympathy of the Ex
e~cutiVe, but they knew that the time was
close at hand when the people would speak
in g constitutional way, through the instru-
mentality Of the ballot-boxes, their abhor-
renee Of the treason and the traitors. That
time came, and with a unanimity rarely
achieved in o representative Government,
they hurled from place and power, an AID.
ministrstion that had thus monstrously
abused the confidence reposed in it. They
do so was in accordance with the Oonstitu-
tion and the laws of the country.