Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-02-05

Atlantic side of the Continent. The people
of The Southern States have shown an aim
iiy for each other as exemplihed by 'their 1
readiness to take up aims for each other
eeainst the Government aud have ties ofin-
te,est that will consolidate them into strong
Central Government The right of Secession
is purely Southern right against the North;
and doctrine SO destructive to all stability
and public safety viii be provided against
as soon as the South is relieved from
an outside pressure which makes it regard
Secession as Southern right. They viii
take care at the start to guard against any
future tendency of the Border States to See
cession, which may grow out of the "irre-
pressible conflict" which separation will
transfer bodily TO the south of Mason and
Dixons line. Whatever form the Govern
ment may take, it will be a strong Central
Government. Aud, with long Presidential
terms, no Government in the world would
have stronger central power than one under
our constitutional form, with the same scale
of official patronage.
The interests Of slave labor will control
the Southern Republic. It is unnecessary
10 argue that point. An interest which has
controlled Government in which the in-
terests of free labor comprised two thirds OF
the numbers and wealth of the governing
cose, will have unlimited sway at the Begin
ming of a Republic which is founded en-
tiiely on the interests of slave labor.
The Southern Republic will be well and
wisely governed, according to their interest.
If there is any capacity for government in
the people of the North American States,
the South has it by prescription and practice
in this Union.
We do not agree with the current idea that
q Southern Republic will result in the Afri-
canization of the Gulf States. This seems
10 he based on the theory that the Africans
in the South are restrained by the union
with the North. The slightest reflection will
show its ahsurdity. Besides, the slaves have
learned from the political harangues of their
| own masters, that the people of the North
are Abolitionists. Cuba is not Africanized,
although the proportion of slaves and of free
blacks to the whites is larger than in any of
! dangerous characters. Hayti is Africanzed,
but the same circumstances can not exist
in the South and the Americans are diff
ferent people from the French colonists of
Hayti. The South has an outlet for its dan
gerous characters in theINorth, which oper
ates as a safety.valve. Desperation in the
Southern negro turns its energies to means
of escape. This carries off the element that
would form the leaders of insurrection. AL
though the Southern people do not seem to
appreciate the advantages of the Northern
escape-valve, it really promotes their safety.
Besides, the necessary measures for their
own protection, will naturally make the
South a military people; and their form Of
society creates just the elements for this
purpose. This may be seen already in the
fact that the military spirit is much
stronger in the South than in the North,
as is shown by their fondness for mill
tary titles. The low estimate in which
labor must necessarily be held in slave
society, would induce all of the whites who
are compelled to earn their own living, ia
accept eagerly any employment which pub
- lie opinion made honorable, A regular
army would be service which would be
sought for in the South. 1t would furnish
an honorable position for the large class Of
poor relations of the aristocracy; and thus
would have the same hold upon the wealthy
classes that the British army has; and the
condition of society will make service in al
grades to be regarded as more honorable
than labor. This will furnish the South {
guard for its own protection, and strong
and ready force for enterprises for territoria
extension.
A Southern Republic will be the opening
of an unlimited market for African slaves
Laws do not govern this matter. If the.
did, then would the slaye-trade with Cub
be stopped; for it is prohibited by all possibl
, legislation on the Island, and by solem
treaties with all the Great Powers. Th
l laws of the Union against the slave-trad
' could not be enforced in any of the GU
States, while in the Union. The slaye-trad
: will have in the Cotton States the protection
of all the pro slavery .fanaticism of tn
: people, A citizen who should now attemp
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Africans, in any of the Gulf States, woul
} be treated as an Abolitionist-a treatmer
3 which would carry strong conviction to h
: opinions on the subject.
4 In this section we are accustomed to thin
f that the Northern slave States will preveI
the opening of the slave-trade, because tt
. Shareholders there7are opposed to it. Eve
: if they were, they can do nothing but legi
: late; and the whole world knows that legi
y lation can not stop the slave-trade. But II
shareholders of the slaVe-breeding States d
y not comprise more than one-tenth of I'll
voters and probably not one.ffth of tt
> voters who represent the ultra pro-slaver
sentiment. The few Shareholders would nj
control the matter; but the many WI
would be Shareholders. 1t is notorious thi
- in South Carolina and in the other cotto
g States, the non-slayeholders are the sav
: trade party. The shareholders of the bOrdi
States would no more be able to contr
this than they were the Secession NOV
= ment, to which they were generally oppose
: II is by no means certain that if propos
tion to open the African slave-trade we
submitted to the popular vote even in Kel
= lucky, it would be defeated.
Would foreign Powers PREVENT In the fr
p place, they can not. II, with the slave mark
70 restricted to the narrow Island of Cub
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