Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-05-17
Tmpossibility of IA Dissolution OF the Union
How CONGRESS gIay Restore the Integ.
rity of the RepubIic,

TmpOssibility of IA Dissolution ofthe Union
How CONGRESS BIay Restore the Integ.
rity of the Republic.
The developements of each successive day
make 1t more manifest that the chord which
| was struck by the bombardment of Fort
Sumter, will never cease TO vibrate, until the
| clouds obscuring our political horizon have
| been dispelled. The rebound from apathy
| to keen sense of the perils to which neg
lected rebellion has exposed the prosperity
and power of the republic, is the effect of no
ephemeral excitement; but the solemn re-
solve to restore the country to its lost posi-
tion ofgreatness and unity, will endure until
that end shall have been accomplished. No
States rights special pleading will avail
against the national sensus coninlulis of the
American people, 1t is founded in ineradi-
cable instincts and patriotic traditions, which
have become part OF the very atmosphere
we breathe. The attempt to impair it is
sacrilege from which the sensitive mind
shudders, and the odiousness Of the word
treason, with the revolving associations, the
names Of Arnold and Burr, have connected
with it, attaches to those who would rend
the parts of the homogeneous whole asuuder.
To it, exclusively, is attributable the spon-
taneous outburst of enthusiasm, in favor of
avigorous and efficient policy, to re- establish
the Confederation upon its wonted basis,
| which has been witnessed within the last
four weeks. The Government of the Con-
federate States has taken up arms and com
menced hostilities in order to dash to pieces
the fabric which cost our forefathers 30 much
toll and blood. Its unnatural and atrocious
aspiration can find no response in the intel
lect or conscience of the masses of citizens
even in the revolted States. The action of
the loyal part of the Union, claims, on the
contrary, the admiration of all who revere
the memories of the past, respect established
authority, or are proud Of the glory among
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successful energy and enterprise have &C.
quired for our flag.
Past history should wern every thinking
mind, that Ievolutiouists, parties or even
peoples, whose policy has been to disinteg-
rate and decentralze, have almost invariably
been destroyed, while sympathy, strength
and victory have cluDg to those who have
cherished and fought for an extended, self
sufficient autonomy. The republics of
Greece were all powerful against foreign
enemies, so long as they were leagued to-
gether; but the mutual jealousies which pre-
vented their establishing permanent Con-
federacy, led to their ruin. The annals of
Rome, on the other hand, show that even
liberty was more readily given up than unity
and that autocratic authority was yielded to
dictators to prevent the latter from being
violated. Under the Caesars before Roman
dominion was cut to pieces by the swords of
barbarians, every Emperor perished who
endeayored to sustain partial sway, against
a rival, aiming at universal rule The an
| nails Of England, from the wars of the Roses
! to the accession of William III, are q per-
petual illustration of the same theory; and a
recent French writer has justly remarked, of
| his own people, that their history has been
a perpetual strife for consolidation against
division, and that to the defeat of the latter
is owing the present greatness of the empire.
The sympathy that is 80 universally felt
| nt1f nf than r,,As. =. H.
right to be homogeneous power, and an
abhorrence OF partitions between those who
| are of Of kindred race. The uprising
which convulses the popular mind, on this
continent is not, therefore, to be wondered
at. 1t proves that the cause of national
union is sacredly cherished in the United
| States and that, on this account alone it is
sure, eventually to prevail. The selfish, ma
| lignant and sordid element invoked against
| 1t, contain Inherent sources of decay, which
would involve speedy destruction, even if
not threatened from without.
The preteXt for the rebellion in the seced-
ing States, has been that substantial griev-
ances, and an Invasion of acknowledged
| rights, justified the South in Withdrawing
Its allegiance. Such was not the principle
! that was acted on in I776 by the sipners of
the Declaration OF Independence They bure
oppression patiently and long, before they
passed the boundary ofprotesta and petitions.
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the yoke that weighed them down, and the
! blood of colopists had been shed for refusing
| active acquiescence in despotio rule, ere they
had resort to the ultima ratio of oppressed
| peoples.
Had Southern statesmen conducted in O
similar manner, they would have possessed
a majority in the next Congress, and Re-
| publican Administration would have been
! powerless to legislate against them. Their
| revolt was equally criminal and impolitic.
| Nevertheless, the masses ofthe people, in the
! loyal States, are convinced that every trace
OF the Abolition conspiracy, from which Sc
cession derived its plea, and which goaded
the Southt deplorable and desperate meas
| ures, must be swept away. While compell-
ing every inhabtant of the United State to
| yield obedience to the laws, the rights guar
anteed to each and all, under the Constitu-
ton, must be restored, and an efficient rem
| edy applied to past abuses. 1t will be the
| bounden duty of the extra session of Con-
| gress convened by Mr.. Lincoln, to assemble
on the 4th of July next, to pass acts which
| shall accomplish this result. The enthusi-
| astic ardor which now thrills through every
patriotic heart will be damped, and the
bravery of the hundred of thousands of
troops arrayed to put down treason, will
avail but little, unless proper measures of
Cancellation, she'll be promptly, generously,
and fully adopted.
The imbecility, profigacy and corruption
of the last Congress, and the short sighted,
| hating policy of the late Administration,
under the direction of such traitors as Cobb,
| Floyd and Thompson, are fresh in the minds
of every one. The seeding States, after Mr..
Buchanan had failed TO confne rebellion to
| South Carolina, by the strong arm of the
| law, might have been regained, and every
| subsequent embitterment avoided, if ma
| jority in the Senate and House of Representa-
tives had not opposed itself to concession.
There is no telling at what stage of the civil
| war that has begun, the country may have
| arrived, eight weeks hence; but whether
victory shall have perehed on the banners of
patriots or insurrectionists, the destinies of
the nation, for all future time, will none the
| less depend upon the reversal, by the coming
! Congress, of every principle upon witch its
| predecessor acted.
It's highest and first obligation will be to
consider amendments to the Constitution, so
! specific and unambiguous in their nature
that the same practical liberty will be re-
stored which existed at the time Of Wash
ington. The arms of disuniOnsts would fall
from their hands, and the Montgomery Gov
eminent would be struck ont of existence,
by the adoption of either the Crittenden or
| the Bigler Acts, and the submission of the
issues they involve to the vote of the people.
These, or any other wise, well digested prof
fers of peace, will be regarded as an olive
branch which the South can net fail 10 ac-
| cept; and, in a more satisfactory manner
than could be accomplished by years of iu-
vasion, an end will be successfully put to
civil war.
REWARD FOR TRAIroRous BEAsT.-Van
| Amburg, the lion.t tanner, was travelling
through Talbot County, Maryland, last week,
with his horses and managerie, when he was
| warned by friend 10 turn hack as the rebels