Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-05-07

,,f The Italian Campaign, is the only nation
In Europe that fights for en- ide1. On this
continent We arc now marshoilng host
greater, perhaps, than he brought into the
field to fight, like France, for an tdea-the
paramount authority of the Federal Govern
ment; the seeding States denying this au-
thority the loyal States sffirmingit.
We have only TO 20 back one step to come
at the cause ofthis wide divergence, which
has arrayed brother against brother, and
threatens 10 deluge the country in blood.
The Southern planter, a supreme despot
within his own little domain, owning his
laborers, and relieved OF all sense OF depend
enee upon others, has long felt it 70 be lntOl-
erable that Congress, Of which the MEM
beIs from his State compose only one-fftieth
of the whole number, should have the power
Of prescribing the rule of his conduct. He
feels that Government can do little for him,
and bis eense Of obligation is measured by
that of benefits received. he has no indus
Try or enterprise off his own plantation. The
sails of his ships whiten no sea. He does
nothing 70 develop the resources Of distant
lands. nn
The only thing he wants is personal pro-
lection, and for this he does not leok beyond
his own Stats hence he views with distrust
the Federal Government, which, rejecting
the sentiments and interests of the whole
country, the advancing spirit OF the age, and
a social organization entirely differing from
his, be has long forseen might some day be
brought into direct collision with his fancied
interests or ideas.
It was natural that this sentiment which
is now arrayed in hostile attitude to the
Federal Government should first take form
and sction in South Carolina, State in which
slavery is the most thoroughly pronounced,
and whose dominant white population are
ta of tboA N,,rk rk,,1o Il
long ruled England and portions of Europe,
and who have, through history, been incapa-
bic of that degree Of subOrdination necessary
TO stable and well ordered Government,
and who, turning their natural love of domi-
nation and dscord against each other,
luckily rid England aud Europe of deter
mined foes to human progress and order, and
TO the charities and amenities of true
Christian civilization.
Opposed to such q sentiment, which is
purely negative and hostile, and which shuts
q man up in a castle from which to sally only
on predatory expeditions and to retire in self
defense, is that truly expansive and cosmo-
politan spirit of the North which seeks ag-
gregation by similarity of laws, pursuit
and industries, and by that mutual depends
ence which high degree of development of
these is certain to produce. A New Y FORK
merchant naturally desires that all his GUS
himself Under the Constitution of the
United States, it was so. The State of South
Carolina having seeded from this sinstru-
ment he is coolly informed that his customers
in it will not pay. He has no means what
ever of enforcing his rights. So far, conse-
quently, is the field of his operations curtailed.
This is the reason why Secession is 80 hate
fal to the Northern ear. New York, to-day,
has investments in other States to the amount
nN al Ill h. NaNn
shoot madly from their sphere" the greater
part of this vast sum would be lost.
A company of merchant princes con-
stIucted the Illinois Central Railroad, at a
cost of $40,000,000 every cent of which was
furnished from the Eastern States and from
Europe. Not penny would have been fur
nished under the doctrine of State Rights.
This great enterprise, which has enriched
Illinois to the amount of hundreds of mil
lions, would be valueless to its owners,
should Illinois follow the example of South
Carolina. For this reason it is felt in all the
free States that Secession is the destruction
of property; that it is pure anarchy, threat
ening the subversion of society itself This
is the key. note of the great uprising, which
bas no parallel in history. 1t touches every
man in his tenderest spot. 1t destroys not
only the present, but all hope for the future.
The fact that the prevailing sentiment his
not yet fully articulated ITSELF only adds to
its intensity. 1t moves every class in So
ciety-the Billy Wilson Volunteers as keenly
ss the habitues in Filth. avenue. What is the
oath to which this regiment subscribes2
" The preservation of the Union" What is
the imprecation they utter ? "Death to
Secession.
Such is the attitude of the two sections
that row confront each other in arms. 1t is
based upon an idea-the construction of. our
Vafsn nj nlaorf TR t. A1.oAw
now be settled by the sword, and forever. 1t
is not difficult to foresee which must triumph.
The North is cosmopolitan, absorbing what
ever is similar in kind. 1t is creative, infus-
ing with its own faculty and genius what
ever it touches. 1t is in peace what Rome
was in arms. Its field is a continent Its
mission homogeneity; but this homogeaeity
must be of institutions, of industries, and of
charities which realize our highest idea of
large enough for a Rhett or a Wise-types
of despotism and violenee-to whom the
highest flight of humanity is the breed
ing and working OF slaves; but for a Watt
or Stephenson, or FultOn-types of that
civilization which enfranchises human labor
by substituting natural agencies world
itself is too contracted sphere.
The issues presented in this contest are as
wide SIS humanity itself The South seek to
NCSObJ W
pletely reversing the motto on our national
escutcheon-one from many. They propose
to make many from one. For England, a
unit, and consequently the mistress of the
world, they propose torestore the Heptdrchy,
by which her resources were wasted and her
power neutralzed by miserable wars. The
South deny the capacity of our people to
constitute a great nation. Its fundamental
principle is the essential condition Of barbar-
ism. Its bond of union is always at the
mercy of wild gusts of passion. Savages
form tribes, never Empires. Admit the
principle embodied in the Constitution of the
Confederate States, and the South will soon
be made up of tribes, not of nations.
The North believes in higher destiny.
Its mission is not only to subdue continent,
but to make it homogeneous in its institu-
tions and ideas, and to render it a fitting
theater upon which the highest drama of
human life yet brought out is to be enacted.
The contest in which we are engaged is not
an American war, but a war of humanity,
which enlists in our cause every noble sem
timent and impulse. Every inventive brain
and every lover of freedom range under our
banner, rendering us as inVincible as Truth
o ID Justice themselves.