Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-01-29
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movement is in the use of the term ''stronp
Union men," as applied to some men in the
South. What our papers call strong Union
men, on the other side of the Ohio River, are
those who go for the Union with concessions
and new guarantees from the North; who extol
the Union to the skies, and inquire why the
North don't concele and save it; and who
call the Union sacred and send their defiance
to the Northern States which promise to
support the Government in enforcing the
laws.
Would it not conduce just as much to the
public safety, if we should begin and call
things by their right names. There are no
true Union men in the South. We have yet
| TO hear of one prominent man who goes for
maintaining the Union as it is. Mr.. Critten.
den is as strong Union man as any there,
but he dare not go for preserving the Union
as il is. He is forced by the pressure of his
section to 60 for a reconstruction of the
Union on such terms as shall suit the Cotton
States. Mr.. Clemens goes for the Union, but
he wants that the Republicans shall meet
him in his patriotic sacrifice, by agreeing to
the Crittenden plan; and even for that he is
pronounced a traitor by his section.
The only difference between what we are
calling the conservative slave States of the
border, or their strong Union men, and the
seeded cotton States, is that the latter are in
arms, demanding that the North shall SUBJ
NIT to reconstruction of the Union to suit
them, and the others insist that the Secession
demands shall be granted or they will join
the Seceders. 1t is time we were looking the
thing in the face, instead of trying to deceive
ourselves by false phrases. There are no
men of influence in the South who will stand
by this Union. No mans person orproperty
would be safe who should take such a stand.
Part are in open rebellion; and the others,
while affecting to depore their hasty action.
are only trying to turn it to profit; and they
declare that the Government shall not inter-
fere with it; and that if its demands are not
submitted to they are ready to join it.
The whole South has virtually seeded;
for so far as the specific demands of the cot
ton States can be ascertained, the whole
South is united This Union is not going to
be preserved. 1t is folly to talk of it. Let
the South reconstruct the Union on such
terms as they think will secure their control
of the Government, and they will accept it,
until it comes time to secede and reconstruct
again. These are the only terms on which
they will have Union with US. Let the
people of the North use the English language
in its usual Specification, when talking of
this and not affect to cover up the per-
emptory dietation of new terms on one side,
and abject submission on the other, by call
ing it preserving the Union !" and by term
ing the men who dictate these terms, "strong
UGion men,"
The Union has gone. If those whose
fathers won their liberties from the most
powerful nation on earth, will now surren-
der them to the insolent dictation of sec
tion, which if cut loose from US would sink
into the most disgraceful dissolution that
ever overwhelmed nation, they may be
tolerated in a new Union with the South,
with new guarantees to bind our growing
political preponderance, until like a Samp-
son bound with green withs, our natural
vigor bursts them, when we may have anew
Union and new guarantees. In the brief
space of eighty-fve years, the race which
won its liberty from power which made
the whole earth trembe, has so degenerated
that it talks of this submission to demands
compared with which subsection to Great
Britain was light honorable and even
glorious, as patriotism, and as merely offer
irg up cherished opinions on the altar of the
Union; and in its miserable emasculate i'm
becility, it calls the sacrifice of opinions and
convictions, and of equal and constitutional
rights, the highest mark of patriotism, and
as worthy of the highest honors the country
has to bestow.
But the eternal laws Of justice still reign.
The immutable balance of compensation
and retribution is still preserved. The peo-
pie which is faithless TO its trust of liberty,
is unfit to have it. Humanity still presses
onward, all the same. The experiment of
freedom may be failure in this country, but
otber peoples are reversing our progress, and
gradually winning their freedom from crowns
sR5 teudal mobiles. Nor do we believe that
The liberty of the Anglo.Ssxon race can be
depressed. II may be tied down by new
guarantees and new bends, to neutralize its
irIepressible vigor; but the more odious
they are made, the more violent will be the
reaction when it throws them off. The
present crisis opens way of peaceful sep
aration, through which each section can
follow its destiny, untrammeled by odious
or degrading bonds. But by healing this
with new submissions, we are only sowing
the wind to reap the whirlwind. Let usput
asunder what God never Joined, and restore
peace and the mutual respect which the
people of independent nations secure to each
other. Then we shall relieve our Govern
ment of a question which degrades the man
hood of the North, and which makes that in
which the North has no interest, supreme
over all our interests, our natispal policy,
and prosperity.
Gen. HnTney and the Kansas Donations.
This officer, who was rushed into Kansas
with several companies of dragoons on ac-
count of Judge Williams's insane or fraudu-
lent dispatch, where he wanted to set up