Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-05-14
The Great Uprising of the North Only a
b Caprice-A virginia View of the Present
Military Movement.

The Great Uprising of the North Only
Caprice-A Virginia View of the Present
Military Movement.
The Richmond (Ya.) Examiner says:
The Juror of war which absorbs the North
TO that. degree that Yankees have ceased to
calculate, will not, and can not, be long
lived sentiment. Invasion of the South is
simply la mode, the fashion, the excitement
of the hour. just as they ran mad after
Jenny Lind, the Japanese Tommy, Kossuth,
Morus Multicaulis, Spirit Rappings and
every other new bubble, so they now unite
in the great delirium Of civil war, and in
toxicate their brains with thoughts of blood
and plunder. When ali the individuals of a
nation have been occupied from their birth
with ledgers and cash. books, dollars and
cents, the hum.drum existence of trade or
traffic, sensation" becomes necessity 10
their mental constitution.
No people on earth need temporary ex-
citement like the Yankees-are more eager
to get it, or will pay more for it. Their
newspapers, their books, their theaters, their
cities furnish daily illustrations Of their
thirst after excitement. But il never lasts
long. The taste is gratifed, the want sup
piled, and Yankees become Yankees again
until the next season. Once used, they
never take up the cast off fashion, and that
| which ran them mad with coarse and gre
| garious enthusiasm becomes, in a few weeks,
mere cdpot-morttuz1-stale champagne-old
clothes. Kossutb, coming, was greater than
Washington; Kossuth, leaving, attracted no
more attention than the dust-cart ON which
all the filth of the newspaper offices was
emptied. The whole city of New York,
men, women and children, the upper ten aud
the b'hoys assembled in one dense and shout
ing multitude to see an ugly, vulgar, money
loving Swedish opera woman land from
steamboat to sing for them to the tune of
$500, 900; but three months later she walked
| and travelled with as little notice as any
other strong minded woman and unprotected
female. AS with these trifes, SO with mania
of character more serious.
The North blazed with rage for war with
England in 1912, with Mexico in 1886, and
after few weeks no more soldiers could be
gotten out of it for either. The tremendous
outburst Of ferocity that we witness in the
Northern States, is the repetition of one of
the most common traits of their national
character. 1t is the fashion of the day, the
humbug Of the hour, and II will cease as sud
denly as it has commenced. Like straw on
fire, the periodical sensasions of the North
make great fame, but sink to the ashes
and dust Of indifference as swiftly as they
| sprang. l-1 e-- .s.
| Ii Is easy, Cnd to them amusing, to indulge
! their tastes q tAis sort 10 bloody talk about
| invading the South, in mobbing the few
among them hitherto suspected of sympathy
with us, IN joining volunteer companies, run
ming OF 20 cities like Washington, by way
Of AnDsPOhE where no brick-bats are on the
road bat in three or four weeks the super
huoas gas will be gone, and Yankees will
be Yankees again. Us.
The leaders Of the North are Of different
and more dangerous stamp. They will spare
no pains 70 turn the nOmentaFy spasm ol
public sentiment to their own aim, and they
| will probably succeed They will involve
the North in real and bloody war, aud
when the sAnguinRry saturnalia would bt
finished, if the Northern people had theii
way, they will hul on tAeiI hands an account
which oan neither be closed in day OF 9
month. There will be war. But il will
Dot be long war. In three months al
Iankeedom viii have come to the conclusion
that ''sort Of thing don't pay;' and in sil
leaders, if permit them.