Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-04-25
The DuIy Of ths e.ys5snest Itsspeotias as
aMonday,a New " YorE TptSino po,t saws.

MOnuay NeW lOIk BVeNtHg 4 o4t says :
The country now presents the strange
spectacle. Of o population Of 200o0, 900 Of
freemen shut out from access to their own
Capital. The wires of the telegraph, which,
two days since made known TO us here every
thing, done in Washington as soon as It was
known there, are cut; and the railways by
which we passed through Maryland TO
Washington are obstrueted. While we hear,
from all other parts of the Union, we. can,
not hear from the men whom we have
placed at the head Of our Republic, 1t is as
II a curtain had suddenly fallen between US
and the chief actors who represent the Gov
eminent Of the nation in the great drama
now performing. We are at once LEFT in the
dark as TO what our Federal authorities arc
doing, and are obliged to depend fof ihfprm-
alton upon chance reports from Individuals
and the stories brought TO our ears by pubic
runner. aq ail q. eng a 3i ;9'. '1
This is not TO be endured for moment,
and it will not be endured. THESE plotters
against the public order behave as If the
people of the free States had neither rights
TO be respected nor passions to provoke.
The free States will demand and they will
have free passage to the seat Of our COM
mon Government BY the nearest, most COM
modieus and most expeditions way. Wash
ington is ours by the fsirest Of titles. Even
ii the seeding States had not given up their
right to il by Withdrawing from the Union,
and fixing the seat of their Government at
Montgomery, II would still belong to us as
much as to any other part Of the Republic.
| If the way to it be closed by force, it must
! be opened by force which will sweep away
| all resistance. We must break a passage to
| our President and his Secretary If our path
| be paved with the dead. The events of the
| last few days have shown that there is no act
| of insolent audicity or stealthy mischief or
ruffisnly violence which the agents of rebel
| lion in the Border States are not ready to
! commit. lf ''.
J We must deal summarily with these peo-
pie; there is no possible alternative. A
force must be instantly brought into the
field which shall bear some proportion to
the power of the loyal States and to the en-
thusiasm by which their citizens are at this
moment in1amed. If we are to meet the
rebels with an inconsiderable force, we
merely invite their scorn and encourage
their audacity and prolong the conflict. We
must show them an array strong enough to
convince them that their cause is utterly
desperate, strong enough to protect by the
mere dread of eur power, such of our citi-
zens as may fall iuto their hands, and may
otherwise be treated with savage brutality.
We do not question the bravery of the
people of the South. They are brave as
other Americans are brave, but they are
bIaggarts as well, and with all their pro.
threats, they obey as implicitly as any other
class of men in the world, the instinct oi
self preservation. No man takes better care
of his own personal safety than your
Southern boaster, To that instinct we must
appeal; we, must stimulate it; we must
make it the prominent instinct in his mind
by the multiplication of all the means which
inspire terror, and make resistance hopeless
The great North and the mighty West
prosperous, opulent and powerful, must rise
and precipitate themselves upon the in
! yaders Of their rights, and crush them intt
submission and silence. -..-.-. .,....s y.
For the present the safety of Washington
seems to US sufficiently provided for. The
rebels will be too late; the troops already
there and now on their way will repulse any
attack that can be made upon it. But war.
} like preparations should not cease when ths
safety Of the Capital is secured; they should
go on till their magnitude shall throw fear
full shadow of danger over the disloyal States
, On the southern frontier of Pennsylvania ii
! the midst of population faithful to thI
: Union, and within easy distance of the sea
of Government, should be gathered power
full army, to be drilled and kept under dis
| cipline, and ready to proceed at a moments
! notice to any point where it may be needed
/ Between its camp and the seat of Govern
! ment the freest communication should b
| kept open by railway and telegraph, and tn,
slightest, attempt to obstruct it should cos
! the lives Of the offenders. 1t was not many
weeks ago that it was understood to be tn
7 desire of General Scott to form an encamp
: ment at Carlisle, in Pennsylvania, for thi
+ very purpose. The plan was wise one, an
9 we do not see why measures are not takel
s to carry it into effect. F ... .-
i We hear that the rebels against the Amer
e ican Government are concentrating thei
= forces at Harper's Ferry. Seven thousan
t men, it is said, are already collected there
= end 5000 more are expected. This is 70 b
e the center of their military operations,
4 point from which they might have struck q
Il Washington if that city had remained ur
a protected, and from which, close as it is o
!. the borders of the free States they doubles
y hoped to carry the war into Pennnsylvaui
Here is new danger to be guarded agains
v We must keep the war on the other side
> the Potomac, among those who began it;
,, is their bantling, and it is they who mu
o pay the charge of nursing it. 1t is out Z
It The natural order of things for the South
It invade the North, the course of war an
70 conquest is always in the other direction
IS and if this rule should now be violated v
e must have a force at hand ready to hew /
{, violators to pieces. a -F.r.