Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-04-20
"A BaitIhGsrs JsurnaI on me Present Crisis
-01 afa Of Inc Country.
The Baltimore tldd,l clgper observes:

The Baltimore tud.) Clipper observes:
There was no need, noexeuse for the muir
derous attack upon Major Anderson and his
handful or United States soldiers, who were
doing their duty in standing by the flag of
their country. Therewere = hostile demon
strations against the people ofthe Gulf States
who, in a moment Of madness, had dashed
their State Governments to the ground, and
set up q military despotisn 10 tread upon
and deTide the stars and stripes of which we
were all so proud Up to the last moment
il was only proposed by the Government at
Washington to send food to the men who
were starving in defense Of the flag, but the
Cbsrlestonians could not wait. They did
not want apeacefnl solution of our difficult
ties. s6s .,rr.. Il ,.-tq
They would be satisfied with nothing but
war and bloodshed, and they, they alone,
have invoked it. If these people had been
willing 70 abide by Just and equitable ad-
ministration Of the Government in accord
ance with the Constitution, if they had been
satisfied with the peaceful adjustment of
every pending difficulty, if they had been so
humane as-tO accord to the rest of the people
Of the UBitsd States the right to differ hon
estly with them in opinion and to re"son
with themy and like citizens of one country
or btOthers of one family to give and take
and settle with each other fairly, there would
have been none of the fearful pOmp and cir
cumstance Of war with which we are now
surrounded. But they would not. They
wanted war, and nothing else than war, and
now they have it. They have let loose the
dogs of war upon the country, and must
themselves take the consequences. They
have attacked an American fort, and bat
tered down an American flag. They have
irsulted ard aggrieved the whole nation
with their outrages and their menaces,
md the nation is row aroused. The peo
pie, who ore willing TO treat the seeded
Statea as erring brethren who might, by
kindness, be won back to reason, now see
that force is necessary to cure their madness.
1t is CALLING to the hearts of Americans to
enter this strife, but desperate diseases re-
quiTe,desperste remedies. Unwelcome as is
the task, patriotism, duty, interest, all com
bine in calling US Of Maryland to resist the
attempt OF these Southern madmen to de-
stroy our government, to disgrace our flag
to dismember our glorious Union and to
bring ruin upon the whole country. Mary
lard ia a part of the Union. Her rights,
her duties, her interests are there; as Bor-
der State Of a Southern Confederacy she
would be utterly ruined and all her highest
interests prostrated. The action of the
Southern Confideracy is declaration Of war
upon her aud her people and her interests,
and every conviction of honor, of duty, of
patriotism, Of interest, now eompels her peo-
pie to rally to the defense of the Union and
the Constitution, and the rescue of the flag
OF our country.
Now is the time for Union men to prove
their devotion to the Union. The Govern
ment bas called for volunteers chiefly from
the Border States North and South. In
this contingency Marylan will not be found
wanting, for her destiny is with the Union
our fathers made and their sons must pre-
serve.