Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-04-17
The Duty Of the Border states ia the Pres
lowing:

ent Crisis Recommendation II of a Ken
tucky journal of n Pacific Policy.
Yesterdays Louisville Journal has the fol-
lowing: .
1t ia the official duty of the President of
the United States to execute the laws, but,
when he sees that he can not possibly do
this at all, or at any rate that he can not do
it without the Inauguration and consumma-
ton of evils and calamities hundred times
greater than any already existing, he may
we'll acknowledge the stern and inex0rable
necessity of staying his hand. Assuredly the
whole power Of the nation outside of the
Southern Confederacy could not perma-
nently execute the United States laws within
that Confederacy. ..
The territory might be oVerrun, every
square rood of its soil might be mOistened
with blood, all resistance might possibly for
a time disappear before the march of a VIC
torious army, but resistance would spring
up again as speedily as tr0dden blade OF
grass springs back 10 its position. Only by
the utter annihilation of the whole popula-
ton of the seeding States only by the trans
formation of the entire South into red and
reekiug desert could the laws of the United
States be enforced there; and they could not
be enforced even then, for there would be
none upon whom they could operate.
Mr.. Lincoln and his Secretary of State, it
| tDpthI6g udhQ AceuOu q pAONluhobiOhi NHNAihH
| upon the loyal States for an army of $4,000
| men for the retaking of the United States
forts, arsensls, armories and other United
| States property seized by the Southern
forces within the last few months. We ac-
! knowledge, as we have said, the Adminis-
tration's legal authority to recover. If II can,
its property grasped by the Southern
spoilers, but It's practical attempt TO ex-
ercise that right in the mode 1t proposes,
| ha afTaaffUo intQrn01ifiOn
between the belligerent powers, bring upon
y our whole country caianitieS as awful as
any recorded In ancient or modern history
Such calamities must be averted, II 1t Is ID
the power Of wise and good and patriotic
men TO avert them. And here comes ac
cording to our solemn convictions, the
great mission of the Border slave States
We believe that the duty Of these important
States is rendered plain and palpable in thy
lurid and baleful light Of passing events. l
we were TO 90 with the South or II we Wer'
10 90 with tie North, the struggle between
the two sections into which the who'll
country would then be divided, could no
fail TO bring on, throughout the Continent
| A Feipn of blood and famine and terror tha
/ would in al probability extend beyond th
years Of our lives and the lives of our chill
dren. 'e y
} In this dread falexigeney, the Border slay
/ | Statee, If they are Wise will take their posi
|, ton frm aud stesdfAst, between the Mort
. and the South, and, in doing So confer
!. mighty blessing upon both, besides securin
q their own comparative welfare and prosper
II ity. Let us Of the Border slave States, |
" the very earliest practicable moment, ban
ourselves together for the preservation
n peace, SO far as In us lies between our Nortl
q ern brethren and our Southern brethren.
& Let Us be the friends Of both, but let !
n be independent Of both. They can declai
war against each other II they Hllls bat