Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-03-11

The Palmetto Press on President I.IncoIn,i
Inaugural The Charleston Mercury In 9
Fearful Haae. t.F .r ..... ...
The Charleston papers are enraged at tht
tone Of the Presidents Inaugural Address
The bitterest attack upon it is that of the
Charleston Mercury. We copy few pass,
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..t... .. BIT OF ABUSE.
If ignorance could add any thing to folly,
OF insolence TO brutality, the President Of ( {
Northern States of America has, in this ad
dress, achieved IL. A more lamentable dis
pay OF feeble inability to grasp the circum-
stances OF this momentous emergency could
scarcely have been exhibited. The mind is
held In doubt at which most to marvel. the
vulgar audacity or the presumptuous folly,
Abdt perYades the whole tone and substances
efthis effusion.
q We're it new or unexpected result, for
ourselves, we should suppose the man insane.
At once we should have asked, has this vain,
ignorant, low fellow no counselors-nobody
OF any comprehension to control and direct
himI But the positions assumed and the
sentiments uttered by him are but what all
men had right to expect. He but repre-
seuts millions of equally fanatical ignorant, {,
presumptuous and vulgar people-meE puffed
up with ill-gotten wealth, ragged starVelinos
of yesterday, run wild with the success of to-
day, unbalanced, ungoverned-and so forth.
The Mercury having exhausted its store of
vile epithets, proceeds to discuss the Presi-
dents views of the Constitution of the Gov
ernment, of course disagreeing with him,
hut it is
NOT PREPARED FOR IMMEDIATE WAR
Still we would say to our people, for the
anN 4 L.. l.
honor of tbissState is no further involved in
this matter. 1t has been transferred to the
shoulders of the government of the Confed-
crate States OF America-wbether wisely or
not, it is now too late to discuss. Our course
now is one entirely of policy and war STRAIT
eRy. We do not profess to be accurately
cognizant of the plans of President Davis. If
there is to be war there must be plan and a
policy for the campaign. These must orgi-
nate from the heads of the government. We
have no1O nothing TO lose by time-everU THING
70 gain. War siI iUeeks ago might hare placed
Virginia HoaO by our side. War would have
been in the name of the State ofSouth Caro-
lima. The glory, prestige and historic fame
would have been hers. 1t is no longer so.
The blood will be hers; but little of the
profit. =
THE REVENUE. '.
That President Lincoln will attempt to
collect revenue off the Bar is now beyond a
question. What then Here lies the uues-
ton which alone this State is directly con-
ceIned. What course is then to be pursued
by the Southern government There is but
two open. The one, immediate attack upon
Fort Sumter; the other, to besiege and starye
out the fortress. To attack the fort will not
remove the men oEwar from off our Bar.
What, then, will be gained? 1t is a ques-
ton.
FORT SUMTER.
To re-enforce Fort Sumter is now on1y to
hasten the period of starvation, For no
ship OF war can enter our harbor and land
supplies. Should she succeed in running to
the fort she will be under the constant fire
of three or four batteries within telling aud
destructive distance. She must be quickly
destroyed. In the mean time our ships, or
ships ladened with our goods for foreign
ports, may continue their course as usual.
Even should blockade be declared, it can in
no way interfere with the egress and ingress
OF neutral bottoms in their ordinary ayoca-
tons of trade
A duty may, doubtless, for the present, be
collected on such Imports as arrive here dir
rectly from abroad OF this reckoning
must be made in the calculation of costs
pro and con. A few months must settle the
whole question. And the taking of Fort
Sumter Immediately can not, as far as we
can perceive, hasten that period. We will be
little further when we have finished than
when we begun-minus some valuable lives
The above calculations are, of course based
upon the supposition that matters inside the
harbor remain in statu quo. A belligerent
attitude on the part of Fort Sumter must at
once precipitate war, and the fort will be
taken in self protection.
The Charleston Courier is more moderate
1t says, however:
Let the argument proceed to the next
logical and accessory steps-an appeal to
arms. We are as well ready as any free
people can ever be expected to be found in
advance of the actual onset; and that argu-
ment once applied, will bring US new forces
and resources. We are ready.
The Columbia South CarOIinian (the State
paper) catches CLEAN of sunshine" from
the address and is not at all savage.