Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-05-02
Mistaken Iacns 81 the Nsrth IN tho South
Series Of BIunders Corrected.
rho N.,v york 9rib,s,e has The following. Z.

- The Southern 0lafsH have hcrefef1ro
knOvnrlittlel enough. Of The iNortha 4 from ;.
which we infer that onr sumuef ylFtoE
from those regions have either been 90
intent upon EIsir jnieps or too much en- 9
CROSSED in purchasing goods % carry DacE
for the enlightenment OF theit stay et home
reiehbors much valuable fruit Of Intelligent
observation. We remember % have uietand
converted with q clever Yankee woman Who
undertook 70 teach the ideas Of half . dozen
boys and girls TO shoot, upon a Virginia
plantation. She told rs that the general
opinion Of those about her was, that we are
so poor and mean that we are ready 20 do
almost anything for shilling aud hbso-
lutely anything for two shillings and six
pence.
So we find at this time the Southern news
papers roaring in q fussy and hery way about
cut the general Southern throat Upon
these two words 200 changes are rung, aud
Of tnem two comments will dispose "a
hofde,n according 10 our idea, is gang OF
men intent upon plundeT; and hordes usually
60 where there issomethipg beside 'nggers'
10 steal. Rome was q fair prize for the
Goths; but all the Confederate States To-
eether would hardly furnish loot enough
for pair of rapaciOus regiments certainly
not enough TO tempt men from the comforts
Of home 70 the discomforts Of the field.
Nine tentbs Of the wealth Of the South is
IN LdDcy SlOCk, Ol NO paftltuAnA Naluo
TO a soldier of fortuDe-of no value at all TO
the patriotic Northern volunteer. Mercenarys
indeedl Those noble soldiers, who have
Just left home, and comfort and their loved
ones, 70 fight the battle of the Constitution,
asking no recompense but the consciousness
of rectitude, mercenariesl III SO, then War
| rem and Adams, then Hamilten and Schuyler
were mercenariesl Ifso, who would notbe
| a mercenaIy al.a n1f
The men of the North know, indeed, the
| value of money. They know what IL will
| do; and they know, as Southern. rebels will
find out to their cost, just the right time to
| spend it. history hardly records such pro-
fuse yet enlightened liberality as that which
the Northern States have exhibited. IL Is
| hardly an exsqgeration to say that the entire
| wealth of cities and towns, OF private cor
| poIstions, and of individuals, has been teu-
| deTed TO the Government upon its own terms.
| We do not believe there are ten Thousand
persons in Massachusetts, who have not given
Something, or done something, for the cause.
And that which is true of Massachusetts, is
true OF every other free State. Mercenaries,
indeed We do not bave to put the screws
on our bank directors here TO obtain public
loan There is a race of giving, and q COM
petition of munihceLce
And this, too in time will, we hope, satisfy
our quoDdam brethren in Virginia. South
Carolina and other Territories of the Unitsd
States, that we are not SO miserably poor as
they have been kind enough TO suppose.
After all we have given to the sacred cause
of law and order, we have still dollar or SO
left; and con even borrow a little should our
present stock fail us. But we have hardly
touched the popular pocket yet. So the
sooner the subjects of j. Davis stop laying
that particular flattering JUNCTION to their
souls-,hat silly notion that we are exceed
ipgly pCor-the less will they by. and by be
disappointed Our property isn't fugacious:
halr ~ frun lan aoua y clio
and die. . .t-e
Another Southern notion is, that the mo-
ment we begin to be pinched, and bread to
grow dear, we shall be under the domination
Ut King Mob and his army of starving arti-
sans. They do not seem TO take inA ac-
count the fact which they will be sternly
compelled to take into account ere long, that
We have plenty of employment for our
able bodied men now in putting down this
most wicked rebellion, and plenty where
wnhal to feed their families while they are
doing the holy work. War makes no mObs
it rather prevents them. And as for the
tendency OF the North to mob demonstra-
lions, we eau say with the most perfect cou-
fidence that there are ten NOES at the South
10 one at the North the only difference
, being that here the law puts them down,
|. and at the South they put down the Law.
, Still another Southern mistake is that the
South has powerful party at the North. II
had once such party; but men, whatever
may be their pro.slayery views, do not care
To be themselves slaves The North is uuited
now by common danger. Here aud there
glumbler puIsues his ayocation, but he il
CAREFUL not 10 be loud in the Indulgence o
favOrlte psstime. There is really no differ
Z enee of opinion worth mentioning.
q One Southern newspaper now before u
# | says: "The North is mad.' In one sense,
q certainly is-somewh hat angry, it certainl
if is but we have all around us, at all hour
: OF the day and night cumulative evidenc,
% that there is q method in this Northern m ad
IS ness. For lunatics, we are getting on re
if maIkably well. From that eminent lunatic
v Winfield Scott down TO private dotards il
v the ranks, there is no alarming evidence O
4 insanity. Northern theories of liberty aul
.e OF human equality seem to be hardenin
il into pretty substantial practice. al
,e The tone of the Southern newspaper
2 when speaking of the wealthy and Intelli
is gent ard patriotic North as one grea
aDarcby, and of the Northern people as
"eodless mob" of "Puritsns, Free-loyer.
IN Abolitionists, Morfnons, Atheists and ANA
gamatiohisIs," has given the gentlemen wa
have cast away the slave, whip for the riff
Or quite mistaken notion of our resources q
te well ss of our character. Consequent,
of having said TO us, in the elegant language
III Marshal Rypders, 1--WE don't believe Gor
at in your id philanthropy" they conside
~ that by saying so they have hoored us. W
IS beg leave TO announce to them, that the
I'd Will find no Free-love in our fire arms, n
DE- hreligion in our revolvers, no theories /
of our Commandments, no Mormonism in ou
VS. musketry, no cant in our commissariat, an
lr no niggaIdliness in our military chests. W
sn are not wild lndians-we are not all mula
of toes-we are not all mere shopkeepers-W
are not all misers-we are not al mo6ocrats-
be some of us at least are honest men, with I
be particular inclination to be beaten, but wit
It's a decided inclination, when we are trampl,
"a upon, 10 resist.
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