Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-04-19
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YESTERDAY 3 Louisville Democrat observes:
Wedon't doubt the bravery of the North,
but In this contest they will lack the stimu.
lus of their foes, and meet their equals at
great disadvantage. Then there'is senti-
meut in this country that all Just govern
ments are founded on the consent of the
governed. Ifa whole tier Of States seek
other arrangements in government; if their
old government Is odious to them, and they
seek release from it, and resist with de-
Termination the old government, what shall
be done about ia There is our Declaration
Of Independence, and the strong expressions
Of States when they entered the Union,
which, ifthey do not recognize the right Of
Secession, squint so much that way that they
are easily applied to that purpose.
IL is an odious task to force government
on an unwilling people. Resistance be-
comes exalted into a patriotic virtue. No
matter how little cause really provokes the
resistance. How easy it is 10 indame the
South against this conduct Of coercion
" bat, they will say, is the motives. Is it
any love for us that all this blood is shed to
retain us in the same Union2 No, they will
say they bate us They abhor slavery and
SHAREHOLDERS! They tried to keep us out of
the Union, and they swear it as part of their
religion that they will have no more slave
States Why do they wish to retain us, but
to play the tyrant over us? Why are they
not ready TO let us go in peace They
preach against us pray against us, and what
do they want with us but to subiugate US
to indulge their preaching and prayer at our
eIpense2
The terms now used In all these irrepres-
sibie prints are, rebels, traitors, and the
empty threats to punish them. The buster
and gascoDade about having Government
only reminds men Of George III, who used
empty words after they had lost their mean
ing we say nothing about the similarity
OF the cases upon their merits. George X
20. thought that the colonies had no more
reason than the Southern States now have,
and the latter think they have more reason
TO rebel than their fathers had, and they
know that these threats against them are
more lmbecile than the threats of His Maj
esty against the colonies.
Depend upon it, Messrs. Lincoln 4 Co.
you are wasting treasure and blood to no
purpose. All your professions of peace will
count nothing. You talk like enemies. and
act like them. Even these Border slave
States, who have stood by their Govern.
ment, who feel patriotic attachment to the
Union their fathers made, are unheeded,
their advice disregarded, and their wise
couDses spurned.
They ask for peace most earnestly, as
Htio1 " a RESTORATION OF commence and
salvation 10 the Union, and Lincoln & Co.
call for troops, and are mastering armies,
when al the effect will be to crafty their
own resentment, and make the breach in
durable. They mistake altogether our Gov
ernment and people. No power can restore
q State to this Union but its people. De-
hance and force may make bloody conflicts,
and widen the breach. For the sake of
humanity. let this folly and crime cease.
For the sake of country of glorious hopes,
let this insanity stop right here.