The Democratic press. (Eaton, Preble County, Ohio) 1860-1865, 1861-01-03
A Prediction-The Horrors Of Civil
War,

We put upon record, says the
Cincinnati Enquirer, the prediction
that the first collision of arms be-
tween the soldiers of the General
Government and the citizens ofany
seeding State will be Immediately
followed by the withdrawal from
the Union of all the Southern
States, and by their assailed South
ern, sister. 1t is entirely immatcri-
al, so far as the result is concerned,
wether the collision is brought on
by an attempt to enforce the reve-
nue. laws upon a seeding State, by
the holding of fortresses within
their boundaries, or by any other
forcible act. The news of an &C
ton of q battle would excit every
Southern State. They would not
look at the immediate cause that
brought it on; the time for deliber-
alton with them would have pass
ed, and that Of action would come.
This is as certain as that man is
governed by natural law. A war;, a
bloody civil war, with the whole
South, is bound to be the result of
any coercion may be applied. This
is the fact that has got to be looked
full and square in the face. To
support the Republican policy of
coercion, the mothers, sisters and
daughters of the North must expect
to see their fathers, husbands and
brothers torn from them, drafted
out by thousands, to be food fer
cannon and disease in the cane
brakes and rice-felds of the South.
The farmer must leave his field,
the mechanic his workshop, the
professional man or merchant his
office or store, and join the South
ern coercion army. We must be-
come a nation of drilled soldiers;
martial law must take the place OF
the civil and common in q great
degree. Great rs are the ~sufferings
of the country, we must expect to
see them magniied q thouand-fold,
We have never seen such a wal
as that would be between the North
and the South, which the irrepres-
sible conflict desires to inauguratc
In other wars, Jul enemy has been
thousands of miles off, and could
only be reached upon the sea or by
distant invasion. But, in a strug.
gle with the South, it lies side by
side, and wonderful facilities fol
deadly conflict exist. The whole
force of each could be brought tc
bear upon the other, and only the
stream of Ohio would sepcrate thu
hostile parties. Then, the forces
upon each side being all Americans
the descendants of q common stock
the most courageous and warliko
race ubon the earth-full of vigor
enterprise, resolution and pcrsever.
ance-it would truly be a conhic'
of giants, in which neighbor would
be arrayed against neighbor, al
we'll as State against State. The ne
gro-for whose sake the Republi
cans would resort to this deadly
strife-might be expected soon tt
| take part in it, and the horrors O
, instruction and the enmity of rae
: be added to that of kindred ant
f countrymen. Atrocities would en-
s sue only paralleled by those o
the French Revolution and of tn
, st. Domingo instruction. If on
dificultses are not settled, and i
the Republicans do not manifest
4 more conciliatory spirit and wa
%ensues, it will DC found that W
+ have not ovcrdrawn the picture,
!. Our Republican friends ma.
n sheer at it now as improbable, a
they did when we predicted fnar
cial distress and Southern secessio
: as the results of the election of
! sectional President, but experienc
sad experience-will again prov
i our prediction true. The Republ
cans have proved false prophets
I They have shown no knowledg
whatever ofthe terrible perils upo
which they have run the ship
g State, and we are satisfied they al