Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-10-10
Our CbaDces for TRANQUILITY.

'IDere can De no uOuDJ, Lnat III All Lne
States and people between the Canadian and
Mexican frontiers could agree to live under
one Govern ment, it would greatly conduce
to their internal tranquility and external
power. No argument is necessary to prove
that
So says the London TimeS-the "Thun-
derer." If we could agree to live together,
then we should agree to live together. If
we were at peace, then we would be in q
state of tranquility. But not agreeing to
live together, we do not do so; and not be-
ing at peace, we are not In a state of tran.
quillity.
1t was said by those of old, 'in time of
peace prepare for war;" by parity of reason
ing, it is proper to say, ''in time of war pre-
pare for peace;" in other words, war is pre-.
paration for peace; and we are at war-that
is to say, we are not at peace-for the pur-
pose of inducing ourselves and our Southern
brethren to agree to live under one Govern
ment-a thing that, at present, seems rather
difficult to be accomplished. And yet there
can be no doubt there is very lively desire
for peace upon both sides. War has been
unsatisfactory as it is expensive. We, here
in the North, have for five months been wait
ing for victories, but victories do not come.
Had we been told on the first of April last
that the first of October would arrive and no
important triumph to our arms be realized,
we should have recoiled in dismay from the
melancholy presage, and charged its author
with beirg traitor and Secessionist. Be-
fore the war We could not agree to live under
one Government; an the war, we do not
seem to be approaching any more nearly an
agreement to live under one Government; /;
and if such agreement is to come through the
war, it is not easy to see at this juncture Of
affairs how it is to arrive
Both parties-it will not do to cay with
equal sincerity-lament the disagreemeuts
and both profess to desire their removal. We
| of the North believe that the masses of the
| South, ignorant, and deprived of the means
of correct information, misled by the authors
| of the conspiracy, who feed them with false.
hoods to excite their passions and arouse
their prejudices, entertain very erroneou
ideas of our character and designs, under th,
influence of which these misguided people
have taken up arms against us and we arr
convinced that if they could be truly in
formed of our feelings and motives, they
would Immediately lay down their arms and
retire in peace to their homes.
They of the South believe that the masses
of the North are ignorant of the Southern
character, and prejudiced against it through
the instrumentality of the leaders, and tha
it is only our want of knowledge which keep
US in state of enmity against them. But
we should send missionaries for their en-
lightenment, they would hang them; and
they were to send missionaries for ours, W
should put them in Fort Lafay cite, beyon
the reach of bail, mainprize and ha6eas cor
puS. In the mean time the newspapers, thos
educators of the people, and important vehi
cles of popular information, being gotten u
to meet home demand, employ themselve
upon both sides in urging on the fight, an
informing each party, upon the best of at
thority, how mad, cruel, selfish and inhr
man the other is, and now wicked an
irrational are its claims and designs.