Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-06-15

mistake. The troops have doubtless fallen
back upon Manassas junction, at which
place it seems probable General Beauregard
intends, if he can, TO make a stand until
something turns up.
Southern View Of NOrtherB Character
Errors of Both Sides What the North
Owes TO Itself.
The description given by Mr.. Russell, of
the London Times, in a recent letter from
Charleston, copied in the Press, two or three
days since, is probably the most correct pic
ture of the feelings which the people of the
South entertain for those of the North, that
has appeared. Strong as is the language
which he employs, there is no reason to sup
pose that the writer was guilty of exaggera
ton:
believe q Southern man as he believes
himself, and you must regard New England
and the kindred States as the birth. place of
impurity of mind among men and of I'M
chastity in women-the home of Free love,
of Fourierism, of inidelity, of Abolitionism,
of false teachings in political economy and
in social life a land saturated with the
drippings of rotten philosophy, with the
poisonous infections OF a fanatic press, with
out honor or modesty; whose wisdom is
paltry cunning, whose valor and manhood
have been swallowed up in a corrupt, howl
ing ~demagoguery, and in the marts of dis
honest commerce"
Since the Secession movement began, the
people Of the North have had opportunities
to see with more distinctness than before the
evidences of the feeling of contempt with
which they are regarded by their Southern
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and that it is not the color, but the
condition that makes the servant, the
people of the South look upon those
of the North, as a body Of slaves, and
deem it no more than justice to treat them
accordingly. In their relations with other
peoples, they are honorable and conciliatory,
observant of their obligations, and with full
average honesty in their business transac-
tions; but as contracts with slaves are held
to he binding only at the will of the master,
so agreements made with a people whom
they look upon as degraded and contemplate,
are esteemed of authority very inferior to
such as are made with their equals in stand.
ing and TespectabilitY. The man of the South
looks Hpon himself as born to command
and un0n tho u.@a " NHO NOIlu u UOIu W
obey. The former feels, therefore that he has
the right ofeminent domain in all that the lat
ter possesses; and that, in taking it, whether
it be the property of individuals or of the
Government, he is only exercising a preroga-
tive which although heretofore dormant,
has not expired.
1t is this that accounts for the prompti-
I'D arJ hre;nanal1r -, --:AL -I..I IL
South seized upon whatever it could find of
public and private property within its ter
IitoIy. Slaves have no civil character.
Having no individual, the people of the
North can have no collective rights. They
can not establish, nor confer legitimate
power upon Government. That of the
North is a vile pretense. The Southern
Government is the only Government; and
all, whether of the North or the South, who
do not give their adhesion to it, are rebels
whom it is right TO treat as such wherever
they can be found. In short, we, the people
of the North, are a body of slaves in a state
of instruction, SO degraded that rights can
not attach TO US; too low to come within the
cognizanee of Courts, and whom to murder
does not rise to the dignity of a public Of
Tense. 1t is no more a crime to kill a North
ern man, than it is to shoot a runaway negro
in a swamp, or to execute summary Justice
upon q copperhead.
Men are in some sort the authors of the
esteem in which they are holden by Others.
The feelings which the South entertains for
the North are, in a degree, merited. For the
sake of that peace, without which gain is
impossible, there has been a disposition to
truckle and overlook insults and injuries,
which, if not actual cowardice, has borne
the appearance Of it. Both the mercantile
and the political connections between the
North and the South have been inimieal to
the dignity and honor of the former. The
South, arrogant and p~rofuse, has wanted to
t~yrannize while it enriched; the North,
greedy and pliable, has been willing to bear
the petulsnce, while it profted by the prodi
gslity. The North has chung to the Union,
as the symbol of mercantile progress-the
guaranty Of that civil peace without which
trade is impossible; the South has hated the
Union under the impression that its eontin-
uapee was only profitable TO the North
therefore, while the latter was adhering to it
and bearing insult and contumely for its
preservation, the former was redoubling its
arrogance and sxaetions, as one OF the
means 70 put an end to the oOpsFtnership.
The mean and mercenary spirit which
many people in the Northern cities are ex-
hibiting, in carrying on a clandestine and
unlawful trade with the South in articles
contraband Of war, comes pretty well up to
q justification of the contempt in which we
are there holden. II is true that these crimes
are mostly confined to persons Of Southern,
or Of foreign BIRTH but the disrepute belongs
to the North collectively, and we bear the
appearances Of q people in whose esteem
nothing can come in competition with
m~oney--With whom not merely country, but
honor, safety and Independence, home,
kindred and life, are Of mall account in
comparison with the products Of a base and
unworthy trafic.
We have. to soma extent, accepted the
Isition Of infeTiority in the scale Of hui
A. nifty In which We have been placed by
the Southern people. We do practically