Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-05-18

~ Nes Wen U OIL course, Tor tn GJY.
eminent when calling for troops 10 sustain
ittelf should make requisition upon all The
States that had not seeded nor, perhaps,
could IL under the circumstances, escape re-
ceiving and arming such regiments as should
be formed in pursuance Of the requisitiop,
and put themselves under its command.
But prudence would seem to dictate that all
troops raised in States in danger Of Secession,
either by d~eliberative processes or by precip-
itatation, should be removed as far as pos.
sible from local influences; aud that the
Government should avoid placing arms
within danger of Seizure through any sud
den revolutionary impulse on the part of the
people who remain, however loyali in exter-
nal appearances they may continue.
Loyalty as an active and persistent senti-
ment in any part Of the United States south
of the Ohio, is a thing that can not be meas
ured, and therefore should not be counted
on; and this especially In States whose Ex-
ecutive Government Is in the hands Of those
who ~sympsthise with the South. If we
measure Southern devotion to the Union by
the Northern standard, we commit an error.
The two things differ from each other not
only in degree but in kind. To the South,
and all over the South, the Union is a Con-
federacy; TO the North it is q Nationality;
and loyalty in the one case in radically diff
ferent from what it is in the other. With
conditional Union men loyalty is condi-
tional, depending upon a continuance of
favorable circumstances-in fact, upon acct.
dent.
EARNED neutrality" of which we heard
so much a few days ago, in connection with
Kentucky, means simply to place the State
which assumes it in q condition to act indie.
pendentIy upon any conclusions to which it
may hereafter arrive. It's giving aid to the
Union is dependent upon the views which it
may at some future day adopt; which, while
they may be Of one complexion, may also be
of another. Admitting the chances to be
equalizer the Union and against 1.-THE
experiment is still a hazardous one.
From what we can learn, all the arms
that have reached Kentucky have gone into
the hands of the Secessionists. The mill
tary head of the State is the Governor. So
far as be has the control of arms, they will
reach such parties as he selects. Arms any
where in the State will be subject to seizure
by bim-if not by law, by a stretch of pre-
rogative such as Secessionists, as if by in
stir CT perfectly understand.
The nation should fight its battles only
by the aid of those whose loyalty is uncon
ditional. Fortunately there are enough of
these pressing for employment. This is a
dispute between sections, the dividing line
Of which is the Ohio River. There are Union
men upon the South side, undoubtedly,
as there are disunion men upon the
North; but those who remember how
rapidly Union men were made in the North
by the Presidents Proclamation, will not
fud it difficult TO see how, by some sudden
and unexpected event acting upon their fears
or prejudices, or sympathies, disunion men
may be made upon the other. Itispossible that
we shall meet some shameful reverse or great
calamity, to teach US wisdom in this import
ant matter-a defeat, or the sudden detection
of bodies of troops from one side TO go over
to the other. They who have read the his
tory of revolutions know how likely such
things are to occur. Revolutions are moral
epidemics: the man whom it attacks to day,
had, perhaps, no idea of it yesterday and it
is the part of prudence in the Government
not in any way to put itself in the power Of
those whose sympathies may by any posi-
| bility be turned against it.