Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-01-30

his section, ard he spoke truly.
They declare thai their hostility to us is
founded in our opinions and convictions.
Can we promise change They are the
tame that the people of the North have al
ways had and which are entertained by
the whole world, outside the circle>of those
of the South whose interest governs their
convictions. They propose no interference
with the South; but when was it ever
heard Of that a free people gave up their
opinions and conscientious convictions, and
consented to hold none but such as we're die
tated to them as the price Of political rels-
ti6ns2
Any change from the present relations
would be toward peace. This hostility aud
hatred have been caused by Union of dis
cordant elements. So long as the Union ex-
lists, it win only increase. Independent
nations respect each other; and if the people
of the North, when released from a bond
which compels them to submit while their
citizens are sacrificed to the Southern Mo-
lccb, have not the power and the disposition
TO secure respect for the persons and property
of their citizens in any civilized country,
they will be unfit for national existence, and
then it will be time for them to submit to a
Union with the South on such terms as it
may grant.
We are accustomed to talk as if, when
disunited, the people Of the two sections
would naturally fly at each Others throats;
and history is brought in to show that bor-
der nations must necessarily be at war.
Men never'looked into history so far as the
end oftheir noses, who draw this conclusion
from it. Wars have always grown out of
union of discordant people, not from their
contiguity as separate nations. To begin
the evidence at home Under the Union our
relations with the South are constantly
growing more hostile. With the separate
people of Canada on our northern border,
with frontier just as extensive, our rela,
latiops, commercial and social, are con-
stantly growing more friendly and intimate.
Mexico is an illustration of a Union with
out affinity; and is faint type of what this
Union between hostile sections will be, If it
is continued, no matter whether by force, in
its present shape, or by patching it with COM
promises.
England has always been foremost among
nations in anti slavery sentiment aud move
ments; and it now holds out an asylum
within reach of Southern slaves. The anti
slavery sentiment of the people Of the North
is far less active and radical than that of the
English. But England is a separate power;
therefore, South Carolina, which throws off
a Union with the people of the North, solely
on account of their anti-slavery sentiments,
flies to abolition England for political and
commercial alliance; and even offers to de-
pend on her for protection.
We may see the undying hostility of
Union of uDfriendly elements in that of
Austrian and Magyar, of Austrian and Ital-
ian, of Turk and Christian, and of English
and Irish. Our own relations with England
have been enlarging ever since our separa.
ton from her. We trust we need say moth
ing more to dispose of the historical argu-
ment against the independence of States.
People refer back to feudal age, when wars
were undertaken for plunder and profit, aud
to furnish employment for bands of retain.
ars. But that has gone out with the growth |
Of industry and increase of wealth. The |
South can not afford to make war, exceptflr |
4 cause vital to their safety. If they were
sven so warlike as they profess, their insti-
.utions are pretty good guarantee of their |
as to any war which two could /
play at; and the industry and wealth of the |
North are sufficient bond for their keeping
he peace.
A separation is the restoration of peace,
md will be the beginoing of that mutual
espect for the rights Of each, which exists
lnong all independent nations 1t will
all obstacles to the laws of trade
vhich are supreme over national boundaries,
'ut which are now impeded by sectional
ostility !, and it will build up that COM
nercial honor and integrity, which usually
xists among the merchants of different ma
ions in their mutual transactions; but
which now so readily finds a shelter for
nercantile dishonor, in sectional fanaticism;
nd makes its fraud patriotic duty to its
ecUon. We shall consider further the effect
f separation on trade in another article. i