Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-03-23


entire patronage offered rs the prize Of
politicians at every quadrennial revolution
demoralized the people who manage our
political parties, that this degrading surren-
der Of manhood and national honor, COM
pared TO which our colonial relation 70 a
powerful and brave nation like England,
was noble and honorable, will be advocated
by Democratic and concession politicians at
the North as the saving Of our glorious
Union.
We do not believe that a Union which has
SO demoralized the people, resulted in such
sectional hostility, and broken up so dis
gracefully, is worth shedding blood TO
restore. But the Government must be
redeemed fromits present helplessness before
It can make an honorable peace. We are
not taking exceptions to the Administration,
for the Government was broken down by
traitors before it came in, and 1t has not had
the means to act the time TO decide upon a
policy, nor opportunity to appel to the
Representatives of the people for support;
and the last House of Representatives
showed a weakness in respect TO sustaining
the Government.
But It is an old maxim that the way TO
secure peace is to be prepared for war. 1t
was never SO forcible as now. A continued
course of submission and surrender to re-
bellion, and of meekness on one side and
rising insolence on the other, win so demor-
alize the Government, the people of the
North, and the really loyal men Of the
Northern slave States, that the Government
would find itself broken down North as we'll
as well as South. Besides, when final sep
aration comes, the North must have those
means to enforce its equal national rights,
that all nations consider prudent and neces-
sary to back their negotiations.
What national consideration can we ex-
pect from the Confederates, after a constant
course of surrender to their insolense and
robberies2 And how can the Government
ofthe North require the respect or loyalty Of
its own people, If it submits to dishonor
from abroad2 Probably we have got to have
war TO restore the loyalty Of our own people,
as well as to enforce respect from the Con-
federates and from foreign nations.
There is something to be done at once, and
our people may as well prepare to meet the
emergency as becomes apeople who will not
submit + dishonor. Congress should be
called together Immediately, to repeal the
tariff which is driving all imports to
Southern ports, transferring our commerce
to them, depriving our Government of rev.
enue, and furnishing the Confederates with
the sinews of wal and a revenue to estab.
lish their Government entirely at our ex.
pense. Our tariff should Immediately be re
duced to a point that will keep the imports
to Northern ports, cut off the Confederate
revenue, and bring them to direct taxes for
their Government and war expenses.
Then the Administration should be pro-
vided with the means to make the Govern.
menf respected; and shouldmake it respected,
for the sake of peace; and if it takes war,
the people will sustain it. The first blow
struck in vindication of the legitimate power
of Government would bring half a million
of men into the field.
We know the threat of the Border States
but when we have a Government on which
|. loyal men in all the States can rely for q
vigorous assertion of its authority, and
backed by a respectable force, the Secession
lists of the Border States will have as much as
they can attend to at home. 1t is nothing
but the weakness and meekness of the Gov
ernment that gives them their ostensible
power.
This is peaceable desperation article. Our
peaceable separation never proposed any
submission, or concession TO rebellion, OF
surrender of the Government to insolence
and dishonor. Nor did it ever cry peace on
the part of the Government when rebellion
is in actual war against it.