Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-04-26
A secsss,on JOurual's view Of the Present

A secesston Journals view Of the Psese at
TroubIes, and the gseiessness Of War.
The Baltimore Sun iSecession) has this
article on the subject of Washington, and
its cspiuie: 1a ef 't. saia
Theefeat questiob for the administration at
Washington 10 decide is, Whelher in the future
there shall be two nations, dwelling 81 ie by
side 10 peace and amity within the cid terri
tory Of The United States, msintaihing the
relations Of old fratnruity and friendship,
buying each Others commodities, aud avail
ing themselves Of cath others resources, or
what2
A long, bloody proftless war, with no
adequate result possible 10 either; deyasta.
tion ard carnage on the one hand, and the
utter ~ postration of business for a period,
long or short, on the other; the whole TO
close at length in the mutual recognition of
two natiopalities, hating each other with a
hatred more intense and irreconcllable than
that " hich has ever existed between the
American people and those Of Englaod,
A. an inducemeht to wise and prudent
decision in this case the administration will
enjoy sll the advantages of peaceful term
Of sttvice, and may address ali its energies
10 the mainlenance OF its political suprem
scy in Northern Coufederacy, by devoting
Itself with ell that zeal 10 the public welfare
and prosperity which it must otherwise ex-
pepG foOlisbly and wicked in destructive
civil war. While toward the South it yields
nothing that the several States of the South
ern Copiederscy have not right to expect,
under the most inotfepsiye demand for their
rights .t
TIE great present obstacle to peaceful
solution Of this question seems to be The oc-
cupalcy of the city Of Washington 1t is
understood 10 be utterly hopeless to expect
that Washington will, undsr any circum.
stances, be evacuated by the Adninistra-
tion. Then is the hope Of peace at an end.
Yet 10 sane man will believe for moment
that, with the fifteen slave States recognized
as OF Confederacy, Washington would ever
be retained as the capital of the Northern
Onie6eTacy.
Soy it y ere possible to carry out the pro-
pramDe OF the Republican Party and our
late worthy representative, the Hon. Henry
Winter Davis, and make the Potomac the
SoutbeIn border Of the Northern Con-
fedeiacy, including Maryland within its
affection ate but paralyziug embrace, nobody
believes that the Cal ital of that Northern
CoDfedeIacy would he continued within
gun shot OF anolher nation. 1t would he at
OF ce frowned upon and commanded by fort :
ficatioDs upon the Virginia soil. So then il
there is 10 be fight it is about an impIacti-
cattle thing. A pretty sort of basis for a
civil war.
Butsuppose in such contest Washington
should be captured, and fall into the hands
of the South, would it be worth single
dollar, a single life, moments war, 10 en-
dsavor to Iepossess it? No. In any event
with the two Confederacies in existence
Washington will never be the eapite OF the
Northern. Hence the only issue, and tha
an imprActicable one, in the way of peace, il
the possession of Washington, and it is that
probably, more than any other, upon whicl
the North affects unity OF feeling.
We present this subject for serious con
sideration to rational and intelligent an
would it were passionate, people, Nortl
and South. There is certainly no need, NJ
excuse and no iIGucement for war. AnC
il it is 10 be solely for the possession o
Washington, it will be utterly barren in tn
end