Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-05-20
Robert ]. walker on the Crisis Kara,


a-r est AdvOcacy oI the Union. sE
Robert ]. Walker, former Governor of
Kansas, made strong Union speech at
Staten Island, the other day, and we quote
the concluding portion; ,sra.e .r.........
In all of these sO-called seeded States
there are thousands still devoted to the
Union, who look to us for succor, and who
with rejoicing thankfulness, will again be-
hold untolded over them the flag of the
American Union. These loyal citizens we
can not, must not, dare not abandon. And
the exilee who have been driven from their
homes because they loved the Union, must
be restored and guarded by the protecting
power of this great Government. Secession
is revolution, it is rebellion, it is war, il is
treason, and IL must be suppressed, or &C.
know ledge that we have no Government,
and never can bave one. .... .t.,.,
Peaceable Secessionl Why, the very Sc.
ceders must laugh at the breposterous folly.
Peaeeable, inoeedl Why, for months pre-
cediDg the 6nal development they were all
aImiDg and preparing for war seizing our
forts, our mints, our aiscnals, our vessais, our
treasure, firing upon unarmed steamers or
sehOoners, and finally opening their batteries
on one of our forts occupied only by hand
ful of starving soldiers. Peaceable, indeed
Why, did they not have traitors in the
Cabinet, plotting the overthrow of the Gov
eInmenL of which they were members, and
do we not all know that but for the sudden
and majestic uprising of the American peo.
pie, they would now be by force of arms in
possession of the capital of the Union? -
For weeks and months the American
Government fOrbore with an indulgence
uDexsmped in the history of the world.
We waited too long. We should have re-en-
forced all the Southern forts, es urged upon
the President by the illustrious Scott, in
October last. We should have provisioue1
and re-eI sorced Fort Sumter Immediately
after its occupation, in December, by the
heroic Anderson. We never should have
permitted that fort to have been encirc!ed in
the Gordon Of Ere and of hostile batteries
with which 1t was surrounded, while patriots
at home looked on with grief and sorrow,
and al Europe, astOnished at our imbeeilitY,
exclaimed that we had no Government, and
prepared soon TO acknowledge that OF the
Confederate States. But the President who
permitted these things, has retired in dis
grace aud infamy. The past is gone; it is
irreyocable, even by Almighty power but
the present. and the future are ours, and in
the coming glory that now dawns upon US,
we must extineuish the memory of our
humiliation and reproach. These disgrdceful
scenes must never be re enacted The curtin
hes risen upon another act of the great
drama, This rebellion will be suppressed at
once by the strong arm of the Government
and the people. There can be no more hesi.
tation, mo moie truce, with armed rebellion.
The CODfederate States have made war
upon us, and we must all rally as one man,
with overw heiming force, around the flag oi
our country, and unfold Il where it waved a
few months since, from the PenOhscot to the
Rio Grande. over every fort and State of the
American Union. g.r-,
Fort Sumter is now historic, and that flag
must float again over its walls. IT. was our
fOrt-exelusiYely ours--by law, by eession,
and the Constitution. The right Of property
was ours and so was the nexclusive jaris.
dietion," and the noble SON of Kentucky,
accompanied by all his brave officers and
men, and sustained by the mighty power OF
this GoveTnment, must again replace thai
flag over the walls of Sumter, never to be
surrendered until time shall be no moro
And now. fellow citizens, each day, each
hour, is making history, and as l uhroil the
scroll of coming events we read the closing
words Of this year; Rebellion ertshed-sk,
G6vefh Raens RlGintaiRsa-fhe Union psrpsht
0te9-indiVided and indiEisible, q gests non
and .foTeper on the eternal basis Of afse
tiOns Of a free and mighty people. sai1-'o'