Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-04-16
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A VIRGINIA JourhaPs view Of President
I LiacSln and His Cabinet.

The Petersburg (Va.) Ezpress has this ed
itorial in late issue; eUIrH
Allowing literally for the notorious mem
dacity Of telegraphic reports, il may never
theless be safely assumed that that hypocrit-
ical concern known as the Lincoln Cabinet,
after nearly full months vacillation, oscill
lation and procrastination, are about sneak
ing into seemingly mofevigor0us position.
Itis almost impossible for such men TO do
any thing in straightforward, open and
manly way, because they are utterly desti-
tute Of the lofty attributes which constitute
a manly character. Fa,rr ,-rnE .---1
Why could they not, in week after they
were constituted the Presidents official adj
visers, meet International exigency either BY
a prompt and bold declaration TO the couna
try of either pacific OF 3 coercive policy
toward the seeded States7 They knew the
condition Of things. then just as well as they
do now, and they knew as well what the
Presidents and their duties and responsible
tiles were
They had either to abstain altogether from
a resort to force for the collection of the
revenue and the Reinstatement Of Federal
authority in the new Republic, OF they had
TO inauguTate measures for executing the
laws everywhere within its limits. The
plain issue was before them, and that issue
was peace or war How did they meet it
backings and filings in which precious weeks
have been wasted to the damage of every in
terest of the country, respond. Never was
such Cabinet known in civilized land, and
never did such President turn up at the
popular bidding. ..- ..lF. - .o
But to return to where we started. The
telegraphie dispatches showered upon US
Friday night were Ofa nature to plunge the
people everywhere into new exCitemeuts
aVa1 oil No. NLnI IT, II \
of change in the Cabinet from positive in-
ertness to qualified but still furtiye de-
termination to be up and doing some thing
somewhere, but what the thing was or the
place where, were secrets enveloped in an
impeDetrable mystery.
Military and naval operations have all at
once become exceedingly active and menac-
ing, and doubtless a blow will soon be
struck at some distant point of the coast. But
there is every reason to believe that the de-
sign of ali this bellicose exhibition is to get
at a peaceful recognition Of the Southern
Contederacy in very circuitous and in
genious way. HE ta tR te b.
We hope that Virginia and her sister Bor
der States will now smooth the path of that
recognition by at once withdrawing from
the Union and uniting themselves to the
Confederate Government. ITO this com.
plexion it must come at last" and the wiser
pun 10 W w III Jh6 DcBluuluk Wudb VIII ne
cessarily have to be done in the end-more
especially when such an incentive exists as
that which has arisen in the last few days
under the auspices of an Administration
which, if telegraphic intelligence in so i'm
portant a particular is to be believed, would
be rejoiced to find relief from the pangs and
torments by which 1t is plagued in the ne
cessity, by further secessions, of recognizing
the Southern Republic in ali its amplitude.
The key TO the remarks we have just been
making will be found in the concluding
words of the following paragraph, which we
cuttrom a special dispatch sent to the En-.
quiTeT from Washington, Friday night: ..
II learn from an unusually authentic source
that it is the fixed determination of the
Cabinet to throw all the available troops into
Tortugas and Key West, re, enforce Fort
Pickens, retake the Pensacola Navy-yard,
blockade the mouths of the Mississippi, an
bring on a brief collision The Border slave
States, now hopeless, will go out of the
Union, and then Lincoln will be compelled
to recognize the Southern Coniederacy and
make treaty with Them" .r,ai Tao q