Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-02-04

out with four-fold intensity; and that If the
South need new guarantees on account of
Northern sentiment and Northern agitation
now, they viii need them vastly more in
six months from the time they are made.
We discuss this question chiefly in view
Of its relation to our industrial interests,
which are in danger of being sacrificed to |
organized anarchy under the name of Union. |
Industry, which requires public peace, is in |
danger Of being made the victim Of perpetual
political agitation and of chronic war, for o
mere political bond, which in itself only
creates a thing for the South to agita'e
against. And in the industrial, we include
all osr material interests of trade and COM
merce, which are all founded on labor. A
reconstruction of uuiou of such elements,
and on such conditions, will place all these
interests at the mercy of the political agita-
tors Of people SO hostile to us that they
now are longing openly for the time when,
on account of distress caused by their pres
ent agitation, Northern laborers shall march
our streets with pixies and irebrands in their
hands, crying bread or blood" III.
Is there any national power or honor TO
be achieved by such reconstruction. Our
nation is now demoralized and humiliated
in the eyes Of the whole world. Even Mex
leo, which our President has talked of pro-
tectipg; and Cuba, which our President
talked of buying or seizing from poor elfete
Spain; and Turkey, ''the sick man." all
laugh us to scorn. We have exposed the
weakness of our national Government to
the whole world. And all can see that a
reconstruction would be merely covering up
the same rottenaess, ready to fall into disso-
| luton at any moment. What nation will
now respect our power, when it knows that
| it may negotiste with any one of our thirty
! four States for separate terms, or for a
separation2 and when the great Euro
pean Powers have been approached by
different States of this Republic, seeking
separate alliance. In the eyes of the world,
our Government is already more demor-
allied than that of Mexico, for no State of
that Republic has ever made advances to a
foreign power for an alliance against the
rest. Any foreign power may now defy
our threats, for it is known that we have an
internal hostility between the sections, far
greater than any which at least one section
can feel for any Foreign enemy; and that
at any severe trial of our resources, our Gov
erpment will fall to pieces. A Government
without strength at home, can never COM
mand respect abroad. Mexico has shown
national fidelity in all her partisan warfare.
Our rank as a national power under any re-
construction of such elements, must be lower
than that OF Mexico. The State of New
York alone, or those of New England, could
command more respect abroad as national
power, than can any union of all of these
hostile elements; and would have more real
strength.
A Government can not be reconstructed
by the sacrifice of the Constitution to armed
rebellion, that win have that consent of the
governed that we proclaim to be the only
just foundation for Governments. 1t would
be the Inauguration of fresh agitation that
would exceed any thing which has gone
before. But suppose the Union were re-
constructed on new guarantees to slavery.
Is that the only question that may dissolve
the Union? Instead of that, any of tue pol
itieal questions that are used for agitation
may threaten the Union. 1t was dissolved
once on the tariff question. Had that Sc
cession been encouraged by the abdication
of all its powers by the Government, as now,
and by promise of concessions in proportion
to its demands, that would have progressed
Just as the present movement has under that
treatment. 1t was crushed by the firmness
of Gen. jackson. Unfortunately, after it
was efFectualy broken, Mr.. Clay preserved it
as future resort, by compromise, which
notification claimed as q triumph. The
Judgment of that eminent statesman gave
way TO the bitter hostility between him and
Gen. Jackson, and he was willing to secure
to himself the good will of those whom Gen.
Jacksen's irmness had made hostile, by a
compromise, which, after budding out on
various occasions, has now borne its full
fruit.
The question of revenue would at once
threaten the Union again, If it could be re-
lieved from the slavery agitation. 1t con-
tains in the future, more elements to try the
strength of the Union, than it had in the
past; and, demoralized as the Union now
must be, it would overthrow it.
A reconstruction of the Union would be
the Inauguration of new schemes for forcing
the Government into war for annexation,
to restore the power of the South in the Sen
ate. Law can not restrain these enterprises
and any outbreak will drag our Government
into war; and then acquisitions of territory
must follow. Millions without limit will be
} drawn from the industry of the people o
the North to buy territory, which as soon al
we have lavished our money upon it, viii
turn upon us and "resume the powers whicl
it granted to the Union" and will have th,
power to destroy the Government.
Another dissolution would only be ques
zion of time. 1t is not probable that an.
honest man will dispute this position. An
the whole aim of the South would be to pre-
e pare itself, at the expense of the Federal Gov
: ernment for another and final separation.
: What is it TO which it is proposed to saeri
J, fee the welfare of this great people of til
g North2 A political bond already broke
and trampled under foot at the South; bu
: which at the North it is sought to make tn
{ more sacred, the more it is violated. Recon
t struction is chronic anarchy, the supremac
v of rebellion, increasing sectional fanaticisu