Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-05-15

hnu uhcoholnOnai Union men IN tue IN
States, but they are completely crushed out
for the time. Those who believe that this re-
btllion Is 70 be easily subdued are in error.
The war spirit ofth South rams very high. It
is encouraged by the smiles Of women, and
iniiamed by the solemnities Of religion, not
only by war sermons and the conservation
OF hagH IN churches, but In many instances
by clerRymen shouldering the mnsket. The
majority Of the troops In the field are the
flower of the young men of the South. who
will hghtimpetuously and brayely, especially
at the outset. The conflict is certain TO be
fierce and bloody. All the North can hone
is TO make IL brief. II the ADMINISTRATIVE
is vigorous and prompt it may be ended in
q few months il not we are likely 70 have
a seven years war.
BEsoURcKs or THE SOUTH.
Notwithstanding all the stealing that has
been done, the South is not az well armed as
the North. Its facilities for the transport
alton oftroeps and munitions, and the feed
ing and clothing of forces, are incomparably
less Few at the North realize how entirely
the whole South-we is fed by the North
west. Very little corn, wheat or pork Is
produced in Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana
and Texas. The quantities on hand are
always short, for produce is 'cash," and
there is a great tendency 10 live from hand
to mouth" through that section; but the
supplies are now much lighter than usual, on
account of the prOtracted drouth oflast year.
According to the best information | could
gain, there are not in the four States named
sixty days supplies Of these three great
staples. From thirty to fifty per cent. more
coru than usual has been planted this season;
but If all supplies from the North are in
stantly and efiectually cut of, it will be a
terrible blow to the Revolutionists 1t will
call for the exercise of the utmost patience
and endurance; and patience and endurance
are the distinctive traits wanting in Southern
character.
FEELING AMONG THE EBeRoHs.
In cases where l was known to be a NORTH
efner, the remark was repeatedly made for
my benefit; W have not the slightest fears
Of our slaves; they will all fight for u.s."
But where ] was taken for q Southerner,
fears vere repeatedly expressed 10 me Of the
slaves in the interior, and of the free negroes
in the cities, many of whom are intelligent,
wealthy, and able TO read and write. In
Wilmington, North Carolina, on the day
when | passed through, a hundred and sixty
free negroes were impressed to work on the
Notifications; and the opinion was expressed
by several persons in my. hearing that this
couree would everywhere be necessary.
Every negro in the South, however stupid
and ignorant, knows that this war is some
thing which concerns him. The shareholders
do not look upon Instructions as likely to
be general or very formidable, but rather re-
gard them as a possible contingency, aud
fesr that Rortherners may excite them, and
put arms in the hands of their slaves. At
least twenty Secessionists observed to me:
I'VE do not expect TO establish our Southern
Confederacy peacefully; no nation ever yet
secured its Independence without first ce-
menting it in blood" Bnt some Of them
seem to have learned, either from the nature
of the case, or from the history of st. Do
mingo, with what a terrible significance the
same remark may y~etapply TO the negro race
among them, if they persist in their mad
course to the bitter end.
WHAT THE sECEssIoNIsTs RHLY ON.
In addition to their own resources, the
RevolutiOnists look for three powerful auxil.
isries !. They believe Great Britain and
France, finding their supplies of cotton from
the South and grain from the North. westim-
perilled, will interfere 10 prevent a protracted
war. They cling tenaciously to the belief
that through cotton they can coerce not
only the North, hut the whole world. q.
They look very confidently Cor did three
weeks sgo) for a divided North. The New
York RerdId, which, until its recent sum-
merset, circulated largely throughout the
South, and was the only Northern journal
widely read there, is chiefly responsible for
the present condition of affairs. But for its
Infamous and REASONABLE predictions, pub
lished daily for months, universally copied
by the Southern press, aud believed by the
Southern people, that our Government, If il
attemptedto vindicate its sovereignty, would
encounter armed and formidable resistance
at the North, the Secession movement would
never have attained its present power. The
New York Express and Day Book, Boston
Courier, and other journals of that ilk, have
had The same Influence, only in less degree,
on account of their insignificant circulation.
3 The belief Of the Southern masses, and
many of the Southern leaders is, unquestiou-
ably, that Yankees are co wards, and will not
fght-that one Southron is always good for
three or four NOrtherners. As a single illus
t%ration, | heard a young mar in q crowded
car in North Carolina, reply to the remark
that a hundred and fifty thousand Northern
troops were TO be concentrated at Washing
ton so, well, we can whip them out any
morning before breakfast. Just throw three
or iOur shells among those blue bellied Yam
KEGS, and they will scatter like a flock of
Sheep Every one assented to this view.
To beer Northerpers denounced as towards,
a dozen times a day, was the hardest thing
10 besr during my Southern tour. thought
that, after three years Of Kansas life, | knew
something about that subject; and though [
have many valued friends in the South,
began, before reerossiDg Mason and Dixou's
line on my return, to look with a great deal
of complaoency on the brilliant prospect
which the South enjoys for ascertaining, at
an early day, whether Northern men are
towards or not.
1t seems impossible for the Southern mind
to comprehend that a man who never bus
tiers, who will bear q great deal before fight
ing, who had rather suffer a wrong than do
a wrong, is, when reused, the most utterly
desperate and dangerous of all adversaries-
a fact so well recognized that it has passed
into a proyerb, to "Beware the fury OF a pa
tent man" AS fearful a-thing as war is, L
confess TO a devout hope that this conflict
will be pressed until the revolutionists, with
all their ~insoleDt arrogance, will never
sgain have the e~ffrontry to indulge in their
stereoty ped assertions that Southern men are
brave gentlemen, and N~ortherners cowardly
plebeans.