Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-03-09
The MY steries of RepubIicanIsm The
kntIon,a GraIitude to mr.. CriLLenden.

The NJ steries of RepubIIcanIsm The
Nations Gratitude to mr.. Crittenden.
The chief business of a metropolitan jour
nal is to snatch up rumors and swell them
into Importance, and make ont that there is
a tremendous public sentiment in favor of
them. They remind one of the way that
silly geese gobble up a piece of an apple to
which boys have attached a string and a
stick, and they generally throw up the ru-
mors quite as expeditiously as their a~nserine
prototypes do their treacherous bait. The
performance on the rumor that John Bell
bad conversed with Mr.. Lincoln, and was,
therefore, to receive & Cabinet appointment,
was a specimen and now we have one of
the metropolitans backing out Of its en-
tbusiastic Endorsement Of this, on the Union
Platform, when at the time it snapped up
the suggestion, it announced that it spat
upon all platforms as decisions and frauds.
The last bait which caught these gudgeons
was the rumor that Ex-senator Crittenden
was to be appointed to the Supreme Bench.
OF this the Commercial says:
rThe rumors that President Lincoln will
nominate Crittenden as a Judge Of the Su-
preme Court, gains ground, and many per-
SONS feel a hearty hope that the event will
justify the expectation"
Why2 Why should "mauy persons of
the Commercials stripe of politics, or who
supported Mr.. Lincoln, feel such a hearty
hope that the first opportunity which the
North has had for the appointment of a mem
Der of this tribunal, for so many years, should
be given to a member of another party, and
to preserve the Southern pr~eponderance on
the Supreme BenchP
We need not 20 outside the same number
of the same paper for the reason. 1t is, Of
course, for Mr.. C%rittenden's patriotic serv-
ices in saving the Union, and here we
have the Commercials opinion Of them:
"The CritteDden Compromise was a most
unfortunate measure. Tit energy and good
intentions worse than wasted in forcing it
uDon the people, were sufficient to have car
| rfed through both houses of Congress by the
middle of the session, a practicable n
wholesome measure of Cancellation and
settlement Of sectional difficulties, that
might have saved us great trouble hereafter.
With the best motives Mr.. Crittenden did as
badly as possible. 1t was his impossible
compromise that stood directly in the way Of
accomplishing any thing in the direction
that he lAbOred.p
Mr.. Crittenden "did as badly as possible"
and aggravated the national disturbances,
instead of pacifying them therefore the
public is supposed to feel a hearty hope that
he will have the precedence of all the men
who supported Mr.. Lincoln, in the most i'm
portant appointment which he will have to
make; and that to reward his " good inten-
lions worse than wasted" the section con-
tanning little over one-third Of the popula-
ton, viii continue TO have 1--WE out of the
nine judges of this tribunal, which has as
sumed the decision Of our political ques-
tons.
The Gazette grabs at the same bait, under
the insane idea that it is both sensational,
enterprising and conservative. We quote
at is reported at Washington that Major
Anderson will be raised to the rank OF Gen