Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-06-15


esteem the life of a Southern of higher value
than that Of a Northern a When one Of
our fellow. citizens is murdered, with every
circumstance Of bsrbarity, in a Southern
town, or is hung up TO Ornameut one Of the
trees by a highway, the fact %excites no more
emotion here than the whipping Of a slave
does among his fellows upon the same PLAN
tation. We virtually admit that We are
not entitled to judge, jury, the processes
and protection of law for our order, and
accept cur lot, as the slave does his, as our
destiny.
There are two things incumbent upon the
people of the North in this aspect of affairs:
to merit different treatment and to have it.
To merit 1t, we can begin at home. The
worst feature in our case ct present. is the
trade which is carried on, and is permitted
to be carried on by our citizens with the
South, in contraband articles. 1t is time that
this standing blot upon our character was
wiped out. So long as it continues the South
has the right to look upon us as the meanest
of mankind. The man who is discovered
traficing with the enemy, whether the trade
be a box of percussion caps or q steamboat
load of ordnance, should be hanged. If the
Government will not do it, the people should.
flour Administration is too bland, mild and
loDg-suffering to protect the people, the peo-
pie should take measures to protect them
selves. If nothing but a reign of terror will
answer the purpose, LET a reign of terror
begin. The man who is caught in this trade
should be put out Of his misery within fifteen
minutes after he is detected. The instru-
mentalities by which it is done are Of second
airy importance. This people has played the
mild, forbearing dilatory fool long enough;
and it is high time to come up to the demands
of our condition. When we have lone our
duty in this matter, our Southern brethren
will respect us as we deserve.
A man, however peaceable, from the
North can not make his appearance in any
part of the country south of Kentucky
without being subjected to the most brutal
insults and injuries, while his life is con-
stantly in danger. Southerners pass through
the North, as usual, over our railways, stop
in our cities, and remain day after day, and
no one even takes the trouble to inquire into
their business. The emissaries of Mr.. JEFF
ferson Davis take shipping for Europe openly
from Northern ports; and swarms of spies
lurk' around to report every movement that
falls under their observation. Men actively
in the Southern interest are in this city,
and are known to be here-they neither
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and, SO far from experimenting danger, they
seem to repose the most implicit confidence
in our mercenary cowardice, conservative
imbecility, and law.abiding impotency.
1t is time this was stopped. What bust
ness have Southerners, gentlemen, spies or
traders here2 They had better stay away.
They should find it safe to do so. What
trade is there to be carried on now but that
of espionage2 In what capacity can they be
here but that of public enemy2 The arrival
of a Southern resident in this city, should
be the signal for an arrest. Our lives, our
public tranquility, our peace, are just as
precious to us as that of the South is to
them. If we are dangerous to them, they
are so to us. If we are their enemies, they
are ours; and the treatment which they pre-
scribe for us is no more than a fair measure
for that which they should receive at our
bands. This baleful practice of setting the
people of the South at one value in the go
cial scale, and ourselves at another, must be
abandoned; and to do so, nothing perhaps
will be better than a little familiar manipu-
lation.
But this is not all: The North stands ar
raigned before the world and itself, by the
South, upon a charge of general cowardice.
Those military preparations with which the
South proposesto overrun and subjugate the
North, are all made upon the presumption
that the North is one vast individual and col
lective poltroon. The South must be taught
better. 1t must be whipped into a sounder
and more perfect knowledge of the Northern
character. The thing must not DO done by
haluAs There mnsf BIO put forth force enough,
and it must be exerted long enough, to con-
vince the South fully and permanently of its
mistake. Whether it cost a thousand or a
million of l~ives-whether it occupy one
month or a century, that work must be done.
1t is a duty we owe to ourselves-to the
South-to the world-to the race to which
we belong. Until this is accomplished, there
should be no cessation. The South should
have its fill of the slaughter which it has in
voked and the record of the error which it
has committed should b. trodden with an
iron heel into its memory.