Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-05-13
Secession Plots-Industry ard Foresight
nf the Uonanfratore

VI ~ ANnaNANMNnEhs
Verify, 1.-THE children Of this world are, in
their generation, wiser than the children of
light" There is not a day that does not
bring 70 view some new fact to show how
widely the Secession plot was extended, how
perfect were all its arrangements, how COM
pletely every accident to be apprehended
from the dissent Of the people was provided
against and how interruptions and despotic
the conspirators determined TO be from che
beginning.
The North his seen enough to know that
Il has an enemy both wary and desperate,
whose eyes are everywhere, and whose
hands have been for years preparing in its
minutest details the means 10 enter, with
every possible advantage, upon the crisis in
which it has now embarked.
We do not, even yet, see the whole extent
Of the plot; and perhaps, if it were disclosed,
the story would be rejected as incredible.
That it originally included an aHiliation
with politicians of the free States, and con-
templated a subsection by their aid of the
people of the North to Southern rule, there
is no shadow of reason TO doubt. For a few
weeks at the close of the late Administra-
ton and the beginning Of the present, the
whole North, through the influence Of these
politicians, played into Southern hands. At
present, this agency appears to be dormant.
The popular tide has turned. We, upon
rather insufficient grounds, proclaim that
Northern sympathy with the Southern agi-
tation is dead. This is a mistake, which
it is by no means impossible we shall yet
have occasion to correct. 1t is not dead.
The political Ethiop does not 80 readily re-
ject his nigritude, nor the party leopard lay
down his motley upon 80 slight an induce.
ment. The quietude at present is that of
prudence, not of conviction. Let a fair OPP
portunity occur, and we shall see changes
that now we look upon it as idle to antici-
pate.
If this dispute continues, and especially if
warlike operations proceed in a languid and
dilatory manner, we shall not be without
two parties in the North, based upon the
equivalents, mutatiS mutandiS, Of the old is
sues. The propensity which one body of the
people is acquiring for extreme measures and
the promotion of a domestic revolution in
the South will be sure to originate, if it does
rot necessitate, an organized opposition.
Under cover of this, the old sympathy with
Secession will begin to work. The mercan-
tile spirit, with its conservatism and COM
promises, will revive, a%ntagonism will en-
bitter the parties, the prevailing tendency to
excitement will produce a mutual and rapid
repulsion, and the Administration may find
an enemy to contend against in the North as
difficult TO manage as that which marches
under the shadow Of the palmetto flag of
Carolina.
Some of our Kentucky readers were dis.
posed to complain Of Us because we were
unwilling to look upon their State as per-
fectly safe for the Union. We will give them
some thing by way of compensation. AL
though we do look upon it as, under the cir
stances, improbable that Ohio will be pre-
cipitated into revolution, we are unable yet
TO regard it as impossible. Afew weeks ago,
Mr.. Jefferson Davis thought it certain, and
the leaders of Secession nave not yet ceased
to talk of it as a thing to be accomplished.
Their opinions we're not idly formed. They
had information and assurances. The men
who gave them are here, and unchanged
and who can calculate, in advance, all the
contradictions and inconsistencies of the
"many headed"