Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-04-03

Confederate Government. We respect II /
also in our religious contemporaries, who are |
calling for positive measures. The theolog- |
ical instinct is for war, regarding the she'd
ding Of blood as the great lever Of progress
human and divine.
But, really, there is nothing worth fight
ing for unless il is for a just and honorable
separation. Suppose the old Union could |
be restored by force. Would it be worth the
costY What kind of Union will force
form2 Shall we thenhave peace harmony, |
union Of sentiment fraternal feeling and |
quiet commercial relations2 II is pretty
absurd to talk Of such thing.
Suppose the Union were reconstructed by
our peaceabie or forcible annexation to the
Confederates2 Would that be peace The
same sentiments would still exist, vastly in-
tepsi6ed. Every political settlement of the
slavery question has but increased the agi-
tation. Establish slavery by the Constitution
in all the Territories and all the States now |
or hereafter to be in the Union, provide that |
It shall never be abolished in any State, and |
| it would not affect the destiny Of slavery q |
particle. Does any one suppose that would |
settle the slavery agitation2 He must be q |
hopeful disciple TO expect it.
Slavery has never gained any thing by its |
abandonment Of an exclusively local right, |
and claiming national rights. Nor has the
spread of slavery ever been affected by legal
exclusion. The Dred Scott decision estab-
lshed slavery legally in all the territory. |
Was it thereby established2
Human enactments can only follow events;
they do not govern them. The fate of
slavery is governed by natural causes. 1t
can not be ultimately affected by legislation.
Nor will philanthropy ever influence it.
Philanthropy never exerted any visible in
fluence upon the progress Of the world.
Great events could not have been entrusted
to sentiment so feeble and uncertain, so
far sighted, and so blind to things near.
Slavery can not ultimately endure compe-
tition with free labor. OF the unskilled
labor of the whole world, and of a large
, portion of the skilled, slave labor is now the
costliest This is an unnatural state of
n things, and slave labor must eventually sue
!, cumb.
n 1t is not question of climate. If the
y Ohio farmer can make profit on his hired
er labor, he could Of course make larger profit
on labor which draws no wages. That dis
is poses of the isothermal line for slavery. But
ex the Ohio farmer can not afford to own 81 200 OF
N. $1,000 negro laborers when he can hire better
,ir laborers at $40 or $l2 month, for the season
nd of cultivation and harvest, at their own risk
". for the balance of the time clothing them
selves, and sickening and dying at theirow
expense.
"a, This competition of free labor is constantly
IA spreading. The great hive of Northern
~ Europe is constantly pouring out its swarm
~ 10 overrun the earth, just as it always has
on and with the same tendency southwark.
-. Generally the cheapest thing is humanity
oso With few exceptions there is a surplus o
~ the human race every where. The suppl
.bo almost everywhere exceeds the demand
NO The dearest article of humanity now is tn
,op negro. His value, estimated by the cost c
his services, is greater than that of dOze
.re Asiatics, or half dozen of the mixed labor
or ers of South and Central American, or thre
% European common laborers, or two EnglisI
II. and American. This unnatural state 9
"a things can not long continue. The chea
,at s1tcle will eventually run out the cost
cal negro.
of Nor can the laborer which the owner he
or to provide for, ever be so cheap as the on
sv who takes his own risk of want and starv
bt alton.
he These economical causes are the Prov
~. idence which will work out the destiny {
in. slavery. Human enactments will never sto
its course, nor will political provisions eve
on extend it.
"a. Were we TO accept the Confederate Coy
10 eminent to-day it would not affect the fat
-a- of slavery. We should merely bring t
hv eether the same jarring elements which hay
ise once broken the Union and begin a ne
in. era of more violent agitation, to eventua
to in another secession, with such improv
os. ments as experience and constant prepar
th, tion could provide.
of The growth of free population can not
lev represscd. Even were New England-whiC
we is much less agitated by the slavery questio
Tn than Ohio-shut out, as our Democrat
friends propose, in order that the power
the South in the Government may be abs
Oh Lutte the agitation would only be intensi6e
~, and the growing power of the North al
West would show the South that in tin
- the North would again elect Presider
S Then, of course, another Secession wou
N follow.
md A reconstruction OF the Union would
,ol- nothing but chronic anarchy. 1t would
ere merely turning all the revenue and policy
nor the Government TO prepare the South for
ary new Secession, made easy and improved
practice. Separate, there need be no hostili
between the sections. Under a polite
zho Union, our peace and material prosperity a
tics even the wages Of our labor are subject to
ing perpetual agitation of a relation in which
inc have no interest. Separate, the two sectio
nto with their different systems of labor C
is work out their destiny in peace and hi
Who mony, and the prosperity of each will
,ns mutually beneficial.
e Of AS independent nations, the most intimt
rest and friendly relations will naturally grc
rust up. United, the hostility of a large porti
As of the South to our people exceeds that
T at actual warfare. Why should the prosperi
our and industry of this great city be subject
-our the damage of chronic agitation growi
lou, out of a political union, which is pote
ling for nothing but creating hostility amo
who people united by INTEREST," WeIrepeat the
ist- is nothing in the present state of our natioI
he affairs worth fighting for, except a cOmpl'
ian. separation on honorable terms.
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