Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-05-10


OF n DIatinauishsd Trnve ler-rhe Under
rHrfeht Of Union FeeliBg AmoHe the
NOuihern People. Hlf
Benton j. Losing, the historian Of the
Revolution, has Just returned from trip
through the South western slave States, and
Communicates to the Poughkeepsie (N.Y.)
E0gts some interesting particulars of the CON
dition Of public and private sentiment in
those States;
'''i ExoTIEMEkT AT NEw soRLEANs. - I.
On the day afIer my arrival in New Orr
leans found the citizens much excited, In
anticipation Of expected news of an attack
on .Foits Sumter and Pickens. Already some
volunteer companies had gone to Pensacola
and Others for the nanle destination were
forming. On the morning of the 12th an
electrog1aph from Montgomery announced
the actual attack upon Fort Sumter; and at
two O'clock that day, while sitting upon the
base Of monument erected near Jacks0n's
head. quarters at the time Of the battle Of
New Orleans, sketching the plain of Ohsl-
mette, where the great conflict occurred, L
heard the firing OF cannon at the cityLseven
discharges-whiehpr proved to be ftie de joie
because of the surrender of Fort Sumter.
When | retnrhed to the st. Oharles in the
| evening, the excitement in the city was i'm
tense; and all the next day (Shndag) throngs
ef men were seen in all public places and On
the Streets, greeting each other. Martial
music was heard, aud volunteer soldiers were
seen on all sides. The surface Of society ex-
| hibittd feeling of unbounded Joy. This
| was suddenly reversed on Monday, when the
| telegraph brought copy Of the Presidents
| RECLAMATION. never saw more marked
change of feeling from that Of great delight
TO great depression, than was exhibited
| within forty. eight hours. The iu6ilant men
of Sunday were thoughtful men on Monday,
while leading Secessionists laughed at the
| proclamation as powerless to accomplish its
| intended purposes. 5.. 1' ,
/ UNION MEN. sILENcED. I.-. 81
| On the reception of the proclamation the
| newspapers opened their heaviest double
| sbotted batteries upon the President and
| Cabinet. They were charged with foul per-
fdy; and in ignorance Of the true state Of
the case, vast numbers of Union men .(for
there are vast numbers of them in the South
4 who were daily becoming less and less act,
i've, under the pressure OF an increasing ter
| rorism, were dsarmed qof all effective
/ argument and rendered silent. But the
official correspondence between the Govern.
ment and Major Anderson, and the rebels, if
allowed to be published in New Orleans and
I throughout the South, will make a wonder
full change in the opinions of thinking men,
for twill be seen that the whole RESPONSE.
bility Of inaugufating civil war is laid upon
the einsolent traitors, and that the Federal
Government has acted throughout the whole
affair with the utmost foTbeatance aud per-
feet good faith. So. tsHa & b. TT T.
THE TRAITORS DESIGNS.
1 II will be seen and,felt by all candid men
in the South that the traitors now ruling the
Gulf States with a rod of iron, deceived by
the assurances of Northern demagogues that
vast plumbers in the free States would be
| fat,r1 Hsrhfinn, ,nnIar bat, h.
titudes there would sympathise with them,
had determined in any event to humble the
Federal Government and to degrade its flag.
hoping thereby, and the shedding of human
iblood, to fire the Southern heart" and dis
member the North. This accomplished, the
national capital Yves to be seized By the Com
federates and their Northern auxiliaries, who
would be Joined by the Border States, and
theE, would be accomplished the destruction
of the 'most beneficial government on the
\ face of the earthp according to the ASSERTION,
! of Alexander Il, Stephens (Vice President Of
the CoptedeIacy6 only Eve months ago, be-
fore the Georgia Legislature. This was to
| fiesfplloYed by y military ,despotism whose
chief aim and effort would be to push an inn
mediate war of subiuRation and annexation
to the most remote forests of the Isthmus of
Darien, and to establish an Empire based
upon Slavery, with "King Cotton" as auto
crat, that might defy the scorn and the bayo-
nets of the civilized world. How egregiously
have the conspirators been mistaken
THE POLITICIANS sTIFLING THE PEOPLE.
/ have said that my intercourse was with
aged men, and afforded me a good opportu-
nifty 10 learn the true state of feeling in the
South, and particularly in New Orleans,
whose population is cosmopolitan and whose
commercial life depends upon the perpetuity
| of the Union. | feel that l am fully iusti-
fed in saying that the disunion sentiment,
seen on the surface, has no considerable
depth-that the people, by the reckless bold
ness, unscrupulous falsehoods and violent
menauces of demagogues, using the press
with its vast power, for their base purposes,
are in the hands of the politicians, and at
present powerless. .-
A gentleman of wealth and high social
position, who has lived in New Orleans for
Fifty years, assured me on the day after the
Presidents proclamation was received, that
If the loyal States would respond to it, pa
triotically, by giving the Government O
strong arm and full purse wherewith to es-
tablish the Federal authority everywhere
within the borders of the Republic, there
would coup from Southern lips such shout
for "The Union and the Constitution as
would silence every traitor instantly and
forever "NtsO Orleans" he said indignantly,
IT'S loyal to the core. Inpudence and the fear
of brute force hare cheated as Of our liberties !;
but let the people once see the decursed triple
striped flag Of the rebeIs hauled doa0n from
the HINT and the Custom house, and the Union
banner placed there By hand strong enough
TO mdintdin H. and the people of the outraged
city uiu hang eUeTy traitor found soithin its
limits" This feeling assurance was con-
frmed by others.
The heart of the South is right but the
head is crazed at present by the grossest de-
ceptiOns, the most subtle sophistries that
bear the semblance of truth, and by a gem
eral ignorance of the kindly feeling always
held and still entertained by the people OF
the North toward those of the South. The
newspapers in the interest of the traitors
have, for months, pursued an apparently
concerted system of Misrepresentation and
the suppression of truth.
AN ILLUSTRATION.
For many weeks the telegraph in the Sc.
ceded States has been under the control o.
the arch rebels at Montgomery, and every
| avenue by which truth might reach the peo
pie has been carefully guarded. l will give
a single illustration of the way In which the
people are wilfully deceived. Under thu
, head Of Especial Despatch by Telegraph" i
was announced that Major Ben Mccullough
sand men, marching on Washington. Oh
, that very day saw Mccullough with tn,
\ editor OF the paper that gave currency TO th,
false report, and was Informed that MoOul
) Tough had been in New Orleans for a weel
or ten days previously. -~
. rrat GENERAL CoRcLUsIoEs.
, Ny conclusions are, that underlying tn
: Secession sentiment that covers the who'll
9 surface of society at the South, there is
3 deep and abiding love of the old Union
silently praying for deliveranee from des
!. potism which has few parallels in the histor.
. Of the world. It needs only to be informe
? and assured 70 become fearfully energetic
! Thoroughly uDfetter its limbs by the stron
!, aImof Federal power, twill become speed
lily omDipotent in crushing the eggs ofsslhs