Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-06-11
The Traitors at Home-Their Strength
and WeRns-HoW 10 Courteract Them.


The Traitors at Home-Their Strength
and means-HOw to Counterfeit Them.
In the North, sympathy with Secession
takes the form of extreme attachment to the
Union. While to the credit of the Seces-
sioniNts of the Cotton States it may be said
they have talked disHnion as they have
been acting it to the discredit of their con-
federates of the Corn States, it will be re-
membered that, while doing their utmost to
play into the hands of their partners, they
have been protesting a mostfervent devotion
to the Union, and ~denouncing all who did
not co. operate with them as traitors and Sc
~cessionists.
The Union which these gentlemen advo-
cate is a copartnership between the North
and the South, upon such terms as the latter
shall prescribe: which are in substance, the
recognition of the Government of Mr.. Davis
as the legitimate political power of the ma
ton, and such arrangements as will secure
to the South the control of the national des-
tiny in future.
They ignore the fact that the Union is
discovered, represent the South as in arms
only to recover the political rights of which
it has been uujustly deprived, and denounee
the arming of the Government as a tyran.
meal effort to Cypress and enslave a portion
of its citizens.
They virtually treat the Government late
of Montgomery as legitimate, and that o.
Washington as illegitimate; unfolding what.
ever is done by the former as right, and dis
covering unconstitutionality and usurpatior
in whatever is done by the latter; in short
they are subjects of Mr.. Jefferson..Davi and
do whatever, in their opinion, is likely t.
aid his progress and increase his chances o.
success.
The types and representative men of this
class in Ohio, are Hon. Rufus P. Ranney, Of
Warren; Colonel Lewis H. Sifford, of Chilli.
Gothic; General @. L. Vallandigham, N. W.
corner Front and Ludlow-streets, Dayton,
and several others-men whose ambition i;
greater than their ability, and whose hearts
are soured by disappointment at their failure
to arrive at the political power and eminence
10 which they aspired.
These persons, and the likes of them, head
aparty in the North, whose numbers are
more formidable than many enthusiastic
people are willing to believe, and whose
means to act upon the popular mind are fal
from insignificant. They have enough o.
fact and argument in the equivocal position
oftheir adversaries to furnish demagogues
with all the weapons they require; and there
are large numbers of men who, whenever
they shall succeed in making a head, art
ready to join them openly in a warfare upor
the Government.
These men are traitors in heart and il
fact, with more or less openness adhering t
the public enemies, giving them aid ant
comfort-eaeh one of whom is more danger
Gus to the Government and its loyal citizenI
than a Thousand Secessionists in arms; ant
yet they present themselves before tn
world as the only true friends, the only con
sistent defenders, of the Union and the Con
stitution.
They charge those who sustain the Gov
rnmen in its present measures, with bein
disunionists; and affirm that war, by alienat
ing still more the people Of the two section
from each other will render union imposs
BILE; that, in short, wsr and union, present Q
future, are incompatible. In this they ar
right; and in this is the strength of the
position. They have placed themselvt
where every song sung in praise of on
Glorious Union adds to their influence
They have only to keep out of sight the fat
that the war was begun by the South-an
this they are doing ss much as possible-an
they have, as times go, a pretty fair fOundi
ton upon which to build a party that,
certain easily imaginable contingencies, ma
be dangerous.
The lesson obviously taught by this sta
Of circumstances is that it is the duty
the friends Of tho GoVernment-the 10y
people Of the Norih-to get out of th
false position, and deprive the enemy
the benefit OF 1t as soon as possible. If W
on the part of the Government, and UniC
are things ineompatible-f the one can n
be contemplated in the same category wi
the other-then one or the other must
dropped. We must either quit warning,
accept the facts as they arei a disssFer'
nation, now and hereafter. Which had be
ter be done; stop the war, and take the CO..
sequences, or 20 forwardsand leave the Unit
to take care Of itself7
If the Union is the thing paramount tn
they who cry out for 1t irrespective Of d
terms upon which Il ID 70 be preserYedD