Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-01-03

Condition Of the ChivaIrIc Community OF
OhnrlestOn-Ifs Opinion OF the "North.o I
A private letter to a New York paper
says; r IN 5II t3aJ (
To return to the populaY South Oarolinian
estimate of the North Just now, it may be
summed up in three words-aggressio
fanatieism and cowTdice. The last is dwelt
on; it is believed, most of all. All Northern
men are towards who can not be insulted
into fighting. And the contempt which a.
South Carolinian feels for a non-combatant
in his eyes the equivalent for poltroon, is
intense and ineradicable
Charleston is practically experiencing the
truth that gigantic folly of this sort one
of thirty years growth, is the costliest of
Injuries. Winter, ordinarily its busiest
season, has this year brought secession and
stagnation. The wharves are silent, almost
deserted; for the planters and mercbantssare.
holding back their cotton. They boast that
they are well able to do 30; deny the ex-i
tremity of suffering resulting to the poorer
classes, and comfort themselves with7the
belief tina. it istenfold worse in the cities Of
North. 81.
Said one, personal friend, to me this
morning: "You will have mobs, Sir, in New
York famishing mobs : before another
month is over, who will burn down your
Plymouth Church and your Tribune office,
and hang your Beechers, your Cheeyers and
your Greeleys. If they had done it before,
all this mischief might not have happenedw w
He admitted, however, that South Carolina
had been "too precipitate," and was inclined
to think that concessions, ample concessions
on the part of the North, might remedy all
yet. | do not doubt that hundreds like him
secretly deplore the rashness of the recent
proceeding, though they dare not avow it /;
though they would join in public condemna-
ton of any such ptterance.
The quiet of the streets contrasts curiously
with what is seething and fermenting in
mems brains. One sees but comparatively
few cockades now, and those, am inclined
to think, are worn by visitors from the inte-
| rior. They were universal fortnight ago,
the deed to which they served as a stimulapt
| being now considered an accomplished fact.
| The flags are still numerous; palmetto trees
less so. The closed theater displays foolish
transparency, depicting crowded wharyes
arriving and departing vessels, and other in
dications of maritime prosperity, as apper.
tanning to the good time coming. In the
Mercury office the plaster bust of John @
Calhoun, appropriately crowned with 9
chaplet of withered flowers, smiles grimly
as if exulting in the harvest of his life.
Not far from it hang two papers, the one
subscription list Gin aid of the good and tru
men who may be thrown out of employment
by the present state of affairs, with the sol
itary donation of So appended to it; tn
other document for the purpose of main
tanning and preserving the first gun that wa
fired in behalf of secession, which has
bead-ron of names at least four feet i
length, contributing. Outside you reac
zone voice and millions of strong arms t
uphold the honor of South Carolina" whil
two hands clasp each other between tn
dates l776 and 1850. Everywhere Sout
Carolinians affect to regard the epochs 9
presenting parallel cases.