Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-01-24

from disruption, and tue horrors Of "a servtle
insulr,ciion. These things are all hanging
over shem The initiative crimes have been
committed Men in high places have set the
example Of departure from the common obli-
gatiops Of morality. Politicinbs, blind and
fanaticai, in all parts of the Union are hur-
Tying on the catastrophe by their pretenses
of sympathy. Congress, as if possessed
with foolish demon, is vainly gabbling
over concessions and compromises things
about as e1ectual TO subdue Southern in
fammation, at this time, as poultice would
be to prevent the outbreak of a volcano;
and the cowardice of the North is flooding
that body with petitions to put a stop to the
agitation-a thing for which it has the same
capacity that it has to suspend the flow of
the Potomac by joint resolution.
In the mean time, the better citizens of the
South are leaving their homes for places of
refuge in the North. Nor are they leaving a
moment too soon. To be unwilling to sub
NIT to ruinous exactions is Abolitionism,
and the Abolitionist is subject to be hung as
soon as detected. Thousands Of men through
out the cotton States are anxiously ponder
ing the question, whether to flee, with the
certainty that their property will be plum
dered as soon as their absence is discovered,
or remain, with the chance that both life and
property will be sacrificed before the hideous
scene is over.
This is a sorry view of Southern affairs;
but it is one that is fully justified by testi-
mony which now and then transpires, in
spite of the efforts that are made for its sup
preston. As in all cases where license is
cultivated, its worst consequence will fall
upon the communities that do the wrong.
The South is making bed in which, how
ever uncom Portable, it can not choose but
lie. Whatever may be its sins against the
Union, its sins against itself are infinitely
greater, and are destined to beget results far
more lamentable and enduring. Nor is there
any thing in the condition of the South with
which itself is not chargeable.
Politically it stands precisely where it
placed itself; and was the author of the very
things Of which it complains. 1t originated
the repeal of the Missouri restriction, and
aeitated until the deed had been accom-
plished. 1t divided its own political strength
between three candidates, and thereby rem
dered the election of Mr.. Lincoln inevitable /;
and now it charges the consequences of its
own weakness and discordancy upon the
North, and plots disunion as an act of re-
venge. 1t required cowardly Northern
politicians to slander their own constitu.
encies in order to find the indictments to
sectional hatred and the materials for Sec
tional elimination. 1t is doing so still. The
work is now going on, and in full view of
all the diTeful consequences.
This ferment will work itself clear; but
who can tell through what sorrows aud suf-
feiipgs the end will be reached? The North
is safe enough. 1t can take care of itself, and
has a superabundance of all that is necessary
for its protection; but if so poor an effort at
Secession can produce all the calamities to
which the South is exposed, the work of dis
union is, of all others, the most improbable