Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1861-05-21
How Northern Democrats are Treated ct the
"A South. W "

Cesar, "a tu, Brute,n but, unlike Cesar, we
are unwilling to fold our robes quietly and re-
ceive the stab. Come on, Mr.. Cox; our steel is
as sharp for you as 1t Is for your internal asso'
ciates.--LOuisiana Courier.
This is the sort Of gratitude which Northern
Democrats are to receive from the South, for
their efforts In behalf of the constitutional rights
of that section. It is especially unjust toward
Mr.. Cox; for while he voted for every PROPOSE
tion of peace, including CoRwIS's and CRIT
rESDES's, he advised them in his speech Of jan
uary ID, 1861, Of the feeling which would be
aroused by the first overt act of rebellion and
treason. While he was anxious to avert this
war by every effort of paci6cation, he held that
'secession was not right in any possible rela
tion, and that to tolerate it in theory or prac
tice was moral treason TO patriotism and good
government" He urged, that If the South
should 20 out inconsiderately, as some States
were then going, the country would incur. the
fearful hazard of war. Headvised them, while
making every effort to compromise, that the
government should be sustained by ell its legal
forces. 8
While the Louisiana Courier compliments him
for his efforts against sectionalism, 1t should
remember that 1t has been the conduct Of such
States as Louisiana which has placed the true
Union men Of the North In their present atti
tude. Mr.. Cox warned them that the attack on
Sumter would open the dreadful and last resort.
We quote his language: rs
"But what danger Is here! Once let the
fealty to this Government be broken, and who
can restrain the excesses incident therefor ~
such erees1s be committed, there tooutd be drous-
ed m aytiai spirit tohich, in rushing 10 the de-
fence Of Major Anderson and his men in Fort
Sumter, or TO auengs their death, tooutd do ana
dare all in the name of our Great Republic
Touch not a hair Of HE head! He 10 sacred to-
day He tmbOdies the patriotism Of nillions.-
Accident has made him the defender OF that
flag which has foated from Bunker Hill to
Mexico. His death would open q gulf In which
the people would pour, In vengeance and in
vain, their treasures and their children.
How prophetic was this warning! If Mr., Cox
was right then, he Is right now. But this warn
ing came home to Louisiana, in close connection
with her material interests. When the Louisi
ana editor talks OF the "war upon the South"
and the ''infernal associates" in that war, he
should remember the great fraud of Louisiana
in relation to the Mississippi, which Mr.. Cox
predicted would receive the protest of arms. He
said: 7t.a,. -.s st.ss.
Or a confederation South propose to control
the mouths of the Mississippi and its banks, dc
you believe It could be done without a protest oi
n, kun ha Of thaf l.
sition, and it's vital necessity to the Northwest
| hope you have listened to the able recital OF
nv friend from Illinois (Mr. McClernand)
touching these points. Ii would seem, from the
nows we have to day, that system of espion-
age and detention by force has already been be.
gun in Mississippi, upon steamers from the
North. That mighty river, OF two thousand
miles extent, one Of whose tributaries doubles
the parent stream in its length, with Its $50 OOO,'
600 worth Of steamers, doing the business OF
twelve states, with an area OF one million two
hundred thousand fquare miles drained by its
waters--from the SHOWS and timbers OF the
North to the sun and blooms Of the South-will
ever remain in the Union! II was the necessi.
ty for its use and outlet which, in part, called
for the Constitution seventy-five years ago. Al
population in my own State, OF which he waI
|, one, we're even then ready to rise in arms, Is
consequence of a provisional treaty with Spain
which die not adequately provide for the coveted
riparian privileges. And now, after usufrucl
of three quarters Of century, not only the
commerce, the honor, and the rights OF the West
but the protesting voices Of nature, calling from
valley and hill, in summer rains, in gold washing
streams and smiling cultivation; nay, progress
Itself, which is the life Of the West-which hal
made IL deserve the poets phrase, applied to an
cient Lstium, ubere 9lebo, atque pOlens armis--
progress, which is the stride of god across th
continent-all these agencies would conspire Il
/, redden the Mississippi to float our unequallet
produce between its banks to the sea IL is in
dustry which would thus decree; and 1t woul
execute its own edict With US, not gold, no
! cotton, but INDUSTRY Is KING ! However home
y its attire, it wears the spiritual purple, and Of
lita brow the coronal Of bearded grain, impearle
with the priceless sweat of independence. !
will stretch its sceptre from THE RIVER unto tn
ends OF the earth |! Neither imposts, nor tariffs
nor obstructons, nor foreign control, nor hszaf
lof foreign war, can hedge in its empire. Thes
rights Of transit and outlet are ours by use, b
purchase, by possession; and ours they will re
, main.
This speech was circulated by Union men o.
through the South. 1t helped to stay the It'd
Of secession in the Border States; but in th
Gulf States, no principle Of fraternity seemed
prevail; nothing but that indiscriminate malic
even against Northern Democrats, which struc
down DOUGLAS, ard which pursues with insatia
ingrattude every loyal man who loves Il
/ Union and the Constitution. El
Such venom as the extract we have quote
, can only poison the press which uses it. Tt
: Southern heart may be fred by such article
8 but there will be firing Of another kind dol
O. before it will learn to beat responsive to du