Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-01-21

euasion and coaxing, they dragooned and
bullied, by threats, jeers and sneers. BY this
means thousands Of good citizens were in |
duced to vote the immediate Secession
ticket through timidity. Besides, the towns
and cities have been flooded with sensation
dispatches and in1ammatory rumors, manu-
factured in Washington City for the especial
occasion. To be candid, there never has
been as mnch lying and bullying practiced
in the same length of time, since the destruc-
ton Of Sodom and Gomorrah, as has been IN
the recent State campaign. The fault has
been at Washington City-from that cess
pool has emanated all the denominations that
ever cursed free people"
The Confederdey is not suspected of any
lack of devotion to Southern rights. On the
contrary, it is rather noted for being fully up
to the Southern fanaticism. Yet the lightit
throws on the way the Secession canvass has
been managed, is sufficient to show that the
reign of terror was established before the
election, and that the men of property were
compelled to vote under the intimidation
of an organized mob, made up as mobs in
the Cotton States are, whose habitual
fcrocity was stimulated by the prospect of
plunder.
1t is easy to understand from this care
fully general indignation of the CoIVederaeA
that the planters aud merchants of Georgia
voted with the knowledge that if they did
not come up to the demands of these Vigil
ance Committees, they would be marked as
disaAected, and their persons and property
would be at the mercy of the mob
ba of Mr TnnY,b bu OF I,o
ginning of the Secession movement against
trusting it to any cross roads and doggery
conventions, showed that the people of
Georgia were suspected by the Secession
leaders. Hence their anxiety to precipitate
the State into collision, by seizing the forts
at Savannah, so as to forestall any delibera-
ton on the part of thepeople.
In Virginia, the legislative provision in
the call for State Convention, which pro-
vides that any ordinance of Secession shall
be submitted to the popular vote, is declared,
by the Richmond Enquirer and other Sc
Cession journals, to be equivalent to the de-
feat of Secession; and now they are urging
on quarrel with the Government in regard
to its occupation of the forts and arsenal in
Virginia, in order to force the State into a
collision with the Government, to help on a
Secession which they fear to trust to the
popular vote; and they are melting a plot
to seize Washington.
In Alabama the people of the north part
Of the State demand that the ordinance of
| Secession shall be submitted to the popular
vote and in reply, Mr.. Yancey aud the Sc
ctssion leaders threaten to subdue them by
| force of arms if they dare refuse to submit
to it.
A letter, which the New York Herald in
dorses as from large planter in Mississippi,
says:
81 have been through several counties IN
this State, and some of the northern coua-
ties of Alabama, and have no hesitation IN
SAYING that the men Of property in both
States are unanimously opposed to the Sc
cession movement. 1t is got up and engi-
neered by the politicians and poor whites;
| the shareholders are compelled to fall in with
it for fear Of having their property confs-
Gated. The largest slave-owner in this State
was warned, the other day, that if he gave
vent to his Union sentiment he would be
| Lynched and his property confscated. He
| lbOh llt niUb u1u lclJ inc CbuLb. ~ Is SO III
every county, and also in Alabama, Louisi-
an0snd Georgia The interests of the owners
Of slaves, and property of every kind, make
| them friends of the Union; but in the present
state of feeling in these States they can not
| declare themselves without running more
risk than they care to encounter. The hope
| of US Shareholders is, that the Government
will at last do some thing TO check the
! present revolutionary tide, so as to give us
| Iha IN Tza n iona .rtur
| without endangering ourselves, our cotton,
or our necks. If people here felt certain
| that the United States Government would
| fight vigorously, snbmissionist party would
soon make itself heard:'
He says, also that it is believed there that
the Government is on the side of Secession;
and without any prospect of support from
that, and with their property and persons
in danger, the friends of the Union have no
! hope to encourage them to declare their SEN
| timents.
1t is we'll known that New Orleans has for
| long time been under the control of So
called Vigilance Committee, which is nothing
but an organization of all the elements oi
rascality which are found in a large city, into
a gang which carries on thieviug, plunder.
ing, and all branches of knavery,: under the
name of vigilance for Southern rights. The
code of the highwaymen is now called pro.
lection of Southern institutions. Merchants
who are suspected of being favorable to the
Union are liable to have their property con-
fiseated; and to contribute literally to the
Vigilance Committees is the test of fidelity tC
the South.
By this intimidation and violence the
elections have been carried for Secession
so far as it has been trusted to'the elections
Secession, so far as it has progressed, ha!
done it by coercion. There has been no at
tempt made at peaceable Secession: nor
unless we except South Carolina, is ther'
any evidence that Secession could be car
ried by pesceable means in the populR
elections in any Southern State. The poll
ticians, having been long plotting this in
surrection, with the aid of the Government
and having secured an abundant supply Q
arms and ammunition in their own hands
have broken down the reign of law ant
established a reign of terror, which has pre-
cisely the same features as that of the Frencl
revolution. All the substantial elements 0
society are subdued by concern for thei
property and families, and by the want 0
any support or hope from the Government
and all the dregs of community are brough
to the surface to prey on the rest.