Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-02-22
THE rRoeREss oF FREEpoM.

tracts:
THE PROGRESS OF FREEDOM.
When Lovejoy was shot at Alton, Ill .
while defending his press and Faneuil Hall
was closed to his friends, VIM. Ellery Chan
ming, VIM. Sturgis and George Bond, the
saints and merchants of Boston, rallied to
the defense of free speech. Now we hold
meetings, only when and how the Mayor
permits misses and great applauseb yet no
merchant prince, no pulpit hero, rallies to
our side. But raise your eyes from the dis
graced pavements OF Boston, and look out
broader. That same soil which drank the
blood Of Lovejoy, now sends his brother to
lead Congress in its fercest hour; that same
prairie lifts his souls son to crush the Union
as he steps into the Presidential chair. Sleep
in peace, martyr of Alton-good has come
out OF Nazareth. The shot which turned
back our Star Of the West from the waters
OF Charleston, and tolled the knell of the
Union, was the rebound Of the bullet that
pierced your heart.
When Lovejoy died, men used to ask taunt-
ingly what good has the anti slavery cause
done-what changes has it wrought? As
well stand over the cradle and ask what use
is baby He will be man some time-the
anti i-slayery cause has got to be twenty-one
yesrs old.
Mark another thing No Northern man
will allow you to charge him with willing
ness to extend slavery. Mo matter what his
plan, ne is anxious to show you it is not a
compromise; and win not extend slavery
one inch. Mr.. Dana is eloquent on this
point, Mr.. Adams positive, Mr.. Seward cum
ming, Thurlow Weed indignant. Laughter, |
Virtue is not wholly discrowned while hy.
pocrisy is the homage laid at her feet. With
such progress why should we compromise? F?
NO ADVANTAGE IN COMPROMISE.
Every. body allows North and South, that
any compromise will only be temporary re-
lief. The South knows il is lie-meant to
tide over shallow spot. The North knows
it too. The startled North, in fact, now SAYS:
Yes, I'll continue to serve you till my hair
be grown, then I'll bring down the very tenn
pie ITSELF" That's what compromise really
means. The progress is seen in this. The
South always has said: eyes, give me so
much; l will not keep my part of the bar
gain, but hold you to yours, and get more
the moment | can" Hitherto the North has
said yes, and her courage consisted in skulk-
ing. Seward would st0edr to support the
Constitution, but not keep the oath. | use
his name to illustrate my idea. But it is al
ways with the EXTREMIST reluctance bring
myselfto see spot on the fame of that man,
who, at his own cost, by severe toll, Drawing
fierce odium, saved our civilization from the
murder of the idiot Freeman.
But you may also ask, if compromise be
even a temporary relief why not make it
l. Because it is wrong.
q Because it delays emancipation. To-day
England, horror-struck that her 5000 900
operatives who live on cotton should depend
on States rushing into anarchy, is ransack-
ing the world for supply. Leave her to
toll under that lash and in five years South
Carolina will be starved into virtue. One
thousand slaves are born each day. Hurry
emancipation three years, and you raise
100000 human beings into ffee-born men,
3. compromise demoralizes both parties.
Mark, the North, Notwithstanding all its
progress, does not now quit the South. In
the great religions bodies and the State it is
the sinners who kick the Yirtuous out of the
covenant with death Mr.. Dana in his re-
cent speech, does not secede because unwill-
ing to commit the three constitutional sins.
The South secedes from him because he will
not commit one more.
A. Compromise risks insurrection-the
worst door at which freedom can enter. Let
universal suffrage have free sway, and the
ballot supersedes the bullet. On this point
OF insurrectiOn let me say a word. Men talk
OF the peace OF the South under our present
Government. II is no real peace. With the
whites it is only that bastard peace which
the lazy Roman loved-M Sc GpTicaret-that
he might sun himself 1t is only safe idle
ness, sure breeder of mischief. With the
slave 1t is only war in disguise. Under that
mask is hid war keener in its pains, and
deadlier in its effects than any open fight.
AS the Latin adage runs-nidrs grdDior sub
pace tdtet-war bitterer for its disguise.
COMPLIMENT TO THE CINCINNATI PRESS,
The Cincinnati Press, which has treated
this subject with rare ability, asserts that
excepting provisions which the South must,
in any event, buy of the West, the trade of
Cincinnati with southern Indiana alone is
thrice her trade with the whole South. As
our benevolent societies get about one dollar
in seven south of Mason and Dixon's line. SO
our traders sell there only about one dollar
in hive. Such trade, if cut off, would ruin
nobody. In fact, the South buys little of u.s.
and pays only for about half she BUYS,
Laughter and hisses.l o
THE SOUTH NDIsPosED TO ATTACK THE NORTH,
Why should the South attack us? We are
not cannon laundering at its gates. We
are not an avalanche overhanging its SUNNY
wales. Our influence, that of freedom, IS
only the air, penetrating everywhere; like
heat, permeating all space. The South can
not stand isolated on glass cricket. The
sun will heat her, and electricity conVulse.
She must outwit them before she can get rid
of ideas. A feyered child in July might as
well strike at the sun, as the South attack
US for that the only annoyance we can give
her-lhe sight and influence of our no6ler
civilization.
Dlsunion is gain. venture the assertion,
in the face of State. street, that of any five
Northern men engaged in Southern trade
exclusively, four viii end in bankruptcy. If
disunion sifts such commerce, the North will
lose nothing. 1
| venture the assertion that seven at least,
of the Southern States, receive from the
Government more than they contribute to
il. SO far their place will be more profita-
bic than their company.
The whole matter OF Southern trade has
been grossly exaggerated, as well as the im-
portance of the Mississippi River. Freedom
caryes her own lines Of iron. Facts show
that for 81 the West sends or brings by the
river, she sends and brings four from the
East by wagon and rail.
If then, Mississippi and Louisiana bar the
river with forts, they will graciously be al
lowed to pay for them, while Northern rail-
roads grow rich carrying behind steam the
small portion of wheat, bacon, silk OF tea,
which would otherwise float lazily up and
down that yellow stream. 1k h y 7s1
AN1AFBIcAN Ynw OF SECESSION. The fol-
IoyVinO Il narrated IN fha MohfIa IAIa n;