The Democratic press. (Eaton, Preble County, Ohio) 1860-1865, 1861-04-11
= NEGRO P~hilanthropy

A truce may be patched up; but
the Union cannot be kept perma-
nently together, unless the North
ceases its incessant meddliug with
the "sins'' ofthe South, for which,
ifthey be sins, they alone are re-
sponsible. We, in the Free States,
if we would but calmly look a
round US, may find an abundance
of home evils to occupy our best
and most constant efforts. When
white men, and white women, and
white children, and white laborers,
at the North, cease to be oppressed
and wronged; whenIthe usurper and
extortioner at our own doors no
longer have an existence; when
letchery at the North no longer
struts in broad.cloth, "purple and
fine linen, farlng sumptuously every
day." while its victims, like Laza-
rus, lie at its door, abandoned to
the mercy of dogs; when the tenn
ing haunts of poverty cease to pine
with starvation and shiver with
nakedness; when paupers hail not
.passers-by for aims and get a rude
shove and cold sneer instead when
our poor. houses lack their crowded
~lazzaroni, and the pest houses and
hospital cease to tabernacle worm
eaten and leprous humanity; when
jails and penitentiaries are made
tenantless instead Of overaowing
when the ignorant, the %outcast, the
pauper, the poor, the naked, the
destitute, receive the attention and
sympathetic thought which is be-
slowed upon the we'll fed, well
clothed, and we'll housed slaves Of
the South when all this is done in
the North, and the beam first taken
out of Cur own eye, then we may
see clearly how to remove the mote
from our Southern brethren's eye
S6rThe disunionist have carried
the city of Richmond, Va, by 1000
majority. Bell had about the same
majority last fall. We fear that the
vacillating policy of the Admins.
tration will very soon drive the old
Dominion from the Federal to the
Confederate States.
|
GUARDING AGAINST REINFORCEMENT
-"Moultrie," the Charleston cor,
respondent ofthe Columbus Times
in his letter of the 28th ult., makes
mention of the precautionary mea,
sures that are taken by the troops
ofthe Confederate States to prevent
any reinforcement of Fort Sumter
He says: -.. "..i
The mounted companies are OF
duty along the coast to proven
troops being landed near Charles
ton Of a night, especially those tina.
are dark and rainy. A strong har.
Dor police are on duty to prevent thu
reinforcement of Sumter by stealth
To attempt it in daylight would b.
like the Indians gun, cost NOR,
than it comes to.
The PEN FOR THE SwoRD.-Geo
II. Shorter, Esq, who for a consid
cradle period has ably conductedth
editorial department of the Mont
gomery (Alabama) Advertiser, haI
thrown down the editorial pen ant
girded on the Southern Coufedera.
cy sword, as Captain in their army
TERRlBLE FAMINE.-The famin,
in India is desoiating the North.
western provinces for a thousand
miles in extent, Human beings
were dying at the rate of four hun.
dred per day. Mothers are selling
their children as slaves for Cd each
that they may have bread, if only
for a single day.
QUITE AN EXcUsE.-A Republican
paper says:-"The excuse Offered
for the decrease of four Thousand
votes in the late contest for Cover
nor in New Hampshire is that sc
many were absent at Washington
for Office"
The PEACH CROP.-The New Jer
Sey peach crop does not, it is stated
promise a failure. The rumor O
nipped buds and frosted blossoms
! 10 aoouou, .to,toJ Lu