Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-06-13

| fact which has forced itself upon my mind in
reference to the sentiments which prevail
among the gentlemen of this State. have
been among them for several days. l have
| visited their plantations, l have conversed
with them freely and fully, and have enjoyed
that frank, courteous, and graceful inter-
course which constitutes an irresistible charm
OF their society. From all quarters have
come to my ears the echoes Of the same
voice; it may be feigned, but there is no
discord in the note, and It sounds in wonder
full strength and monotony all over the
country. Shades of George III, Of North, of
johnson, of all who commended against the
great rebellion which tore these colonies
from England, can you heart the chorus which
rings through the State of Marion, Sumter
and Pinckney, and not clap your ghostly
hands in Triumph
That voice says: "If we could only get
one Of the Royal race of England to rule
over us, we should be content" Let there
be no misconception on this point. That
sentiment, varied in a hundred ways, has
been repeated TO me over aud over again.
There is o general admission tnat the means
to such an end are wanting, and that the
desire can not be gratiied. But the admira-
ton for monarchical institutions o. the
English model, for privileged classes, and
for a landed aristocracy and gentry, is uu-
disguised and apparently genuine. With
the pride of having achieved their indie
pendence is mingled in the South Oarolini.
ans hearts a strange regret at the result and
consequences, and many are they who
"would go back to. morrow If they could"
An intense affection for the British con.
nection, q love of British habits and customs,
a respect for British sentiment, law, au-
thority, order, civilization and literature,
pre-eminently distinguish the inhabitants of
this State, who, glorying in their descent
| g., o,o,ont faDafIiao nv tha thraa iolanda
whose fortunes they still follow, with whose
members they maintain not unfrequeutly
familiar relations, regard with an aversion of
which il is impossible to give an idea to one
who has not seen its manifestations the peo-
pie Of New England and the populations of
the Northern States, whom they regard as
tainted beyond cure by the venom of "Puri-
tanism.n Whatever may be the cause, this
is the fact and the effect. 1.-THE State of
South Carolina was,' | am told, founded by
o II was not established by withdrawing
Puritans, by cruel prosecuting fanatics, who
implanted in the North the standard of Tol.
uuemada, and breathed into the nostrils of
their newly. born colonies all the ferocity,
blood-thirstiness, and rabid intolerance of the
Ipauisition. 1t is absolutely astounding to
a stranger who aims at the preservation of a
decent neutrality TO mark the violence of
these opinions, "If that c~onfounded ship
had sunk with those-Pilgrim Fathers on
board" says one, 1--WE never should have
been driven to these extremitiesr' We
could have got on with these fanatics if they
had been either Christians or gentlemen
saws another, "for in the first case they would
have acted with common charity, and in the
second they would have fought when they
insultsd us; but there are neither Christians
1or gentlemen among them!"
UAny thing on the earthl' eXclaims q
third. iany form of government, any tyranny
or despotism you will; but'--and here is an
appesi more terrible than the sbjuration of
all the gods-"nothing on earth shall ever
Induce us to submit to any union with the
brutal, bigotted blackguards of the New
England States, who neither comprehend
nor regard the feelings of gentlemen Man,
woman and child, we'll die first" Imagine
these and an infinite variety OF similar sen
timents uttered by courtly, well educated
men. who set great store on a nice observ-
ance of the usages of society. and who are
only moved to extreme bitterness and anger
when thew speak of the North, and you will
fail to conceive the intensity of the dislike
of the South Carolinians for the free States
' There are national antipathies on our side
of the Atlantic which are tolerably strong,
and have been, unfortunately, pertinaciou;
and long-lived, The hatred OF the Italian
! for the Tedesco, of the Greek for the Turk
of the Turk for the Russ, is warm and
fierce enough to satisfy the Prince of Dark
? ness. not to speak of a few little pet aver
: sions among allied powers and the atoms o
composite Empires; but they are all mer'
!. indifference and neutrality of feeling com
A pared to the luminosity eyinced by tn
u gentry" of South Carolina for the "rabblt
g of the North"
: The contests of Cavalier ard Roundhsad
"a of Vendean and Republican, even of Orange
man and Croppy, have been elegant Joust
ings, regulated by the finest rules of chiyslry
:, compared with those which the North an
~ South will carry on, if their deeds supper
their words. Immortal hate, the study {
r~eyepge," will actuate every blow, and neve
in the history of the world, perhaps, will g
10 forth such a dreadful Ve victis as that whic
- NAV be heard before the fight has begul
:" There il nothing in all the dark caves
human passion SO cruel and deadly as th
h hatred the South Carolinians profess for th
Yankees. That hatred has been swelling fC
m wears, till it is the very life blood OF th
- State. 1t has set South Carolina to wor
steadily to organize her resources for II
Il struggle, which she intended to provoke if
- did not come in the course of time.
n "I~ncompatibility of temper" would hay
y been sufficient ground for the divorce, and
10 am satisfied that there has been a dee
rooted design, conceived in some men
le minds thirty years ago, and extended grad
a: ally year after year, to others, to bres
n. away from the Union at the very first oppo
ba tuLity. The North is TO South Carolina
4. corrupt and evil thing, to which for lor
ID years she has been bound by burning chair
while monopolists and manufacturers fed
&, her tender limbs. She has been bound in
- Mexentian union to the object she loathe
New England is to her the incarnation
ia moral and political wickedness and soci
" corruption. 1t is the source OF every thiI
M which South Carolina hates, and of the to
'ot rents of free thought and taxed manufa
lures, of Abolitionism and of ~hllibusterir
which nave flooded the land.
7s Believe a Southern man as he beliey
he himself, and you must regard New Englal
,o and the kindred States as the birthplace
on impurity of mind among men and of u
IL chastity in w~omen-the home of Free LoV
he of Fourierism, of infdelity, Of Abolitionis
on of false teachings in political economy a
ne. in social life q land saturated with I
nd drippiDgs of rotten philosophy, with I
tai poisonous infections OF q fanatic press, wi
ON. out honor or modesty; whose wisdom
paltry cunning, whose valor and manic
have been swallowed up in a corrupt, hoV
ing demagoguery, and in the marts OF a
hon est commerce.
h a 1t is the merchants Of New York who
! it out ships for the slave trade, and carry it
in Yankee ships. 1t is the capital of
North which supports, and it is North
art, men who concoct and execute, the flibusi
pht expeditions which have brought discredii
The the slayeholdiDg States. In the large cit
but people are corrupted by itinerant aud ig
n a rant lecturers; in the towns and in
country, by in upprincipled press.
populations, indeed, know how TO read
ash write, but they don't know how to thi
and they are the easy victims Of the wretc
4 ho impostors on all the 'ologies and 'isms, '
10 swarm over the region, and subsist by lee
III ing on subjects which the innate vice
liad mankind induce them to accept with eai
prt IT, ness, while they assume the garb of Ph
sophical distractions TO cover their nastiI