Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-05-21

moftWehte OF party OOdlee. whoever eet
bis mind and memory at work win not hii
TO see the evidence ofthis in all directions.
Il is through this agency that the minds Of
the officers Of the army were corrupted.
Men having experience in war-as those who
served in the army Of Mexico-were brought
under influences TO prevent them from taking
the side Of the Government. The object was
to demoralize the country deprive the peo-
pleo e the services OF those who were qualified
TO lead control the actions Of men in exec.
tive positions, and lay everything PROSTATE
and helpless at the feet Of the invader,
Besides revolution, there was another end
proposed-DIsolPLISE to bring the North
TO a condition to submit to the rule of its
new masters. What thatdiscipiine will be-
in case we come to the trial-may be learned
by the estimate in which the people Of the
North are holden by the people OF the South.
Thanks to the testimony Of the Northern
Democratic press and politicians, they know
us, with q few exceptions, to be a body of
negro stealers and Abolitionists; a class
concerning which they hold but one senti-
ment-that Of utter and inextinguishable
hatred. In respect to such-which includes
all who are not distinctlyknown to be in favor
Of slavery-there is but one course to be
contemplated ~eTtermiHatioa. Anti. slavery
opinions are to be eradicated nthe persons of
thoseby whom they are entertained. How IL
would be done may be judged by the manner
in which Northern men are treated in the
South. To have been born in the North is o
title to murder and confscation. To be a
resident there, will be a three-fold enormity.
Loyalty will be an offense deserving the
severeet retribution. We of the North are
already pronounced a nest of traitors
by these Southern pretenders to le-
gitimacy; and, when they gain the power,
and until they become stated with blood and
plumber, shall have only a traitors doom to
expect.
We are painting a picture out of the most
common materials. They are to be found
in nearly every Southern journal that reaches
our hands. There is not one fact which we
nave stated whose truth can not be proved
to the most ordinary understanding; not a
single Inference that is not more than JUS
tilted by testimony within the reach of all.
And now, we may turn aside for a moment,
and in the name of the great, peaceful and
respectable people of the North, express our
thanks to those of our fellow-citizens who
have been laboring and plotting for years,
and are still laboring and plotting, to bring
in this e%ventful contamination. Shall we
address them by the holy title of Patriots
Fathers of their Country-Evangels of a
new political gospel-instaurators of a more
excellent order of things; or should we do
them too much honor to call them by any
of the names that men have chosen to des-
ignate the most cruel and despicable of
criminals and malefactors? Perhaps we
had better suspend our judgment until we
contemplate the implements by means of
which the revolution and its accompanying
measures were to be accomplished.
If the relations of their own journals and
the reports of eye-witnesses are to be be-
lieved, the world has never seen a horde of
1ufians collected with a more cruel intent,
more aptly fitted for the horrid mis-
sion in which they have embarked, or more
anxious to enter upon the performance of the
work to which they have devoted them
selves. AT once cruel and cowardly-un6t
for the serious duties of a protracted war, but
with an appetite for murder and pillage
which only needs indulgence to become in
satiable-they rush toward the North rejoice
ing in the prospect Of slaughter and devasta-
ton, and impatient to exchange the poverty
to which they have been accustomed, for the
luxury which comes by rapine and c~onisca-
ton. Such are the men who have under
taken the political regeneration of the
North. They com by express invi-
tation. They were promised that the
doors should be kept open for them, the de-
fences destroyed and the avenues left un-
guarded. Those who made the promise in
tended to keep it, and have tried their best
to do so. They came very near being sue.
cessful; and it was by good luck at first, and
the spirit with which the masses of the North
responded 10 the timely call of the Govern
ment, that the capital was saved from cap
ture, the Government from subversion, and
the land from scenes of terror and slaughter,
which the Imagination shrinks from eontem-
plating.
AS yet the Southern leaders of the con-
spiracy are not satisfied. They still hold the
style and tone of legitimate rulers of the
country, and accuse the Government of max
ing war upon the people of the South, be-
cause it adopted measures necessary for its
own protection. Their minds are still upon
the capital; their armies are making prepa'
Iations for its capture, with Philadelphia
and New York in the programme of opera
tions; and the Northern conspirators are
still doing what they can and dare to en-
courage them, and to divide and disturb
those upon whom it will devolve to put a
check to their career.
We should do wrong if we brought this
long article to a close without saying, in
brief, what, in our opinion, is the lesson
taught to the people of the North by the
present state of affairs. 1t is this: that the
Union of the North and the,South is a con-
nection so dangerous to the former, that no
thought of its continuance, as a permanent
relation, should aver be entertained. The
South has been invited here. It never would
have thought Of coming without the invita-
ton. It is not the South alone that is to be
feared but the South, with traitors in the
North to unbar the doors, and poison the
watch dogs. We must get rid of the breed
of traitors, and to do this, must get rid of
the occasion that warns them into existence.
So long as this connection shall remain, SO
long will traitors be annually bred, as cock
reaches are by each return of the heats Of
summer. To bane them one season is no
security against their appearance at the
next. We of the North have now barely
escsped-if, indeed, we have escaped. We