Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-01-30
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In a previous article on Secession, we
took the ground that any attempt to retain
the seeding States in the Union by force is
out Of the question, as an alternative in any
event, whether il may be called enforcement
of the Constitution and laws, or coercion of
States: That the whole South is united
sgainst the present, or late, Union and Con-
stituijon; therefore, Secession has assumed
the proportions and pretensions of popular
and national movement and is entitled to
be treated as such and it would violate the
fundamental principle of our liberty to at
tempt TO put it down by force; That the
Union is Odious to the people of the South,
and they have, with an appearance of una
pimity, thrown it off; That their declared
hostility to il extends to the very sentiments
of the Northern people, which they pro
nOunce 10 be incompatible with their safety
in the Union .-That the sentiments of the
people Of the North are The same that they
always entertained; therefore, it is hopeless
toexpect a radical change in them: That no
concessions can touch what the South de-
clare 10 be the real cause of their hostility:
That no concessions can prevent the grow
ing prepoDderance of the non-slaveholding
people in this Government; which will be
a coDstsnt source Of disturbance and fear to
the So1SA That no matter how much the
North may be bound by new guarantees
now, it will eventually assert its right to its
constitutional share of the Government; {;
which the South declare incompatible with
their sGfety, and tyranny which they will
not endure.
Few, either North or South, who think
with sincerity on this question, and who
divest it from narrow considerations of the
reconstruction of political party out of the
destruction of the Constitution, and from
any regard for the peaceable control of the
Federal Offices for a Presidential term, will
undertake seriously to dispute any of these
positions. They are merely statement of
existing facts. From them the conclusion is
irresistible, that the only solution of this
question is by peaceable separation, re-
lieving each section from the restraints,
burdens, influences and institutions of the
other, snd permitting each to work out its
destiny in perfect freedom.
In considering the effects Of separation,
the uppe,most one in the minds of this ma
terial generation, is its effect upon trade;
ard SO peace is essential to trade, the first
branch of the question is what will be the
relations between the two sections when
established as independent nations. They
will be like those of all Independent ma
tioDs-"enemies in war; in peace friends"
Before we gofurther, we had better look at
these relations in the Union; because, if
there is any difficulty in the argument, we
may claim the advantage of the present
stand point. What has been the operation
of the Union on our fraterual relations with
the South2 Beginning with friendship
established by mutual support through a
long foreign war for independence, and
with a mutual sympathy and friendship |
which we are accustomed TO refer to in the |
most affecting terms, a hostility has grown
up between the sections, which has con-
stanty increased, until the intensity of |
hatred on one side is not paralleled by the
hostility between any separate nations or
tribes, either civilized or savage. Citizens
entitled to the protection of law throughout
the Union, are not allowed even the hu-
manity which the laws of civilized warfare /
concede to prisoners of war. A citizen
the free States would be safer travelling
alone and unprotected, among the most saw
age tribes of Africa, or of the Islands of the
South Sea, than within a portion of our
Union. Nowhere else on earth does the
mere calling of stranger by an epithet, de.
liver him up to the crueties ofa savage mob.
This is what has resulted in the Union;
and this we are entitled to take as our start
ing point in considering the effect of sepa
ration upon ouc peace. And starting from
This, there is no possibility in the future of
separate existence, so bad as the present. OF
all the nations of the earth, the citizens of the
Tree States are the only people who are not
respected and protected in the Southern part
of their Union. England is an abolition ma
lion. Nobody ever dreams that an English
man is not opposed to slavery. But he may
.rayel throughout the South in safety. The
,gis of an independent nation protects him.
Canada is the asylum for fugitive slaves; but
/ Canadian may travel thrOughoutthe South,
y hile citizen of Ohio, which faithfully de-
iyers fugitiyes, is liable to- every personal
outrage, solely on account of his residence
in the Union.
This is the way the Union operates Are
We not justified in pronouncing it a failure
Are not the South, who believe their hatred
ind baIbarity toward the people of the
North, TO be we'll. founded and just right in
throwing of Union in which the Northern
people may, by any possibility, control the
Government? There is but one alternative:
sither the people of the South have forfeited
heir right TO existence, and deserve to be
for their barbarity, OF they are
light in throwing off a Union with people
1hOm they believe so deadly hostile to them,
rs to deserve such treatment. III
Is there any hope of any thing better in
he Union 2 We can only Judge of the future
'y the past. Hostility to the people of the
North has become the sole political capital
'f Southern politicians. He who can most
intensity and crafty the popular hatred of
The Northern people, will carry most votes.
It is Political death to any public man to pro-
less fIiendship for the people of the free States,
or to advocate Union with them which
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