, 1862-04-04

~rr mu.K IN THE COCOA NUT.

THE MILK IN THE COCOA NUT.
The few loyal persons in this city who see
The Chicago 1smes, can have had no other
feeling than that Of astonishment and M
f1ienation at its efforts to distract the friends
pf the Union, to discourage the Govern
ment, to injure the national credit. to Or
sanize opposition to the war, to create dis
trust where there should be confidence, 70
magnify the strength oi the enemy, t. de-
faaf active movements Of our troops, to III
sure delay, to cry down the proposition to
noutiscate rebel property, to heap the whole
burden Of the war upon The taxpayers OF
The North, to mob Union loving journals,
and to prove the responsibility of the re-
bellion upon the heads Of those whom it
calls Aboliionists-we say, its efforts to do
these things can not but have awakened the
INDIGNATION Of the loyal men into whose
hands that paper tails As long as the
Times was under the exclusive control Of
G. e. 11cC Cormick, who has made prince |
II fortune out OF the people whose enemy
he is, this tendency Of The Tines was not |
strange. The people Of the city 30 well |
understood this fact, that when they went |
to the office after the bombardment of |
Fort Sumter, while semi-secession was the
daily treat TO which tsrcaders were invited,
they compelled change Of tone and final
II complete OF partial change Of the prop
crty. When the paper passed into new
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beavers would be abandoned, and that the
Press Of Cbicago would, without the excep-
ton Of i single sheet, be earnest and zeal
GUS in the support Of the Union cause. But
with more cunning and less ability, the
Times has been just as reasonable as ever
before. With more art to conceal the poi
son on the shafts it sends, it has never inter-
mittcd its hostility for a single day. We
knew it could not be Otherwise. Its editor
and proprietor was d e sccssh' from the be-
ginning. He has never drawn a loyal breath
since the day that Lincoln vas elected.
Controlling the Detroit Free Press, he put
Ills treason OH record, not once only, but
daily for months, and so ofensiyely and
boastfl1ly that the people Of the city in
which lie lived, warned him in way not
to Ee misunderstood that lis traitorous
ntterances must cease We quote to-day a
choice extract or two from which the spirit
That NOW controls the Tines may bic under
stood:
IFnon the Detroit Free Press, edited By y. F,
Storey. now the editor Of the Chicago Times
January 18th, 1s6Ll
COERCION.
It is worse than folly to talk OF ooescing tn
Southern States into submission to the fedora
Government It would be impossible to accom-
plish such result, and even If it were not, sucl
a PoLsC1 WOULD BE TuB HOST DISASTROUS N EVE
RI RESPECT that could possibly be pursued n
one can grfeyc more heartily than We at the i'm
pending dissolution o1the Tnions-no one coul
rejoice more heartily than ne at the lifting of th
pGn which now enshrouds the land; but, better b
far separation in sorroE than in anger,-bette
by far separation in peace than in wAr,-bette
ANYTHING than ETERNEcRH STRIFE.
The South HAS BEEN DRIVEN TO ITS PRESENT It
E1r1oN by long continued series Of most exaspel
ating insults aid Eaost griesous injuries. 1t woul
really stem IS if the Republican party has bee
cudcayoring to ascertain If there arc bounds t
certainly discovered tint there arc snS
bounds We do not. BY any 1ncane, endors
10 its .fW1 ts.tEf the position which th
seeding States have felt themselves compelled :
take; VIC think that they ght have 11ade atlcas
pnc more effort aesthin tie Lnioa to obtain the
cosni1ion of their rights: But NE MUST SA
THAT If EVER MEN Had CAUSE FOR An
ACTION, THE PEOPLE OF THESE STATE
uAyECAJSEFOR THEIR ACTION. Coutumc
has hcen heapcd npon tlrn1 without stiut.-thc
property l,as been stolen,-the laws for their be
cit have been nu1liled.-tIe privilege Of settllI
III the common Territories has been practical
denied them.-their slaves have been inst s1isatcd
Instruction, and bands Of despc1aloes have
raded their 1imits with fire and sword. They won
de Iss khan men if they did not zneet these ou;Jd5
ariA resentment they erou2d be more tam zaen
They did not carry this resentment to degree CO
Ussusn,ate 'cith lse eanse< zctica 1woroked H.
THE rEorLE OF TIE SOUTH AEE AN1NATED
TIE SANE SPIRIT WHICH TIRED THE HEARTS Or T
rA7moTs OF THE RE7o1:r71oS THY hars o0'
ufA persecution untu 5or1ta7unes kas ceased to q
xi7fre nil hope Of tic acknowledgement Of III
rights has been lost; and they now stand at b
determined to erl,nft no longer RESISTANT
TO TYRANNY Is THEIR SENTIMES E-isE is
ANCE TO TIE DEATH, ard this feeling Is una
NOUS. It pe1vades e7cry class Of society," q
finds a Judgement in the bosom Of the tent
woman as well az in that Of the rugged man.
Sncla people, sma1tin:, under such wrongs, c:
not be coc1ccd with succcss. War may be carr
into their midst; their homes may be desolat
and their blood caused to flow like water, Il
may be anniiailated even; but SrBJuGAT
TBET CAN NEVER BE!
This on January 18th, 1861. Our rcad'
viii remember The position of affairs in
Nation at that tine. South Caroln
Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, &c, Il
seeded, and we're in arms against I
Government. Forts Macon, Wilmingt'
Pulaski, Morgan, Caswell, Jackson a
Pt.ncl,artrain, had, among others, be
seized and were then occupied by re
troops. The Star Of tie TEST had be
fired Into at Charleston, The Governm'
nropcr'y-srsenals, dock-yards. &c, SC
all over The rebel States had been G.
vertcd to rebel use War was INNING
and everbody knew that pcaccablc set
ment by any &C: that The Nort1, could
was Impossible. In fact the war had
ready begun But in the face Of such
array If facts known to everybody NJ
ard South, see what language this II
now editor Of the If;Gzes, held. Il
then rank treason, and is so yet, and
less cfienscs Fort Warren has rccei
n'a,:y Il better man. But says lie, "'
proI.c Of tho South arc animated by
ssmc spirit which fired the hearts Of
patriots Of the Reyolution!'
The extract which we quote is but
Of 1na1,y Of a like character with nj
1it <4slu,nns If tho Free Press teemca.
fact every number Of the paper was f
wi'4, matter cEging On the 1nal-cont
who were msaly striking at The Cor
ncnt, lardcd with all the disc
agcmcnts to loyal 1acn that brazen f
hood and shameless maliguity coulG
yeH~
This, then, is the man, who IN q
Place and at the head Of paper the rep
lion of which for disloyalty WAS well car
has assumed the pleasant task of stit
tizlDg others as 1hc enemies OF the Go,
mcnt and disturhcrs of the public p
But enough for 10 d;sy.