Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1862-01-25
BEMAR KABLE ARTICLE FROM A
REBEL PAPER.
How JeT Davis Rule lie Liked In Mem
phis Bold and Severe DenuncfatiOR Of
the secessiOnist Leaders.
tFrom the Argus of the 5th.1
IHJURIEG THE CAUSE,


"a knowledge of the disease is half the
cure" This truism is as applicable to polit-
ical as to ply sicsl disease, and knowledge
of how the fracture carpe is the best key the
surgeon can have TO obtain him a mental
view of the shattering bones. We measure
the value of a household servitor by the eff
cheney displayed by him in the past, and so
should we that of a public and paid official
How is the househoid2 meaus what kind of
housekeeper. Where order and happiness
reign, there we say rules the good steward;
where confusion aud needless want exist, we
censure the steward; and go IL should be
with the rulers of nations.
We have yet to learn thattbis Confederacy
is the private properly of Jefferson Davis, or
the joint domain of hie Cabinet and we find
it still harder to comprehend how either the
President or his Cabinet came to be consid-
cred the autocrat dispensers of veal and woe
to this people, untrsmmeed by any RESPONSE
bility to the same.
We, for one, were and are far from cousid-
ering that in voting for the secession of
Tennessee from the despotism of Lincoln,
we were merely making a choice between
two irresponsible sultans, propped by dupli-
eating divans. We enever meant in abandon
ing the Union, to abandon with it the rights
OF speech and of the press, and as long as we
can wag tongue or WELD pen, we shall
do both in the assertion of truth, however
pslatable or unpalatable to Presidents Cab
inet9, minorities or mejOrities.
Our assertion last Tuesday of the true state
Of our sffairs has caused quite hutter among
a few home soldiers, irresponsible and illegal
wieldeTs of authority, etc men who, hold
ing their positions from the higher seryitors
Of the people, think it "sacrileger and
weakening of the cause" to fault any of
their acts or no acls; and who, unable to
deny our statements, would cover the sins
# heir superlOrs 10y asserting that state
ment OF the results arising from said sins is
encouragement and comfort to the enemy.
We seldom authematize, but in such conpec-
tion we can scarce help psaying-somethng
of the enemy, We spoke and speak of the
STATE of this COuieder8cy, which, Judging
| from the policy of both Cabinets, is already
better known to the Federal Cabinet than it
| is 10 ours.
| We spoke and speak OF the ill-conducting
! of this war, which has now taken from our
| homes some three or four hundred thousaud d
OF our best and braves; which has Darayzed
all business, save that which puts the money
we can SO lily spare into the pockets of the
| creatures of said President and Cabinet OF
this war we spoke when we said so much
might have been done in it that hes been lett
uDdone. Those at the; head of affairs were
leaders TO the war-we ask how they are
| leading throaghit2
We have been made to stand still aud take
such cuffs and kicks as the Northerner choose
to give, when he pleased and where he
pleased. We have heard our Generals
blamed for not doing what it appears they
were not permitted to do. The smothered
report of Beauregard has made the truth
clear enough. We have for months aud
months been told that England would do
our fighting for US on the seas. We have
been told every thing, save this one thing
that in the cities of the North lie the keys OF
our blockaded ports, and the peace we seek
and need.
We see access to that peace rendered more
and more distant by the wondrously accu
mulatiDg power of the Federal armies AND
navy. We see the advance hat was easy
six months ago, difficult to-day, and likely
to be impossible tomorrow. We see thai
from shoe latch to steam engine, we lact
every thing, and that the families of on
obedient soldiers are suffering from th,
seeming fabulous prices they have TO pay TO
every thing of domestic use. We look Il
the future, and, seeing nothing but war, as
ourselves, ask our readers ask our rulers
) Why all looks darker and darker, as day fol
lows day and our vast armies prepare to ro
in their camps, while mothers aud sisters sui
, fer from their absence at home
? Three times since the inception of this wa
, | has the road been opened unto US into th
very heart of tue North. Ia July, afte
! Manassas; when Fremont resigned; whe
Johnston moved TO Bowling Green. W
blame not Besuregard, Price or Johnston
but we ask why they were not permitted I
l do what they wished to do, and could hav
l done-secured our peace and liberty Whol
l do we blame2 The men at Richmond Nc
: ours the place to ask why's and wherefore
{ We say our people are so situated. We SO
It the leaders 10 the war have been the leader
1 through it; and we simply state the results.
I One years reticent suffering is enougl
and as we never were, and never intend
be, puff. sheet of Jefferson Davis, or an
;, other statesman or politician in or out
place or power, we speak the more plainl
We believe less aduation, real and hollov
d of our public men, who have yet done not
!, ing, would have been attended with mo
beneficial results; and dare also believe tn
|. the sooner our press ceases this slavish adul
/ ton, and confusion of the cause with any S
Il of men, the sooner is the cause likely
prosper.