Washington telegraph., 1851-02-26
From the Union.
KENTUCKY TO SOUTH CAROLINA.

From the Union.
KENTUCKY TO SOUTH CAROLINA.
My DEAR SISTER: They say my name
signifies, in the Indian tongue, the "6loody
land;" but l am by no means 6lo0dy-
minded. l find myself settled almos: in
the middle of a vast republic, surrounded
by a large family of sisters. each upon
her own plantation, and all kindly dis
posed towards each other, notwlthstand-
;nc the occasional waywardness OF some
Of their unruly children.
For some years past, / have suffered
great wrong and loss from gangs OF Thieves
living on my sisters plantations beyond
the Ohio river; and L understand our
sisters Maryland, Virginia, and Missouri,
have suffered in ali equal degree. Some
of these gangs, steal horses, hogs, and
cattle, and some negroes and other pro-
perty. am told that many of our sisters
children, too little instructed as to their
legal and moral obligations, really think
it right to steal. and do not hesitate to
conceal the stolen property. If they do
not profit by its sale. Sister Vermont, it
is said, openly declares her intention to
protect her children in their thievish pro-
pensities regardless of her written agree
ment with her sisters not only to restore
the stolen property, but to deliver up ior
punishment the thieves who steal t.
These are grevious wrongs which
ough. to be redressed and in future pre-
vented But they are wrongs, dear sister,
which you do not suffer, excep: in your
sympathy with myself and our other
sisters in like position. You are pro-
tected from the inroads of these thieves
by the intervening plantations of sisters
North Carolina, Virginia, and Maryland,
on the east. and Tennessee ald Kentucky
OIL the north. You do not lose dollar
by these ourrages, where l lose thou
sauds AS far as these wrongs are con-
cerned. they are to you imaginary; while
to me and our sisters similarly situated
they are real and grevious to be borne.
1t would seem but natural and proper,
under these circumstances, that 1ce Who
suffer the WTOng should be permitted to
take the lead in making known our
grievances, and in devising and pursuing
measures Of redress and pre- Antion.-
Those who suffer the wrong ought to be
better Judges, and certainly they have a
better right to Judge, of the mode and
measures of redress, than their sisters who
stand at a distance and are mere lockers
on.
But what do we see and hear in this
case? The strange spectacle that they
u,bo cnHar the lea 1ct mako the zlOSf 7,OLSe
Your children. who never lose a negro
by abolition thieves. attempt to teach my
children what are their wrongs and duties,
as ii they were unable to understand the
one, or afraid to perform the other! They
tell me and my children that we ought
to secede from the united sisterhood in
which we have lived SO happily and
prospered so greatly; and it pains me to
witness a disposition on your part, dear
sister. to lead where you ought to J0It0lo,,
and rush recklessly out of the sisterhood,
as if to force US, contrary to our lncllna-
ton, and to the ruin of our dearest in
terests, to join you i'll this fatal step.
Your children talk as hippantly OF seces-
sion and separation, southern contedera-
cy, and resistance to northern aggression,
as if The destruction and reorganization of
empires were but holyday sport for their
mighty minds and potent hands. Alas,
poor human nature! They know not
of what they talk when they speak of
breaking up this grand sisterhood OF
States.
They talk of clashing arms, devastated
fields, and cities in flames. They talk of
sons numbering fathers, and fathers sons;
OF brother imbruing his hands in a
brother's blood, of country peopled with
mourning widows and starving orphans.
They talk of converting the beautiful
Ohio and the majestic Mississippi, now
the channels of commerce for peaceful
people, into rivers of blood, bearing on
their bosoms hostile fleets, and armies
alternately ravaging one shore and the
other, until those rivers shall run through
broad desolation. They talk of hordes
OF fanatics more ruthless than the Huns
OF old, precipitating themselves upon the
South, driven back to the North. again
rushing upon the Souh, again repeiled,
until, exhausted by alternate success and
defeat, each party will rest but to gain
strength for a renewal of the conflict.
ihey talk of an agriculture abandoned
manufactures destroyed. commerce ruin
ed' and diminishing population borne
uown by taxation to support armies and
paWes-not TO sustain the interest, honor,