M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1856-06-05
Civil War Rngcs (!

Turn to our telegraphc head for the eyi-
denCe. The latest news from the frontiers
shows that Civil War-real, literal WAR !!
-rOges along the western borders Of Mis-
souri,, and through Kansas.
The aim and purpose of this bloody cru
sade is to fasten slavery on Kansas, against
the will of large majority Of her people,
For this purpose the Executive power of
the United States has been prostituted A
corrupt Judiciary has been invoked And,
under the cover of this prosttued authority,
hordes Charmed Rullians are assembled from
Missouri, from Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia,
South Carolina. and other Slave States, and
marched into the Territory
The talk about enforcing the Law ! is an
insult to the most cowuap understanding.
There was NO LAW inShe territory, except
the laws of the United States, and these the
people have never resisted, though they
were perverted and put in force by the Pres
ident and his corrupt minions for the ex-
press purpose of expressing the people, in
stead Of protecting their lives and property.
The result is before us LAWRENCE
is IN RUINS! Civil War RACES on our
Western Frontier, and it becomes the boun-
den duty of the people of Ohio and the Free
States, to stand by their suffering brethren,
in defence Of Freedom and the Right ofSelf-
Government, with the same devotion that
their Fathers did during the Revolution of
| '76.
Men of Ohio ! what is your response to
the wall of women and Children, the shrieks
of the dying Patriots, who are enrching the
plains of Kansas with their tears and their
blood-OhiO State Journal.
And then the "Civil War;" that our neigh
bors have been filling our ears with the din
of, for the last year, has actually come upon
us. You have been long time in getting
it up, and hard has been the labor. We
warned you in all sincerity, that you might
in the end get up little more steam than
would be agreeable, and we begged ofyou
not to make any old womanish "ados,"
when you did get into trouble. But, instead
of taking our advice, we now have fresh
howl of tears and BLOOD and shrek for
help
Better, far better, throw oil on the troub-
led waters-better call the crazy madmen to
their duty as good citizens-better preach
peace and good will on earth, than prostitu-
ting your time and labor in getting innocent
and duped people into trouble, that you seem
ndisposed yourselves to 90 and help out of.
For what was the Bible and Rifle scene
enacted in New Haven church, by the Rev.
Beechers, but to instgate the people to" "civ-
il war;! " For what was the proclamation
of an Ohio Governor got up, last winter, and
the Legislature "intensfed," but TO incite to
"civil war;! =" For what were the meetings
and money-colections got up all over the
State Of Ohio, but to prepare for "civil warp'
"a war, too, of your own making.
At last you have the war under way, and
because you have so far got the worst of it,
by the base and cowardly abandonment OF
the duped people Of Kansas,by their leaders,
Reeder, Robinson, Laue, &C., you set up a
fresh howl of horror, to fool few more
mad-caps into rsking their money and their
lives out in Kansas, that some ofyou may
thereby get Office, honors and emoluments
at home. Shame upon your baseness, shame
upon your folly!
We warned you, also, that civil war in
Kansas would not stop there, that i'll blood
and fanatical strife manufactured here for
Kansas, would explode at our own do ors,
and woe be then to the authors Of the pdtsnt
intensyfer! Already we have the walls Of
lamentations from the halls Of your nation
al Legislature. A Senator, for the purpose
of 'intensifying' the people; of the borders,
was unlucky enough to intensity near
neighbor, and that war, intended only for
the people of Kansas, came booming about
his own head, and the nation becomes doub-
ly intensified" But if we are in a civil
war, and intend to go on with the business
regularly, not even Senators need hope to
escape the sad and horrid consequences oi
) this guerilla age
Had you one thimble full of sense, you
would 90 at once 10 the work Of undoing the
work you have already committed, insteat
of flying blindly into others. the end o.