Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1860-01-06
Queen City Correspondence.

CINCINNATI, Jan. 4, 1869,
EDiroR ENrRE "A good deal Of sensation
has been produced within the last few days by
the arrival Of Rev. John o Fee aud thirty six
Of his disciples who have been exiled from KenN
lucky for holding aud pyopegatiug abolition
sentiments. Last evening you will observe
some FIVE hundred persons assembled in the
Catharine street Baptist Church. for the purpose
Of sympathiEing with the exies. The meeting
was opened by Rev Dr. Oolvillo the pastor Of the
Church who introd uced to the audience the
Rev. John @. Fee and his companions. Mr.
Fee then addressed the audience at considerable
length. lie said that they had in FIVE years
past planted ten antiNslavery Churches in Kens
lucky, and thousands Of tracts were now being
distributed in the mountains Of that State
which would be productive Of much good
He oontended that slavery could not exist one
day were Il not for a time serving Clergy
That the Churches and citizens Of the North
must exert themselves politically and prevent
auy but free state men from holding any Of the
offices of the Federal Government. For enter.
tanning and propegating these sentiments the
Rev. gentleman and his companions had been
exied from a slave state.
After Mr. Fee sat down the Rev. DR.. Oolville.
Mr. Rodgers, lineant descendant Of John
Rodgers, the Martyr, and the Rev. Mr.. Cons
way severally addressed the meeting, SYM
pathetic Resolutions were passed and a collecS
ton hinled at, but we believe but little money
found its way into the contribution box and
the meeting adjourned.
All this excitement grows out Of political
abolitiOnism, and is sincerely deprecated by all
the lovers Of peace, good order and friends Of
our common country. Such proceedings and
such meetings are not calculated TO allay this
excitement. The Aboitionsts are in exstacies
at the prospect Of a dismemberment aud final
overthrow of this glorious Republic. The
South is alarmed and has Just cause for alarm
when Mr.. Fees coadjutors, John Brown and
others, invade her borders with hostile band.
Renewed and active measures are now being
taken to expel every one found sowing the seeds
Of dissension. We cannot Justify all the des.
potic measures often practiced n slave states,
but let us have little charity for our Southern
brethren. They have had slavery cntailed
upon them by our common ancestors; they have
been accustomed to il all their lives, and many
of them believe it right and divine institu.
ton. They say that negro is a better citizen
better man with master than without and
one and point 10 the free negroes in proof Of it.
We, on the contrary, believe il is cursO to any
country, and are taught that it is sin. We
point them to the prosperity of the free states
and endeavor TO convince them that we are
thtis friends. They ask us why we are cons
tinually meddling with their domestic institus
tutions and stealing their property Refer us to
our Underground Railroads and the boastcd sue.
cess of its proprietors in running off negroes.
They wish, they say, only common Justice
If their property is found on our soil they wish
it restored TO them when they demand Il with
out being forced to arm themselves with piss
tolls and bowie knives TO contend with the
mobs that intercept them. This is some Of the
language used on both sides of this question.
Fanatics North and South keep up this agitas
tion. The South is now driving all the free
negroes and suspicious persons from her SOIL
The poor slaves who were formerly receiving
an euuchtlon anu nhu Iellglous lTeeuOm 10 w0f'
ship as they please, are now deprived of schools
and spy set TO watch their religious assemA
blies. Their privileges and social cpjoyments
are curtailed and they too are in constant
dread. Military companies are organizing in
every part Of the South and traders from the
North are told that their company and their
wares can both be dispensed with. They seem
determined no longer to buy of the manufactu
rers and merchants of the North and yet we are
told by them that they too are friends of the
Union. A union of what-not Of the CONNER
cial, manufacturing and social ties that former
ly bound the Union together, certainly Where
are we drifting, to military despotism if
sectional President is elevated, or are we to be
victims of civil war, split up into fragments
and in the end become the slaves of despots2-
These are grave times, When or how are we
to be delivered from impending evils caused by
political abolitionitsH s.